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| = Communications Report for 2010-07 = | #format rst |
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| Communications Report 2010-07-05 ================================ |
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| == Issues / Blockages == | :Authors: Doug Hellmann (doug.hellmann@gmail.com) |
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| ''List any problems that are preventing progress on assignments.'' | Continued Activities from June Report ------------------------------------- |
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| None | 1. Established a Facebook page and connected it to the blog's RSS feed. See http://www.facebook.com/pythonlang |
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| 2. Board Officers post, including names and responsibilities. | |
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| == Continued Activities from Last Month == | Published 21 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-officers-for-2010.html |
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| ''List any in-progress items carried over from last month's planned list.'' | 3. Trademarks Committee blog post |
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| 1. Established a Facebook page and connected it to the blog's RSS feed. See http://www.facebook.com/pythonlang | David as chairman; other members; responsibilities |
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| 2. Board Officers post, including names and responsibilities. | This post is written and will go live on 5 July. |
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| Published 21 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-officers-for-2010.html | 4. PyCon 2010 Report blog post |
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| 3. Trademarks Committee blog post | Final attendance numbers; financial aid granted (not by name, just totals); sprint outcome; anything we know we will do differently next year |
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| David as chairman; other members; responsibilities | No progress. I need to talk to Van, and haven't approached him yet. |
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| This post is written and will go live on 5 July. | Additional Activity during June ------------------------------- |
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| 4. PyCon 2010 Report blog post | 1. Established a semi-regular publishing schedule for the blog (Monday and Thursday each week, as content is available). |
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| Final attendance numbers; financial aid granted (not by name, just totals); sprint outcome; anything we know we will do differently next year | 2. Sponsored sprints post |
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| No progress. I need to talk to Van, and haven't approached him yet. | Posted 5 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-sponsored-sprints.html |
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| == New Activities == | Covers Jesse Noller's sponsored sprints project. |
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| ''List all work initiated this month.'' | 3. EuroPython members' meeting blog post |
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| 1. Established a semi-regular publishing schedule for the blog (Monday and Thursday each week, as content is available). 2. Sponsored sprints post Posted 5 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-sponsored-sprints.html Covers Jesse Noller's sponsored sprints project. 3. EuroPython members' meeting blog post Posted 17 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/members-meeting-at-europython-2010.html Mentions that this is the first time a members' meeting has been held outside the US. Links to the agenda and encourages all PSF members to attend. 4. Facebook blog post Posted 18 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/follow-psf-on-facebook.html Links to the Facebook page and asks everyone to "Like" it. 5. Twitter account Announced it on the blog 24 June http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/connect-with-psf-on-twitter.html Followed 11 project, 45 user groups, and 15 conference accounts. Recruited a team of 5 volunteers to keep up with the messages being followed and re-tweet interesting announcements (major releases, conference deadlines, etc.). They are also working on finding other accounts to follow. 6. PyCon 2011 leadership blog post Posted 28 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/leadership-for-pycon-us-2011.html 7. Added Brad Allen to the PyCon blog so he could post about PyTexas. 8. Sent email to PSF members list soliciting nominations for Frank Willison Award. 9. Converted the comments on the blog to use Disqus (http://disqus.com/), since it has better moderation tools. 10. "What do you want to know?" post Posted 1 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-psf.html Solicits feedback from the blog readers about what sorts of posts I should write. There were a few good questions about funding/sponsorship that I was able to answer myself, and at least one other that may turn into a topic for a future post. I suggest we put together a single page on the web site with all of the ways the PSF offers funding to individuals and groups. Even if this new page is simply a list of links to other pages with details, having the single page to refer to will help. 11. Set up a private hg repository on BitBucket for the Python Pulse newsletter. I've given other known contributors administrative access to it. 12. Montréal-Python sprint post Publicity for pilot project for the sprint committee. Posted 4 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/montreal-python-packaging-sprint.html == Planned for Next Month == |
Posted 17 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/members-meeting-at-europython-2010.html |
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| ''Describe activities planned for the next month.'' | Mentions that this is the first time a members' meeting has been held outside the US. Links to the agenda and encourages all PSF members to attend. |
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| 1. Infrastructure Committee blog post Sean as chairman; other members; planned improvements; python.org updates. I was able to collect a pretty good list of names for the webmasters and postmasters, so I'm including some details about those teams as well. Post will go live 12 July 2. Job board blog post Describe what it is, how to add a job, etc. I'll mention the maintainer(s) as well. Martin Thomas has provided some interesting statistics about the number of posts, etc. that I'll work in. 3. Research the project to fund work on the email module and write about it. 4. Write about the user group news blog (http://python-groups.blogspot.com/) and encourage more groups to publish information about their meetings. 5. Start recruiting other people to help with writing for the blog. 6. Help Serdar Tumgoren with topics and writing for the Python Pulse newsletter. 7. Add Google Analytics to the blog. |
4. Facebook blog post |
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| == Ongoing Projects == | Posted 18 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/follow-psf-on-facebook.html |
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| ''Report on progress of long-term projects.'' | Links to the Facebook page and asks everyone to "Like" it. |
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| 1. Marketing brochure: Marc-Andre is going to work directly with his contact in Germany. I'll take this off of my report next month, since it doesn't look like I'll have a lot of direct involvement. |
5. Twitter account |
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| == Tabled Activities == | Announced it on the blog 24 June http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/connect-with-psf-on-twitter.html |
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| ''List projects that have been set aside and explain why.'' | Followed 11 project, 45 user groups, and 15 conference accounts. |
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| 1. PyCon video equipment loan/rental program post There was some discussion of offering the PyCon video equipment to PUGs for their meetings, but the mechanism to do it isn't in place, yet. |
Recruited a team of 5 volunteers to keep up with the messages being followed and re-tweet interesting announcements (major releases, conference deadlines, etc.). They are also working on finding other accounts to follow. 6. PyCon 2011 leadership blog post Posted 28 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/leadership-for-pycon-us-2011.html 7. Added Brad Allen to the PyCon blog so he could post about PyTexas. 8. Sent email to PSF members list soliciting nominations for Frank Willison Award. 9. Converted the comments on the blog to use Disqus (http://disqus.com/), since it has better moderation tools. 10. "What do you want to know?" post Posted 1 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-psf.html Solicits feedback from the blog readers about what sorts of posts I should write. There were a few good questions about funding/sponsorship that I was able to answer myself, and at least one other that may turn into a topic for a future post. I suggest we put together a single page on the web site with all of the ways the PSF offers funding to individuals and groups. Even if this new page is simply a list of links to other pages with details, having the single page to refer to will help. 11. Set up a private hg repository on BitBucket for the Python Pulse newsletter. I've given other known contributors administrative access to it. 12. Montréal-Python sprint post Publicity for pilot project for the sprint committee. Posted 4 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/montreal-python-packaging-sprint.html Planned for July ---------------- 1. Infrastructure Committee blog post Sean as chairman; other members; planned improvements; python.org updates. I was able to collect a pretty good list of names for the webmasters and postmasters, so I'm including some details about those teams as well. Post will go live 12 July 2. Job board blog post Describe what it is, how to add a job, etc. I'll mention the maintainer(s) as well. Martin Thomas has provided some interesting statistics about the number of posts, etc. that I'll work in. 3. Research the project to fund work on the email module and write about it. 4. Write about the user group news blog (http://python-groups.blogspot.com/) and encourage more groups to publish information about their meetings. 5. Start recruiting other people to help with writing for the blog. 6. Help Serdar Tumgoren with topics and writing for the Python Pulse newsletter. 7. Add Google Analytics to the blog. Ongoing Activities ------------------ 1. Marketing brochure: Marc-Andre is going to work directly with his contact in Germany. I'll take this off of my report next month, since it doesn't look like I'll have a lot of direct involvement. Tabled Activities ----------------- 1. PyCon video equipment loan/rental program post There was some discussion of offering the PyCon video equipment to PUGs for their meetings, but the mechanism to do it isn't in place, yet. |
Communications Report 2010-07-05
| Authors: | Doug Hellmann (doug.hellmann@gmail.com) |
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Continued Activities from June Report
- Established a Facebook page and connected it to the blog's RSS feed. See http://www.facebook.com/pythonlang
Board Officers post, including names and responsibilities.
Published 21 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-officers-for-2010.html
Trademarks Committee blog post
David as chairman; other members; responsibilities
This post is written and will go live on 5 July.
PyCon 2010 Report blog post
Final attendance numbers; financial aid granted (not by name, just totals); sprint outcome; anything we know we will do differently next year
No progress. I need to talk to Van, and haven't approached him yet.
Additional Activity during June
- Established a semi-regular publishing schedule for the blog (Monday and Thursday each week, as content is available).
Sponsored sprints post
Posted 5 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/psf-sponsored-sprints.html
Covers Jesse Noller's sponsored sprints project.
EuroPython members' meeting blog post
Posted 17 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/members-meeting-at-europython-2010.html
Mentions that this is the first time a members' meeting has been held outside the US. Links to the agenda and encourages all PSF members to attend.
Facebook blog post
Posted 18 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/follow-psf-on-facebook.html
Links to the Facebook page and asks everyone to "Like" it.
Twitter account
Announced it on the blog 24 June http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/connect-with-psf-on-twitter.html
Followed 11 project, 45 user groups, and 15 conference accounts.
Recruited a team of 5 volunteers to keep up with the messages being followed and re-tweet interesting announcements (major releases, conference deadlines, etc.). They are also working on finding other accounts to follow.
PyCon 2011 leadership blog post
Posted 28 June: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/06/leadership-for-pycon-us-2011.html
- Added Brad Allen to the PyCon blog so he could post about PyTexas.
- Sent email to PSF members list soliciting nominations for Frank Willison Award.
- Converted the comments on the blog to use Disqus (http://disqus.com/), since it has better moderation tools.
- "What do you want to know?" post
Posted 1 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-psf.html
Solicits feedback from the blog readers about what sorts of posts I should write.
There were a few good questions about funding/sponsorship that I was able to answer myself, and at least one other that may turn into a topic for a future post. I suggest we put together a single page on the web site with all of the ways the PSF offers funding to individuals and groups. Even if this new page is simply a list of links to other pages with details, having the single page to refer to will help.
- Set up a private hg repository on BitBucket for the Python Pulse newsletter. I've given other known contributors administrative access to it.
Montréal-Python sprint post
Publicity for pilot project for the sprint committee.
Posted 4 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/montreal-python-packaging-sprint.html
Planned for July
Infrastructure Committee blog post
Sean as chairman; other members; planned improvements; python.org updates. I was able to collect a pretty good list of names for the webmasters and postmasters, so I'm including some details about those teams as well.
Post will go live 12 July
Job board blog post
Describe what it is, how to add a job, etc. I'll mention the maintainer(s) as well. Martin Thomas has provided some interesting statistics about the number of posts, etc. that I'll work in.
- Research the project to fund work on the email module and write about it.
- Write about the user group news blog (http://python-groups.blogspot.com/) and encourage more groups to publish information about their meetings.
- Start recruiting other people to help with writing for the blog.
- Help Serdar Tumgoren with topics and writing for the Python Pulse newsletter.
- Add Google Analytics to the blog.
Ongoing Activities
- Marketing brochure: Marc-Andre is going to work directly with his contact in Germany. I'll take this off of my report next month, since it doesn't look like I'll have a lot of direct involvement.
Tabled Activities
PyCon video equipment loan/rental program post
There was some discussion of offering the PyCon video equipment to PUGs for their meetings, but the mechanism to do it isn't in place, yet.