I've uploaded a few Pycon2008 pix to a public Flickr folder for the curious (of course many others have done the same):
http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157604146122293/ Maybe a little misleading to show that Hyatt, which I took for the gorgeous reflected lighting -- we actually were at the Crowne Plaza nearby. If anyone knows the name of the gentleman on the left in 00057 looking at the XO, I'd be much obliged. He taught at Saturday Academy (where I teach) many years ago, while working at Intel. We had a lot of good conversation but I forgot his name. The man on the right is Patrick O'Brien, whom I suspect most of us would know from PyShell and PyCrust, part of the wxPython package. He's also the architect of Schevo, a cutting edge Object Oriented Database which he uses behind the scenes on the job. Yes, that's whiskey in our cups (Bushmills, provided by yours truly). 00063 deserves an explanation. That's the ceiling of the atrium, the big common area outside the ballrooms and above the small rooms where we had the BOFs. This is a common spaceframe in today's architecture, known as the octet-truss, for which Bucky Fuller gained a patent (long since expired). It links to my talk in the sense that balls piled up in a tetrahedron or half-octahedron make this same pattern (if you interconnect adjacent ball centers with rods). Ball packing, triangular and tetrahedral numbers, are important topics in my classroom.** As for that talk, Ian Benson of sociality.tv is very involved in the workflow by which raw video of speaker talks is transcoded to digital and made available. He chose mine as a way of demoing his trademark post production process and hopes to have something viewable in the not too distant future. I'll post a link when one becomes available. Ian knows a huge amount about the pedagogy of working with young children since Piaget and Papert, the many forks in that road. I'm learning a lot from the guy. He spearheads an algebraFirst initiative, which helps kids develop their intuitions around abstract algebra even before they learn the standard arithmetical algorithms, normally considered a starting place. You'll see a book he was sharing prominently featured in those same Pycon pix (Patrick is holding my copy). 00060 is a picture of Ed Leafe, the man behind Dabo, a Pythonic implementation of an xBase-like database development framework ala FoxPro (another subculture I work in). I also had some quality time talking with Jonah, who has an enviable position within the Columbia University namespace. He claims to lurk on this list. Hi Jonah! Kirby in west Pennsylvania Cc: Ian ** http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/octet.html http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/sa_8620.pdf (note: Alexander Graham Bell was deeply into this same truss -- something Bucky Fuller didn't know until later (all important history in my math classroom)). _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
