<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>What an excellent idea! We should have these at *every* regional conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Catherine Devlin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead.<br><br>I'm not actually here as a core developer, but as somebody who hopes to become a developer and recruit some more, which brings me to my question:<br> <br>Who lives close enough to Ohio to make it to PyOhio this summer? I want to use PyOhio to create new Python devs (including myself), but I need some existing ones to seed the process. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> I need a few veterans (3?) who can commit to come to PyOhio and take part as audience/instructors in a "Teach Me [Python core / standard library] Bugfixing" session. (See <a href="http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2010/04/bugfixing-at-pyohio.html" target="_blank">http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2010/04/bugfixing-at-pyohio.html</a>.) The PyOhio Call for Proposals is up May 10 so I'd better find you quick! <br> <br>I'm pretty much ignorant enough to lead a Teach Me session. In a Teach Me session, the person at the projector *doesn't* know the material. Instead, she asks the audience questions ("How do I find a bug to work on?"), and they talk her through it. It's based on Teach Me Twisted, a mind-blowing session Steve Holden led at PyCon 2008 (<a href="http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/03/teach-me-twisted.html" target="_blank">http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/03/teach-me-twisted.html</a>). I think it's a fantastic way to teach, but it depends on some veterans being in the audience. There are folks in the greater Python community eager to get hold of a video of such a session... if we do this well, it could become an important tool in keeping the quality of core Python code high.<br> <br>And all I need from you, my audience-instructors, is a promise to show up (no preparation necessary). Can you make it? Can you pass the appeal on to others you know of?<br><br>Thanks! Hope to see you in July!<font color="#888888"><br> <br></font></div>-- <br>- Catherine<br><a href="http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/">http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/</a><br>*** PyOhio 2010 * July 31 - Aug 1 * Columbus, OH * <a href="http://pyohio.org">pyohio.org</a> ***<br> _______________________________________________<br>Python-Dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Python-Dev@python.org">Python-Dev@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/doug.hellmann%40gmail.com">http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/doug.hellmann%40gmail.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>