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

[Luciano Ramalho]

Besides Python materials themselves, there are excellent books
licensed under CC licenses that would allow a translation with no need
for prior authorization. The best is Dive into Python 3. There are
also Allen Downey's several books.

Cheers,

Luciano


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Luciano Ramalho <luciano at ramalho.org> wrote:
> In Brazil we've translated the Python tutorial do Portuguese, and I
> have some tips about how to do it if there is an effort to do the same
> in Spanish (actually, a Spanish translation may already exist, I did
> not look).
>
> Having at least part of the docs translated is *extremely* helpful.
> Most people in the Americas speak only their mother tongue. Those who
> also know a second language are a small minority.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:08 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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> Luciano Ramalho
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-- 
Luciano Ramalho
|  Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
|     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
|  Professor em: http://python.pro.br
|  Twitter: @ramalhoorg