*Happy feedback*
"Really good git instructions."
"The walk thru on Git was awesome. Also like the 'big picture' section on
pages to delve deeper after exercises. Thanks a lot!"
"Everything was amazing."
"The helpers were amazing."
"I finally understand forking"
Read more:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XP2O7nbfja_bBtzBfY65fzlQQDwol-kZrij…
*Asheesh's notes*
- It was effective!
- Thanks hugely to Chalmer and Jeff for all their work on the content.
Students appreciated the …
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further reading to the thoughtful diagrams and lecture.
- ~30% of people left within ~1 hour, but I think that was fine. They asked
us if there was more content after the self-paced stuff; there is sort-of
(there's an emotional appeal at the end for people to take good care of
themselves during sprints) and there isn't sort-of, so we said, sure, go
ahead and leave, enjoy! I think this was the right choice.
- We ended at 7:35, aka 2h5m duration. That's good; we told people it'd be
2 hours in duration.
- We got ~45 pieces of feedback, which is ~25-50% response rate, which is
effing huge. Full feedback here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XP2O7nbfja_bBtzBfY65fzlQQDwol-kZrij…
Sticky notes at the end are good for gathering feedback!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT2xjgUInhQ>
- We had ~80 people, of which iirc ~10% seemed to be women.
- GitHub blacklisted our IP address for /login temporarily; some people
thought this would be a big problem, but I think it would fix itself within
~30 seconds every time it happened, so it only affected a small number of
people for a short amount of time.
- People really liked the tutorial.
- Scheduling the time block is an issue still. We had a conflict with the
conference dinner. Oh well!
- Many people came who want to take this material to other conferences:
Someone talked to Chalmer about a Russian translation; Nicholle James
(CC'd) wants to bring something like it to DjangoCon US; Meghan last year
talked about running something similar at PyCascades (CC'd); some people
talked about bringing it to ChiPy, the Chicago Python user group.
- People are hungry for more written material on the PyCon site before
sprints -- for example, a link to the tutorial, since it's self-driven.
- We started with ~18 teaching assistants for ~80 students. I told them
that most could dissipate within 30 min if there wasn't much load on TAs.
There wasn't much load on TAs, so they did. That was fine. In the future,
since we now can be quite confident we can find teaching assistants, we can
consider changing the format so that it's one TA to ~5-6 students, and then
they make a personal connection to a TA. This would require a very
different room layout! I personally have had great experiences with a
format like this; I've also personally set up an activity oriented around
small groups, which we can consider using in the future perhaps:
http://wiki.openhatch.org/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Git (but
we can also run the existing Chalmer tutorial in small groups just fine, so
long as we have a separate repo for each small group; that way we limit
merge conflicts to 5-6 people).
For other thoughts, read the feedback.
Asheesh.
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Hi
I just graduated from UT Arlington and this is my first time into PyCon.
Can you let me know the appropriate dress code for sprints ?
I am travelling from Arlington, Texas and I am excited to attend PyCon.
Thanks,
Muthu
