Nominations For Elections
Peter Russell
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the time of this message.
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You are free to put yourself forward for either or both of the
following two positions:
Leader - The role of the group leader is to keep WYPy running. That
includes organising monthly meetings and other events. The leader is
also responsible for communicating those events, ensuring that the
group has a maintained web presence. The leader will also have
responsibility for organising the next AGM and elections within 12
months of their election. The leader can represent the group to third
parties and serve as a point of contact (for example when finding
venues). The leader can delegate whatever parts of their role they
feel necessary to any willing person, but overall responsibility
remains with the leader.
Vice-Leader - The role of the vice leader is to work with the leader
in fulfilling their duties. Beyond this, the vice-leader needs to be
prepared to take on the leaders responsibilities from time to time,
for example if the leader is away. If the leader has to resign before
their term is complete, they will become the leader.
Peter Russell
that for vice-leader.
I've been a member of the group since its inception, and it's been an
important part of my life since. I've made friends through it, and
found jobs through it. WYPy is extremely important to me, and I am
committed to seeing it continue, and I would like to see it thrive.
I don't think that WYPy is thriving today, and it never really has. I
hope that having an elected leader will allow us to make a transition
from being a small collection of friends to a larger group who can
truly claim to be representative of the Python community in West
Yorkshire. We should be able to promote
My priorities if elected will be organisation, communication, and
through those growth. We've seen before that when meetings have been
publicised well in advance, and the talks sound interesting, we've
been able to attract new people along. However in the past we've
never been able to keep up the momentum. If I am elected leader I
will try to be in a position to announce at least one talk three weeks
in advance of the meeting.
I have some other ideas for how to grow the group, most of which we've
discussed before, but if elected I would like to try:
* We should try to promote ourselves to the CS students at Leeds who
are learning Python.
* We should invite guest speakers from other Python groups.
* We should talk to other local computing groups (LeedsPHP, LeedsJS,
WYLug, BradLUG, Leeds Testers Gathering etc.) and try to initiate some
sort of shared announcement scheme.
* We should hold another introduction to Python workshop.
These sort of things have always been hard for us to arrange in the
past, but if we have someone to drive them forward I think they could
make a huge difference.
I'm not naturally one of life's great organisers, and promoting the
group vigorously and proactively will sometimes require me to overcome
my natural urges - In fact I'm somewhat reluctant to stand at all.
However I am willing to put time and effort into doing this.
If I am not elected for either post, I will certainly continue to
attend the group, and will be willing to help whoever is elected in
whatever ways I can.
Thanks for reading,
Peter Russell
Wavy Davy
> I would like to announce my candidacy for group leader, and failing
> that for vice-leader.
Me too :)
And I think all of Peter's ideas are good ones. I'm coming from the
same place as Peter: WyPy is great, but some changes are needed to
make it greaterer :)
Organisation is the basic thing we need to get sorted, following
Daley's lead in Sheffield and having regular announcements of talks.
The hardest part of this is actually getting the talks sorted ahead of
time, so we can communicate them suitably far in advance. To achieve
that, I would look at:
a) like Peter said, getting speakers in from outside
b) getting our current "members" to talk more - providing
assistance/cattle-prod as needed :)
To relieve the admin pressure of getting talks, I'd also plan
organising more coding sessions, dojo or project based.
While I think appointing leaders is a good step, I would want to keep
everyone involved and spread the load out. There's a lot of very
skilled/knowledgeable folks in the group, and I'd want us all to be
part of making WyPy greaterer :)
Thanks
--
Simon
Nick Efford
elected in any way I can.
One thing that I really need to take on board is publicising WYPy
events to Uni of Leeds students; I've not been very good at doing this
in the past and I'm sure we would be averaging another 2 or 3
attendees per meeting if I can do a better job in future.
N.