[Events] Open Source Comes to Campus: 2013 planning so far

[Asheesh Laroia]

Howdy eventers,

I was chatting with Shauna Gordon-McKeon today on #openhatch about putting 
together a plan for the coming semester in 2013's Open Source Comes to 
Campus events, and here's the quick summary.

* We will aim for 3-4 events, most to all of which will be gender 
diversity outreach oriented, in Jan/Feb/Mar 2013. Shauna will probably 
lead-organize most-to-all of them. We'll definitely need volunteers!

* Northeastern University folks are interested in some sort of "Bug Bash" 
where people fix lots of issues in open source projects, and Shauna and I 
hopeful that we can run some teaching events before it, so students can 
then join in the Bug Bash even if they're not NEU.edu students.

* Current priority schools in the Boston area, due to having past contacts 
with them: Harvard and Wellesley.

* I'd like the tour to also visit NYC and Portland soon (hopefully during 
January) due to enthusiasm from 10gen and Puppet Labs. Columbia University 
women in CS is probably a great partner in NYC.

* The best dates for Boston-area events: Jan 11-13, Jan 25-27, Feb 1-3, 
Feb 8-10, Feb 15-17.

* We're thinking of a west coast mini tour around the time of PyCon, 
hitting Portland and SF maybe and LA maybe.

* Shauna will get in touch with people at those Boston area schools first, 
and see what dates work.

Yahoo,

-- Asheesh.