On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:25:59 -0800 Pine W <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
