From lists at asheesh.org Thu Oct 17 00:59:51 2013 From: lists at asheesh.org (Asheesh Laroia) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:59:51 -0700 Subject: [group-organizers] Let's chat about how your group can be more newcomer-friendly and diverse Message-ID: Hello, lovely group organizers! Do you want to organizer newcomer-friendly events, such as an open hack night aka Project Night? Do you want help making your pool of speakers more diverse? Do you want help getting your Meetup.com fees reimbursed? Thanks to the PSF (*), I am available to help you with that! (For free! (+)) (If you're curious about my background, I've been doing similar outreach-oriented things with open source projects and Python user groups for a few years now.) I find that the best way to move forward on these things to have us get to know each other, by having group organizers chat with me via video/audio. So visit http://asheesh.youcanbook.me/ and let's set aside a time, and you can tell me all about your user group. I would love to know how it is going! And I'm aiming to aggregate some of that wisdom into a guide here: http://user-groups-beta.openhatch.org/ -- Asheesh. *. https://openhatch.org/blog/2013/psf-funds-openhatch-to-reach-out-to-and-help-python-user-groups/ +. If you feel like donating to OpenHatch, that's fine. But anyway I wrote "for free" because otherwise maybe people might be confused. It is indeed for free. I'm here to help.