On 02/08/2010 09:16, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
Folks,
During Europython a group of us who organise various Python related user groups
within the UK went for a drink. Here's what we talked about:
* We should organise an IRC chat sometime in August to coordinate ourselves.
* Since we're spread rather thin on the ground it'd be good to coordinate a central
"Python-UK" page for user groups / events that could contain a google-calendar,
tweet-stream and links etc... (KISS)
* We might be able to support the costs of running the site by having a very
simple job-board for UK related Python jobs (er... 37signals ask for $400 for
30 days of advert for Ruby jobs - someone asked me to find out the figures)
The Python jobs board has this market pretty much sewn up. Unless (and
until) we get a *huge* amount of traffic I don't think it is worth even
considering.
* It'd be great if there were more coordination between groups so they might be
able to swap speakers, cooperate at events or organise activities together.
* Some sort of python-hacker-barn-weekend event sounds cool.
Event and speaker coordination sounds great - more complex than just a
wiki, a calendar and some doodles. A fantastic long term goal though.
* The PSF might be persuaded to contribute some money for stuff.
Almost certainly.
All the best,
Michael
* We should try to make better use of the python-uk mailing list (hence this
message) :-)
We all handed over our email addresses and a Doodle (http://www.doodle.com/)
for the first IRC meeting was created.
Just to keep momentum going, I personally think it'd be interesting to hear
what the wider UK-Python community thinks about this and it also gives us an
opportunity to make sure we haven't missed anyone who might be interested in
joining in.
Also, this email nudges things along so we don't end up as a beery conference
plan rather than something we actually act upon! :-)
All the best,
Nicholas.
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