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

[Luciano Ramalho]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Pablo Gabriel Celayes
<pablocelayes at gmail.com> 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).
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> It exists indeed, the Python Argentina community did it some years ago:
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> http://docs.python.org.ar/tutorial/index.html

Excellent! And I see you have Python 3.4 and Django 1.5. We only have
Python 2.7 and a very old Django...

Best,

Luciano

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>> 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
|  Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
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|  Professor em: http://python.pro.br
|  Twitter: @ramalhoorg