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

[kirby urner]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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