> Does anybody here ever organized such an event and can provide a > checklist or some hints how to organize it? > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Greetings Jan -- In Silicon Forest, though many woodsy camps are in radius, we prefer to hold weekend Python classes in an already well equipped university computer lab. We might try "retreat formats" as budgets permit, but for now that adds overhead (there's a cool facility near Black Butte my brother in law helped build that might serve). If you are successful, I will be interested to learn what logistical lessons were learned, starting with the Internet connectivity solution (the low-cost laptops, as you know, implement a P2P bridge network that gives outliers leap frog access to fat pipe termini -- that's how it's advertised in Cambodia anyway). The students, high or middle schoolers in the regular work week, suddenly get a more adult level intro to a lot of topics, thanks to our saturdayacademy.org. We've found Python alone doesn't make enough sense. Python in a math context (my earlier approach, still using) helps a lot. However, Python in the Internet context helps the most, meaning we talk a lot about the stack, packets, protocols, stuff like that, all of which I allude to in my Virtual Pycon Keynote Address (VPKA) discussed in more detail here: http://mail.geneseo.edu/pipermail/math-thinking-l/2007-January/001087.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
