[mpw-staff] The first Midwest Python Workshop was a go!

[Mel Chua]

As the subject says, we had the first workshop in Indianapolis last 
month, co-located with Indiana LinuxFest -- and learned a lot about what 
it means to transplant the workshop from a dense, highly-technical city 
(Boston) to a much more sparsely-populated-with-programmers farmland 
location. For instance, one big surprise: apparently very few attendees 
had used Twitter before, whereas in Boston everyone did.

We've got pictures and more of a write-up on the day because 
co-organizer Catherine Devlin blogged about it here: 
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2012/04/indianapolis-python-workshop-for-women.html

If you're interested in workshops in the midwest, we have a mailing list 
for organizing them 
(http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/mpw-staff) -- it's quiet 
right now since we're still recovering from the one in Indianapolis, and 
don't have immediate ideas for location/dates for the next round, but 
join and introduce yourselves and pitch in where and when you think the 
next one ought to be, and maybe we'll stir up some action. ;-)

Cheers!

--Mel