Communications Report for 2010-07
Issues / Blockages
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None
Continued Activities from Last Month
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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.
New Activities
List all work initiated this month.
- 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
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
- Publicity for pilot project for the sprint committee.
Planned for Next Month
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- 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 Projects
Report on progress of long-term projects.
- 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
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