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 July 2011: Scala Crash Course for women and their friends, co-hosted with Scalathon.
- 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
- 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
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?