From andrew.schoen at gmail.com  Thu Jun 21 20:32:56 2012
From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:32:56 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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Hey All,

Here in KC we're running a Beginners Python Workshop this Friday and
Saturday and I have taken the liberty of porting the content from Boston's
wiki into a sphinx project.  In hopes that we can all reuse this content.

The content is beyond amazing, btw.  Big thanks to Jessica and to anybody
else who was involved.  It really is great.

I could move the repo over into the python github account if there's
interest.

https://github.com/pythonkc/beginners-python-workshop
http://beginners-python-workshop.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Andrew
@andrewschoen
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From ironfroggy at gmail.com  Mon Jun 25 03:48:22 2012
From: ironfroggy at gmail.com (Calvin Spealman)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:48:22 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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Andrew,

This is great! I hope the event went well, I'd love to hear what went
wrong and right, and hope to follow you example soon.

Calvin Spealman

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Andrew Schoen <andrew.schoen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Here in KC we're running a Beginners Python Workshop this Friday and
> Saturday and I have taken the liberty of porting the content from Boston's
> wiki into a sphinx project. ?In hopes that we can all reuse this content.
>
> The content is beyond amazing, btw. ?Big thanks to Jessica and to anybody
> else who was involved. ?It really is great.
>
> I could move the repo over into the python github account if there's
> interest.
>
> https://github.com/pythonkc/beginners-python-workshop
> http://beginners-python-workshop.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
>
> Andrew
> @andrewschoen
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From jessica.mckellar at gmail.com  Mon Jun 25 14:47:15 2012
From: jessica.mckellar at gmail.com (Jessica McKellar)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:47:15 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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> Here in KC we're running a Beginners Python Workshop this Friday and
> Saturday and I have taken the liberty of porting the content from Boston's
> wiki into a sphinx project. ?In hopes that we can all reuse this content.

Awesome! And from the Meetup feedback and photos it looks like people
got a lot out of the event.

> The content is beyond amazing, btw. ?Big thanks to Jessica and to anybody
> else who was involved. ?It really is great.

Thank you! If you noticed any kinks or things that could be improved,
please don't hesitate to send me or the staff list
(bpw-staff at lists.openhatch.org) your feedback.

If any other user groups are interested in using the Boston Python
Workshop format or content, I'm always happy to talk about it and
discuss strategies for teaching beginners.

We are running an intermediate workshop in Boston in July and hope to
push out a bunch more CC-licensed content for people to reuse and
remix after that.

Regards,
-Jessica

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http://jesstess.com

From andrew.schoen at gmail.com  Tue Jun 26 15:56:34 2012
From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:56:34 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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>
>
> This is great! I hope the event went well, I'd love to hear what went
> wrong and right, and hope to follow you example soon.
>
>
The event was amazing and we didn't many issues at all, which is a
testament to how well the tutorial content was written.  The event
definitely exceeded my expectations and we had great attendance and really
good questions / participation.

Here are a few points / tips / feedback we're taking from the event.

   - Have some sort of introduction presentation on Friday before starting
   the computer setup.  Explain a bit about Python, talk about your user
   group, explain the PSF and their role, walk through goal #1, etc.  It
   doesn't have to be long, but it's a good kick off.  We didn't do that this
   time but we definitely will next time.
   - Have at least one instructor who is familiar with each of the OS's.
    We were a bit weak on the Windows side.  Again, not many problems but a
   few issues could have been solved quicker for people.
   - Plan on taking a scheduled 10 minute break halfway through the lecture
   on Saturday.
   - Have a good variety of projects for Saturday afternoon.  We had an
   impromptu web development project because of the overwhelming interest in
   it (might schedule a web development specific workshop soon).
   - Provide some good structure to the projects for people who want to
   work it out mostly on their own.  We also had quite a few people who just
   wanted to work through codingbat / other python tutorials on their own
   while having people there who could answer questions for them.
   - Next time we'll do a closing presentation right before the projects on
   Saturday. We let people leave whenever they liked on Saturday afternoon and
   I think they appreciated that, but then they didn't get to see the closing.
   - Have a survey ready to send out a day two after.  We've been getting
   some great feedback from ours

Sorry for long email, but hopefully it's useful.  I'd love to hear from
others who's given a workshop and what they did that worked / didn't work
as well.

Andrew Schoen
@andrewschoen


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From andrew.schoen at gmail.com  Tue Jun 26 18:29:04 2012
From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:29:04 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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>
>
> Awesome! And from the Meetup feedback and photos it looks like people
> got a lot out of the event.
>

We've had great feedback.  Here's a link to photos of the event for others
to check out: http://www.meetup.com/pythonkc/photos/9338212/


> We are running an intermediate workshop in Boston in July and hope to
> push out a bunch more CC-licensed content for people to reuse and
> remix after that.
>

Thanks so much for leading the charge on this.  Let me know if I can help
in any way.

Also, is CC the appropriate license for this material?  I'd like to add a
LICENSE and AUTHORS to the sphinx repo.  If anybody else was involved in
creating this content let me know and I'll add you to AUTHORS as well to
give credit were it's due.

Andrew
@andrewschoen


>
> Regards,
> -Jessica
>
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> http://jesstess.com
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From jessica.mckellar at gmail.com  Thu Jun 28 15:36:08 2012
From: jessica.mckellar at gmail.com (Jessica McKellar)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:36:08 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Workshop Materials
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Hi Andrew,

> Also, is CC the appropriate license for this material?

Yup. Everything on the OpenHatch wiki defaults to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Regards,
-Jessica