[Edu-sig] Getting more involved with education and the PSF...

[Jeff Elkner]

Two questions:

1. Andre, what do I need to do to begin maintaining that page?
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 at 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.
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> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
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>> Great!  So it seems we have two short term goals:
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>> 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!).
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>> Do we agree that edu-sig is the sensible place to hold this conversation?
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>> 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.
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>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at 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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