<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">>>  Would anyone else here have an interest in such a channel?</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">I'm game.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Wondering if irc has a good Android app front end these days.  Oh yeah, tons.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Limechat is free client on Mac.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Lotta folks using #Slack these days which allows embedding pix, going back to edit posts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">But maybe need free and open enuff, philosophically less apropos?  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">#Slack is free (as in beer) but not open (as in free).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">edu-sig / mail-list format good for pondering out loud though. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">I always encourage more public archiving of state of the art thinking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">I think of chat as more for real time quick back and forth, which is good, but not for white papers and policy writing, or lengthy rants. :-D</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Kirby</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Jeff Elkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@elkner.net" target="_blank">jeff@elkner.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear edu-sig friends,<br></div><div> <br></div><div> We had an interesting discussion at the Education Summit today at<br></div><div> Pycon about ways to better engage folks between Pycons.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> As a public school teacher, I have a particular interest in python in<br></div><div> k12 institutions, and in addition to posting more often on this list,<br></div><div> I am considering setting up an irc channel on freenode (#python-k12 ?)<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Would anyone else here have an interest in such a channel?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Jeff Elkner<br></div><div><br></div><div class="m_-8194501679637793849m_-2615048796034527983protonmail_signature_block"><div class="m_-8194501679637793849m_-2615048796034527983protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Let's work together to create a just and sustainable world!<br></div></div></div><div><br>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