Communications Report for 2012-01-13

Issues / Blockages

None

Continued Activities from Last Month

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

   No progress.

New Activities

1. Grant summary by Mike Driscoll

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/01/psf-grants-over-37000-to-python.html

2. Mike Müller Receives PSF Community Service Award

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/01/mike-muller-receives-psf-community.html

3. Armin Rigo Receives PSF Community Service Award

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/01/armin-rigo-receives-psf-community.html

Planned for Next Month

Nothing specific.

Ongoing Projects

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.
4. 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

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.