[Scipy-organizers] Diversity blog post

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Carol thanks for the note.  Please let us know how your user group
goes. One of the concrete tasks is build smaller user groups but I
don't know that we have folks with the time to help build this.

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Carol Willing
<willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thank you for the heartfelt words. I think you have done a very good job
> of listening to feedback from the community. I also believe that you are
> getting the ball rolling on concrete actions for creating a "welcoming"
> and "information rich" conference experience.
>
> Sheila's suggestions about OpenHatch and its guide are great. I think it
> would be great to try to have Shauna Gordon-McKeon speak at a
> "welcoming" event for newcomers. She has a passion for open science and
> experience creating positive, productive community.
>
> Please count me in for helping on getting the word out through PyLadies.
> We have some good energy building in our San Diego Python User
> Group/PyLadies community around SciPy topics. I'm hoping that we can
> pull together a talk for next year on teaching/inspiring your local user
> community about the great projects in the SciPy community and how
> accessible that they are.
>
> In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the summer with your family. Thank
> you again to you and all that worked on SciPy 2014. Personally, I really
> enjoyed meeting and collaborating with folks.
>
> Warmly,
> Carol
>
>
>
> On 7/17/14, 9:56 AM, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've put together some thoughts for the community:
>> http://andy.terrel.us/blog/2014/07/17/
>>
>> Just trying to share with a wide audience to create a better
>> conference next year.
>>
>> -- Andy
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