[Pycon-sprints] Pycon Mentoring Feedback

[Meghan Halton]

Great! You're welcome.

Thanks,
Meghan

On Jun 19, 2017 12:14 AM, "Asheesh Laroia" <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Wow, this is great feedback. Thank you so much!
>
> I'm CC:ing the organizers list so we have it somewhere where I'm not the
> only person to see it!
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Meghan Halton <meghalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Asheesh,
>>
>> Thanks for running this yesterday evening, it was really valuable for all
>> who attended! The following is super nit-picky, so please don't feel like
>> I'm being hyper critical, overall it was a really well run session.
>>
>> Introduction
>> ----------------
>> Inflow of people was a little unorganised
>> * Could direct mentors to one place and attendees to another.
>>
>> The lady who had confusion over 3.6/2.7 confusion was initially dealt
>> with a little condescendingly, although the eventual resolution (directing
>> a mentor to her) was a great solution.
>>
>> Miniconda Installation
>> -----------------------------
>> The main critique here was that many projects use virtual env over conda.
>> It might be nice to include a track for that (although I understand the
>> installation is not as streamlined across multiple operating systems).
>>
>> Some people had existing broken installs of conda.
>> * The workaround here was to rename the existing "miniconda3" folder and
>> run installation again.
>>
>> Git Install
>> ------------
>> Generally went well
>> One person on windows had a strange problem where git was trying to push
>> as someone else who was previously configured on their laptop. Git was
>> reinstalled and it fixed their issue.
>>
>> Git configuration
>> ----------------------
>> Johnny Appleseed did catch at least one person out
>> * Use "Your name here"
>> * Explicitly call out that Johnny Appleseed should be replaced with your
>> own name before letting people get started, as opposed to calling it out
>> afterwards, as you're moving on.
>>
>> Break
>> --------
>> Excellent Idea
>>
>> Overall
>> ---------
>> * Next/Previous links at the bottom of the pages could be big coloured
>> arrows to make them more obvious.
>> * Would be nice to keep a running update on how long/much content is
>> left.
>> * Windows is by far the most problematic operating system, maybe make a
>> special request for mentors with Windows experience?
>>
>> Once again thanks for running the intro! I'm working with Pycascades
>> which is a pycon running in Vancouver in January 2018, do you think it
>> would be an issue if we used this for our own sprint prep session?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Meghan Halton
>>
>
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