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Communications Report for 2010-10-11
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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. PyCon PL Grant by Paulo Nuin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/09/psf-grants-pycon-pl-2011.html

2. WebOb Port Grant by Mike Driscoll

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/09/psf-provides-grant-to-port-webob.html

3. Van Lindberg Community Service Award announcement by Paulo Nuin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/09/van-lindberg-receives-psf-community.html

4. Benjamin Peterson Community Service Award announcement by Paulo Nuin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/09/benjamin-peterson-receives-psf.html

5. Laura Creighton Community Service Award announcement

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/10/laura-creighton-receives-psf-community.html

6. Tarek Ziadé Community Service Award announcement

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/10/tarek-ziade-receives-psf-community.html

7. Nick Coghlan Community Service Award announcement

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/10/nick-coghlan-receives-psf-community.html

8. Arc Riley Community Service Award announcement

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/10/arc-riley-receives-psf-community.html

9. PyCon 2012 proposal deadline announcement

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/10/pycon-2012-proposals-due-12-oct.html

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.