Reminder - please submit your “applications” by Monday April 11. I would like to add that you do not need to be a Python expert to maintain the Python lesson - just have a good handle on the material we teach and be thoughtful about what we teach and why.
A few people have inquired about the weekly time commitment. I would say a few hours a week with a few times a year of more work (e.g. when we are approaching a release). > On Apr 4, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Azalee Bostroem <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I am looking for someone to replace me as a co-maintainer for the SWC Python > lesson with Trevor Bekolay. This is an exciting time in the Python lesson - > we have a lot of exercises submitted by instructors in training to augment > the lessons and we are splitting the lesson into a truly novice lesson and an > advance lesson. > > The main duties of lesson maintenance include reviewing and merging new pull > requests, tracking issues, keeping the lesson up to date with the standard > template, and helping to guide the direction of the lesson - both in terms of > content and formatting. Additionally, maintainers are part of the lesson > subcommittee that makes decisions regarding the lesson templates, tooling, > release management, and other content-related matters. > > If you would like to be considered, please email me separately at abostroem > at gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> by Monday April 11 with the following > information: > your name > your GitHub username > A brief statement of interest including: > why you are interested being the python maintainer > any contributions you’ve made to the software carpentry community (including > teaching, PR, emails to discuss, tool development, …) > a few of the top changes you would like to make to the python lessons and why > you think they are important (this can be anything from formatting to content > to …) > > Trevor Bekolay and I will evaluate the applications and announce the new > maintainer no later than Monday April 18th. > > Feel free to email me if you have any questions. > > -Azalee
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