[python-advocacy] Marketing Python - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

[Lucio Torre]

Hi all.

Definitely i dont propose myself as a leader in the advocacy front, but 
the guys at Python Argentina are very motivated, and im sure we can help 
in some way, specially if theres some kind of funding or 'greater 
involvement'.

Just today, guys were complaining that we dont know how many python 
programmers there are in argentina and that we cannot do any kind of 
poll to find that out, and that this result is key to push some 
technology in a place where human resources are scarce.

Also, we are planning python-only conferences all around argentina (we 
have one scheduled for the next month, we are working to fix the date of 
the next). We are also starting a proyect to have the latest version of 
the documentations available in spanish. We are also trying to get guido 
or some big name to come to argentina for a conference. But most of our 
work is based on 'act locally'. We are missing the 'think globally' part.

For what it seems from here, you are the leader in marketing python 
issues. Someone working in advocacy must have fluent contact with Guido. 
He should be the one willing to figth 'the PSF cant handle this' battle. 
I think there is a lot of energy that can be drawn from local user 
groups, but we should be very carefull about draining it on politics.

jm2c

Lucio.

sdeibel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>These are all great, and I think well thought out ideas.  What's 
>interesting is the resounding silence that followed... is there 
>some way to facilitate actually producing some of these things?
>
>The PSF membership ranked advocacy high on the PSF's goals at the 
>member meeting at PyCon so there is certainly the possibility of 
>funding or other support from the PSF if someone generates 
>proposals. The board is too busy to lead anything but it has 
>resources to allocate to good ideas in this area.
>
>In short, what we need is a leader on the advocacy front.
>
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