BostonPythonWorkshop

The Boston Python Workshop

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 Boston Python Meetup, a large local Python user group.

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Our goal

Our goal is to increase programming community diversity through programming outreach events. Programming is an empowering and useful skill that we think everyone should have.

Most directly, with every workshop we get to introduce 30 or 40 women and their friends to programming in Python. We also strive to:

• Show new programmers and the Boston Python community examples of smart, confident, capable programmers of all backgrounds.
• Bring new, awesome, diverse people into local Python programming communities through diversity and outreach events.
• Inspire other people to run their own introductory workshops and outreach events, and to get more user groups thinking about diversity and outreach.

Events

• The Third Boston Python Workshop will run July 8th and 9th at Google Cambridge
• A follow-up Project Night to the second Workshop ran May 20th at Microsoft New England
• The Second Boston Python Workshop ran May 13th and 14th at HubSpot
• Staff from the Boston Python Workshop spoke at the Boston Python Meetup on Education and Community on April 11th
• A follow-up Project Night to the first Workshop ran April 26th at Performable
• The First Boston Python Workshop ran March 4th and 5th at Microsoft New England

Get involved

• join us on the OpenHatch events list, where this and other workshops meet to share and plan outreach events.
• Say hello in #openhatch on Freenode.
• Follow us on Twitter and Identi.ca.