[Edu-sig] Python in education - looking forward

2009-04-09 Thread Vern Ceder
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

Re: [Edu-sig] Python in education - looking forward

2009-04-09 Thread kirby urner
My initial take on this is it'll lead to PSF discussions of how to 'monetize floorspace' as those Hyatts cost dough, not counting rooming costs, so every inch of an exhibit area is regarded as 'sponsoring'. This year we had Oracle, a bunch of others. However, OSCONs etc. have always had

Re: [Edu-sig] Python in education - looking forward

2009-04-09 Thread Vern Ceder
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