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

Sun May 10 14:18:45 CEST 2015

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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