Ideas

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

Build the Canadian Python community. Work together to bring great content to PyCon 2014/15.

• Skills
• Visibility
• Community
• Conference content (presentation ideas)

Skills

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

Community

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

• Conference content
  • Brainstorm and provide feedback on what we can present
    • Work-related
    • Open source
    • Ideas from schools / building future Devs
      • How are post-secondary schools teaching Python? What are students interested in? What's going on at the high school level?
    • Lessons form outside Python world that can be applied to Python world
  • Suggestions for Canadian keynote speaker