[group-organizers] Let's meet up at PyCon

[Michelle Rowley]

Ned Batchelder and I have been talking over the last few months about ways to make Python group organizing easier/better/etc. With PyCon coming up in only four weeks (and under the assumption that we'll have an organizer meetup/BoF/thingy), I thought I would start up some group organizing discussion so we won't have to waste time while we're actually at the conference figuring out what we need to talk about together.

One idea Ned and Asheesh Laroia had was to figure out a way for some non-profit to accept donations on behalf of any local user group, and to make sure those funds get used appropriately for that user group. We could use an existing non-profit or make a new one. This would solve the problem of sponsorship without each of us having to create our own non-profit for our group. I think it's a great idea, and I would be willing to do some of the legwork for the non-profit.

Related to this idea that each of us does a lot of the same work, separately, for our user groups, Ned and I have been toying with creating reusable resources to share with each other (and other Python organizers). The one example we have so far is a basic grant request form that asks the PSF to pay back fees for Meetup. All one would need to do is change the city name and add some details about the particular group's outreach. We tested it and it worked! I think it would be awesome if we could brainstorm all the ways we repeat work among our groups and how we might create shared resources to cover those cases.

Thoughts? Other ideas? I'll keep track of the ideas and put them somewhere. Like, you know, on a wiki or something.

Michelle

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Michelle Rowley
@pythonchelle
http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython





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