[python-events] New volunteers & intro

[M.-A. Lemburg]

After Ewa's call on the psf-community list, I received a number of
emails from potential volunteers.

Now, the only way to participate in the project is by registering
on the python-events ML, since that's where all the incoming event
listing requests will get posted.

If you are one of the volunteers, please introduce yourself and
let me know your Google account compatible email address. This
is needed, since the two calendars we are maintaining are Google
calendars.

The next step then is to get you signed up with editing rights
to those calendars and run through the process we have for
putting events on the calendars.

I have tried to put most aspects on the wiki page:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Python_Calendar_Team

Please read it carefully and let me know whether you have any
questions. There are most certainly some corner cases missing,
where it's not clear to which calendar to add an event or whether
to reject a request.

We always ask people to send in requests using the email template
we have for this:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_Event

If someone does not follow those instructions, we usually either
try to fill in the gaps or simply ask for a repost of the request
in this format.

Before adding an event, it has to be clear that the event has
relevance for the calendars (= Python is the main driver of the
event) and is not mainly focusing on training.

We don't accept the latter since we already have a different resource
for these, they are mostly commercial, would take up a lot of our
time to maintain and clutter up the calendars. Perhaps we'll add
a new calendar for these some day, but this would involve adding
support on the python.org website as well.

A special note on the event description: Since this is shown on the
python.org website, in map mashups, on Twitter and other feeds,
it needs to be short and informative. We've settled on just putting
an HTML link into the field which then provides more information.

When adding the link to the Google calendar you have to pay attention
to the UI used for this. The Google UI requires pasting in a link
as actual link (no HTML), whereas many IMAP clients need the raw
HTML. Not using the right approach will result in the event either
showing up quoted HTML on python.org or not be clickable.

If you have questions, please let me know.

Cheers,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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