[Events] Advice want in starting a Python Workshop - UK

[TimeBandit]

Hello,

Thank you so much for all your input so far. There is a lot to think 
about here but I think as Aidan said I think the first step is to find 2 
or 3 others in the area that can help me with this. I am going to Pycon 
UK this Friday with a banner pinned to my rucksack advertising myself to 
anyone in my local area to come and say 'hi' so I can begin networking. 
Thank you for all the tips, I can see that this is going to take a few 
todo lists to organize but it will be fun.

More later,

  Imran


On 08/09/14 20:22, Aidan Feldman wrote:
> Great that you're interested in doing this! I run an 
> office-hours-style meetup in NYC, and have a guide on learned (the 
> hard way) best practices:
>
> http://hackerhours.org/diy-guide.html
>
> Hope it's useful!
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at nextdayvideo.com 
> <mailto:carl at nextdayvideo.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
>     <shaunagm at gmail.com <mailto:shaunagm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Imran,
>
>         This is so exciting!  Thank you for reaching out for
>         help/advice.  I don't live nearby so I can't help in person
>         but I'm happy to give advice from afar.  I coordinate Open
>         Source Comes to Campus <http://campus.openhatch.org/> so I'm
>         very familiar with the kinds of issues you're likely to run into.
>
>
>             I would like to give something back to the community and
>             to be more involved with the Python community. Can someone
>             point me in the right direction on how to get started? I
>             am aware that there is course material on the Boston
>             Python site. How do I go about organising the event?
>
>
>         I'd start by thinking about the basics:
>
>         - Where would you host such an event?  If you're having
>         trouble brainstorming, I'd suggest looking at where meetup
>         groups host large events, and at schools and companies nearby.
>          This checklist, which we use for OSCTC, may be useful:
>         https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Logistics/Space_Checklist
>
>         - What are the costs of the event, and who can cover them?
>          The majority of the budget is usually food, which I believe
>         you can apply to the Python Software Foundation to cover.  You
>         may also need to pay a fee for the room and travel costs for
>         mentors if the location is out of the way.
>
>         - When do you want to host the event?  What's a good weekend,
>         that works for you, for the venue, for anyone you already know
>         you want to ask to mentor, and doesn't conflict with holidays,
>         etc?
>
>         Once you've got these figured out, you can move on to more
>         details, such as figuring out where to publicize, how to keep
>         track of sign ups, how to find and coordinate mentors, and more.
>
>             Do I need to be a super hot coder to be even considering this?
>
>
>         Oh my goodness no.  You don't need to be a coder at all.  The
>         only benefit to being a coder is that you can lead lectures
>         and be a mentor, so that's one less volunteer for you to find.
>
>         You sound conscientious and friendly and that's 90% of the
>         requirements to an organize a good outreach event right there.
>          I think you're going to do an amazing job.
>
>          :)
>
>         - Shauna
>
>
>     big +1 to everything  Shauna said.
>
>     I would also encourage you to find 2 or 3 others that will be part
>     of your core event team.  You can do it all yourself, but that's
>     bad.   You will want a few people you trust (so not the internet)
>     to help you with decisions and delegate tasks:
>
>     food - catered in (nice) or send people out (cheap), or tell
>     people to bing a bag lunch.
>
>     spam -  here is the US recruiters will pay $100s to sponsor you in
>     exchange for 5 min of time to promote their company or service or
>     whatever.  I personally have no problem with this, up to you to
>     figure out if you want to go there.
>
>     CoC support - You will want a Code of Conduct, (just use PyCons)
>     and you will want a few people who are up for dealing with it. 
>     (hopefully you don't need this, but it is so much nicer to have it
>     in place if you need it.)
>
>     etc.
>
>     The exact format, location, size etc will be driven by the
>     intersection of what you want to do and what you can do.
>
>     and now for something different.
>
>     Instead of an all day event, I would suggest taking a shot at
>     running a monthly user group meeting.  find 2 or 3 people to talk
>     about something, find when and where they can get together, and
>     then put the word out.  I have attended such things when it was
>     only 5 or 6 people, and its fun etc.
>
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