= Community Relations =

Members:
 * MarcAndreLemburg

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== Summary ==

With the PSF Community Relations we aim at creating closer bindings
with the world-wide Python communities.

One of the ways we're trying to do this is by showing more presence
at international Python conferences and moving the spending side
from conference grants more towards signing up for sponsorships
which allow us to present the PSF at the conference using the
conference kits we created in the last few months and which are
slowly being extended to include more versatile setups as well:

 * [[PSF Conference Kit]]

Another way is to have regional PSF representatives which can help
give the PSF a closer relation to local groups. We're trying to
find such representatives and work out a strategy for the local
representation with them.

== Conference Kits ==

The conference kit for South America is managed locally by
Luciano Ramalho and Mariano Reingart.

The conference kit for North America is managed by
Jesse Noller. It will be used for the upcoming PyCon US 2013.
Please contact Ewa if you're interested in helping with
staffing the PSF booth.

We will be creating more of the portable smaller popup display
kits that Ewa used for PyCon ZA 2012. To reduce shipping
costs, we'll have some produced in the US and some in Europe.

For more details on the kits, please have a look at the
conference kit wiki page:

 * [[PSF Conference Kit]]

== Local PSF Representation ==

After the last PSF meeting at EuroPython, Duncan McGreggor has
kindly initiated a discussion with the Indian Python
community. We will be following up with this and hope
to arrange one of the first regional representations there.
Progress so far has been slow on this due to many other PSF
activities.

== Events Calendars ==

In order to make it easier for the community to find Python
related events, I've setup a team of volunteers to manage
two new event calendars. One for larger events and another
one for smaller events:

 * Python events calendar
 * Python user group events calendar

The calendars are displayed on the http://pycon.org/ site
and in the sidebar of http://python.org/.

Details about the calendars are available on the wiki page
we have for them:

   https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar

== Python Job Board ==

The job board has been running for many years now. Most of the time
the maintenance was done by a single person. Since Chris Withers
left to work on other things, the project has been having problems
getting up to speed again.

We've therefore kicked off a new project to have a larger team
of volunteers get the job board app and the review process working
in a sustainable and productive way.

Details about the project can be found on the team wiki page:

   https://wiki.python.org/moin/PSF%20Python%20Job%20Board

== Issues ==

The budget the board approved for the conference kits is fully
used up. I'll have to propose a budget position for marketing
activities.

== Future plans ==

Have more conference kits for e.g. India, Australia and Asia.

Have more lightweight kits to enable easy ad-hoc setups.

Have more marketing material readily available.