[group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program

Thu May 14 00:16:35 CEST 2015

Christian! my Coding Dojo team mate - I was in Harry's team as well.

@Maria: We used Ned's kindling problem list to pick the initial 5 problems
from.

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/kindling.html

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
> running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
> The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
> Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
> wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
> wrote:
> > Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought
> it
> > was canceled. I'm bummed now.
> >
> > Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one
> in
> > Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there
> a
> > link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
> > it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Maria
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
> >>
> >> Update on current program:
> >> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
> >>
> >> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
> >> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we
> are
> >> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program -
> where
> >> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the
> mentor
> >> and mentees.
> >>
> >> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the
> mentorship
> >> program. Soon ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
> >> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
> >> >
> >> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?
> Any
> >> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> >> tathagatadg at gmail.com
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky
> to
> >> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to
> learn
> >> >> and help others become better programmer.
> >> >>
> >> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
> >> >>
> >> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
> >> >>
> >> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
> >> >>
> >> >> Mentorship FAQ:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
> >> probably
> >> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
> >> created.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
> >> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
> >> some
> >> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
> >> and
> >> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
> >> domain,
> >> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
> >> mentors/mentees.
> >> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if
> you
> >> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Cheers, Brian
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ChiPy Organizer
> >> >>>
> >> >>> http://chipy.org
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Brian Ray
> >> >>> @brianray
> >> >>> (773) 669-7717
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Brian Ray
> >> > @brianray
> >> > (773) 669-7717
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