[python-uk] Python UK user groups / website / coordination

[Rob Cowie]

On 2 Aug 2010, at 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)
> * 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.
> * The PSF might be persuaded to contribute some money for stuff.
> * We should try to make better use of the python-uk mailing list (hence this message) :-)

Sounds like a cracking idea. I've just moved from London to Leeds and although there are plenty of geekery-related events and meet ups, there isn't a python users group. I refuse to believe I'm the only one here so I'm going to try to make something happen. A place for UK-centric discussion, advertising of meetings etc. would be very useful.

Rob Cowie

> 
> 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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