Re outsourcing, here I am in the capital of open source (Portland, per Christian Science Monitor that time -- San Jose uncomfortable with that, stealing back OSCON -- OK, OK, their turn, we agree), and yet when push comes to shove, there's a rather tiny geek culture.
I find myself advising Symmetric to check with Aiste's POV in Vilnius, as one of the more qualified shops, as we start scraping the bottom of our barrel. Jason got snatched away by idealist.org, whereas some others don't have much experience, e.g. insist on working solo. So I completely empathize with Intel, needing engineers from elsewhere. South Africa a good source. It's not that I think Oregonians are stupid, just they've been sold a bill of goods by the ETS army, made to jump through irrelevant hoops to the point of ridiculousness, leaving good jobs going begging. That's why we have Saturday Academy, to track at least a few talented kids into a relevant curriculum for a change, no more of this pablum. Not every city is so lucky. Not every city has our Silicon Forest (which extends northward to embrace Seattle, the Space Needle one of our branding tools). Anyway, looking forward to Chicago. I've been thinking how corporate trainers such as myself might inject a note of hilarity in adult settings, even while staying on task with the Python. Turns out that's easy: Flying Circus to the rescue. We do little skits. Here's a sample in my blog: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/12/car-czar.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
