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Communications Report for 2010-09-15
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Issues / Blockages
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None


Continued Activities from Last Month
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1. Send announcement email about the blog to various mailing lists
   (c.l.py, c.l.py.announce, etc.).

   *No progress.*

New Activities
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1. PyArgentina Grant

   Written by Mike Driscoll

   Posted 15 Aug: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/08/psf-grants-pyargentina-us1500.html

2. PyCon Ireland Grant

   Written by Mike Driscoll

   Posted 2 Sept: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/09/psf-grants-pycon-ireland-us1500.html

3. The twitter team has been busy this month monitoring and
   re-tweeting information about PyCon, especially announcements of
   sponsors and deadlines.

Planned for Next Month
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Nothing specific.

Ongoing Projects
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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. Mike Driscoll is working on a retrospective post summarizing all of
   the funding we have provided for conferences over the last year. We
   will wait to publish until closer to the end of 2011.

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.