[mpw-staff] Cloning the Python workshop for Women in the midwest...

[Catherine Devlin]

I'm sorry to leave this unanswered for so long, Jessica!

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jessica McKellar
<jessica.mckellar at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The grant is for outreach events run with user groups, so to be
> eligible for this grant this workshop would need to still be strongly
> affiliated with IndyPy even though it is running as part of the
> Indiana LinuxFest. Here's what I would suggest:
>
> 1. Advertise the event with IndyPy*
> 2. Ensure that a bunch of IndyPy folks staff the event
> 3. Run a follow-up project night with IndyPy (see
> http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/36664082/ for an example from
> Boston. We run an event that is open to everyone and encourage
> workshop alums to attend), so you have another chance to integrate
> workshop alums into the group
>
> *Ideally you'd have RSVPs through IndyPy as well, so that workshop
> alums are hooked into the user group's event notification stream and
> it is easy to follow up with them. That may not make sense if you have
> a ton of people wanting to attend from out of state; maybe those folks
> could just RSVP via e-mail, with locals RSVPing through the meetup.
>
1., obviously!  We're counting on IndyPy for recruitment, and some of
them have already told me to "save a spot for my daughter" or whatnot.

As for IndyPy staffers, what roles were you thinking of?  I wasn't
imagining us having any staff beyond teachers, and Mel and I (plus
perhaps Boston folks!) will probably be all the teachers we need.
TA's would be good, to circulate and help students out, so we could
definitely use some of those from IndyPy, but... do you think that
having men as TA's would change the mood of the workshop?  I don't
know that IndyPy actually has *any* women members (yet - all the more
reason to do the workshop).  And/or are there other staff roles to
involve them in?

(I guess I'm technically on IndyPy's meetup roster, but I'm 100 miles
away and have never actually made it to a meetup)

3. sounds like a great plan, and I don't think I'll have any trouble
talking IndyPy into it.

IndyPy meets on Feb 21, and I'll try to make it their to bolster their
involvement in person.

Thanks!

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- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com