Contract renewed with SA: to teach Python; they liked my Lithuania slides, clear even to non-geeks.
Making new agreement with LEP High, also to teach Python, but more as a special case example of what open source entrepreneurship is all about. LEP pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157602156242583/ My focus will be: how open standards, open specs, don't keep us from competing or compensating, in games to offer better products. The difference: a more level playing field, as there's no unfair protection against the competition having access to the same powerful and effective development tools, as these are by now already paid for in full and handed off to our children, their children at large, per GNU, GPL, OLPC etc. On another day job front, I completed a so-called BarCamp Alpha in Centralia, a really picturesque slice of North America and its many intersecting traditions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157602124435584/ The purpose of this BarCamp was to look at open source in the area of clinical research (both outcomes and quality assurance). Centralia is approximately half way between Seattle and Portland, and so is good neutral ground in which to bury hatchets and form new collaborations (relations between these two metropolitan regions have been rivalrous at times, including these days, what with Portland, not Seattle, being "an open source capital" and all: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p03s02-ussc.html More in my blog re BarCamp Alpha: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2007/09/barcamp-alpha.html On the Fuller School front (a thread in this archive, especially when Arthur and I were arguing (i.e. approximately all the time ( http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/ ))), there's some fresh propaganda in Good Magazine, which I appreciate: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/good_guide_r_buckminster_fuller (You might still find some hard copies on the stands -- bright orange with AK-47 x-rayed on the cover). Kirby 4D Solutions Portland, Oregon _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
