<p dir="ltr">This sounds great. Would you reply as chair, Roberto?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 10, 2015 5:18 AM, "Sebastián Magrí" <<a href="mailto:sebasmagri@gmail.com">sebasmagri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi!<br><br>I'd like to offer my help for this initiative.<br><br>I've been doing Python advocacy in Venezuela the last 8 years. During that time, I had the opportunity to work with a group of devs from the Cuban university of computer science (UCI [0]) and I still have some contacts there.<br><br>We recently established a foundation in Venezuela to help with the promotion of Python, and we're open to participate in initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>[0] <a href="http://www.uci.cu/" target="_blank">http://www.uci.cu/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-09 19:34 GMT-04:30 Pablo Gabriel Celayes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pablocelayes@gmail.com" target="_blank">pablocelayes@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone!<br><br>I'm really happy about seeing this begin to take some shape and you can definitely count on me to help a first Python event in Cuba become a reality.<br><br>I have Cuban colleague that I am working with remotely, and we had the idea of organizing a small PyDay next year when I visit him ( that will be around a year from now).<div><br></div><div>In the meantime, some other cuban developers have started their own plans to develop a local community, I have already contacted some of them and offered help:<br><div><br></div><div><a href="https://humanos.uci.cu/2015/04/convocatoriacomunidad-python-cuba/" target="_blank">https://humanos.uci.cu/2015/04/convocatoriacomunidad-python-cuba/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/pythoncuba" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/pythoncuba</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/COsielRV" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/COsielRV</a><br><br>If you want we can have a hangout or chat one of these days to define some lines of action to start with.<br><br>Thanks David once again for turning this into a serious thing ;)</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:28 AM, David Mertz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx" target="_blank">mertz@gnosis.cx</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That's wonderful, Roberto. Let me make you Chair of the committee, and keep myself as Vice-Chair (but not co-chair). I'll add you permissions to the mailing list.<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much, David....</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Roberto Rosario <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com" target="_blank">roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Thanks for the reaching out David and thanks Anna for the recommendation. I've been trying to make a PyCon happen in Latin American since 2013 (first effort was PyCon Caribe in Puerto Rico), so as organizer of the Python Latino initiative (<a href="http://pythonlatino.com/" target="_blank">pythonlatino.com</a>) I'm thrilled the PSF has decided to create a working group to devote the energy and resources to make this happen. Being fully bilingual (born and raised in Puerto Rico) I put myself at the disposition of the PSF as chair, vice chair, co-chair or any other role it thinks I can be more useful in the working group. Thanks!<br></p><div><div>
<p dir="ltr">On May 6, 2015 11:03 PM, "David Mertz" <<a href="mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx" target="_blank">mertz@gnosis.cx</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'd love to have your help Roberto... maybe as chair even!<br>
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> From: Anna Ravenscroft <<a href="mailto:annaraven@gmail.com" target="_blank">annaraven@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Date: Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:44 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [PSF-Members] Python Cuba working group<br>
> To: David Mertz <<a href="mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx" target="_blank">mertz@gnosis.cx</a>><br>
> Cc: PSF Members List <<a href="mailto:psf-members@python.org" target="_blank">psf-members@python.org</a>>, Mary Ann Sushinsky <<a href="mailto:mary.ann.sushinsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">mary.ann.sushinsky@gmail.com</a>>, Pablo Gabriel Celayes <<a href="mailto:pablocelayes@gmail.com" target="_blank">pablocelayes@gmail.com</a>>, Douglas Napoleone <<a href="mailto:doug.napoleone@gmail.com" target="_blank">doug.napoleone@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> I recommend Roberto Rosario as a member. He's in Puerto Rico, working specifically on the development of Python Latin America, including Cuba. <br>
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> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM, David Mertz <<a href="mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx" target="_blank">mertz@gnosis.cx</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I'd very much like to form a new working group to do outreach specifically to Cuban Pythonistas. After the tongue-in-cheek April Fool's joke of the official PyCon being held there in two years--which is unfortunately unlikely to actually happen, but maybe it should; why not?!--Mary Ann and I received good positive feedback from a few Cuban programmers who chuckled at the pos (only wishing it were true, naturally), and I understand that Doug Napoleone and some other folks also heard from local Cuban Pythonistas.<br>
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>> While I have tried to promote diversity in a general way as chair of Outreach & Education, and in other ways too, I have a special interest in making connections with Cuban developers, perhaps helping the PSF fund or otherwise assist some conference there, or at very least some meetup fees or the like, and further communication with developers in that nation (e.g. blog about their work and community).<br>
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>> So I'd very much like to have a new PSF working group for this purpose, and I'd like to serve on it. I also especially invite Mary Ann, and Doug, and Pablo, to join. However, unlike with most of the WG/committees I've founded and worked on, I think I should not be chair of it, just a member. Sadly, my Spanish is barely existent, and Mary Ann's is only a little bit better, and I think whoever chairs it should be a fluent speaker of Spanish (perhaps themselves Cuban, but at least able to avoid that language barrier).<br>
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>> In other words, this is a call for volunteers, starting with a chair, but also including other members who would like to help with this particular outreach effort.<br>
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>> Best wishes, David...<br>
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> uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting <br>
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