[OH-Publicity] Intermediate Python Workshop blog post draft

[Jessica McKellar]

Hi Asheesh,

Thanks for the review! I've incorporated some of your feedback (and
some of it should just be an additional braindump to you on e.g. the
survey questions).

I'm going to call this good enough and hit publish.

-Jessica


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
> 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.
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