[Events] South Carolina and my wacky idea

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Deborah Nicholson wrote:

> Wow.
> 
> Ok, let me revise. They are excited about a python workshop and then got 
> all weird when I reiterated the "women and their friends" part. The part 
> that is missing for them is the same thing that Asheesh brought up. Our 
> goal isn't to build women-only python groups but to jumpstart the 
> integration into existing groups. Spartanburg doesn't have an existing 
> group.  

*nod*

> I still think it would be fun to run a python workshop at SELF and work 
> on the language (Debian Women style) to get a good turnout of women. In 
> my mind we'd encourage people at the conference to become involved in an 
> online project (like OpenHatch) if they don't have a local community or 
> both if they do... so the focus would be more advanced than "intro to 
> open source" but not tightly focused on "now you can join your local 
> python group" either. That may be too big of an idea to flesh out in 
> this kind of timeframe, although I am still willing.

I think it would be exciting. And re: "work on the language...to get a 
good turnout of women", I'd say this list has plenty of experience with 
that -- and I think that's a great way to do things. The list got started 
due to the 
http://opensource.com/life/10/11/introducing-students-world-open-source-day-1 
event, which had 35%-ish women.

As for running an event at SELF, I guess for me, where I stand is that I 
should't be adding more things to my own plate, but I'm happy to help 
others.

-- Asheesh.

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