About Python Advocacy

The first regional Python unconference is coming to Houston on September 15-16 (Sat-Sun). Being held at the Texas Learning & Computing Center on the University of Houston main campus, this is a ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/09/texas-python-unconference-sep-1516.html

ShowMeDo.com , a website offering over 361 instructional screencasts about topics both Python and non-Python, has announced their first winner of the month for the most-played video. And the winn...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/09/showmedocom-announces-winner-of-most.html

Being held on September 7, 2007 in Leipzig, Germany the one-day workshop is for both the experienced as well as novice programmer. Early registration gets you in the door at only 50 euros, with ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/08/2nd-annual-workshop-python-for-german.html

With the recent establishment of the wiki page on python.org of those who offer training services for the Python language, we now have 23 listed, worldwide. Many of the trainers are individuals...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/07/python-trainers-promote-thyself.html

Two new Python usergroups are being organized! Arizona Michael March is starting a group for those in the Flagstaff/Phoenix/Tucson region of Arizona. The first meeting to get organized will be ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/07/usergroups-forming-arizona-and-carolina.html

For those who might wonder what I do as advocacy coordinator, I've just updated for the month my list of accomplishments at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyAccomplishments My short list o...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/07/update-regarding-python-advocacy.html

OSCON 2007 in Portland, Oregon from July 23-27 is fast approaching. This is a professional conference that can give Python a lot of visibility in the IT world and draws a different crowd from ou...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/06/organizing-python-representation-at.html

For those who write books and articles, I've established a wiki page just as we already have a page for those who offer training services for Python. If you would like to be reachable by those ne...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/06/calling-for-python-writersauthors.html

We'd like to strengthen and raise the visibility of Python usergroups and foster the creation of new ones, by sharing the valuable experiences of those leaders around the community who make it ha...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/06/calling-usergroup-organizers-and.html

In working up a response to the survey being conducted by Forrester Research on dynamic languages, there is a section wherein they want to see code samples. The samples must include all code writ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/05/seeking-four-code-samples-for-forrester.html

I am seeking to organize the list of those, both individuals and companies, who offer training on Python and related frameworks and technologies. This is for those who provide classes, typically...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/05/call-for-professional-trainers-of.html

Forrester Research is doing a study on dynamic languages and has asked that Python be represented. As advocacy coordinator I've volunteered to drive this, collecting answers from the community an...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/05/need-help-in-preparing-for-study-of.html

Those who know me know I am no fan of the programmer certification industry and I agree that your typical certificate arrangement, e.g. to show HR to get that box checked in your candidate file, ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/03/pythonic-way-to-measure-and-improve.html

Doug Napoleone's really cool Personal Schedule Application is now up and running on the PyCon site . Features include: displays a color-coded, up-to-date schedule displays pop-ups with descrip...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/01/personal-schedule-application-for.html

As the Python Advocacy Coordinator, I've put up some wiki pages on the Python website for which I'm soliciting ideas, writing and graphics. Some of the material exists scattered about and just ne...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-to-arms-for-python-advocacy.html

I'd like to extend an invitation to those who would like to get involved in advocating the use of Python. In August, the PSF hired me, for a 6-mo contract, to coordinate the Python advocacy effor...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/11/get-involved-in-python-advocacy.html

The PSF (Python Software Foundation) was contacted by Shane at O'Reilly some ten-days ago, to open a dialog on how the Python community and O'Reilly could work together. As Python Advocacy Coordi...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/11/oreilly-seeking-ideas-on-partnering.html

As a result of researching topics for PyCon keynotes, I've been digging a bit into the One Laptop Per Child project. Being based on Python, essentially seeking to provide a 'Python operating envi...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/tech-walkthru-d-bus-hal-notify-and.html

This month at the DFW Unix User Group our main presentation was given by Dave Thomas about Ruby and Rails. Seeing as I run the Linux SIG afterward and am often short on topic ideas, I figured we ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/group-discussion-about-dynamic.html

Talks at previous PyCons have tended to be of the lecture format. I'd like to see if we can get some panel discussions going and am looking for participants. At PyCon 2005 in D.C. Michelle Leves...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/call-for-members-of-panels-on-web.html

Eggs are important to Python and will become more so over the next few years, if understood and embraced by the community. They are a key competitive feature - I've been asked so many times what ...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/call-for-presenter-on-python-eggs.html

The PyCon organizers are looking for someone to volunteer as publicity coordinator for PyCon 2007. This year we have started planning sufficiently in advance that we'd like to get some press cove...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/seeking-publicity-coordinator-for.html

Welcome to my first blog, where I hope to keep the Python community informed about advocacy efforts, my own and those of others. Entrusted by the Python Software Foundation for the next few month...

http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com/2006/10/word-from-python-advocacy-coordinator.html