[Events] OpenHatch student immersion: starting up again

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Jessica McKellar wrote:

> I'm a huge fan of this and am excited to see the program start back up.

(-: !

>> I want to run a few of these over the course of the next year. If other
>> people run other such events (with or without using the materials I'm
>> planning to publish), and they're in line with the same goals, I'd love to
>> hear about them on this list, too.
>
> I'm on the fall schedule (dates TBD by the organizers) for 2 talks
> through SIPB, MIT's computing club:
>
> http://sipb.mit.edu/
>
> - One is an introduction to the tools of open source development
> - The other is a hands-on introduction to the internet and networking
>
> These are not quite the same as your Penn structure, as SIPB term-time 
> events are traditionally single-evening and I'd save getting people 
> contributing to an open source project for a follow-up event. But they 
> are at a university, hands-on, about core concepts that are broadly 
> useful in computing and open source, and are attentive to reaching a 
> diverse audience, so I wanted to mention them. If anyone's interested in 
> hearing more about either of these events or their curricula, let me 
> know!

That'll be awesome. I want to hear everything possible about them and 
their curricula.

> I'm up for all of these things. My strongest connections are with MIT, 
> Harvard, and BU.

*nod*, excellent.

-- Asheesh.