Very timely Michel, excellent tracking. I worked a juicy quote into my blog that very day:
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-musings.html Given Portland, I'm needing to "sell Python" in connection with GIS topics (PostGIS, ESRI... Ecotrust), i.e. the ambient culture is really into urban studies, planning as a discipline. This is pretty easy to do though, i.e. Python has a niche in these realms. Plus there's a lot of good geometry tie-ins, which helps my curriculum gain traction. As I was just writing to CFO yesterday: """ There's this company Immersive Media that makes these interesting recordings using 11 cameras on a post (dodecacam). They mount these on top of cars and drive them around cities, recording street views, maybe you've seen one (I have). Some months ago, a professor from the University of Rochester, former student at Reed, made a pilgrimage back to Portland, visited me, and took me to a meeting with the CTO of this company. """ Then I sent her a link to this blog post: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-street-view.html (dodecacams in action) http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4232286.html Another window into our Silicon Forest, one of many, Kirby PS: the thing with my DirecTV is this tree that shares a corner with my satellite dish: under the snow's weight, it has drooped to intercept all signal, depriving me of the complete immersion experience (we're cocooned for the snow-in) :) 2008/12/23 michel paul <[email protected]>: > http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education > > "Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in > pursuing computer science or information technology careers," said Bobby > Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy Committee (EPC). > > Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! > > - Michel > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
