On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:25:59 -0800 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Following up on the semi-annual community data science workshops at UW: would there be interest in having our user group support periodic one-day events for people to gather for workshops to teach data science skills, teach Wikimedia skills, and present data science and/or open source projects? I am thinking that this might be fun, and would nicely interface with existing groups and interests at UW and in the Seattle area. These might be one-day workshops that we hold quarterly. If there is interest, we could add this to our projects that we're considering supporting in our annual plan.
What do others think?
Pine
I was thinking of doing something like this at FreeGeek Seattle. These days, that means probably hosting the training at SODO Makerspace in Seattle.
I was probably going to scope it to a simpler intro to Python course, but if others were around to help, we could be more ambitious.
A few of us are trying to get FreeGeek Seattle to be a source of recurring training in this area, in addition to refurbishing hardware for the needy.
Lee