[group-organizers] Hello from San Diego Python

[Carol Willing]

Hi all,

I'm Carol and I co-organize San Diego Python and PyLadies San Diego. 
Although I missed the PyCon open space, I wish that I hadn't :)

Thanks to Trey my introduction will be brief. We do all of what he 
mentions. A couple of additions:

- Occasionally, we have speakers like Travis Swicegood of Continuum for 
a special monthly meeting. If you are ever in town, please let us know 
since we would like to have you as a speaker.

- This year, we teamed with the other Southern California Python groups 
as well as Southern California PyLadies groups to have two expo booths 
at Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). We hope to do it again next year.

- Inspired by Shauna's poster on WelcomeBot, we recently added a Welcome 
Bot to the San Diego Python IRC channel.

I'm enjoying reading all the cool things everyone is doing.

Warmly,
Carol

On 4/21/15 4:01 PM, Trey Hunner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't done an introduction email, so here it is.
>
> I'm Trey and I'm one of the co-organizers of the San Diego Python users
> group.  I put up the open space card at PyCon and I was very happily
> surprised at how many showed up and at how well we self-organized.
>
> A couple interesting things we do in our San Diego Python group:
>
> - We organize a few workshops every year.  We have an Intro to Python
> one and a Django TDD one: http://pythonsd.org/pages/workshops.html
>
> - Our monthly meetups consist exclusively of 5 minute lightning talks,
> anywhere from 5 to 8 of them.  Switching to lightning talks has greatly
> widened our talk pool (beginners give talks regularly) and tends to
> produce a more diverse and interesting set of topics every month.
>
> - We have a study group we host every Saturday afternoon.  No one person
> runs this meetup.  There are at least 6 people who know how to setup the
> tables, do introductions, and generally run this meetup.
>
> - We try to keep a friendly regular near the door during our study
> groups and monthly meetups so anyone walking in late can be greeted and
> introduced to others.  During our study groups, we often applause after
> newcomers announce what they are learning.
>
> - Our Saturday study group brings in a much more diverse crowd than our
> monthly meetups.  During the study groups, regulars often coax beginners
> to try out our monthly meetups and sometimes convince newcomers to give
> lightning talks.
>
> I think that sums up our group pretty well.  I'm not sure if any of the
> other SD Python organizers have joined this list.  If so, please add on
> anything I forgot to mention!
>


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*Carol Willing*
Developer | Willing Consulting
https://willingconsulting.com
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