Coaching for newbies is a great idea! Jacob, do you think it'll be possible to set up a wiki page after Pycon with the all things you'll present at that introduction session? So that would also benefit those who could not attend the conference.
Cheers, Julien On Feb 15, 2:14 pm, "Jacob Kaplan-Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/08, Brian Rosner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To answer your question about the sprints (in which I did not attend > > last year, due to time) you should check out the SprintIdeas [1] page > > on the wiki. It will give you about all the information you need. Make > > sure to put your name on the SprintPyCon2008 [2] wiki page. > > On top of Brian's good suggestion: something new at the sprints this > year are sprint "introductions" on Sunday. Each sprint coach -- for > Django that's me -- will be giving a tutorial to help people get > started contributing to Django. > > I'll probably spend somewhere from 30-45 minutes all-told; I'll start > with the logistical aspects of contributing to Django -- where to get > the code, how to create and test patches, etc -- and then move into > talking about Django internals and design stuff. The idea is to help > people *exactly like you* get a leg up on helping out. From there, > there'll be lots of experienced Python/Django folks around, and it's > always an extremely friendly crowd. > > It'll be a blast -- we'll be happy to have you there! > > Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
