Events

We believe that, in technology generally and open source particularly, there are enthusiastic people waiting to get involved. Our events are about finding those people and offering to empower them with technology and tech communities.

We focus on bringing new people into existing communities; we want our outreach efforts to be visible to existing community members, and the communities form a supportive group for newcomers. Our events are tools that communities can use to grow, in size and diversity.

This page documents the outreach events and presentations 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

Ongoing efforts

In-person

• Scheduled for Sep 17, 2011: Software Freedom Day 2011 Boston, a day of talks and workshops aimed both at existing community members and new ones, to sharpen their community skills and showcase the active world of free software and community in the Boston area.
• Ongoing since March 2011: 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.

Past efforts

In person

• In person, July 2011: Scala Crash Course for women and their friends, co-hosted with Scalathon.
• Online, May 2011: Debian-Women Build It event
• Online, April 2011: First Build it events.
• In person, 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.

Future

• Planning for Saturday 17 Sep 2011: Software Freedom Day 2011 Boston

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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