Communications/Status-2010-06

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Communications Report 2010-06-07

Authors: Doug Hellmann (doug.hellmann@gmail.com)

Completed Activities

  1. Set up the PSF blog (http://pyfound.blogspot.com/) to be used as a reliable means of communicating with members. It now includes Feedburner support, giving us RSS/Atom as well as email distribution. It is connected to the Twitter account (http://twitter.com/ThePSF) so that new posts are automatically published there as well.

  2. Posts published:

  1. Discussed marketing brochure(s) with Marc-Andre. He is going to work directly with his contact in Germany, with input but not a lot of direct involvement from me.

Planned Activities

  1. Establish a Facebook page and connect it to the blog as well.

  2. Posts to write:

    Board Offers

    Names and responsibilities.

    Infrastructure Committee

    Sean as chairman; other members; recusal agreement; planned improvements; python.org updates

    Trademarks Committee

    David as chairman; other members; responsibilities

    PyCon 2010 Report

    Final attendance numbers; financial aid granted (not by name, just totals); sprint outcome; anything we know we will do differently next year

Feedback Needed

  1. Are there any other social networks or tools I should be investigating as communication channels? I looked into LinkedIn, but it isn’t clear that this sort of news would be welcome in the existing Python Community group (and I’m not sure there’s a way to publish automatically).

  2. Does the vote on Exoweb sponsor membership from the May meeting warrant a post? It would be a good excuse to talk about how other companies can become sponsors, but I can do that without mentioning Exoweb directly.

  3. So far I have been writing posts based on the Board meeting minutes. If there are topics you think I should write about that aren’t covered in the minutes, let me know.