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Contribute by Promoting Python

Here are a few ways that you can help:

Join the Mailing List: Please consider joining and contributing through the marketing-python mailing list.

Donate to or join the PSF: By supporting the Python Software Foundation you can help manage and protect the Intellectual Property behind Python, which is critical to the continued vitality of the language and associated tools and libraries. The PSF also plans to develop a grant program to fund portions of the further development of Python and its standard libraries.

Provide Advocacy Quotes: Your company can help Python by contributing quotes that can be used in press releases and/or on python.org (see top of the page and this page of quotes). If you would like to provide a quote, please write to python-quotes at pythonology.org. If you might be able to convince others to provide quotes, see these guidelines.

Write Success Stories, like these, describing how Python has been used, particularly in larger and/or mission-critical applications. Some of these have also been published in printed form by O'Reilly Associates. See the guide for contributors.

Write How-Tos aimed at teaching others how Python can solve specific problems like GUI application development, website development of various kinds, and more specific tasks such as sending email, generating PDF documents, interfacing with web services, and so forth. You can help by contributing text, editing, or encouraging others to contribute.

Speak Out about Python: To your co-workers, your boss, your friends, whenever you get the chance (without being too obnoxious, of course!). Opportunities often arise online in discussion groups. A great way to help is to get interesting news about Python posted on slashdot.org.

Help with Marketing: If you're interested in helping with marketing and public relations for Python, please contact us or join the marketing-python mailing list. We're always looking for additions to the marketing resources page and for help in announcing new Python releases and promoting Python-related events.

Catalog your Python Modules: Contribute to the Python Package Index (PyPI), an effort aimed at improving cataloging and access to the world of open source and commercially available Python software modules.

Help improve Python: Help make initial contact with Python easier. Installers should provide an easier path for getting started as a new user. An optional fat distribution could offer substantially more libraries than are included in the current standard distribution (see the batteries included PEP).

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