News123 wrote:
Jonathan Gardner wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:57 AM, gb345 <gb...@invalid.com> wrote:
And even when we've had volunteers, hardly anyone shows up!
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Two things: One, only you and your friend really care. Let that sink
in. No one is going to carry the group but you two, at least
initially.
Two, there's a lot of people at movie theaters and the county fair.
Why? Because it is interesting and fun. Scientists work the same way.
Yes, a lot of people are interested in Python. Why don't you do a bit
of snooping around and see what people want to know about?
Let me give some examples:
* Interactive numeric programming with Python
* Rapid website development with Pylons (Trust me, everyone wants to
make a website.) Show how you are showing off data from one of your
experiments of projects and how easy it is to organize and manage
data.
* How you used Python on your latest and greatest project
Don't expect the audience to participate, except to show up and ask questions.
If you want to build a Python support group, then form an informal
group with your friends. Start a public mailing list and offer Python
advice and support for free. Integrate whatever code your org has with
Python, and manage and maintain that code so others can use it.
Finally, advertise. The more people see "Python", the more they will
be interested. Coca-cola and Pepsi are really good at this!
attendance will be very low and be sure nobody cares to check whether
anything happened on this group.
My suggestion is:
I'd suggest to setup a group, to which one can subscribe with mail
notification and for all the old ones perhaps even via nntp ;-) and of
course via a web front end (though I personally hate web groups)
Afterwards you can 'friendly-fore-subscribe' some collegues. ;-)
Just talk about your new cool group during lunch, etc.
Be sure, that most will be to lazy to unsuscribe.
Start discussing interesting topics on this group and then . . .
maybe others start joining. maybo nobody cares and you have just to
accept it.
bye
N
Python is not interesting enough by itself to grab students attention.
It's just a tool to solve some technical problems.
So, either python has a direct benefit on the study itself (meaning it
can help getting better results), or you'll have to make it intereseting
as a hobbit. But python is not music, video, dance nor it is related to
sport, sex or whatever things that usually interest people. So I really
don't know how to make it interesting, I'm not sure it's even possible
nor desirable.
Good luck anyway.
JM
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