[Events] Boston Python Workshop 2 feeler e-mail

[Lukas Blakk]

Boy I wish I could stop by an a) meet folks I missed at pyCon and b) participate in a face2face discussion on these topics. If you all do meet up at a particular time would it be possible to skype me in?
Cheers,
Lukas 



On 2011-04-02, at 1:26 PM, Jessica McKellar <jessica.mckellar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I basically agree with what Asheesh said. A few more comments inline:
> 
>>> It seems like we are duplicating lots of effort in materials and the
>>> like.  Do we want to converge on any technologies or methods?
> 
> Having only run one workshop each, I think we are still at the point
> where we are figuring out through experience and exploration what
> works best. So I don't think we know what to converge on yet.
> 
>> The PyStar site is in git, which is nice for forkability. It's not as nice
>> for attendees fixing up busted instructions. That just leaves me confused as
>> to the "right" answer.
>> 
>> I want to make sure everyone knows the way I see PyStar and the OpenHatch
>> events, which is that they should be extremely forkable. I want 100 cities
>> running 50-10 different slightly wacky local curricula, but I also want
>> people to be able to read each others' work in terms of making their
>> materials better.
> 
> ==Asheesh.
> 
>> 
>> Maybe the thing I would love the most is if there were a "central"
>> repository of everyone's work merged into one giant set of directories of
>> restructured text. I don't know. The ability for local groups to make their
>> own infrastructure is important to me -- no one city's awesome website
>> changes should be blocked by having to ask permission to SSH into the main
>> website and do a "git pull".
> 
> ==Asheesh. Perhaps this is way more decentralized in my mind than in
> other peoples' minds. My hope is to 1) help develop material and a
> workshop structure that we prove through experience is effective for
> teaching different kinds of people Python, and 2) make those materials
> and what we've learned readily available to people who want to run
> their own workshops. However, I don't want to impose anything on
> people who want to run their own workshops -- this includes things
> like names, how they advertise themselves, what their website/wiki
> looks like, an obligation to use particular materials, etc.
> 
>> 
>>> 3)  Eventbrite?  Are y'all using meetup instead?  If so, why (genuine
>>> interest).
>> 
>> We are using Meetup. Inertia plus experience. I talked about that a little
>> in http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/events/2011-March/000123.html .
> 
> A lot of our attendees heard about the workshop from people they know
> who are a part of the Boston Python Meetup.
> 
>>> 4)  Co-ordinating timings of workshops, etc.
>> 
>> I'd be interested to hear why that's worth doing. Honest question.
> 
> ==Asheesh
> 
>>> I could hang out Friday day (lunchtime, April 8) in Boston before my
>>> flight back, if people want to meet/discuss.  I could use me some Other Side
>>> or Friendly Toast, or such!
> 
>> I would like to hang out, and Friday @ Friendly Toast would be quite good
>> for me. Other Side is okay but less convenient. I'm open to other ideas.
> 
> I work in Central, so Friendly Toast (or something in Central) is
> easiest for me.
> 
> -Jessica
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