[Inpycon] Volunteer work

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

On Wed, May 07 2014, Eeshan Garg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I attended PyCon 2014 North America in Montreal and they have something
> called the Open Spaces. As I am a newbie(17 years old and a high school
> student), I attended one of the Open Spaces sessions geared toward newbies.
> I thing it would be totally awesome to have something like the Open Spaces
> at PyCon India this year. Where anyone can sign up for an open space
> session by writing the name and room no of their session on the notice
> board. For example, it would be really cool to have an Open Space geared
> towards newbies where gurus can talk about how they got started
> contributing to open source, new contributors(who just got started) can ask
> the gurus about how to move further, and newbies can freely talk about
> where they are having troubles and how can they make their first
> contribution to free and open source software and get started. If you think
> this is something cool, I would love to talk about it with someone in
> detail. I would also be willing to put in the time and effort required to
> do the related volunteer work. Let me know what you guys think.


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We tried to do this here but it wasn't well managed. Someone needs to be
in charge of open spaces, manage the rooms and make sure that the board
is visible and that it's being used. 

This is hard work and pretty much what makes or breaks the open spaces. 


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Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in