[OH-announce] OpenHatch newsletter, January 2014
Mike Linksvayer
ml at openhatch.org
Sat Feb 1 00:40:31 UTC 2014
OpenHatch newsletter, January 2014 <http://openhatch.org/blog/?p=2431>
Open Source Comes to Campus: Columbia
<http://flickr.com/photos/paulproteus/11245845615> / CC-BY-SA
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/>
Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 18.
OpenHatch at Grace Hopper Open Source Day
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/openhatch-at-grace-hopper-open-source-day/>:
Two events – one past, one future – have come out of Open Source
Day. Sri Raga Velagapudi, our technical facilitator, invited us to
Rutgers. Within two weeks we were able to pull togethera great
event! We’ve also been in touch with Andrea Frost, Director of
Leadership Development for Western Washington University’s
Association for Women in Computing, who hopes to run an Open Source
Comes to Campus event at her school sometime this year. Andrea
emailed us soon after the event to say “thank you so much for taking
the time to walk us through the tutorial. My classmate and I were
attending our first open source event ever in our lives, and we were
a bit intimidated at the beginning. It was great to meet your team
and to have some fun in a group setting.” Needless to say, this is
the kind of email that makes our work feel worthwhile.
Open Source Comes to Campus: notes and photos of events at University of
Minnesota at Morris
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/teaching-open-source-at-morris/> and
Columbia
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/teaching-open-source-at-columbia-university/>.
We’re setting our Open Source Comes to Campus
<http://campus.openhatch.org/> schedule for the winter/spring semester.
Interested in volunteering for a local event or helping remotely? Have a
potential sponsor? Get in touch.
On January 4, several contributors, including brand-new contributors,
met up at a cafe in San Francisco
<https://secure.flickr.com/photos/paulproteus/11770380183/in/set-72157639424118635>
to work on an OpenHatch website sprint
<http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/003366.html>!
We used our own advice from the In-Person Event Handbook
<http://opensource-events.com/> for organizing it. We reviewed a pile of
pull requests, edited documentation, fixed some bugs, and ate tasty
sandwiches – see Asheesh’s extensive notes on the mailing list
<http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/003374.html>.
Practical thread on OH-events list concerning how to approach disengaged
attendees
<http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/events/2014-January/thread.html#546>.
In Asheesh Laroia’s Inbox <http://www.asheesh.org/note/me/mailbox.html>:
“I had a student stop by the office today and tell me that
Saturday’s event was a real game changer for him.”
New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder
* python-requests <https://openhatch.org/projects/python-requests>,
“an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings”.
* Retroshare <https://openhatch.org/projects/Retroshare>, a
“cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised
communication platform”.
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
Video of Linux.conf.us talks by Ashe Dryden (Programming Diversity
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pedsHLzf4mU>) and Karen Sandler
(Bringing More Women to Free and Open Source Software
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDUMXEfvAME>).
Planet Women in Free Software <http://planeteria.org/wfs/> aggregate blog.
Leslie Hawthorn’s Nerd Story: What You Say to Young Girls Matters
<https://www.linux.com/community/blogs/127-personal/758147-my-nerd-story-what-you-say-to-young-girls-matters>.
Python for Adults
<http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/03/python-for-adults/>:
The third, and perhaps most important strength of Python is its user
community. I’m sure this will be the most controversial part of this
post, but I’ve found the Python community has bar-none the most
supportive users. This is not by accident, but part of Python’s
legacy and current commitment to inclusion. Python came from a
teaching language background, and documentation was, and continues
to be part of that legacy. Python is used as a teaching language in
High Schools as well as MIT.
In addition, the Python Foundation focuses a lot of attention and
energy into community diversity through its Diversity Statement, as
well as commitment to bring women into the community, both through
their own local communities (PyLadies) but also focusing on bringing
that diversity into mainline events such as PyCon. The net effect is
that Python is not only welcoming to women, but has a general
welcoming atmosphere to people of virtually any background.
Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch
<http://www.reddit.com/r/openhatch>, and add your finds!
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with suggestions and questions.
Thanks to Britta Gustafson and Shauna Gordon-McKeon for contributing to
this edition!
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