[Events] hello everyone

[Daniel Choi]

Oops, wrong link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjiW0g5n6E21s5e0vAV0S-VobQhu9xKzwJ5B6KE6KxQ/edit#heading=h.pj34zov0f4e



On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Choi <dhchoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> from: Daniel Choi <dhchoi at gmail.com>
> date: Wed, Jun 13 11:07 AM -04:00 2012
> to: events at lists.openhatch.org
> cc: dhchoi at gmail.com
> subject: Re: [Events] hello everyone
> 
> Hi guys 
> 
> The blog post is ready, if Asheesh wants to use it. 
> 
> It's at 
> 
> http://snapframework.com/docs/quickstart
> 
> It's a Google Doc. If you need to be granted permission to view it, just
> request it after visiting the Doc URL.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:45 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
> 
>> from: Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org>
>> date: Wed, Jun 06 01:45 PM -04:00 2012
>> to: events <events at lists.openhatch.org>
>> reply-to: events at lists.openhatch.org
>> subject: Re: [Events] hello everyone
>> 
>> Excerpts from Daniel Choi's message of Wed Jun 06 13:16:30 -0400 2012:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Daniel Choi and I am a
>>> Rubyist in Boston. I love programming and am the author of a few
>>> websites and open source projects, including Vmail[1], a Vim client for
>>> Gmail. I run a small software shop in Cambridge, MA with my friend.
>>> 
>>> I'm introducing myself to this mailing list now because three weeks ago,
>>> everything changed for the Boston Ruby Community. There were stirrings
>>> of malaise in the Boston Ruby mailing list about our lack of diversity
>>> and beginner-friendliness.  Our female representation at monthly Boston
>>> Ruby meetings is embarrassingly low, and too often our events are 
>>> intimidating for beginners and newcomers. We wanted to do something
>>> about this, but had no clear idea how.
>>> 
>>> Then someone pointed to Boston Python as a community that had its act
>>> together on outreach and welcoming newcomers. I contacted some people
>>> there, and they pointed me to the 2012 PyCon presentation by Jessica
>>> McKellar and Asheesh Laroia titled "Diversity in practice: How the
>>> Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women."[2]  
>>> 
>>> After I watched that video, I urged everyone on the Boston Ruby mailing
>>> list to watch it. Then things started happening fast.
>>> 
>>> Jessica and Asheesh's presentation changed our whole outlook on
>>> what is possible for the Boston Ruby community.  In 40 minutes, they
>>> opened our eyes to how we were stunting ourselves as a community, and
>>> they excited us by laying out such a clear, practical, and feasible
>>> outreach strategy that we could follow to change things dramatically in
>>> a short period of time.
>>> 
>>> We were so pumped that a day after we saw the video, we organized a
>>> BostonRB outreach organizational meeting to start moving. We even got
>>> Jessica and Asheesh to attend it! (Asheesh, 3 time zones away,  was
>>> there virtually, thanks to Google Hangouts.) In an hour, we got everyone
>>> to agree that we would follow the playbook Jessica and Asheesh laid out. 
>>> 
>>> Two weeks later, which was last night, we held our first outreach event,
>>> a beginner-friendly Ruby Project Night, modeled on the Python Project
>>> Night Asheesh and Jessica pioneered. It was a great success. Newcomers
>>> went out of their way to thank us for organizing it. The volunteers who
>>> helped the beginners loved it too, and everyone who took part feels more
>>> engaged and invested as members of the Boston Ruby community.  
>>> 
>>> Now we are about to start planning our first Boston Ruby Workshop for
>>> Women and Their Friends. We are gathering a support and volunteers from
>>> all sides. Our outreach effort, which was nonexistent just a month ago,
>>> is growing strong and confident legs.
>>> 
>>> I wanted to share that good news with everyone here. I also hope this
>>> message can help inspire new outreach efforts elsewhere. 
>> 
>> Well, thank you for the unbelievably unenthusiastic email! I'm floored.
>> 
>> I'll conclude a few things from this:
>> 
>> * Jessica's plan that people should try running project nights
>>   before they dive into an outreach workshop seems to be quite
>>   reasonable!
>> 
>> * Dan, the work you've done is truly amazing.
>> 
>> * Giving talks is not only fun, but probably a good idea. (:
>> 
>> Dan, I'm curious if you can write a little bit about the fact
>> that Boston.rb renamed the "Hack night" to a "Project night."
>> Did you guys change anything in particular about the hack night
>> other than the name? (And what sort of feedback did you get about
>> the name change?)
>> 
>> -- Asheesh.
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