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Communications Report for 2011-04-11
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Issues / Blockages
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None


Continued Activities from Last Month
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1. Paulo Nuin finished the post on the email project.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/04/psf-grant-funds-porting-work-for-email.html

2. Announced grant to fund Python Miro Community.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/funding-python-miro-community.html

3. Launched "Python Insider" blog.

   We started a new blogging project in partnership with the
   python-dev team to publicize the volunteer efforts from that
   group. See http://blog.python.org/ for the results.

   After recruiting a few contributors at PyCon (Anthony Scopatz, Paul
   Moore, and Brian Curtin), the project had good momentum.  We
   started by creating a list of topics and a backlog of "easy"
   material to publish to keep the schedule relatively full (the "Meet
   the Team" series of mini-interviews). Several core developers have
   also signed up to write posts on their own, and we have had at
   least one substantive post per week since the blog launched.

   The blog design was contributed by Marcin Wojtczuk. It includes a
   blogroll linking to posts on the blogs for individual developers.

   After the launch, I handed over management of the project to Brian
   Curtin. As lead blogger, Brian will triage and schedule topics and
   take care of the administrative work of keeping the blog running
   week-to-week. I will continue to act as an advisor.

   The next major project for Python Insider is establishing Spanish
   and Japanese translation sites. Translators for both languages have
   already stepped forward, so we just need to set up the actual
   blogging software and DNS entries. Other translations are welcome,
   so if anyone wants to volunteer please have them contact me.

   I don't plan to include detailed information about Python Insider
   in the Communications team status report every month (I won't link
   to every post, as I do for the Foundation blog), but I will provide
   highlights of significant projects and work.

New Activities
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1. Anthony Scopatz wrote a post about the official call for projects
   and mentors for GSoC.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-summer-of-code-call-for-projects.html

2. Paulo Nuin announced the availability of videos from PyCon 2011.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/pycon-2011-videos.html

3. Anthony Scopatz posted a Call for Papers from SciPy 2011.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/scipy-2011-call-for-papers.html

4. I linked to the minutes for the members' meeting at PyCon 2011.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/minutes-for-members-meeting-of-march-11.html

5. Announcement for the GSoC Student Application deadline.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/gsoc-student-applications-open.html

6. Paulo Nuin and I worked on a post about the EuroPython call for presentations.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/04/europython-2011-call-for-presentations.html

7. Mike Driscoll posted about the grant for EuroPython.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/04/psf-grants-europython-us2000.html

8. Mike Driscoll posted about the grant for Kiwi PyCon.

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/04/kiwi-pycon-receives-us2000.html

Planned for Next Month
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1. Work with Jesse Noller to announce the Python-core Mentors project.

2. Post a request for help with PSF logos.

3. Post about common trademark use.

4. Discuss the PyPy grant.

Ongoing Projects
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Facebook stats

| 15,586 monthly active users (up 34%)
| 1,930 new likes
| 485,415 post views (up 215%)
| 666 post feedback

Tabled Activities
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1. We missed our window of opportunity to write about the new PyCon
   web site.  We'll pick it up right after the conference, when the
   people we need to interview aren't as busy. Engelbert Gruber has
   prepared interview questions for the post.

2. Paulo Nuin is working on a post about the PyPI mirroring project.