Trying again...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tennessee Leeuwenburg</b> <<a href="mailto:tleeuwenburg@gmail.com">tleeuwenburg@gmail.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;">
+1 from me.<br><br>Also would recommend a "meta" user group to monitor and keep in touch with groups making use of this service. A simple system like a Google Group should be plenty. There is a lack of 'play areas' for putting Python web apps.
<br><span class="sg"><br>-T</span><div><span class="e" id="q_112a2e7dccafef3d_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Grig Gheorghiu</b> <<a href="mailto:grig@gheorghiu.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
grig@gheorghiu.net</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;">
Strong +1 from me. I organize the SoCal Piggies group with Titus Brown,<br>and we both donate server capacity and bandwidth to the group. A<br>PSF-sponsored virtual host would be nice.<br><br>Grig<br><br>--- Brad Allen <
<a href="mailto:brad@allendev.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">brad@allendev.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> What do you think of the idea of PSF funding hosted virtual servers<br>
> for user groups? A virtual server could be managed by a volunteer
<br>> representative of the local user group, so PSF's only involvement<br>> would be the initial setup and paying the ongoing bill. This would<br>> give user groups a place for things like secure SVN hosting, Trac for
<br>><br>> project management, and user group website, etc...<br>><br>> In the Dallas user group, we benefit from Jeff Rush donating the user<br>><br>> of his colocated server, but not every user group has someone that
<br>> can contribute a server. Making a similar resource available to any<br>> Python user group could enable real action and growth.<br>><br>> Recently I visited the newly re-forming Python user group in<br>
> Portland, OR, which had a meeting at BarCamp, and we discussed the
<br>> virtual server idea. One of the members said he had an interest in<br>> helping PSF pilot test projects to help bolster user groups, and I<br>> think there would be no difficulty in finding someone to take on
<br>> sysadmin chores for a user group virtual server.<br>><br>> The Portland group would be a good testbed for seeing what PSF user<br>> group assistance can do, because the group is in the process of<br>> re-establishing after a period of inactivity. I suspect Portland
<br>> could sustain a very large and active Python user group if they could<br>><br>> get the right resources assembled.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Advocacy mailing list<br>>
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