>What I need to find out before going too far with this is: > >(a) do we already have exactly what I'm seeking as a public project?
Not that I know of. And given that after 'I want to make a game' this is the number 1 thing that children I meet want to learn programming to do -- find out when their favourite websites change so they won't miss anything but don't have to go there every day, I would predict that this project would have a lot of mass appeal. But I think that Ian Bicking has written and released code that would be useful. >(b) will I be able to find schools that want to turn students loose on >this scaffolding? No clue. But I would have a hard time finding non-university schools interested around here. >(c) are we looking at a real project like on Sourceforge, or just a >set of interconnected examples that feature aspects of Python? Well, I would like to make the buzz bot understand something like 'other language plugins' from the start. Maybe we need some linguistic-trained people? or would just a good sampling of people who speak other languages from the onset work? >This proposal is in part a response to Laura's CP4E work on the >Diversity list. She's been suggesting that a primary barrier to >increasing diversity is simply the daunting time demands, the somewhat >austere culture of half-moribund bug trackers and dev lists (some of >these are more like sunken shipwrecks) -- scares people away, >especially people who "have a life" outside of being uber-nerds. Ah, in context, I think this scares them away from Python Core Development; I am sure that there are other projects which have other reasons that are the primary reason for lack of diversity. >The fancier buzzbots fork into multiple Python worker bee processes >that each harvest and file to SQL independently, with a Dispatcher >(queen bee) keeping track of open searches, handing them off to >available processes. I published some manga code to the Chicago user >list awhile back, haven't tried to dig for it yet... Speaking of manga - an image-scraper-and-recogniser would be awesome. But I don't know how to write one of those, at all. Wonder who does? Laura > >Kirby >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >Edu-sig@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
