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[pydata-outreach-staff] Places to do outreach

Vid svaksha at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 17:25:29 UTC 2012


...and I got it listed on the event calendar - See left lower box on
python.org.
-vid

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Vid <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> I was thinking these might be good places to send out a note about the
>> event, and a suggestion that people sign up.
>>
>> PyLadies NYC: I see that http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/94012262/
>> is a PyLadies NYC-hosted info page for the event; that's superb! It might be
>> nice to send a reminder to their mailing list.
>
> I emailed the googlegroups but forgot about Meetup.com...phew.
>
>>
>> Columbia and NYU Women in Computer Science mailing lists. I can work on
>> this, unless someone else wants to take point on it.
>>
>> Python NYC meetup. I can take point on this too, same as above.
>
> shoot...Gloria had asked me to email when I fixed the venue and I
> totally forgot this. I'm going out now and will be able to do this by
> tonight. If anyone wants to get to this before that please feel free
> to take over :)
>
>
>> I will also email some friends to see if they'd find it interesting.
>>
>> I saw at least one Philadelphia person sign up on the "I'm interested"
>> spreadsheet, so it might be worthwhile to send the info to the Philly Python
>> User Group, too.
>>
>> My baseline goal is 20 attendees, and I'm hoping for ~28-30 signups and
>> expecting a ~30% no-show rate (though fewer no-shows would be nice).
>>
>> Anyone have other ideas that come to mind as sources of attendees?
>
> blogging and tweeting. I also have a few private lists that i will
> mail tonight. Got to finish a bunch of mails before I leave. Will
> catchup with you all at night.
>
> Btw, if anyone is on IRC.Freenode.net, feel free to ping us on
> #openhatch-unlogged if you wanna do the live chat thingy.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Vid  ॥ http://svaksha.com


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Regards,
Vid  ॥ http://svaksha.com


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