I should perhaps direct this to a marketing list, but then it's more about Drupal than Python if you read the whole thing.
PHP is our friend, is one of those "P languages" from LAMP days, before CMS and web frameworks and Ruby on Rails (with which relations are also friendly, thanks to Django's wise leadership). The joke about Nova (below) was in Spanish speaking subcultures it means "no va" (doesn't go). Being the butt of unfortunate jokes is a marketing nightmare sometimes. This excerpt below was from a longer essay re the international school circuit, including TECC in Alaska, IS, OSR etc. (schools to which I have close connections, per autobio @ WE). The Python angle is my focus on generators as the bee's knees when it comes to sequences, a standard theme of my slideshow, hence the focus of PYTHON TUTORIALS so far on Wikieducator. http://www.wikieducator.org/PYTHON_TUTORIALS A word about fonts: Patrick Barton, one of my peers, was suggesting my font is "cute" but not as useful as plaintext (image files for source code? how perverse!). The deal on that is Akbar font is based on Matt Groening's handwriting ('Life in Hell', 'Simpsons', 'Futurama') and has this kid-friendly look. I would appeal to several respected sources, including Knuth Semi-Numerical Algorithms (my copy escapes me at the moment), suggesting that deviations from "machine uniformity" excite the human eye and adds to readability. These code snippets are so short, it doesn't hurt to hand enter them, and in the early stages, that's a very necessary activity (all cut and paste does not a programmer make). Kirby """ Here's another problem: FOSS means "fart" in Arabic. So whereas FLOSS reminds of something one does to one's mouth, FOSS focuses on another orifice. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=foss (see meaning 7) That being said, I don't think it's possible to be sensitive to all possible connotations and unfortunate multilingual homonyms. You'll inevitably have those, so except for a few signature words, such as Exxon, or Nova, you won't want your marketing people to waste billable hours looking for name collisions of this kind. That's why we have different namespaces (i.e. languages) in the first place. Python modules embody the namespace idea pretty successfully, which is partly why we use this as leverage in other fields (e.g. linguistics). My practice is to stick with FOSS as covering the bases, where the F points back to the "four freedoms" and the original GNU model (our source for the GPL). If I'm writing to an Arabic speaking person, I might go with FLOSS, but I could just as well go with LOSS by similar reasoning and have done so, even though the anti-LOSS hoards might capitalize on the "LOSS is for losers" slogan (how infantile). Documenting the FOSS heritage of design science and Bucky's legacy involved making sure plenty of Synergetics made it into a FOSS format. Having the Fuller Projection a standard artifact in Cyberia was only the tip of the iceberg. The concentric hierarchy, including the quanta modules, the octet-truss, and a lot of the lore connecting these was also pumped into the mix, giving us an excellent new "concrete" (as in "Concrete Mathematics" -- an influential work by Knuth et al -- rhymes with "discrete" and "digital" and therefore "quantum mechanical"). """ [ Synergeo 57004 ] -- >>> from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
