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

Build technical/non-technical skills

Presentation and meeting coordination skills (more below under community building)
Python core mentorship program
Members contribute short articles for mentoring/growth. Discussion

Help members to showcase themselves
Get recognition for what you've done as a dev
Open source contributions
- NY: TB, DC, and pyconca are on ohloh
- DW: 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"
- DW: no specifics on details from initial meeting
- NY: Short bio + point to existing online profiles (LinkedIn, ohloh, Twitter, etc)
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