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

Sun May 10 14:55:08 CEST 2015

This sounds great. Would you reply as chair, Roberto?
On May 10, 2015 5:18 AM, "Sebastián Magrí" <sebasmagri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'd like to offer my help for this initiative.
>
> I've been doing Python advocacy in Venezuela the last 8 years. During that
> time, I had the opportunity to work with a group of devs from the Cuban
> university of computer science (UCI [0]) and I still have some contacts
> there.
>
> We recently established a foundation in Venezuela to help with the
> promotion of Python, and we're open to participate in initiatives in Latin
> America and the Caribbean.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> [0] http://www.uci.cu/
>
> 2015-05-09 19:34 GMT-04:30 Pablo Gabriel Celayes <pablocelayes at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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