[mpw-staff] spread this: Indianapolis Python Workshop announcement

[Mel Chua]

(leaving Catherine's excellent "forward me!" email at the bottom for the 
benefit of the mpw-staff members who haven't seen it yet)

I turned this into a blog post at 
http://blog.melchua.com/2012/03/29/announcing-the-boston-python-workshop-please-spread-the-word/ 
in case a web version helps; it should be hitting a bunch of large FOSS 
blog aggregators shortly (including Women In Free Software) so fingers 
are crossed.

I also reached out to the organizers of http://flourishconf.com/2012/ to 
pass the word to their attendees in Chicago this weekend, and they also 
sent it on to ChiPy (and invited us to send them Indy stuff in the 
future since we're nearby enough that it makes sense). Will keep on 
pushing & publicizing... thank you so much to everyone who's been making 
this come together!

--Mel

On 03/29/2012 12:40 PM, Catherine Devlin wrote:
> Hi, IndyPy,
>
> Thanks again for all your help with April's workshop (already provided
> and still to come).  Wow, it's coming up FAST - please compensate for
> my tardiness (I bet your boss says that to you all the time) by
> working fast to spread the word.
>
> So please forward this far and wide - well, not so far and wide that
> we get blocked as spammers, but pretty far and wide.
>
> ***********************************
>
> INDIANAPOLIS PYTHON WORKSHOP
> for women and their friends
>
> A hands-on, genuine beginners' introduction to computer programming
> April 13-14
> No cost
>
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Python_Workshop
>
> Our goal is to widen and diversify the computer programming community
> with outreach events that overcome the technical and social barriers
> that hold too many people back from learning to program.  Basic
> programming skills are so empowering and useful that we think everyone
> should have them, whether those skills lead to a career, a new hobby,
> an occasional handy trick, or just a deeper understanding of the
> computers that surround us.  We'll borrow the curriculum - and some of
> the teachers! - from the famously successful Boston Python Workshop,
> which has already brought programming skills to dozens of women and
> their friends.
>
> Please get more details and RSVP at
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Python_Workshop
>
> Contact
> -------
> Mel Chua: http://blog.melchua.com/contact/
> Catherine Devlin: catherine.devlin at gmail.com