Python User Group International Survey

[Brian Curtin]

The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python
user
group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
international Python user community.

The survey contains questions on user group organization, events,
demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical
answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to
gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting
the survey (example statistics include the number of active members
and the size and topics for recent user group events).

We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We
appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions.

The PSF blog post announcing the survey:
http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html

The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (http://jesstess.com),
organizer for the Boston Python Meetup
(http://meetup.bostonpython.com), and Jesse Noller
(http://jessenoller.com/), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input
and feedback from survey specialists and others.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ

The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and
their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these
topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for
strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups
out of this effort.

Outreach, education, diversity and community building are critical for
Python as a community, and the Foundation - this data should greatly
assist in our targeting our resources and furthering the mission of
the Foundation in all ways.

Thank you

The Python Software Foundation
Jessica McKellar
Jesse Noller

[Michael Sparks]

On Jun 30, 4:06 am, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user
> group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
> international Python user community.

In case anyone reading this wonders whether this is just a random
survey, it's not, it's seriously intended as a way of trying to better
gather info about how the PSF can help further the python eco system
(I'm a member of the PSF). The PSF isn't just about CPython (though it
does have a legal aspect there with regard to protecting the copyright
for the community), but is specifically at helping grow and nurture
the python ecosystem however it can.

As a result the reason behind the survey is exactly as stated above -
about finding out what's going on and how best to help. Since Safe has
organised the most recent lot of events in the northwest, I'd like to
nominate him for filling in the survey, but if he can't someone else
who's been able to attend regularly would be great :-) (I can't attend
as often as I'd like)

(I'll happily do it if no-one else has time, but it'd seem a bit self-
referential, and I have been a bit out of the loop in for far too many
months!)

Happy to answer any q's about this though or other PSF-y type
things :-)


Michael.

[David Jones]

On 30 June 2011 22:02, Michael Sparks <spar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 4:06 am, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user
>> group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
>> international Python user community.
>
> In case anyone reading this wonders whether this is just a random
> survey, it's not, it's seriously intended as a way of trying to better
> gather info about how the PSF can help further the python eco system
> (I'm a member of the PSF). The PSF isn't just about CPython (though it
> does have a legal aspect there with regard to protecting the copyright
> for the community), but is specifically at helping grow and nurture
> the python ecosystem however it can.
>
> As a result the reason behind the survey is exactly as stated above -
> about finding out what's going on and how best to help. Since Safe has
> organised the most recent lot of events in the northwest, I'd like to
> nominate him for filling in the survey, but if he can't someone else
> who's been able to attend regularly would be great :-) (I can't attend
> as often as I'd like)

If it's still within the deadline, we should fill it in at the next
meet. Which is to say, Safe can type, and we can heckle.

drj

[safe....@sandacre.com]

That's an excellent plan, and not much different to my day job ;)

 

drj

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[Michael Sparks]

On Jul 4, 10:29 am, David Jones <d...@pobox.com> wrote:
...

> If it's still within the deadline, we should fill it in at the next
> meet.  Which is to say, Safe can type, and we can heckle.

Sounds like a plan :)

Michael.