Jeff:

Thanks for spinning up this conversation. Great stuff.

My intent is to volunteer to chair the Python Education Summit (PES) next year (based on Naomi's comments regarding stepping down). I don't know what the formal process is to make that official... Naomi... can you shed light on that?

As everyone prolly already knows, that is not a task that can be done alone, so there should be plenty of opportunities for others to get their hands dirty. My guess/hope is that Jessica will want to help again this year.

I captured a ton of notes and thoughts that I am putting to paper to outline 'the process' for next year's PES. Planned on putting that up on github as soon as I can. (I'm relocating right now, so free time is a luxury I don't have).

Along with supporting the PES, I would love to support the types of efforts you are outlining here.

Thanks again for firing up this conversation.

chalmer

Chalmer Lowe, MS

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On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> wrote:



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
Two questions:

1. Andre, what do I need to do to begin maintaining that page?

I have not maintained the page for quite a few years now.  I changed computer twice in the meantime.  

Here's what I remember that I had to do.

1. contact someone on the web support team  (pointing out, I think, to the relevant edu-sig discussion)

I know you just asked about how to begin, but just in case you'd want to know, here were the next steps.

2. generate some ssh key (if I recall correctly) so that I would be allowed to commit changes
3. download the whole site (first time) or update it thereafter
4. (re)build it locally.
5. edit the relevant rst file
6. rebuild it    (repeat 5 and 6 as needed)
7. commit changes
8. repeat steps 3 to 6 as needed (based on suggestions/requests received)

Now, it could well be that, with the redesign, the process is much easier and can be done online using a CMS.
 
2. Is there anyone in this thread not on edu-sig?  My next reply will
go only to the list.

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Jessica Nickel <jessanickel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a plan. I would be happy to talk with Selena about the work to
> bridge the gap between k-12 educators and Python programmers. I was a k-12
> teacher for 10 years (music) and I have been working in schools with my
> program to teach python coding to kids for the past year and a half, so I do
> have some experience in that area.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
>>
>> Great!  So it seems we have two short term goals:
>>
>> 1. Get someone to agree to maintain the website (I'm volunteering if
>> there isn't anyone else chomping at the bit to do it).
>> 2. Reach out to Selena Deckelman to help her with her efforts to
>> bridge the gap between developers and K-12 teachers (a noble goal
>> indeed!).
>>
>> Do we agree that edu-sig is the sensible place to hold this conversation?
>>
>> If we do, can we ask Selena to join the list if she is not already
>> there?  I'll also encourage folks like Lee Harr (cc'd here), the
>> creator of the wonderful Pynguin environment
>> (https://code.google.com/p/pynguin/) to join the list and the
>> discussion.
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > One point of info I can add - the person you're thinking of running for
>> > PSF
>> > board is Selena Deckelman, who was on Nate's panel at the edu summit.
>> > She's
>> > been very into bridging the gap between developers and K-12 teachers.
>> >
>> > Naomi
>
>
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