October workshop

[Angus Gratton]

October's rolling on!

Shall we book in a workshop for Saturday 26 October?

How is the HTML/CSS workshop looking? I have a bit of time this week
to help with the material, haven't done anything yet but it seems like
there's been a lot of active editing lately (thanks Matt.)

What say we all?

- Angus

[Steven Farlie]

I'm free on the 26th. A new workshop sounds fun, (if it's ready of course, no pressure) :)

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Steven

- Angus

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[Angus Gratton]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:35:58PM +1100, Angus Gratton wrote:
> How is the HTML/CSS workshop looking? I have a bit of time this week
> to help with the material, haven't done anything yet but it seems like
> there's been a lot of active editing lately (thanks Matt.)

Hi everyone,

My best laid plans came very undone this week, lots of unexpected work
and then on Friday my shiny new SSD died leaving me scrambling around
recovering data.

Which is my excuse for why we're now too late to announce an October
workshop. My bad.

For November, we can either just do Eurisko or we could do two - one
for Eurisko and another event at Electron Workshop.

I've put together a Doodle for coach availability. Please let us know
if you're available! Assume Nov 2/3 would be an event at Eurisko.
http://doodle.com/2ztgm8xxg5fhc7iw

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Re: HTML/CSS, Matt do you have any update you can give us? I see
Berlin ran it this weekend, is that right? Is there any other feedback
from that apart from what is on github[1] and the Discourse thread[2]
(OTS has so many communications channels I'm never sure if I've
checked them all!)?

Cheers,


Angus

[1] https://github.com/opentechschool/html-css-beginners

[2] http://discourse.opentechschool.org/t/building-an-html-css-workshop/21/106

[Steven Farlie]

If my understanding is correct Eurisko will be about 4 mini workshops, maybe half an hour each, over two days. We can get people going with a Python install and a little turtle action. So it should be pretty light and social. It would be great to have a beginner workshop date to hand out at the event.

[Angus Gratton]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:53:03AM +1100, Steven Farlie wrote:
> If my understanding is correct Eurisko will be about 4 mini workshops,
> maybe half an hour each, over two days. We can get people going with a
> Python install and a little turtle action. So it should be pretty light and
> social. It would be great to have a beginner workshop date to hand out at
> the event.

This sounds great!

Does anyone else have input on this? I noticed I'm the only person
who's filled in the doodle so far. Matt, Lilly, are you around? Any
thoughts?

Cheers,


Angus

[Lilly Ryan]

Hi!
Dropped the ball on this one, sorry. I've been focusing on job hunting and let this fall behind, which I shouldn't have.
I'll be free for the first day of the Eurisko event, and at this stage I have a number of weekends free in November for workshops. I've filled out the Doodle. So far 16/17 November I'd looking like our best choice.
I know Matt's done a lot of work on the HTML/CSS stuff, and is trying to get an open, global OTS style guide going.
What do we think about 16/17th, then?
Lilly

[Matthew Iversen]

Hiya guys.

HTML / CSS - 

I've been doing a lot of edits and fixups for the HTML / CSS. The berlin guys recently ran it and have a good bit of feedback to get through as well.

I still have a page I'd like to add and a lot of edits to the latter one before I'd be personally happy with the content, but it's doable now.

learn.opentechschool.org - 

Recently made this, check it out ^_^

I'm hoping to add a link for it to the homepage as well. Let me know if you think anything could be added.

Railgirls - 

I've been thinking about asking to join this, because why the heck not learn what the dark side gets up to, but that would occupy me on Sat 15th. Are you hoping to attend it Steven or just asking around?

Eurisko - 

Sounds fun. I'm not sure the material we have at the moment would be very adaptable, but maybe it wouldn't be too hard to write something quick and effective for the 1/2 hour timeslots they want.

Also would we need to supply our own laptops / net, or similar?

16th/17th (w.e) - 

Unless otherwise noted for the Railsgirls I'd be pretty happy to do this AFAIK. Up for any of our tutes.

Learners meetup-

Still haven't given up on this! Could you guys look at the document I've drafted - https://docs.google.com/a/opentechschool.org/document/d/1odWvgzq6ZXX9KI7mfyqw80Gc_23EEoLB5OTgZrNYXl4/edit

Add anything or comment, give opinion, etc etc

After which I want to send it off to YBF and see what they think. See if we can get this organised? :D

Cheers, matt

[Angus Gratton]

Hi Matt & Lilly,

Thanks for the updates and filling out the doodle!

I hadn't realised the RailsGirls dates clashed. This one is up to the
rest of you, I have no Ruby experience so I will definitely not be at
RailsGirls. But it seems a bit harsh to put up our events head to
head, plus a good opportunity to meet some of the Ruby teaching
community in Melbourne! What do you both think?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:21:45PM -0700, Matthew Iversen wrote:
> learn.opentechschool.org -
> Recently made this, check it out ^_^
> I'm hoping to add a link for it to the homepage as well. Let me know if you
> think anything could be added.

Very nice! The only thing for me is that I didn't immediately realise
that I could click the headings, the Source button on each course drew
my attention but then I got stuck thinking "is this just for
developers? how do I view the material?" And then I hovered over the
heading and worked it out. It might be more obvious if there was a
prominent "View the Workshop" button on each or something, making it
clear the Source option is secondary. I don't know how that would look
aesthetically, though.

I think it's a very useful page at any rate, though. Good work. :)

> Learners meetup-
> Still haven't given up on this! Could you guys look at the document I've
> drafted -
> https://docs.google.com/a/opentechschool.org/document/d/1odWvgzq6ZXX9KI7mfyqw80Gc_23EEoLB5OTgZrNYXl4/edit
> Add anything or comment, give opinion, etc etc
> After which I want to send it off to YBF and see what they think. See if we
> can get this organised? :D

Yes, sorry. The proposal looks great to me. Do you want to propose some
dates directly to them, or is that a next step after we put this to
them?

(If we are proposing dates, how does 2nd and 4th Thursdays sound? I'm
actually quite flexible but that's my #1 preference!)


- Angus

[Angus Gratton]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:24:52AM +1100, Angus Gratton wrote:
> I hadn't realised the RailsGirls dates clashed. This one is up to the
> rest of you, I have no Ruby experience so I will definitely not be at
> RailsGirls. But it seems a bit harsh to put up our events head to
> head, plus a good opportunity to meet some of the Ruby teaching
> community in Melbourne! What do you both think?

Wait, I just realised the RailsGirls stuff is up as Friday-Saturday
(15-16). So we could conceivably run a workshop Sunday the 17th?
That's a pretty workshop-heavy weekend, though. Thoughts?

- Angus

[Steven Farlie]

I'm just asking around on the RailsGirls stuff. I've known Rob Postill for years and he's well liked in the community. For myself, however, whenever I do have spare time for volunteering it goes into OTS.

Speaking of Learner's Meetup, Rob is also keen to pool resources on that one. The RailsGirls events are few and far between and they would like to keep some momentum going. I'll key up an introduction when I get back on Sunday.

Aside from that, I can move any weekend plans I have for a workshop.

Cheers,

-- 

Steven

- Angus

[Matthew Iversen]

I had sent Rob an email about coaching but hadn't heard back yet.

I'd be happy to do a workshop on the Sunday (17th). I got the weekend's dates slightly mixed up in my previous reply.

I'll see about sending a proposal to YBF and working out dates.

@Steven if Rob wants to collaborate for a learners meetup could you ask him to get in touch?

@Angus cheers for the UX feedback, I'll see what I can do.