[Events] South Carolina and my wacky idea

[Deborah Nicholson]

Hi all,
I mentioned in passing to the organizers of SELF (
http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/) something like, "maybe if there's space
we could replicate the python workshop we're planning here in Boston." SELF
is in June so I was sort of expecting a slow or noncommittal response if
any.

Instead, I got "WOW! that would be awesome! Can we give you a giant room and
start telling people yesterday?" Which is nice, but way out of order. I was
just hoping to find out if there might be a room and then coming back to you
guys with a *potential* opportunity.

In my mind, the idea would that we'd have a template for these worked out by
June and could host a small workshop with just a few of us plus people from
the large local Atlanta python group and the smaller but very nearby
Charlotte group. We'd basically be demoing to the Atlanta/Charlotte folks
how they could hold such an event at home. (SELF is actually in Spartanburg,
but most of this con's attendees come from the nearby cities of which
Atlanta is the largest and Charlotte is the closest.)

I'm happy to do the initial outreach to the two local groups and explain
what we are looking to do. What we'd need to do is be committed to
documenting our upcoming workshops by June so that folks in the Atlanta and
Charlotte groups could take the whole workshop idea home. Of course, if
we're not interested or if the Atlanta and Charlotte groups aren't
interested, then I'll just tell SELF no.

The sticky part is that SELF wants to go live on February 1st with all their
sessions and mini-conferences listed on their website. So the timeframe is
possibly the wackiest part of this idea. Voila, the magic of coffee plus
unemployment.

I would love to hear what everyone thinks about this.
Cheers,
Deb
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