[Python-cuba] Python Cuba working group

Mon May 11 00:57:22 CEST 2015

Hello everybody, thanks for stepping forwards to help make this happen!

Before joining this work group I had started piecing together a roadmap for
PyCon Latam Cuba.

Right now there is no Cuban Python community, at least not under a unified
banner. I think that goes before doing a PyCon. With this in mind I started
contacting some Cuban and Latinamerican colleagues who had contacts in Cuba
and will extend them the invitation to join this mailing list.

I'm sure our Cuban friends will be able to explain this much better than
me, but there are things about Cuba we need to keep in mind that will
determine how and the extents at which we will be able to help and how the
event might even take place. Things that are typical in a PyCon events like
sponsorship could be or not allowed by the government in Cuba. With that on
mind we must keep an open mind for the kind of things the subsequent
members might request of us.

Internet access is regulated and E-mails are monitored, if we want to help,
we have to be judicious in our correspondence with Cuban Pythonistas. If we
want to be able to attend the subsequent PyCon Cuba we have to be judicious
in our correspondence too.

Hopefully we soon will be greeting some Cuban Python lovers to make this
happen! :)

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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>>>> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members
>>>> >> PSF home page (http://www.python.org/psf/)
>>>> >> PSF membership FAQ (http://www.python.org/psf/membership/)
>>>> >> PSF members' wiki (http://wiki.python.org/psf/)
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > 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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>>
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> Sebastián Ramírez Magrí
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