> There was general agreement among the attendees at the education BOF > meeting at PyCon that a new list was necessary, so although my own > presence is recent, my assertion was not unsupported. There has also > been some discussion of dissatisfaction with the breadth of discussion > here expressed since I have been following the list, notably including > some strongly worded advice from Guido van Rossum recently.
Guido was upset that we were straying into education philosophy, understandable given the just-ended Shuttleworth Summit, where such philosophical questions came up repeatedly. I am in full agreement that education philosophy *should* be on the table, but *not* here on edu-sig, where we'll just bog down in endless citations of an alien literature (i.e. by writers who know nothing of Python or our work together). As to a BOF wanting to start a new list, I don't see a problem, although it seems unnecessary to cast it as a fork or breakaway from edu-sig. Just propose a new group with a mission statement or focus, other than what's already covered here, why not? > It happens that in response to this general agreement at PyCon, I set > up such a list on Google Groups, with myself and Vern Ceder as owners > and potential moderators, and there has been some traffic moving > there. > > http://groups.google.com/group/edupython?lnk=oa Sounds good to me. Good luck with that. I'm staying with edu-sig myself and haven't time for two Python in education groups. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
