From: Andre Roberge > Arthur, > > You made some good points in this post and the previous one. Playing > the devil's advocate to your position: can you think of any potential > _keynote_ speaker that would have the education expertise and python > knowledge to fit the bill and be interesting to a general audience? > I can not think of any myself - granted, I haven't been around for > that long.
I think we have been hearing inordinately from a community outside of the Python community in recent get-to-togethers - so I am not sure why python knowledge is considered to be a requirement. I do think that hearing from the chief architect of the OLPC, presumably with deep Python knowledge and *on the subject of the architecture of OLPC* - is great. The issue being the *implementation of an architecture* - which is what progammers do. And there is good reason to presume this implementation presented some interesting challenges - dealing with resources limitations, for one. And how those challenges are being addressed should, presumably, be of general interest to a programming audience. So what (truly) surprises me most from Jeff's announcement is the title of that architect's talk. It sounds like an cool-aid invitation, not the technical talk I would have expected. As to "eLearning" I am 100% for it, or 100% against it - depending on how we are defining it. I am 100% against keeping that defintion vague. And tired of the tolerance for this vagueness. The whole story *is* this vagueness - ii.e. at least from one person's persective. That would be me. First generate support, and *then* define what we are supporting. Damn ass backwards. What I presonally would find more interesting and to the point, is something from the Scheme's community leadership. They have experience to draw upon of the kind that I think would be quite relevant to those in the Python education community. But presumably they are not enough of the moment....for a programming audience. Which of course ties back to why programmers' take on education might not be a particular interest - to a general audience. That would be me, again. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
