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<gallery caption="Photos from the Boston Python Workshop" widths="300px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> |
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<div style="padding: 0.5em; border-color: #FF6D3D; border-style: dashed; border-width: 2px; width: 400px; margin-left: 25%; margin-right: 25%; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;">Our goal is to increase Python community diversity through programming outreach events. Basic programming skills are so empowering and useful that we think everyone should have them. |
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<div style="padding: 0.5em; text-align: right;">Read about other [[Events|OpenHatch events »]]</div> |
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==How does it work?== |
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The Boston Python Workshop is a series of 1.5 day project-driven workshops and follow-up events aimed at beginning Python programmers. These are free events staffed by volunteers from the local programming and open source communities. We work closely with the [http://meetup.bostonpython.com Boston Python Meetup], a large local Python user group. The event is part of the [[Events|OpenHatch event series]]. |
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==Why are we doing this?== |
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Our goal is to increase Python community diversity through programming outreach events. Basic programming skills are so empowering and useful that we think everyone should have them. |
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Most directly, with every workshop we get to introduce 30 or 40 women and their friends to programming in Python. We also strive to: |
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<li>Show new programmers and the Boston Python community examples of smart, confident, capable programmers of all backgrounds.</li> |
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<li>Bring new, awesome, diverse people into local Python programming communities through diversity and outreach events.</li> |
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<li>Inspire other people to run their own introductory workshops and outreach events, and to get more user groups thinking about diversity and outreach.</li> |
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== Upcoming events == |
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The Fourth Boston Python Workshop will run in September at MIT. |
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== Past events and history == |
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<li>Staff from the Boston Python Workshop spoke at [http://openhatch.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2011_Boston Software Freedom Day 2011 Boston].</li> |
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<li>Staff from the Boston Python Workshop spoke at [http://www.google.com/jobs/cape/ Google CAPE], a summer computing and programming experience at Google's Cambridge, MA office for middle school students.</li> |
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<li>Staff from the Boston Python Workshop spoke at the [http://www.bu.edu/lernet/artemis/past/2011/about.html Artemis Project], a summer computer science camp at Boston University for high school girls.</li> |
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<li>A follow-up [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/23745451/ Project Night] to the third Workshop ran July 12th at Microsoft New England</li> |
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<li>The [[Boston_Python_Workshop_3| Third Boston Python Workshop]] ran July 8th and 9th at Google Cambridge. [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/photos/2348311/ Check out some great photos] from the event.</li> |
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<li>A follow-up [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/17802791/| Project Night] to the second Workshop ran May 20th at Microsoft New England</li> |
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<li>The [[Boston_Python_workshop_2| Second Boston Python Workshop]] ran May 13th and 14th at HubSpot. [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/photos/1470981/ Check out some great photos] from the event.</li> |
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<li>Staff from the Boston Python Workshop spoke at the [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/17083319| Boston Python Meetup on Education and Community] on April 11th</li> |
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<li>A follow-up [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/17353310/| Project Night] to the first Workshop ran April 26th at Performable</li> |
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<li>The [[Boston_Python_workshop/1/| First Boston Python Workshop]] ran March 4th and 5th at Microsoft New England. [http://meetup.bostonpython.com/photos/1297355 Check out some great photos] from the event.</li> |
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==Get involved== |
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<li>join us on the [http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events| OpenHatch events list], where this and other workshops meet to share and plan outreach events.</li> |
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<li>Say hello in #openhatch on Freenode.</li> |
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<li>Follow us on [http://twitter.com/openhatchery Twitter] and [http://identi.ca/openhatchery Identi.ca].</li> |
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== Press == |
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* [https://openhatch.org/blog/2011/lessons-learned-from-the-boston-python-workshop-an-outreach-event-for-women/ Lessons learned from the Boston Python Workshop, an outreach event for women] |
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** [http://geekfeminism.org/2011/07/02/lessons-learned-from-the-boston-python-workshop-an-outreach-event-for-women/ A Geek Feminism re-post with more great discussion] |
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* [http://www.women2.org/toronto-mobilizing-ladies-learning-to-code-python/ Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python] |
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* [https://openhatch.org/blog/2011/railsbridge-inspired-openhatch-events/ How RailsBridge has inspired OpenHatch events] |
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* [http://www.women2.org/roundup-python-outreach-workshops-for-women/ Roundup: Python Outreach Workshops for Women] |
Revision as of 10:16, 20 September 2011
I could watch Schindler's List and still be happy after renaidg this.