re: A "Python in Education" track at PyCon 2004?
Jeff writes:
I've been talking to Steve Holden about my interest in organizing a "Python in Education" track at next years PyCon. The message below just appeared on the pycon-organizers list, so I thought I would pass it along here and ask you all if you are thinking about attending PyCon next year and if you would be interested in a Python in Education track.
I would hope to be there and - inspired by Kirby's talk - hope to submit a proposal for a PyGeo presentation. It would be nice to have a Python in Education track, if enough interest can be generated. To do so, it would be important, IMO, to make sure the community sees the track defined as broadly as possible. Any levelof education. Any degree of esoterica. As intimidating as the possiblity of having to follow a PyGeo presentation miught be ;) - I would guess there would be a good number of proposals for presentations. Can it go forward tentatively - final determination made after assessing whether the proposal submissions justify a separate track? Art
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:54, Arthur wrote:
Jeff writes:
I've been talking to Steve Holden about my interest in organizing a "Python in Education" track at next years PyCon. The message below just appeared on the pycon-organizers list, so I thought I would pass it along here and ask you all if you are thinking about attending PyCon next year and if you would be interested in a Python in Education track.
I would hope to be there and - inspired by Kirby's talk - hope to submit a proposal for a PyGeo presentation.
Cool! I would love to attend.
It would be nice to have a Python in Education track, if enough interest can be generated.
I think it can.
To do so, it would be important, IMO, to make sure the community sees the track defined as broadly as possible.
Any levelof education.
Any degree of esoterica.
As intimidating as the possiblity of having to follow a PyGeo presentation miught be ;) -
I would guess there would be a good number of proposals for presentations.
I don't know how the process works. I was only trying to figure out at this stage if it was worth moving forward with it. It seems that it is.
Can it go forward tentatively - final determination made after assessing whether the proposal submissions justify a separate track?
Well, it *is* going forward tentatively. In fact, I haven't even brought this up with the conference organizors yet (aside from Steve Holden). I wanted to see if there was any interest before going any further with it. I figured this list was as good a place as any to start. I've received three replys already, so I'm feeling pretty encouraged ;-) jeff elkner open book project at ibiblio http://ibiblio.org/obp
At 05:08 PM 7/25/2003 -0400, Jeffrey Elkner wrote:
Well, it *is* going forward tentatively. In fact, I haven't even brought this up with the conference organizors yet (aside from Steve Holden). I wanted to see if there was any interest before going any further with it. I figured this list was as good a place as any to start. I've received three replys already, so I'm feeling pretty encouraged ;-)
jeff elkner open book project at ibiblio http://ibiblio.org/obp
I offer further encouragement. I'd also like to submit a proposal. It's good to have it be a "track" because in my mind what that means is we won't schedule the Python in Education talks in parallel, which means, whether I present or not, if I'm there (as I hope to be), I'll have a reasonably good chance of catching these talks without worrying about a lot of time slot conflicts. Of course if you get just a whole lot of good proposals, then parallelism might well creep into the picture. Oh well. That'd be a good sign (for the future of Python in Education), even though it'd be frustrating to some PyCon attenders. Kirby
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 17:34, Kirby Urner wrote:
I offer further encouragement.
I'd also like to submit a proposal.
It's good to have it be a "track" because in my mind what that means is we won't schedule the Python in Education talks in parallel, which means, whether I present or not, if I'm there (as I hope to be), I'll have a reasonably good chance of catching these talks without worrying about a lot of time slot conflicts.
Of course if you get just a whole lot of good proposals, then parallelism might well creep into the picture. Oh well. That'd be a good sign (for the future of Python in Education), even though it'd be frustrating to some PyCon attenders.
Thanks for both the encouragement and the proposal, Kirby. I'm getting together with Steve on Monday to talk about this, so I'll follow up with another mailing to the list after that. Thanks again! jeff elkner open book project at ibiblio http://ibiblio.org/obp
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