• evangelism support materials

[http://www.python.org/psf PSF] chairman [:StephanDeibel: Stephan Deibel] aptly observed that these are "needed:

• Slides / notes for presentation overviewing the PSF (I have some very simple slides I can provide as a start to whoever takes this on, and can help but can't lead this)
• Course materials for an 'evangelism training seminar'
• Review of PSF web pages to make them more evangelist-friendly
• Possibly, printable handouts and other supplementary materials".

This [http://python.org/moin/ Wiki] page is where we'll start to flesh out Stephan's outline. Note, for example, AMK's [http://www.amk.ca/talks/python-dev/ slides for a talk on the Python development process].

Here is the outline from my slides (the ones I attempted to show at PyCon 2005 except my laptop didn't work w/ the projector). The slides are also available in [http://www.python.org/psf/psf-overview.ppt Powerpoint format] and [http://www.python.org/psf/psf-overview.sxi OpenOffice format]:

* Cover Page:

• Python Software Foundation
• Founded 2001

• http://python.org/psf

* What is the PSF? (Slide 1)

• The Legal Foundation for Python

  • Holds & Protects the “IP”

  • Licenses, Contribution Forms, other Legal Mumbo Jumbo
  • Keeps Python Open and Free
  • Trademarks

* What is the PSF? (Slide 2)

• Makes PyCon Possible

  • Takes the fixed cost risk
  • May lose money some years

* What is the PSF? (Slide 3)

• Funds Python-related Projects
  • Grants: e.g. Jython
  • Other: e.g. python.org redesign
  • Wherever volunteerism fails
  • To surmount larger hurdles
• Vision
  • Fund some core developers? Python 3000?
  • Tap into 750K to 1M world-wide user base
  • 100$/yr average from 1%?
  • $750K annual revenues

* What can I do?

• Donate: http://python.org/psf/donations Tax deductible!

• Sponsor: http://python.org/psf/sponsors

• Volunteer: http://python.org/psf/volunteer

• Advocate

[http://freshmeat.net/~lemburg/ MAL] writes: "

• How you would benefit from using Python
  • better time-to-market
  • faster turn-around
  • one-stop solution for back office and middle office
    • system integration
• Python and X: perfect companions (with X in (Java,C++,C##))
  • comparison of languages
  • usefulness of Python as scripting add-on
  • test applications written in X
• A short Python introduction
  • appetizers, main course, desert
  • a bottle of Burgundy with that
• The PSF

  • PyCon

  • IP
  • Grants
• Living in the Python world
  • Python communities
  • User groups
  • python-dev
  • PSF
• Python Killer Applications

  • SpamBayes

  • Zope

  • MoinMoin

  • ?"

Isn't someone else keeping a list of killer apps? Anyway, [http://gnu.org/software/mailman Mailman] belongs.

AMK observes that, "It might be worth creating a customized version of the S5 slide stylesheets so that PSF presentations can have a consistent look."

Also available, on request: both Stephan (through the [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-volunteers psf-volunteers] list) and evangelism support materials czar [http://python.org/moin/CameronLaird Cameron Laird] maintain a list of volunteers at least occasionally available to speak on Python, sorted by locale (DC, Seattle, Texas, Central America, and so on).

Other highlights I want to elaborate: [http://pythonology.org Pythonology]; language comparisons; presentation tips; PBF ...; Greg's eShop story; ...

(also, more hyperlinks)