From brad at allendev.com  Mon Aug  6 11:14:46 2007
From: brad at allendev.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:44:46 +0530
Subject: [group-organizers] looking to start a group in South Florida -
 Help
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At 1:14 AM +0000 7/26/07, Yushi Hoshigawa wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am looking to start a user group in South Florida. Does anybody know what
>procedure I need to follow to accomplish this? thank you for any help you
>can provide.
>
>Best Wishes,
>

Wow, no reply for over a week. I guess this list hasn't really gotten 
off the ground yet. Sorry about that Yushi; hopefully more user group 
organizers will start getting involved in this list.

This is exactly the kind of question I hope we can address here; 
we've seen Python user groups sprouting up all over, but not all of 
them have been successful at sustaining regular meetings.

The model we use in Dallas is to have monthly social dinners at an 
affordable late night restaurant to establish and maintain 
friendships, and then have regular meetings to do presentations twice 
a month at a venue (Nerdbooks.com) which allows us to use a room, 
table, and chairs. If nobody has a presentation, we find other things 
to do such as :

  * watch a Python-related video (there are many good ones on video.google.com)
  * help each other with technical problems
  * do random 5 minute "lightning talks"
  * explore the source code of an open source project

I think you initial challenges will be to locate a venue, and to 
locate other members.

Do you know any other Python developers in your area? What town/city 
are you in?

You might check meetup.com to see if anyone has signed up to join a 
Python group in your area.