Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Sells, Fred wrote: > After the completion of most training courses, the students are not yet > ready to make a meaningful contribution to the community. That's quite possibly true, but they may very well be in a position to recognize a documentation error/omission

RE: Community Involvement

2011-08-05 Thread Sells, Fred
After the completion of most training courses, the students are not yet ready to make a meaningful contribution to the community. Yet your goal of getting them involved in the community is worthwhile. I would think learning to use the community as a resource to solve a problem that is not bas

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
Haven't had much Cc input so far, but this one is definitely worth following up on. Thanks! regards Steve On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> [Ccs appreciated] >> After some three years labor I (@holdenweb) at last find myself

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread Eric Snow
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > [Ccs appreciated] > After some three years labor I (@holdenweb) at last find myself approaching > the completion of the Python Certificate Series with O'Reilly School of > Technology (@OReillySchool). > At OSCON last week the team fell to talki

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:04:48 +0100, Ethan Furman wrote: Of the two, I like the StackOverflow option better -- but keep in mind that at this moment, about 6,600 unanswered Python questions remain. (I've made it to page 23 of 132 over the last week.) Getting an answer upvoted can be prett

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread sparky gmail
On 8/3/2011 8:14 PM, Steve Holden wrote: [Ccs appreciated] After some three years labor I (@holdenweb) at last find myself approaching the completion of the Python Certificate Series with O'Reilly School of Technology (@OReillySchool). At OSCON last week the team fell to talking about the fi

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread Ethan Furman
Steve Holden wrote: We would ideally like the last project to to be something that demonstrates at least some minimal involvement with the Python community. Something like "get a Python answer upvoted on StackOverflow", for example, or getting a question answered on c.l.p. At the same time it