[Python-cuba] Fwd: [PSF-Members] Python Cuba working group

[David Mertz]

That's wonderful, Roberto.  Let me make you Chair of the committee, and
keep myself as Vice-Chair (but not co-chair).  I'll add you permissions to
the mailing list.

Thank you so much, David....

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Roberto Rosario <
roberto.rosario.gonzalez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reaching out David and thanks Anna for the recommendation.
> I've been trying to make a PyCon happen in Latin American since 2013 (first
> effort was PyCon Caribe in Puerto Rico), so as organizer of the Python
> Latino initiative (pythonlatino.com) I'm thrilled the PSF has decided to
> create a working group to devote the energy and resources to make this
> happen. Being fully bilingual (born and raised in Puerto Rico) I put myself
> at the disposition of the PSF as chair, vice chair, co-chair or any other
> role it thinks I can be more useful in the working group. Thanks!
>
> On May 6, 2015 11:03 PM, "David Mertz" <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> >
> > I'd love to have your help Roberto... maybe as chair even!
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Anna Ravenscroft <annaraven at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PSF-Members] Python Cuba working group
> > To: David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx>
> > Cc: PSF Members List <psf-members at python.org>, Mary Ann Sushinsky <
> mary.ann.sushinsky at gmail.com>, Pablo Gabriel Celayes <
> pablocelayes at gmail.com>, Douglas Napoleone <doug.napoleone at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > I recommend Roberto Rosario as a member. He's in Puerto Rico, working
> specifically on the development of Python Latin America, including Cuba.
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd very much like to form a new working group to do outreach
> specifically to Cuban Pythonistas.  After the tongue-in-cheek April Fool's
> joke of the official PyCon being held there in two years--which is
> unfortunately unlikely to actually happen, but maybe it should; why
> not?!--Mary Ann and I received good positive feedback from a few Cuban
> programmers who chuckled at the pos (only wishing it were true, naturally),
> and I understand that Doug Napoleone and some other folks also heard from
> local Cuban Pythonistas.
> >>
> >> While I have tried to promote diversity in a general way as chair of
> Outreach & Education, and in other ways too, I have a special interest in
> making connections with Cuban developers, perhaps helping the PSF fund or
> otherwise assist some conference there, or at very least some meetup fees
> or the like, and further communication with developers in that nation (e.g.
> blog about their work and community).
> >>
> >> So I'd very much like to have a new PSF working group for this purpose,
> and I'd like to serve on it.  I also especially invite Mary Ann, and Doug,
> and Pablo, to join.  However, unlike with most of the WG/committees I've
> founded and worked on, I think I should not be chair of it, just a member.
> Sadly, my Spanish is barely existent, and Mary Ann's is only a little bit
> better, and I think whoever chairs it should be a fluent speaker of Spanish
> (perhaps themselves Cuban, but at least able to avoid that language
> barrier).
> >>
> >> In other words, this is a call for volunteers, starting with a chair,
> but also including other members who would like to help with this
> particular outreach effort.
> >>
> >> Best wishes, David...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food
> >> from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the
> >> uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting
> >> advocates of freedom in prisons.  Intellectual property is
> >> to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > cordially,
> > Anna
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food
> > from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the
> > uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting
> > advocates of freedom in prisons.  Intellectual property is
> > to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
>



-- 
Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food
from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the
uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting
advocates of freedom in prisons.  Intellectual property is
to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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