Events

We believe that, in programming and open source, there are people waiting on the sidelines. Our events are about finding those people and offering to empower them with technology and tech communities.

This page documents the outreach events and talks that are part of OpenHatch.

Anyone can make an event part of OpenHatch. To do so, an event organizer just needs to reach out to an OpenHatch contributor and explain how the event fits into our mission.

Outreach events

In person

• Scheduled for July 2011: Scala Crash Course for women and their friends, co-hosted with Scalathon.
• March 2011 and ongoing: Boston Python Workshop (that inspired PyStar, PyLadies, and the Montreal workshop). This effort includes monthly Project nights. These are co-hosted with the Boston Python Meetup.
• September 2010: U Penn open source 2010 outreach event that taught 30 Philadelphia-area students how to contribute to open source software. This was co-hosted with Penn Computer and Information Science.

Online

• May 2011: Debian-Women Build It event
• April 2011: First Build it events

How you can help out

Are you someone who wants to bring more people into your programming language community or into free software? Do you want to hear about events as they get planned?

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