[group-organizers] Yesterday may have been my mother's last birthday

[Ned Batchelder]

Don, I'm sorry to hear about your mother's struggle.  You didn't ask for 
advice on this, but: I don't know how close-knit PuPPy is, or how 
personal you have been with them over email in the past.  I wouldn't be 
that detailed about my personal life in an email to Boston Python 
members.  Maybe I misunderstood what you were going to write.

About getting volunteers: it is difficult.  I sometimes send out a call 
for help, but it doesn't usually yield results. Sometimes I just pick 
someone and propose that they do something. Sometimes it works, 
sometimes it doesn't.

I've tried to be clear an explicit about what there is to do: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-5UNh5NB1UuVMiLXBqkfyVcgqltksSf_HDchZXp4iCk

Let me know if you come up with anything else...

--Ned.


On 12/20/17 1:48 PM, Don Sheu wrote:
> Working on a holiday-ish message for my PuPPy members. I do want to frame
> my mother's stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis with something positive about
> activating members as volunteers and organizers of our group.
>
> Tough trying to bridge the fact that yesterday was likely my mother's last
> birthday with a message that Rome rose from the ashes of Troy.
>
> Before PuPPy, in Seattle there was SeaPIG. A few years back, I remember
> BayPiggies almost stopped functioning as a community user group. I'm always
> anxious about making sure my group continues after I'm no longer active or
> I'm not able to contribute any longer.
>
> Wonder if anybody has tactics and strategies to share about activating
> members to volunteers and organizers.
>