PSF Brochure - call for submissions
Hi everyone, In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in education. So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below. Cheers, Vern Call for submissions for promotional brochure A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks both in educational and in professional settings. Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project. Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can be discussed as use-cases. If you have any suggestions for information to include in the brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to brochure AT getpython DOT info. UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/ -- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in education. So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below.
Cheers, Vern
Call for submissions for promotional brochure
A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks both in educational and in professional settings.
Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project.
When you say "this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group" is that supposed to be a link? I'd be curious to see what that Plone brochure looks like. At first I wasn't clear if you meant something cyber, like Just Use It commercials (my thread on PSF list), or if this was to be printed on wood pulp, perhaps on glossy paper. I see it's to at least include the latter, but that doesn't rule out the former.
Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can be discussed as use-cases.
Language communities need to produce their own free and open source commercials, with skills contributed by advertisers with state of the art skills, a way of giving back if they've been getting, -- and many of them have (used a LAMP stack lately?). I'll be nudging Wieden+Kennedy for ideas (local firm). I think companies like Holden Web and Open Bastion, Urban Airship, Rumblefish.... Jive all contribute to their respective language communities. Ruby has some especially cool flagships. But that's the commercial sector. What about NASA? And what about universities? Python at MIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXR9CDof7qw&feature=related (I could tell he was from Canada, he confesses -- at 28:38 he says "I hate this language..." and says some nonsense about always using parens in place of brackets. Should we hassle this guy on Diversity? :) I remember that little pro Python PR clip made by Jeff Elkner's students, with that hippie dad in the basement, a girl showing her boyfriend how this language fit her brain. Now where was that again... ? Much more could be done... Why let Britney have all the fun?
If you have any suggestions for information to include in the brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to brochure AT getpython DOT info.
UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/
Quite a sophisticated front end to a worthy project I must say. A Portland school like Saturday Academy or LEP High could send along testimony and examples, proving how their curriculum was superior. Niche marketing. Would they have to pay for the free advertising? Of course not. Or... I should read more.... Here we go: """ The brochure will have 4 DIN A4 pages for ads. Ad sponsors can buy a half page ad for EUR 2,450.00 (+ VAT if applicable) in the first edition. Each ad sponsor will receive a box of around 120 free copies of the printed brochure after production. There is room for 8 ad sponsors. """ So will MIT be one of those sponsors? They could tout OLPC, a Python flagship as well. On another note, Pi Day is tomorrow. So far no takers at the OST web site. Looks like the Python solution might be the only solution to pass this unit test: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-March/010224.html Not every language even has extended precision libraries, whereas Python has at least two that I know about. http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/browse_thread/thread/6c48dbcd8180e... Is there anything about Pi Day at Pycon I wonder? How about a sprint in an open session? gmpy versus decimal anyone? I should get on twitter and follow the PSF snake... Kirby
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
Notes: I've posted this before, explains Britney allusion etc. http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/gis_2009_workshop.pdf
Hi Kirby, Missed seeing you here at PyCon... The link for the PSF brochure call for submissions is here: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/call-for-submissions-for-promotional.htm... Charlie was pretty clear that they are intending a nice glossing brochure to give out to various audiences. They are looking for success stories from any and all arenas, but at this point, as far as Charlie put it, they don't really have any and they don't know exactly how to proceed. So you might direct your suggestions and feedback to those organizing the brochure. Vern On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Kirby Urner <kurner@oreillyschool.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in education. So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below.
Cheers, Vern
Call for submissions for promotional brochure
A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks both in educational and in professional settings.
Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project.
When you say "this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group" is that supposed to be a link?
I'd be curious to see what that Plone brochure looks like.
At first I wasn't clear if you meant something cyber, like Just Use It commercials (my thread on PSF list), or if this was to be printed on wood pulp, perhaps on glossy paper.
I see it's to at least include the latter, but that doesn't rule out the former.
Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can be discussed as use-cases.
Language communities need to produce their own free and open source commercials, with skills contributed by advertisers with state of the art skills, a way of giving back if they've been getting, -- and many of them have (used a LAMP stack lately?).
I'll be nudging Wieden+Kennedy for ideas (local firm).
I think companies like Holden Web and Open Bastion, Urban Airship, Rumblefish.... Jive all contribute to their respective language communities. Ruby has some especially cool flagships.
But that's the commercial sector.
What about NASA? And what about universities?
Python at MIT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXR9CDof7qw&feature=related
(I could tell he was from Canada, he confesses -- at 28:38 he says "I hate this language..." and says some nonsense about always using parens in place of brackets. Should we hassle this guy on Diversity? :)
I remember that little pro Python PR clip made by Jeff Elkner's students, with that hippie dad in the basement, a girl showing her boyfriend how this language fit her brain.
Now where was that again... ?
Much more could be done... Why let Britney have all the fun?
If you have any suggestions for information to include in the brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to brochure AT getpython DOT info.
UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/
Quite a sophisticated front end to a worthy project I must say.
A Portland school like Saturday Academy or LEP High could send along testimony and examples, proving how their curriculum was superior. Niche marketing.
Would they have to pay for the free advertising? Of course not. Or... I should read more....
Here we go:
""" The brochure will have 4 DIN A4 pages for ads.
Ad sponsors can buy a half page ad for EUR 2,450.00 (+ VAT if applicable) in the first edition.
Each ad sponsor will receive a box of around 120 free copies of the printed brochure after production.
There is room for 8 ad sponsors. """
So will MIT be one of those sponsors? They could tout OLPC, a Python flagship as well.
On another note, Pi Day is tomorrow. So far no takers at the OST web site. Looks like the Python solution might be the only solution to pass this unit test:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-March/010224.html
Not every language even has extended precision libraries, whereas Python has at least two that I know about.
http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/browse_thread/thread/6c48dbcd8180e...
Is there anything about Pi Day at Pycon I wonder? How about a sprint in an open session? gmpy versus decimal anyone? I should get on twitter and follow the PSF snake...
Kirby
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
Notes:
I've posted this before, explains Britney allusion etc.
http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/gis_2009_workshop.pdf
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
Hi Kirby, Am 14.03.11 02:26, schrieb Kirby Urner:
When you say "this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group" is that supposed to be a link?
Yes, that was a link, it got lost somewhere. http://www.dzug.org/werbemittel/plone-das-professionelle-open-source-cms-fu3... Thanks for your support! Jan Ulrich Hasecke -- The PSF Python Brochure Sign up to our newsletter! http://brochure.getpython.info/
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:36, Vern Ceder <vceder@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in education.
Do you have the OLPC XO Sugar software on your list? Almost all of it except Etoys (Smalltalk) and SimCity is in Python. Pippy is a limited Python IDE for children, and Turtle Art lets users call Python in any amount from a single function call to an application, providing an even easier starting point for students. I can provide endless detail. ^_^
So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below.
Cheers, Vern
Call for submissions for promotional brochure
A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks both in educational and in professional settings.
Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project.
Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can be discussed as use-cases.
If you have any suggestions for information to include in the brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to brochure AT getpython DOT info.
UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:36, Vern Ceder <vceder@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in education.
Do you have the OLPC XO Sugar software on your list? Almost all of it except Etoys (Smalltalk) and SimCity is in Python. Pippy is a limited Python IDE for children, and Turtle Art lets users call Python in any amount from a single function call to an application, providing an even easier starting point for students. I can provide endless detail. ^_^
Well, it's not my list - I'm just publicizing the call for content as a favor. Please pass along any suggestions to those concerned. But I would *assume* that Sugar might be a candidate... Vern
So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below.
Cheers, Vern
Call for submissions for promotional brochure
A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks both in educational and in professional settings.
Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project.
Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can be discussed as use-cases.
If you have any suggestions for information to include in the brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to brochure AT getpython DOT info.
UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/
-- Vern Ceder vceder@gmail.com, vceder@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
Hi all, I want to follow up on this. Edward sent us material about the OLPC and Sugar project. Thanks a lot for that! This is great for our education chapter. In our chapter about education we also want to show that Python is the best choice as first programming language. To prove this we need figures, if there are any. Do you know about any study (local, nation-wide, internationally) covering the effects of different programming languages on the outcome of teaching programming? Or do you know of any quote from a well known authority/specialist, which favors Pythons? If you know anyone who could help us in this respect, please send us the contact details or introduce us to him/her. Our contact email is: brochure at getpython dot info ====== Then… ====== Our first newsletter is out: http://brochure.getpython.info/news/newsletter-1-we-need-your-help It covers in detail what we are after. Thank you very much for your help so far. We'll need a lot more of it. Jan Ulrich Hasecke http://brochure.getpython.info
Hello, Please find my article on Python implementation of Algorithm X by Knuth http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5890 Regards, Andrzej Kapanowski 2011/4/19 Jan Ulrich Hasecke <juhasecke@googlemail.com>
Hi all,
I want to follow up on this.
Edward sent us material about the OLPC and Sugar project. Thanks a lot for that! This is great for our education chapter.
In our chapter about education we also want to show that Python is the best choice as first programming language. To prove this we need figures, if there are any.
Do you know about any study (local, nation-wide, internationally) covering the effects of different programming languages on the outcome of teaching programming?
Or do you know of any quote from a well known authority/specialist, which favors Pythons?
If you know anyone who could help us in this respect, please send us the contact details or introduce us to him/her. Our contact email is: brochure at getpython dot info
====== Then… ======
Our first newsletter is out: http://brochure.getpython.info/news/newsletter-1-we-need-your-help
It covers in detail what we are after.
Thank you very much for your help so far. We'll need a lot more of it.
Jan Ulrich Hasecke http://brochure.getpython.info
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Vern Ceder