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

Sun May 10 14:59:15 CEST 2015

Welcome, Sebastián!

I'll follow your lead and introduce myself and a bit about Python in
Brazil. I've been using Python since 1998, and evangelizing and
teaching it in Brazil since 1999. The Brazilian Python community has
had yearly national events since 2005 -- the conference is called
PythonBrasil (one word). Since 2008 we've had several foreign keynote
speakers in PythonBrasil. Lynn Root, Daniel Greenfeld, Audrey Roy
Greenfeld, Fernando Perez, Tarek Ziadé and Alex Gaynor were our guest
speakers in 2014.

I helped incorporate the Brazilian Python Association (APyB) and was
elected its president for two terms. The APyB implements the
"Institution" interface which the community needs to sign contracts,
accept sponsorships and make payments, all of which are needed to run
an event.

A few years ago I had the privilege of interacting with Pedro Urra
when he was director of BIREME, a documentation center of the PAHO
(Pan-American Health Organization) located in São Paulo, where I live.
I jumped at the opportunity to help the Python Cuba working group
because I was very impressed with the work of Pedro and of all the
Cubans I met while at BIREME, and it would be a pleasure to
collaborate with them again.

¡Saludos!

Luciano

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:18 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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