Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-07-28 Thread Catherine Devlin
The PyOhio contribu-palooza starts this Saturday! http://www.pyohio.org/Contribute With two talks and a two-day-four-night sprint, I'm very hopeful that it will recruit and train some new core workers. I'm preparing my portion, the teach-the-newbie (me) -to-fix-a-core-bug session, and I want to ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Become a Python contributor at PyOhio

2010-06-15 Thread Catherine Devlin
So let's try this again: Become a Python contributor at PyOhio = Working in Python is awesome. Are you ready to work on Python? The quality of Python and the Standard Library depend on volunteers who fix bugs and make improvements to the codebase. If you're int

Re: [Python-Dev] Become a Python contributor at PyOhio

2010-06-15 Thread Catherine Devlin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Dan Buch wrote: > Does this mean I should repurpose my talk slot, currently entitled > "Intro to Core Involvement"? :) > > Ach! I forgot! Hopefully that's the dumbest mistake I'll make in this year's PyOhio preparations. Fortunately the PyCon blog can be edite

[Python-Dev] Become a Python contributor at PyOhio

2010-06-15 Thread Catherine Devlin
Thanks to David Murray, we're going ahead with plans to make a full-fledged introduction to core development at PyOhio. We've just started circulating this announcement to drum up interest, so if there are people or groups who you'd like to recruit to the effort, please forward it to them. By the

[Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Catherine Devlin
Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead. 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: Who lives close enough to Ohio to make it to Py