[Events] What is appealing about hack-day?

[Dana Bauer]

This is a really helpful conversation. We're having our first
PhillyPUG/PyStar Philly project night on January 26. I'm working on the
event page now and trying to figure out the language. Thanks!

Dana


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Gregg Lind <gregg.lind at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the name, we are going with something more like "Coding Night",
> rather than either "hack" or "project" night, which are not
> descriptive enough, given the venue (Minneapolis HackFactory).
> "Project" is a good word though.  The other comments are all quite
> welcome though!
>
> GL
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jessica McKellar
> <jessica.mckellar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gregg,
> >
> >
> >> We are planning our first PyStar-MN hack night.
> >
> > Awesome!
> >
> >
> >>   For someone coming
> >> from the Workshop portion (new learner, possibly not sold on the idea
> >> of coding), what is appealing and unappealing about a Coding Night?
> >> We are trying to design language that is both OPEN and INVITING and
> >> not sure which things actually might appeal to such people.
> >
> > I think these options appeal most to workshop alums:
> >
> > 2. Work on your own projects or work through tutorials.
> > 3. Start learning a new language or tool you've been meaning to learn.
> > 5. Ask questions and get help
> >
> > Here are some additional thoughts; hopefully they are helpful and not
> > straying too far from your question :) :
> >
> > We run project nights every month with the Boston Python user group. It
> is
> > for people of all experience levels, but we historically get a lot of
> > beginners. Some things that we've noticed:
> >
> > * people coming from the Boston Python Workshop with no prior programming
> > experience typically want to work through a Python tutorial some more
> before
> > jumping into projects
> > * beginners value knowing that people from the workshop will be there to
> > help them
> > * beginners often want someone to tell them what to work on. Typically
> > someone will say "what tutorial should I go through?" or "what should I
> do
> > now?" and we ask them a bit about their programming background and then
> help
> > them select material and get started based on that information.
> > * beginners value knowing that other beginners will be there with them
> >
> > An example project night event description is at:
> > http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/36662072/
> >
> > We polled some people when deciding on a name for this style of event and
> > decided that we liked "project night" the best; in particular some people
> > found "hack night" intimidating.
> >
> > Let me know if we can share anything else from Boston, and I look
> forward to
> > hearing about how the event turns out!
> >
> > -Jessica
> >
> >
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