It has taken a while, but I am finally getting settled into my new job and my new home, after a major relocation from the east coast to the pacific.
I am now in a much better position to pick up this conversation and start moving forward with next year's Python Education Summit and working with the community to advance python education. I still have much to do to get the house fully habitable for the family, so don't expect any mad dashes right off the bat, but I certainly want to re-energize the conversation, make plans and begin execution. chalmer On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree, not a problem at all, to include a full spectrum of outreach / > initiatives, > to K-12 (or the equivalent in other namespaces / systems) and beyond. > > In terms of the website, I think the edu-sig home page is a good place to > start: > https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig > > I notice when I'm at the maillist info page and click on edu-sig home page, > prominent at the top, I do NOT actually go to the above page, but to a > SIGs-in-general page: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > ---> https://www.python.org/community/sigs > > This is clearly broken, and a test of our new administrative muscles would > be > to get that fixed, I would think. > > On the home page itself I find at least one dead end link, e.g. under > Miscellaneous > > Software Carpentry <http://swc.scipy.org/> by Greg Wilson is a course on > software development > skills for scientists and engineers. > > That's not working at all. Maybe it just moved? > > Kirby > > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Jeff Elkner <j...@elkner.net> wrote: > >> Which has not been a problem at all. Think of the big involvement >> from the RIT folks in this year's PES. It's a meritocracy, after all. >> The volunteers who step forward determine what gets done. >> >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Jessica Nickel <jessanic...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Kirby, >> > >> > I agree, and think there definitely needs to be a focus on both college >> and >> > community-based education outreach as well. >> > >> > >> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:26 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Sounds good to me, as long as we're clear that "promoting Python in >> >> education" is in no way limited to K-12. I'm a full time teacher of >> Python >> >> to adults and like to think edu-sig is the right venue for my kind of >> >> chatter as well. So far, I've felt that way. K-12 is important and >> >> welcome, but not the whole show. >> >> >> >> Kirby >> >> >
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