Hi All,<br><br>Tennessee Leeuwenburg here, Editor-In-Chief of The Python Papers. I'm currently looking for people interested in writing an article or otherwise contributing to our next issue. It would be fantastic to continue the work started by Michael in his article.
<br><br>Cameron, if you're working on a series of articles, and are looking for a place to publish them, I'd be happy to help. If you would like to submit them as academic publications, we can do that too. <br><br>
Jeff: I agree with others that the term "new programmers" is troublesome, and also that finding a good alternative isn't easy! Many people who want to do X will not identify as programmers. The term isn't so much important to me as the idea that Python is an enabling tool for X. I think one way to go forward is to focus as much on X as on Python. A collection of resources is a great idea.
<br><br>Anyway, I'd love to get people's feedback on whether The Python Papers can help in this area, and if so, how.<br><br>All the best,<br>-Tennessee<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Cameron Laird</b> <<a href="mailto:Cameron@phaseit.net">Cameron@phaseit.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Michael Tobis wrote:<br> .<br> .<br> .<br>> Absolutely. I want there to be a well-designed computer language in
<br>> common use so that I can write simple pieces of code to convey the<br>> fundamentals of climate and earth science that are policy relevant and<br>> have substantive discussions with people, instead of having to go over
<br>> the fundamentals over and over again. That was my motivation for<br>> getting interested in CP4E in the first place.<br> .<br> .<br> .<br>Confession time: I'm working on a series of articles on
<br>this theme: computationally-intensive science (essentially<br>everything nowadays, in a sense I elaborate) is only real<br>when the computations are based on open-source software.<br><br>I think we should stay in touch with each other--let's hit
<br>our audiences high *and* low! (Did anyone else play enough<br>US team sports to understand that trope?).<br>_______________________________________________<br>Advocacy mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Advocacy@python.org">
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