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Communications Report for 2010-08-09
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Issues / Blockages
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None


Continued Activities from Last Month
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1. Recruiting other people to help write for the blog.

   A few volunteers have expressed interest, but things are getting
   off to a slow start.  I hope to have some more interesting topics
   to give them after the August Board meeting.

2. 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.

   Posted 8 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/infrastructure-committee.html

3. Trademarks Committee blog post

   David as chairman; other members; responsibilities

   Posted 12 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-trademarks-committee-chair.html

4. 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.

   Mike Driscoll is working on this post.

New Activities
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1. EuroPython grant

   Posted 15 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/europython-2010-grant.html

2. PyCon India grant

   Posted 19 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/pycon-india-2010-grant.html

3. EuroPython language summit report

   Written by Tim Golden.

   Posted 22 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/python-language-summit-europython-2010.html

4. Frank Willison Award

   Posted 29 July: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/07/frank-willison-memorial-award-recipient.html

5. Created status report template

   http://wiki.python.org/psf/CommitteeStatusReportTemplate

Planned for Next Month
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1. Send announcement email about the blog to various mailing lists
   (c.l.py, c.l.py.announce, etc.).

2. Have at least two of the volunteers write and post something to the
   blog.

Ongoing Projects
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None

Tabled Activities
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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.