[python-advocacy] User Group Support

[DeanG]

I listened to the audio recap of the Advocacy presentation at Dallas.
Good stuff.
Today I came across Kathy Sierra noting the similar sentiments about
conferences and user groups.
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/sxsw_interactiv.html

- Dean

On 3/11/07, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As promised, here's the list of priorities we came up with at the
> Advocacy BoF in Dallas:
>
> priorities
> ------------
> 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
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