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 non-student in anything the Perl community might provide?
> Matriculated students are the only ones who need to learn Perl :)
>
> It sounds like anything you would do would be useful to everyone.
> Furthermore, we live in a world where everyone virtually has access to
> the same information as everyone else.
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 worth of introduction to Perl and the
way we use it to solve problems.
Students are very happy to hear a person with years of real-life
experience telling them how things work, and showing actual scars. ;-)
Of course, this is very different from what most of us love to do
(writing code to make up a new web site), but not so much different
from other things some of us love to do (writing and delivering talks,
organizing a conference). The peoples and the skills are available,
why not just do it? Locally?
Sure, a website and a mailing list would be nice, but I see them
more as a tool to communicate experience and information between the
speakers/organizers than as a way to give the same information to
new people.
> I don't think that there is any lack of content, but getting it to new
> people is always a challenge. :)
Yes. And my personal feel is that we have to use our feets rather than
our fingers to reach these new people.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Treat those you outrank well... you never know when they will outrank you.
(Moral from Groo #7 (Image))
