<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user<br>group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding<br>
international Python user community.<br><br>The survey contains questions on user group organization, events,<br>demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical<br>answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to<br>
gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting<br>the survey (example statistics include the number of active members<br>and the size and topics for recent user group events).<br><br>We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We<br>
appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions.<br><br>The PSF blog post announcing the survey:<br><a href="http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(87, 151, 176); ">http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html</a><br>
<br>The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (<a href="http://jesstess.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(87, 151, 176); ">http://jesstess.com</a>),<br>organizer for the Boston Python Meetup<br>(<a href="http://meetup.bostonpython.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(87, 151, 176); ">http://meetup.bostonpython.com</a>), and Jesse Noller<br>
(<a href="http://jessenoller.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(87, 151, 176); ">http://jessenoller.com/</a>), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input<br>and feedback from survey specialists and others.<br><br><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(87, 151, 176); ">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ</a><br>
<br>The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and<br>their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these<br>topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for<br>strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups<br>
out of this effort.<br><br>Outreach, education, diversity and community building are critical for<br>Python as a community, and the Foundation - this data should greatly<br>assist in our targeting our resources and furthering the mission of<br>
the Foundation in all ways.<br><br>Thank you<br><br>The Python Software Foundation<br>Jessica McKellar<br>Jesse Noller</span>