Re: student outreach

2008-12-15 Thread brian d foy
In article edcafa7d0812120417q14ca238fm5e04ed29517c2...@mail.gmail.com, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: Which is quite cool, but there is more than that - it's hard to pick up practical skills at uni because the coursework and any projects of your own will be contrived and

Re: student outreach

2008-12-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/12/5 brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com: In article edcafa7d0812050227i36b9b4cev1c6fe4e130daa...@mail.gmail.com, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what they

Re: student outreach

2008-12-12 Thread Gabor Szabo
this might be relevant. http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/freeperlcourse Gabor

Re: student outreach

2008-12-10 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 8 Dec 2008, at 09:41, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: I agree with brian: yet another web site with information about Perl will not have as much impact as people actually going to their local university, arranging something with the teachers/administration and actually delivering a few hours

Re: student outreach

2008-12-10 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 5 Dec 2008, at 17:28, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: Singapore.pm is still way too small to take on these sorts of projects, but there are two major universities within easy reach; once we've grown a bit, I'll want to try this out here. left field idea [1] : if you need ideas/work that can be

Re: student outreach

2008-12-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:18:28AM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: On Dec 5, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote: I'm guessing some you noticed ovid summoned the meme-that-will-not-die once more on use.perl. If you give me a bio to use (or do I have one for you somewhere?) I'll post this

Re: student outreach

2008-12-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:17:04PM -0800, brian d foy wrote: If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what they needed More power to you, but I also have to ask what is different about a student and a

Re: student outreach

2008-12-05 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:27:12AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: how about something more useful, a TPF backed student outreach program. If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what they needed Also, think of

Re: student outreach

2008-12-05 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:50:56PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: I've added a page to the wiki to outline what I was thinking about. Do you have a URL? It's a work in progress so far though. Of course. Could really do with a perl.org mailing list to coordinate it - maybe a global students.pm

Re: student outreach

2008-12-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Dec 5, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote: Hi All, I'm guessing some you noticed ovid summoned the meme-that-will-not-die once more on use.perl. If you give me a bio to use (or do I have one for you somewhere?) I'll post this under your byline on Perlbuzz. If you'd like me to.

Re: student outreach

2008-12-05 Thread Gaurav Vaidya
Hi everybody, On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Aaron Trevena wrote: If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what they needed - I found my contact with london.pm introduced to loads of stuff that would have really helped

Re: student outreach

2008-12-05 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what they needed More power to you, but I also have to ask what is different about a student and a