[python-advocacy] User Group Support

[Chris McAvoy]

Hi All,

As promised, here's the list of priorities we came up with at the
Advocacy BoF in Dallas:

priorities
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1) ability to find usergroups, the user group listing on the wiki is
somewhat inaccurate.  We need to audit it.
2) psf offerings / kit for new groups
3) comp.lang.local ->  keep it on advocacy?  organizer list.  A
targeted mailing list for local user group organizers.

I set up a google group for the user group "sig" at
http://groups.google.com/group/python-user-group.  I invited the
handful of people that seemed interested in the project, but as of yet
the list has been quiet.

In my view, our next step is to draft an email that can be sent to the
Python lang list and the Python announce list, asking for user groups
to make themselves known.  Once we have a registry going, we can start
communicating with the user groups.

I don't want to get bogged down painting the shed, but we might be
able to pull together a web registration form, very similar to what
O'Reilly has for new user groups.

Chris