Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:57 AM, gb345 <gb...@invalid.com> wrote: >> And even when we've had volunteers, hardly anyone shows up! >> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> > > Two things: One, only you and your friend really care. Let that sink > in. No one is going to carry the group but you two, at least > initially. > > Two, there's a lot of people at movie theaters and the county fair. > Why? Because it is interesting and fun. Scientists work the same way. > Yes, a lot of people are interested in Python. Why don't you do a bit > of snooping around and see what people want to know about? > > Let me give some examples: > > * Interactive numeric programming with Python > * Rapid website development with Pylons (Trust me, everyone wants to > make a website.) Show how you are showing off data from one of your > experiments of projects and how easy it is to organize and manage > data. > * How you used Python on your latest and greatest project > > Don't expect the audience to participate, except to show up and ask questions. > > If you want to build a Python support group, then form an informal > group with your friends. Start a public mailing list and offer Python > advice and support for free. Integrate whatever code your org has with > Python, and manage and maintain that code so others can use it. > > Finally, advertise. The more people see "Python", the more they will > be interested. Coca-cola and Pepsi are really good at this! >
attendance will be very low and be sure nobody cares to check whether anything happened on this group. My suggestion is: I'd suggest to setup a group, to which one can subscribe with mail notification and for all the old ones perhaps even via nntp ;-) and of course via a web front end (though I personally hate web groups) Afterwards you can 'friendly-fore-subscribe' some collegues. ;-) Just talk about your new cool group during lunch, etc. Be sure, that most will be to lazy to unsuscribe. Start discussing interesting topics on this group and then . . . maybe others start joining. maybo nobody cares and you have just to accept it. bye N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list