It has taken a while, but I am finally getting settled into my new job and my new home, after a major relocation from the east coast to the pacific. I am now in a much better position to pick up this conversation and start moving forward with next year's Python Education Summit and working with the community to advance python education. I still have much to do to get the house fully habitable for the family, so don't expect any mad dashes right off the bat, but I certainly want to re-energize the conversation, make plans and begin execution. chalmer On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree, not a problem at all, to include a full spectrum of outreach / initiatives, to K-12 (or the equivalent in other namespaces / systems) and beyond.
In terms of the website, I think the edu-sig home page is a good place to start: https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig
I notice when I'm at the maillist info page and click on edu-sig home page, prominent at the top, I do NOT actually go to the above page, but to a SIGs-in-general page:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig ---> https://www.python.org/community/sigs
This is clearly broken, and a test of our new administrative muscles would be to get that fixed, I would think.
On the home page itself I find at least one dead end link, e.g. under Miscellaneous
Software Carpentry <http://swc.scipy.org/> by Greg Wilson is a course on software development skills for scientists and engineers.
That's not working at all. Maybe it just moved?
Kirby
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
Which has not been a problem at all. Think of the big involvement from the RIT folks in this year's PES. It's a meritocracy, after all. The volunteers who step forward determine what gets done.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Jessica Nickel <jessanickel@gmail.com> wrote:
Kirby,
I agree, and think there definitely needs to be a focus on both college and community-based education outreach as well.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:26 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds good to me, as long as we're clear that "promoting Python in education" is in no way limited to K-12. I'm a full time teacher of
Python
to adults and like to think edu-sig is the right venue for my kind of chatter as well. So far, I've felt that way. K-12 is important and welcome, but not the whole show.
Kirby
Hi Chalmer, Glad to hear you're getting settled in a new environment. I know what you mean, except in my case it's probably cooler and wetter than yours. :-) I'll send the occasional inquiries I get on edu summit matters on to you. Cheers, Naomi On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.lowe@gmail.com> wrote:
It has taken a while, but I am finally getting settled into my new job and my new home, after a major relocation from the east coast to the pacific.
I am now in a much better position to pick up this conversation and start moving forward with next year's Python Education Summit and working with the community to advance python education.
I still have much to do to get the house fully habitable for the family, so don't expect any mad dashes right off the bat, but I certainly want to re-energize the conversation, make plans and begin execution.
chalmer
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree, not a problem at all, to include a full spectrum of outreach / initiatives, to K-12 (or the equivalent in other namespaces / systems) and beyond.
In terms of the website, I think the edu-sig home page is a good place to start: https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig
I notice when I'm at the maillist info page and click on edu-sig home page, prominent at the top, I do NOT actually go to the above page, but to a SIGs-in-general page:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig ---> https://www.python.org/community/sigs
This is clearly broken, and a test of our new administrative muscles would be to get that fixed, I would think.
On the home page itself I find at least one dead end link, e.g. under Miscellaneous
Software Carpentry <http://swc.scipy.org/> by Greg Wilson is a course on software development skills for scientists and engineers.
That's not working at all. Maybe it just moved?
Kirby
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
Which has not been a problem at all. Think of the big involvement from the RIT folks in this year's PES. It's a meritocracy, after all. The volunteers who step forward determine what gets done.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Jessica Nickel <jessanickel@gmail.com> wrote:
Kirby,
I agree, and think there definitely needs to be a focus on both
college and > community-based education outreach as well. > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:26 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Sounds good to me, as long as we're clear that "promoting Python in >> education" is in no way limited to K-12. I'm a full time teacher of Python >> to adults and like to think edu-sig is the right venue for my kind of >> chatter as well. So far, I've felt that way. K-12 is important and >> welcome, but not the whole show. >> >> Kirby
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