Ideas

Rough list of PyCon Canada ideas based on notes from the original meeting.

• Bring great Canadian content to PyCon 2014/15
  • Skill building (see below)
  • Brainstorm and provide feedback on what we can present
  • Suggestions for Canadian keynote speaker
• Build technical/non-technical skills
  • Presentation and meeting coordination skills (more below under community building)
  • Python core mentorship program
• Visibility and recognition
  • Help members to showcase themselves
  • Get recognition for what you've done as a dev
  • Open source contributions (possibly the StackExchange "resume" would be a good model?)
  • List (personal and professional) mentors and "mentees"
  • Talks given (ex, at Django Toronto); including slides and videos
  • "Profiles" (nothing noted vis what the specifics could be)
  • wearenytech.com: profiles a dev in NY every few days
• Building and connecting local communities
  • (Facilitate/host) per-city portals
  • Building the Toronto community. Support devs in TO to bring them up to a level where they could speak at PyCon (North America)
  • Support for building your own local community
    • Checklist for running events (ex: "people will eat/drink about this much", etc)
    • At events/meetings, have moderators who know the material (to be presented on); they can give feedback (public or private), start an intelligent (public) discussion of the topic.
    • Trusted members of the community who can give private feedback after talks (vis how the speaker could improve)
  • Web site for PyCon Canada
    • Build around slides and videos
    • Get videos (hosted) on PyVideo