<< >> > Please feel free to make more suggestions for improvements. And if you > disagree with some of my more subjective statements on the edu-sig page, > please do not hesitate to tell me. And I won't be offended at all if you > point out some grammatical mistakes and the like - my kids do it all the > time when I speak or write in English. > > Cheers, > > André
Yes, I was thinking of this when writing about English teachers teaching DOM, the XML framework for storing all the web page elements, for JQuery modification based on anchoring tags or whatever, very JavaScript, very not going away. Same deal with other languages besides English, at least those in the Unicode base (my friend Gene Fowler calls it Amerish over here, with the stress on the 'mer', sounds kinda Tolkien, i.e. whether this is really English might be questionable to some, but I quibble). I do wonder about our policies for linking to obviously educational applications of Python that might excite readers, with the small problem that the sites in question are entirely in Chinese or some other language, hey, Swedish for that matter i.e. do we have any reason to make the links especially friendly to only-English speakers? That's just a question, am not winding up to give you a long winded reply any time soon I don't think. Because it's not my page anymore (cackle cackle, rubbing hands, Mr. Burns noises **). Anyway, let me say again I'm very pleased with our smooth transition to a next web wrangler for edu-sig. When I was first webmaster for BFI.org long ago, my whole shtick was how we need this to be a rotating position, give lots of talents opportunities to showcase their skills. But that was in the early days of all static hand-coded HTML. It's easier to share commit privileges when it's all running inside a DVSS I would imagine, and I'm looking forward to what creative strategies Andre comes up with, to take advantage of hg. Here's what I think will likely happen: vast education sites will arise, bursting with open source offerings, a lot of them Python, ballooning with lesson plans, with Python.org seemingly dwarfed because so tiny in comparison. And that's perfectly OK, because the challenge is to be an intelligent front end switchboard, like a stack of Django or App Engine regular expressions, dispatching to these giant universes of educational interest. Python.org doesn't ever have to bloat into something huge if it doesn't want to, even if Python grows in popularity for quite some time to come. The main focus of Python.org is simply to focus the community and make core versions available, in a reliable, safe and pleasant manner. Something along those lines. A prediction, let's see what really happens. Kirby ** http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mr+burns _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig