Andy,
I thought of that issue myself. Of course it depends on how much prep
work the submitter is willing to do, and whether they want to recruit
someone who is attending to "represent" them in person. I would hope
that we also ultimately put everything submitted onto a wiki page linked
from the edu-sig home page as well.
Obviously not a perfect solution, but still, it's something.
Cheers,
Vern
Andrew Harrington wrote:
All sounds good Vern - consistent with our plans for the edu-sig page.
I'm not sure what is best for those who cannot attend - how much better
an unattended poster is that an entry on a wiki page off of edu-sig.
Andy
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vern Ceder <vce...@canterburyschool.org
<mailto:vce...@canterburyschool.org>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
As Kirby mentioned a couple of days ago (sorry about the late
follow-up), he and I have been kicking around some ideas with Steve
Holden. In his PyCon talk as the head of the PSF, Steve mentioned
that he felt outreach to the education community was key for
Python's long-term development, and he is willing put the support of
the PSF (monetary and otherwise) behind the idea.
So this past week we talked over the need to carry forward the
momentum we always feel after meeting at PyCon, as well as the need
to break down the isolation that some of feel, and include those who
can't make it to PyCon.
Steve's idea was to have a poster session at PyCon to spotlight
Python in Education over the previous year, and I agreed to do what
I could to move this forward. As we thought about it, we saw it
being a display area at PyCon where we could share success stories,
whether they were posters, slide shows, software demos, whatever.
Submissions would be invited (and welcomed) whether the submitter
could actually attend PyCon or not.
To my mind this has several benefits: first, all of us can keep this
venue in the back of our minds as we go about what we do, and save
the best bits for sharing with the whole Python community; secondly,
having those success stories and projects before the whole community
would raise the profile of education and probably gain us not only
support, but helpers with good ideas; finally, the dialog that
emerges could help guide the PSF as it considers supporting and
encouraging projects relating to education.
We might also submit a "The Year in Python Education" summary talk
for presentation in the regular PyCon program as a way to tie things
together, in addition to encouraging PyCon talks and lightning talks.
So if you've made it this far (sorry for the length of this) I'd be
interested any reactions before I start pestering the python-org
list about it.
Any thoughts? Any support? Any questions? Any objections?
Cheers,
Vern
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