[Peers] 2013-2014 OpenHatch goals

[Karl Fogel]

Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> writes:
>re: ...who have become participants: We're going to go back and see if
>we can examine Github activity of past participants. We'll know more
>after that. I would say we're at the start of seriously trying to
>measure this.
>
>We've had ~100 people show up to events in this semester (probably
>~50-75 more). Our Chicago-area event which was only open to women had
>~25 people in attendance; our events are typically 20-50% women. First
>half of the year, ballpark 80 people came to our events.
>
>BTW Karl, you're likely to enjoy
>http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events as well.
>
>I think the push toward the quantitative can be really great,
>honestly. My eyes were opened by _How To Measure Everything_ that
>Michael Stone recommended to me.

Yeah -- if you just get the GitHub (or, heck, Gitorious too) username of
everyone who comes to an event or contacts you through the website,
that's a gateway to watching their activity (via the API) and perhaps
contacting them later to ask them what OpenHatch did for them.  I.e.,
lightweight information collection now, potential for more in-depth
followup later.

Is that what OpenHatch is doing right now?

By the way, I have never seen a Mailman listinfo web page look like as
good as that one.  What version of Mailman are you using?  Or did you
somehow manually style the page yourself?  (I'm thinking maybe I need to
upgrade some Mailman instances in my life, if this is what can result!)

Best,
-K