[Events] Scaling Community Diversity Outreach, from PyCon

[Julia Evans]

That video is amazing! Thanks for sending it. I'm even more excited about
our workshop in Montreal this Friday, now :) I just added it to the
affiliated events page, and I'll definitely send a report about how it
goes.

Julia


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Howdy all event peeps,
>
> I had the honor of leading a panel about diversity outreach
> OpenHatch-style at PyCon, and I wanted to send a quick note about it here
> to the Events list.
>
> First of all, let me thank the panelists. They all provided insightful
> discussion and illuminating imagery that helped the audience get a sense of
> how programming user groups across the US (and beyond!) are changing their
> demographics and bringing up their newcomer-friendliness.
>
> They were:
>
> * Jessica McKellar, Boston Python Workshop
>
> * Daniel Choi, Railsbridge Boston
>
> * Dana Bauer, PyStar Philly
>
> * Naomi Ceder, Chicago Python Workshop
>
> Special props to Jessica for focusing the conversation on the pipeline
> that it takes to create sustained change within a community.
>
> We had some great questions from the audience, and then we had some
> audience members (and all the speakers!) come to the OpenHatch booth, where
> we held OpenHatch Office Hours. At Office Hours, we got some great
> questions, especially:
>
> Anthony came to talk to us about bringing diversity up within the SciPy
> 2013 conference.
>
> A person talked with us about porting the Boston Python Workshop structure
> the growing Node.js community within her locality. (Sadly I have forgotten
> where she is based.)
>
> We had some great questions, too -- one attendees wondered how to balance
> their own family lives with the work of making their user group a great
> place. Another wondered how to do the publicity work it takes to get a more
> diverse attendee base.
>
> Thanks again to the panelists for making it a great event and to PyCon for
> letting us connect with attendees!
>
> Video here: http://pyvideo.org/video/1687/**scaling-community-diversity-**
> outreach<http://pyvideo.org/video/1687/scaling-community-diversity-outreach>
>
> and slides: https://speakerdeck.com/**pyconslides/scaling-community-**
> diversity-outreach-a-panel-**with-asheesh-laroia-jessica-**
> mckellar-dana-bauer-and-**daniel-choi<https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/scaling-community-diversity-outreach-a-panel-with-asheesh-laroia-jessica-mckellar-dana-bauer-and-daniel-choi>
>
> All four of these events are OpenHatch-affiliated events, and if you are
> running an outreach event and want to be more plugged into this community
> of great people, do make your event Affiliated with OpenHatch! You can read
> more about that new term here: https://openhatch.org/wiki/**
> Events/Affiliated <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Events/Affiliated>
>
> (And one day I'll actually write a blog post announcing that "Affiliated
> events" thing.)
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
>
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