On 14 January 2018 at 13:23, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tomer and all, > > I am mostly aware of the HackNights. The one I attended was not geared > towards new contributors. I was not aware of other types of meetings. >
While this was true in the past, in the past couple of months we have been trying to focus more on new comers. As part of this effort, we are now actively looking for mentors who are active open source contributors and can guide new contributors. We are open to feedback on how we can make new comers more welcome and on-board them better. > I also see the "Women do Open Source" event Lior runs. I don't know how > could I cooperate with that given that I am not a woman. > Any suggestions? > I can and will include the link to that event in my announcement to the > Code-Mavens in case some of the members prefer a women only event. > > The emphasis in the workshops I organize is cooperation, mutual help, and > empathy towards the other participants. > These are all important topics. I believe we try to encourage them as well, but we are always be happy to learn how we can improve and do better. > We work in pairs, triples, sometimes even more. Our events are gender > neutral. > > regards > Gabor > > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Tomer Brisker <tbris...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Gabor, >> >> Thank you for the invitation! Helping more people get started with Open >> Source is always great. >> >> I'm not sure if you are aware, but we (Hamakor) have been running similar >> meetups over the past couple of years - https://www.meetup.com/Open-So >> urce-and-Free-Software-in-Israel/. >> We would be happy to cooperate with you in the future and work together >> to increase involvement in Open Source. >> >> Tomer >> >> On 14 January 2018 at 12:07, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi there, >>> >>> so yes, I assume most of you on this list are regular Open Source >>> contributors, but I also assume you have a lot of co-workers who are not. >>> This is an opportunity to get them involved. >>> >>> On January 24th I am running a workshop in which I am helping people >>> get through their first Open Source contribution. This is a language >>> independent event. We don't even require people to know how to program. >>> There are plenty of things people can contribute even if they don't know >>> how to write code. >>> >>> RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/Code-Mavens/events/246683264/ >>> >>> regards >>> Gabor >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discussions mailing list >>> Discussions@hamakor.org.il >>> http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> יום טוב, >> תומר בריסקר >> >> > > > -- יום טוב, תומר בריסקר
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