From g.lacava at gmail.com Tue Sep 11 09:04:00 2007 From: g.lacava at gmail.com (Giacomo Lacava) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:04:00 +0100 Subject: [group-organizers] Fwd: Announcing the Python North West mailing list In-Reply-To: <330fcd960709101115u59d1fca6t6c9ea4d2e7e853a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <330fcd960709101115u59d1fca6t6c9ea4d2e7e853a4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <330fcd960709110004h9ebc185k610c9fe23d00c366@mail.gmail.com> Hi guys, as you can see from the email below, we just launched a ML for pythoneers based in the North West of England, capitalizing on a fantastic PyconUK event hold by our friends in the West Midlands. The response has been good so far (12 members n 24 hours). I've read all the advice posted on this list and I'll try to follow it in the next few months. I added it to the wiki page and (sensibly) spammed the local python and linux lists, do you think I should also send it to the newsgroups? Is there anything else that needs to be done to "make it official"? I was also thinking about opening a facebook group, which would only be used to point people to the real list. (The Facebook guys should really find a way of integrating mailing lists in their group, but anyway.) Does anyone know any other online community which we should make aware? Best Regards, Giacomo Lacava ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Giacomo Lacava Date: 10 Sep 2007 19:15 Subject: Announcing the Python North West mailing list On the wave of the great time we had at Pycon, it was decided we should have a proper mailing list dedicated to North-West-based Python users... so here it comes! The list is open to everyone in the area who loves coding/playing/enjoying Python. To join, you don't need to know your django from your pylons or your pyqt from your wxwindows... and certainly you don't need to pronounce WSGI. Don't worry, it's going to be uber-informal and very low-traffic, and I promise we won't use lolcats (not much anyway). The group homepage, from where you can subscribe, is: >> http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west and the email address to use for posting: >> python-north-west at googlegroups.com (ideas on how to link this to other social software (facebook etc) are welcome) Best regards, and happy coding! -- Giacomo Lacava -- Giacomo Lacava From david at davidmeyer.org Tue Sep 11 13:18:42 2007 From: david at davidmeyer.org (David R. Meyer) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:18:42 -0400 Subject: [group-organizers] Intro Message-ID: <46E67992.2070908@davidmeyer.org> Hello, My name is David Meyer, and I am new to this list. I'm interested in starting a Python UG in Tampa, FL. and hope I can get some good resources (ideas) on how to do this right. Any advice anyone wants to pass on would be most welcome! Thanks, David Meyer From sdeibel at wingware.com Wed Sep 12 16:45:00 2007 From: sdeibel at wingware.com (Stephan Deibel) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:45:00 -0400 Subject: [group-organizers] Intro In-Reply-To: <46E67992.2070908@davidmeyer.org> References: <46E67992.2070908@davidmeyer.org> Message-ID: <46E7FB6C.4070304@wingware.com> David R. Meyer wrote: > My name is David Meyer, and I am new to this list. I'm interested in > starting a Python UG in Tampa, FL. and hope I can get some good > resources (ideas) on how to do this right. Any advice anyone wants to > pass on would be most welcome! Hi, welcome to the list! There is apparently already a Python Meetup going in Tampa FL: http://python.meetup.com/178/ That's probably the place to start. You can also try to find local Linux or other related user groups and announce the Tampa Python group there, to try to build it up to a larger group. Booking interesting and/or well known speakers also helps, if advertised well. You should also add the group here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups And contributing to the user group blog is also helpful: http://python-groups.blogspot.com/ Hope that helps... good luck with it! - Stephan From sdeibel at wingware.com Wed Sep 12 16:51:41 2007 From: sdeibel at wingware.com (Stephan Deibel) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:51:41 -0400 Subject: [group-organizers] Fwd: Announcing the Python North West mailing list In-Reply-To: <330fcd960709110004h9ebc185k610c9fe23d00c366@mail.gmail.com> References: <330fcd960709101115u59d1fca6t6c9ea4d2e7e853a4@mail.gmail.com> <330fcd960709110004h9ebc185k610c9fe23d00c366@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46E7FCFD.9070504@wingware.com> Giacomo Lacava wrote: > I've read all the advice posted on this list and I'll try to follow it > in the next few months. I added it to the wiki page and (sensibly) > spammed the local python and linux lists, do you think I should also > send it to the newsgroups? I think it's reasonable to announce new users groups on CLPA and CLP. Some groups even announce their meetings on CLPA. > Is there anything else that needs to be done to "make it official"? Don't think so. Please consider posting to the blog tho! http://python-groups.blogspot.com/ > I was also thinking about opening a facebook group, which would only > be used to point people to the real list. (The Facebook guys should > really find a way of integrating mailing lists in their group, but > anyway.) Does anyone know any other online community which we should > make aware? If you're on linkedin.com maybe list it there somewhere, but I've no idea how effective that is -- maybe worth a try tho. - Stephan From g.lacava at gmail.com Wed Sep 12 19:30:58 2007 From: g.lacava at gmail.com (Giacomo Lacava) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:30:58 +0100 Subject: [group-organizers] Fwd: [pyconuk] UK Python User Groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <330fcd960709121030s4db32a7bt2d52104fb99e5a0b@mail.gmail.com> I just got this and thought it might be worth repeating here... maybe it should go on a wiki? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Pinner Date: 12 Sep 2007 17:40 Subject: [pyconuk] UK Python User Groups To: Mailing list for the PyCon UK conference Hello UK Pythonistas, With a few new local Python user groups getting off the ground, it's worth reminding ourselves that o'Reilly offer good support to groups who register with them. Full details are at ug.oreilly.com. You have to register your group (not too onerous) and in return you can get * review copies of o'Reilly books * discounts on o'Reilly products, a nice benefit for members * donations of books, like we were given for the draw at PyCon UK and, no doubt, a few other things, like I think it's possible to get o'Reilly authors to speak at meetings. Tim Williams registered the Birmingham LUG, but I don't think we've got around to registering PyWm yet, so we're no example. Josette reminded me that we have not registered PyCon UK, but on the whole I think we'll have enough to do trying to run the conference. Best wishes, John -- _______________________________________________ pyconuk mailing list pyconuk at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyconuk -- Giacomo Lacava