[Microbit-Python] Closing down this mailing list

[Hunter Irving]

Though I never contributed anything (I think I just asked one question,
once) I wanna say thanks for running this service!

So long,
Hunter Irving

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm sad to say that for quite some time, the only emails sent to this
> mailing list are spam (I should know, I get it delivered for appraisal
> as the list admin). Since engagement is lacking from "real people" and
> unless I hear a *really good reason not to* I'm going to delete this
> mailing list at the end of this week -- Friday 13th.. ;-) What's the
> worst that could happen..? (Rhetorical question.)
>
> Thank you all for your contributions to MicroPython on the micro:bit -
> especially Damien George and Mark Shannon, who have pulled off something
> quite amazing by getting so much functionality into such a small device.
>
> If you're looking for active, welcoming and colourful communities who
> use MicroPython in an educational context you should check out two places:
>
> * The MicroPython home page (especially the forums):
> http://micropython.org/ The awesome PyBoard2 is coming out soon..! They
> also have a micro:bit section in the forums.
>
> * The CircuitPython community forming around Adafruit's boards
> (CircuitPython is Adafruit's "flavour" of MicroPython):
> https://learn.adafruit.com/category/circuitpython or
> https://discordapp.com/channels/327254708534116352/327298996332658690
> (with around 600 active users chatting online).
>
> I'll be at PyCon in about a month's time in Cleveland. If you're there
> too, come find me and say "hi". Two of the keynote speakers at this
> year's PyCon are related to micro:bit: Qumisha and I met three years ago
> and I smuggled her a bunch of micro:bits for her to use with the kids
> who were learning to program in Python at her library (her keynote is
> about her work with kids). Josh (who is only 13 years old) is keynoting
> the education summit and talking about his amazing EduBlocks project
> which provides a blocks based interface to MicroPython on the micro:bit.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> N.
>
>
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