[Events] South Carolina and my wacky idea

[Vijaylaxsmi Kesavan]

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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