<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Rush</b> <<a href="mailto:jeff@taupro.com">jeff@taupro.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tarek Ziadé wrote:<br>><br>> On 12/7/06, *Jeff Rush* <<a href="mailto:jeff@taupro.com">jeff@taupro.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jeff@taupro.com">jeff@taupro.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> These works are to be formed into advocacy kits for various
<br>> audiences. So far we have the following ideas for kits:<br> > [snip]<br>><br>> perhaps a local python user group advocacy kit ? a PSF kit that would<br> > help LUGs to spread the good word, or some kind of support for LUGs
<br> > creation<br><br>Alright, I see you've added it to the list and I've filled out the table of<br>contents for a kit for general user group advocacy -- I'm unsure whether we<br>want a generic one or just materials that can be combined to create kits
<br>focused on various types of user groups: campus, within a large company,<br>community, etc.</blockquote><div><br>When we started our LUG here, we had a lot of thaughts on how to efficiently promote Python <br>and attract people to our meetings.
<br><br>Having a page that gathers good tips from experienced guys that had done this for years would be <br>valuable imho. They are many topics that can be LUG-oriented as well:<br><br>- How to do/organize a sprint<br>- How to synchronize the LUG work (like doc writing) with PSF needs
<br></div>- ...<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> also, I think we could have a european store for shirts ,<br>
> like the caffepress one, to lower the prices for european people and the<br>> deliver time. because in europe most Python developers won't pay 30$ for<br> > a simple shirt, that comes 3 weeks later<br><br>I've added your suggestion to the top of the advocacy page,
<br><a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/Advocacy">http://wiki.python.org/moin/Advocacy</a> but we need european input on possible<br>online stores and which ones would serve them best.</blockquote><div><br><br>Yes, I have found and proposed
<a href="http://www.comboutique.com/">http://www.comboutique.com/</a> some times ago. <br>Didn't find any other yet. Anyways, I volunteer to help out on this topic if you need someone <br>to set it up.<br><br>Tarek<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm copying this to the advocacy list so others can provide input on these<br>
ideas. Thanks Tarek for taking the time to get involved.</blockquote><div> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-Jeff
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