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[Events] South Carolina and my wacky idea

Vijaylaxsmi Kesavan vijaylaxsmi at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 18:26:07 UTC 2011


Hi Deborah,

My name is Vijay. Women and python is right up my alley so this is
wonderful. Thank you for getting this together! Happy to support in any way
that I can.

Vijay

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Deborah Nicholson <deb at seagl.org> wrote:

> 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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Vijaylaxsmi
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