PSF Python Brochure "sold out" - help us kick start the second print run !

PSF Python Brochure PDF (low resolution version)

We are happy to announce that we have successfully distributed the first 5,000 copies of the PSF Python Brochure to Python conferences and user groups around the world.

Even without doing any major announcement of the possibility to order the brochure for conferences and user groups, we easily received enough requests to have the first print run completely distributed in just a few months.

Brochures were sent to PyCon US 2014 in Montreal, EuroPython 2014, PyCons and open source conferences in India, UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium and to many professional users around the world.

Promoting Python to new audiences

The feedback we received was positive all around.

Conference attendees were really happy to be able to easily show and prove how Python changes the world, to make the point that learning and using Python is a good investment.

The brochure helps them in promoting Python in their local and professional communities, especially to the many non-technical people we cannot easily reach with our python.org web site.

We would like to thank all our sponsors and contributors for their hard work to achieve this impressing result.

Please help us kick start the second print run !

In order to continue with the distribution of the remaining 5,000 copies of the Vol. 1 edition, we are now looking for two additional half page ad sponsors to help finance the print run and distribution costs.

We have reserved the notes area on the inner back cover page of the brochure for these extra ads.

If you would like to show your support for Python and its community and reach out to thousands of people interested in Python, now is the time to sign up as ad sponsor!

Pre-order the PSF Python Brochure

We provide two options for pre-ordering the brochure from the second print run which will be available early in April 2015:

1. free Community Orders for conference and user groups
2. paid Company Orders for companies and organizations

The costs for the community orders are sponsored through sponsor ads, the PSF and the company orders.

More information

More information on the brochure, the idea and people behind it, media data and ordering links are available on our project page:

• PSF Python Brochure Project Website

Thank you for your help,
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director, Python Software Foundation

Geek Girls Carrots Warsaw workshop

For many people, myself included, it's hard to see the way that my individual dreams and desires may be part of a bigger movement, and may, in fact, contribute to the projects and concerns of a larger community. But if you're part of the Python community, indeed you are part of something big, something special, and something that will support your efforts to use Python, as well as to educate and empower others to learn programming and to join the open source movement.

One example of the way in which the PSF supports its members is in giving grants to fund workshops and events like one held in Warsaw in January. The PSF contributed $1,000 USD to the Geek Girls Carrots Warsaw workshop. Not a huge amount, but enough to make a big impact. According to Zuzanna Podwińska, the organizer of the event,

“With your help, we’ve managed to invite 42 students and 14 mentors, who during 2,5 days wrote on average 286 lines of code each, ate 20 kg of carrots, and drank 85 liters of coffee and tea :) Thanks to your support, we were able to provide them with warm meals and drinks during the two workshop days, and they were able to focus fully on the important part - learning Python programming.”

Zuzanna also sent some pics.

Their commitment to teaching Python extends even further.

“Since we believe that such events are just a good start of one’s programming adventure, we organize weekly free Python programming workshops called Code Carrots, which allow people to practice coding regularly. 50 awesome new attendees came to the last meeting! Watching them make progress is what really keeps us going :)”

If you're looking for inspiration to hold your own workshop or users group, there are plenty of models available and many people in the Python community to help. (See for example http://django.carrots.pl/en/ for teaching materials, and go to python.org to find out about funding.)