[OH-Publicity] Intermediate Python Workshop blog post draft

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Jessica McKellar's message of Mon Aug 13 19:56:46 -0400 2012:
> Hi folks,
> 
> A draft of the Intermediate Python Workshop wrap-up post is up on the
> OpenHatch blog. The purpose of this post is to be a big information
> dump about the event in case anyone ever wants to replicate this event
> style; as a consequence it is quite long, but I'm fine with that and
> don't really want to condense it.
> 
> Let me know if you have any feedback. I'd like to publish on Wednesday.

Some quick feedback, based on logging into the blog and taking a look:

Wowee, the photos look marvelous.

For some reason, I was tripped-up by the terms "project" and "volunteer" 
here, even though obviously I'm familiar with them. In this section:

<blockquote>
Intermediate Python Workshop results
Content

All of our project content is online and ready for reuse under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Some of the projects additionally have source code on GitHub.

For this event, volunteers created projects of several styles:
</blockquote>

For some reason, "volunteers created projects" at first made me think we 
were talking about the students working on projects *at* the event. 
Maybe a sentence could go before that, changing the paragraph as so:

"Students spent most of the day working, at their own pace, on projects 
chosen from our collection. The projects were created by volunteer 
staffers, and the content for them is online under a Creative Commons 
Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Some of the projects additionally have 
source code on GitHub."

As a reader of the post, I don't see much information as to how 
helpers/staffers worked, or how laptop setup was done. I added "at their 
own pace" into the above text to indicate that people worked by 
themselves, by and large, and asked for help from roaming helpers as 
needed. I wasn't there, so I don't actually know if that's totally 
accurate. (Similarly, with laptop setup, the only note that explicitly 
addresses that is a comment by you on the meetup page. I think it's 
worth saying to readers of this blog post that you assumed people had 
that working properly.)

It'd be interesting to hear about gender. For one thing, I think it'd be 
helpful to state somewhere that the event wasn't a gender-specific 
outreach event. It'd also be interesting to know what the proportion of 
genders of attendees was.

Upon finishing reading the post, I think it must have been an amazing 
event. I would love to see some of the exit survey data, even if that 
means filtering it for privacy, or sharing it with me but not with 
others.

It'd also be great to have a copy of just the exit survey questionnaire. 
(Maybe that'd be better in an email to OH-Events, if the post is getting 
long.)

One question I have is: I wonder if attendees will start using the 
Intermediate Python Workshop material at home and learning through the 
other projects they didn't get a chance to work on. I imagine so! I also 
wonder about how many different projects students got to try.

Separate from feedback on the blog post, I wanted to say that the post, 
as-is, is actually breathtaking. The event, the photos, the volunteer 
effort that went into it, and your organizing work are a really 
impressive force.

-- Asheesh.