[Python-cuba] PSF Monthly Working Group Reports

[Pablo Gabriel Celayes]

Hello Betsy, sorry about the delay with this.
I have been traveling and I am preparing to move over to the Netherlands in
a few weeks.
The cuban members of the group have also been quite busy with all the
recent events related to Obama's visit.

But well, enough apoligizing already, let's move on to the report. :)

Here is a rough list of what we've been up to during the last month.
(Other members please feel free to complete it and add details)

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- Medardo, Olemis and myself (Pablo) had 4 face to face meetings in La
Habana between January and March. This was an excellent chance to get to
know each other better and to discuss some of the following issues:
   * Organization details of possible Cuban Pycon for next year.
   * Strategies for creating a more active Python community in Cuba.
   * Organization of a first PyDay event in La Habana (more in the next
paragraph).

- On Saturday March 12th, in collaboration with the group Encuentro Social
de Desarrolladores[1] we organized a small Python event. My original idea
was to organize a full-fledged PyDay in the style of the ones that I've
attended in Argentina, with talks, lightning talks and hands-on workshops
or hackathons. Time allowed for a smaller event with the following three
talks:
   * Olemis gave a very thorough overview of the current state of the
Python language and its application to different fields of engineering and
computer science.
   * Medardo spoke about the advantages of using Python as a teaching
language in university courses, motivated by an example of teaching object
oriented concepts.
  * I gave a talk about my experience of collaborating for the last two
years with cuban Pythonista and friend Alejandro Zamora Fonseca while he
was living in Cuba. I emphasized on some of the technical and legal
difficulties we encountered, and how Python, its community and philosophy
played a crucial role in making our work possible.

The event had an audience of over 20 people and there was great interest
created around it. Hopefully this kind of events will start to become more
frequent and participative in a near future. Olemis, Medardo and Alejandro
(currently living here in Córdoba) are already in contact with other
developers in different towns of the island and we hope to find ways to
help them start their own communities, with the goal of making things less
centralized around Havana.[2]

- Motivated by my experience of remote work with Alejandro I am beginning
to outline the idea of hiring other Cuban developers in a near future to do
part-time work in some data analysis projects. I want to organize this as
some kind of "remote internship" and Alejandro would be helping me
coordinate this. It's a small contribution but it's defintely something
that can help change the lives of a few Cuban developers and may be in the
future can be scaled to a larger number. Also this is a great exchange
experience that gives us first-hand contact with the challenges and
potentialities of Cuban Python developers.

- Last but (definitely) not least :) Olemis was taking part of a meeting of
President Obama with cuban entrepreneurs and technologists, but I guess
that's material for the next report.


[1] http://encuentrodesarrolladores.com/
[2] Here a picture of the organization team after the event was finished
(from left to right, Medardo, myself, Olemis and Miguel from the ESD group).


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Betsy Waliszewski <betsy at python.org> wrote:

> Hi WGs,
>
> Just a reminder about the monthly reports. Would love to have them by
> Monday, the 21st.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Betsy
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Betsy Waliszewski <betsy at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It would be great to get a short report on each group's activities for
>> the last month for our next board meeting in 2 weeks. If you could send me
>> your report by *Monday, March 21*, that would be excellent.
>>
>> It doesn't have to be long; just a summary of what you've been working
>> on, resolutions passed, and anything else you'd like the board to know
>> about.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Betsy
>>
>> --
>> Betsy Waliszewski
>> Python Software Foundation
>> Event Coordinator / Administrator
>> @betswaliszewski
>>
>
>
>
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> Betsy Waliszewski
> Python Software Foundation
> Event Coordinator / Administrator
> @betswaliszewski
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