[python-advocacy] [Pydotorg] Seeking Presentation Ideas for Certain www.python.org Content

[Steve Holden]

Brad Allen wrote:
> At 6:17 AM -0500 4/25/07, Jeff Rush wrote:
>> 2) We're also trying to improve the findability of existing usergroups,
>> -without- developing new software.  Are there structural changes we can make
>>> to the site that would help this?
> 
No, few people have time. Of course if there's some *existing* software 
that could help, that wouldn't involve developing anything new ...

> 
> This seems like a strange restriction...not that I'm volunteering to write
> anything at the moment..
> 
> At the PyCon 2007 Advocacy BOF there was some excited talk about
> having a common RSS feed/blog page where user group organizers
> could post upcoming meetings, and notes about what happened at
> past meetings. I think Doug Napoleone suggested that postings could
> also be geocoded so that people could search on events by geographic
> area.
> 
Well, just off the top of my head, the PSF LUGs could all share a common 
blog just like the PSF itself does. When I have something to post for 
the PSF (so far there's only been a rather feeble April fool's joke) I 
just blog away.

That would get us an RSS feed for nothing, and we could add the feed to 
Planet Python.

*Then* we could look at geocoding.

> Of course allowing a web form to post something, while still preventing
> spam would probably mean...user logins...user registrations...etc.

Let's not be too negative - there's a lot we *can* do, let's focus on that.

Jeff, do you think that a shared blog might work? Each group could also 
maintain their own wiki page (I suspect most of them do already) and 
link that from their own posts. The overall blog could also have a link 
to an umbrella LUGs page that links to the individual LUG pages and back 
to other suitable python.org areas.

How does this sound?

regards
  Steve
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