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Communications Report for 2010-12-18
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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 China post by Brian Curtin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-annual-pycon-china-hit-in.html

2. Grants for Porting to Python 3 post by Mike Driscoll

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/12/psf-proffers-payment-to-port-to-python.html

Planned for Next Month
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Nothing specific.

Ongoing Projects
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1. Boston Python Workshop Grant post by Jessica McKellar

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/11/boston-python-workshop-psf-grant.html

2. Brian Curtin is working on a post about the video equipment
   purchased by the PSF and how it has been used to record conference
   talks and other events.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. We have initiated a transition plan so Brian Curtin can take over
   as Communications Director around the time of the next Board
   elections after PyCon 2012.

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.