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

[Pablo Gabriel Celayes]

Hello everyone!

I'm really happy about seeing this begin to take some shape and you can
definitely count on me to help a first Python event in Cuba become a
reality.

I have Cuban colleague that I am working with remotely, and we had the idea
of organizing a small PyDay next year when I visit him ( that will be
around a year from now).

In the meantime, some other cuban developers have started their own plans
to develop a local community, I have already contacted some of them and
offered help:

https://humanos.uci.cu/2015/04/convocatoriacomunidad-python-cuba/
https://twitter.com/pythoncuba
https://twitter.com/COsielRV

If you want we can have a hangout or chat one of these days to define some
lines of action to start with.

Thanks David once again for turning this into a serious thing ;)

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:28 AM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> 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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