[Python-cuba] sharing Python with copyleft materials / indigenous schools

[kirby urner]

This article was posted by one of my co-workers to an internal company
discussion list.  It describes our market pretty well.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/coding-classes-attract-college-grads-who-want-better-jobs

I'm guessing South / Central America are no different from North America in
finding that programming skills are (A) marketable (in demand) and (B)
acquirable on-line.

I've talked with Tati from Brazil quite a bit about what Python in
Portuguese from a distance learning source might look like.  This was a
theme of our school at OSCON last year:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157645488715488

I'm guessing Cuba is well able to come up with indigenous schools that
answer this growing need i.e. I'm not suggesting off-shore solutions or
out-sourcing in any way, although one might argue that increasingly
geography is not what matters (where the racks are in the cloud is
immaterial).

On the contrary, I would imagine a way to be useful would be to suggest
ways to share Python locally and effectively, and to also learn from many
in-place examples.  What distance learning solutions are emerging in Cuba
and neighboring regions?

As a North American (Pacific side, almost in Canada) I'm very aware that
we're still working to figure it out -- how to use distance learning
technology most effective.

I just was at a whole conference on this topic (USDLA in St. Louis MO) and
learned about some of the bold experiments different US states are trying.
They're not all the same!

Creative Commons and copyleft in general is a way to save on curriculum
materials (the opening keynote was on this).  For example, I've put Python
materials on Wikieducator, a Wiki for teachers willing to open source their
materials.

Example:  Here's a Creative Commons Wiki page I picked up from a previous
editor and fleshed out a lot more.

http://wikieducator.org/PYTHON_TUTORIALS

A Cuban Wiki with lots of Pythonistas contributing might be something
Python.org could either encourage and/or at least link to.

Kirby Urner
Python Mentor
O'Reilly School of Technology
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