[Events] MS Nerd room request blurb

[Ned Batchelder]

Hi all, I'm Ned Batchelder, the organizer of the Boston Python meetup.  
I'm excited about the prospects for this event.

If you make this an event of the meetup, then the URL hosting is solved, 
and you can use the event RSVP's and so on, from the meetup.com site.  
You should get the dates from NERD as soon as possible.  Send Leah the 
request *now*, you can fill in the details later.

I have no idea how scheduling a full Saturday will work, both at the 
NERD, and with the participants themselves, but I like the aggressive 
schedule.

--Ned.

On 1/23/2011 10:47 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Jessica T McKellar wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Below is a room request I'd like to send to my contact at MS Nerd 
>> <http://microsoftcambridge.com/>, Leah Brunson 
>> <lbrunson at microsoft.com>. Amendments are welcome, but in particular 
>> do the times and the number of attendees jive with what we want?
>>
>> I'll introduce myself and our goals in addition to this request.
>>
>> I'd like to send this in the next 48 hours.
>>
>> One thing I think is important: there's the opportunity for an event 
>> URL. We should probably have one that we can give to people anyway, 
>> with a description of the workshop and some ethusiasm-inducing 
>> videos/images of the kinds of projects you might complete.
>>
>> Who can host this URL? (I'm happy to, but 
>> jesstess.com/boston-python-workshop is not all that legitimate 
>> sounding) How about something on openhatch.org?
>
> Would it work to make it a wiki page "for now"? If so, that would be 
> great by me.
>
> In the past, I made this page: http://penn.openhatch.org/old-index/. 
> It seemed really effective, and was really simple to set up.
>
> I would be totally up for hosting (preferably static, but if not, 
> that's okay) content for the Boston Python Workshop event on an 
> OpenHatch subdomain, too, if that would be better than a wiki page and 
> worth putting together.
>
> (As a side note about the name: I really really like these "$CITY 
> $LANGUAGE workshop" names, because they sound sort of unassuming.)
>
> Specific feedback inline:
>
>> Name: Jessica McKellar
>>
>> Organization: OpenHatch (https://openhatch.org) and the Boston Python 
>> Meetup Group (http://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/)
>>
>> Email: jesstess at mit.edu
>>
>> Phone: 615-714-6058
>>
>> Event Title: Boston Python Workshop
>>
>> Preferred Dates: March 4th (evening) and March 5th (day) 2011
>>
>> Times:
>> - March 4th: 5pm - 8pm
>> - March 5th: 10am - 6pm
>
> I think the times make sense. At first, I thought, "Man, that would 
> end so soon!" but then I thought, "Ending at six p.m. is probably 
> reasonable."
>
>> Alternate Date: None
>
> (-:
>
>> Description: Dive into Python with this 1.5 day project-driven Python 
>> workshop.
>>
>> Our focus is on encouraging participation from female programmers of 
>> all experience levels. A laptop is required. On Friday we'll install 
>> dependencies. On Saturday, after a brief introduction to the language 
>> we'll all hack on projects.
You should probably provide a little more detail here.  How brief an 
intro to the language are we talking about?  If I were new to Python, I 
would be afraid that there wouldn't be enough support for newbs in "a 
brief introduction".  And which projects?  Do participants need to bring 
a project to work on?
>
> Feedback:
>
> I do like the "Dive into Python" book, but since we're not using it, 
> it's a bit weird to use the same (recognizable) name as Mark Pilgrim's 
> book.
>
> So I'd suggest changing that first summary line to, "Learn Python with 
> this 1.5 day project-driven Python workshop".
>
>> Audience: Female programmers of all experience levels, open source 
>> contributors.
>
> Men can be a woman's plus-one! Assuming we're sticking to what the SF 
> Ruby Workshops do, which I would like to, but we can discuss that if 
> people don't want to.
>
> So maybe:
>
> "Audience: Women and their friends, of all programming experience 
> levels."
>
> I also really like the phrase "Women and their friends", maybe because 
> I also find it simultaneously unassuming and powerful.
>
>> Cost to Attend: Free
>>
>> Approximate Number of Attendees: 30
>>
>> Preferred Setup: Classroom
>>
>> Event Website: None
>>
>> How you heard about NERD: DevOps Boston meetup, MIT
>
> That's my thoughts. Thanks for this!
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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