• evangelism support materials

[http://www.python.org/psf PSF] president [http://www.python.org/moin/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].

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
  • ?"

Isn't someone else keeping a list of killer apps? Anyway, Mailman belongs.

Also available, on request: both Stephan (through the psf-volunteers list (hyperlink?)) 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: Pythonology; language comparisons; presentation tips; PBF ...; Greg's eShop story; ...

(also, more hyperlinks)