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== Initial Steps ==
== Initial Steps ==
* First, gauge interest in your class (mailing list, IRC, or just shouting ideas during a meeting are all good methods), you probably want to make sure at least three to four people intend to show up, to make it worth your time.
* First, gauge interest in your class, you probably want to make sure at least three to four people intend to show up.
** Decide what you want and don't want to teach. Set a scope that makes sense to you.
* Decide what you want and don't want to teach. Set a scope that makes sense to you.
* Come up with a good name.
* Come up with a good name.


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* Send an email to the PR director at press@pumpingstationone.org with a formal request to add your event to the calendar.
* Send an email to the PR director at press@pumpingstationone.org with a formal request to add your event to the calendar.


* Warning! Don't ask for a date that "works for everyone" down that path lies madness and obnoxiously long threads with no definitive answers. This is your project, make a command decision.
* Warning! Don't ask for a date that "works for everyone." Down that path lies madness and obnoxiously long threads with no definitive answers. This is your project, make a command decision.
* Two or more weeks is a good lead time.
* Two or more weeks is a good lead time.