From jessica.mckellar at gmail.com Sun May 5 21:25:54 2013 From: jessica.mckellar at gmail.com (Jessica McKellar) Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 15:25:54 -0400 Subject: [group-organizers] Running a CPython sprint for new contributors Message-ID: Hi organizers, This April, Boston Python ran its first CPython sprint for new contributors. Here's a detailed writeup of the event: http://pythonsprints.com/2013/05/5/bostons-cpython-sprint-new-contributors/ Because CPython is such a mature project, the barriers to entry are particularly high, and often even if folks make the plunge and submit a patch they find it languishing on the issue tracker for months. We wanted to provide a supportive environment in which prospective contributors could get help with environment setup, some direction on what to work on, and timely responses to their first attempts at contributing. In particular, to make this 1-day sprint successful we: * had attendees complete all the setup prior to the sprint * had several committers and experienced contributors at the event * curated a list of bite-sized bugs for attendees to choose from * personally followed up on the tickets that were worked on to make sure they had timely resolutions after the sprint This was a very successful initiative that brought together 20 new contributors who made progress on almost 40 tickets. I look forward to running more CPython sprints with Boston Python, and I'd love to see more user groups pursuing this event style to bring new folks into the contributor community. Our only cost was lunch, which was covered by the Python Sprints committee (http://pythonsprints.com/contact/). I'd like to heartily encourage you to consider running a CPython sprint with your group! Please let me know if I can provide any further details on our experiences in Boston. Regards, -Jessica From jonas at geiregat.org Sun May 26 18:15:02 2013 From: jonas at geiregat.org (Jonas Geiregat) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:15:02 +0200 Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites In-Reply-To: References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas> Message-ID: Hello, I'm from Belgium where we host a small Python community. We operate from a google mailing list, which works rather good. Some thoughts have been outed to start working on a website. Even the idea came up to build some kind of template other groups can use. I really like the look and feel of http://pythonkc.com Regards, Jonas. On 09 Apr 2013, at 03:57, Juan Gomez wrote: > Hey Joel, > > I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website. > > You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/ > > and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com > > We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider. > > Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have. > > Cheers, > > - Juan > > > > On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website >> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I >> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you >> are going to reach sponsors. >> >> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from >> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of >> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there >> was a mention to another group that already does that. >> >> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated. >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Rivera? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Group-Organizers mailing list >> Group-Organizers at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.gomez at ieee.org Sun May 26 19:04:18 2013 From: juan.gomez at ieee.org (Juan Gomez) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 10:04:18 -0700 Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites In-Reply-To: References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>

Message-ID: Hey Jonas, The code for http://pythonkc.com is all on Github at https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com The code is really standard so it should be really straight forward to customize it for your group. The only caveat is that it's centered on the API of meetup.com so you'll need to have a meetup.com page set-up for your group to achieve the same look and feel we have. Hope that helps a little bit but if you have any questions please feel free to email me directly. Cheers, - Juan On May 26, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > Hello, > > I'm from Belgium where we host a small Python community. > > We operate from a google mailing list, which works rather good. Some thoughts have been outed to start working on a website. > Even the idea came up to build some kind of template other groups can use. > > I really like the look and feel of http://pythonkc.com > > Regards, > > Jonas. > > On 09 Apr 2013, at 03:57, Juan Gomez wrote: > >> Hey Joel, >> >> I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website. >> >> You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/ >> >> and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com >> >> We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider. >> >> Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Juan >> >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website >>> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I >>> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you >>> are going to reach sponsors. >>> >>> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from >>> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of >>> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there >>> was a mention to another group that already does that. >>> >>> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated. >>> >>> Regards. >>> -- >>> Rivera? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Group-Organizers mailing list >>> Group-Organizers at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> _______________________________________________ >> Group-Organizers mailing list >> Group-Organizers at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: