[Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed (original) (raw)

Catherine Devlin catherine.devlin at gmail.com
Thu May 6 16:47:53 CEST 2010

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 PyOhio this summer? I want to use PyOhio to create new Python devs (including myself), but I need some existing ones to seed the process.

I need a few veterans (3?) who can commit to come to PyOhio and take part as audience/instructors in a "Teach Me [Python core / standard library] Bugfixing" session. (See http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2010/04/bugfixing-at-pyohio.html.) The PyOhio Call for Proposals is up May 10 so I'd better find you quick!

I'm pretty much ignorant enough to lead a Teach Me session. In a Teach Me session, the person at the projector doesn't know the material. Instead, she asks the audience questions ("How do I find a bug to work on?"), and they talk her through it. It's based on Teach Me Twisted, a mind-blowing session Steve Holden led at PyCon 2008 ( http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/03/teach-me-twisted.html). I think it's a fantastic way to teach, but it depends on some veterans being in the audience. There are folks in the greater Python community eager to get hold of a video of such a session... if we do this well, it could become an important tool in keeping the quality of core Python code high.

And all I need from you, my audience-instructors, is a promise to show up (no preparation necessary). Can you make it? Can you pass the appeal on to others you know of?

Thanks! Hope to see you in July!

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