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Communications Report for 2012-03-19
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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.).

   Brian is planning an email campaign with the Outreach & Education
   committee, and the PSF blog may be included in the resources
   discussed there.

New Activities
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None

Planned for Next Month
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1. Via Steve Holden, we have some information to put together a story
   about Python's use in schools from David Coopersmith along with a
   student of his named Isaac. The same story involves some 
   praise for the trademark committee, which may or may not go into the
   same post.

2. Community service award posts for Audrey Roy and Carl Trachte.

3. Post information about this summer's PyGames contest for students
   (http://www.summerpygames.org/)

Ongoing Projects
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1. 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.

2. Recruiting other people to help write for the blog.

3. We are wrapping up the transition plan so Brian Curtin can take
   over as Communications Director around the time of the next Board
   elections this spring.

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.