Regarding promoting an edu-track @ Pycon, what I did last year, maybe effectively, was sign in to the Chicago Users Group (Python) and start yakking about my issues, bragging about how Portland was light years ahead of the midwest and yada yada.
Upshot: uncertain. We had a self-reported math teacher show up in bike clothes at the exhibitionary break i.e. he wasn't pretending to have paid a registration. Plus I had a guy jump into my workshop claiming to have completely lost patience with the one down the hall, a refugee, but was he even registered then? WTF knows. In any case, Pycon 2009 / Chicago was pretty strong on education. Ian Benson was expressing urgency, hoping to make himself understood through flyers on every chair, which got us in hot water with the legal team a bit, no lasting damage. The BOF also included Dr. Chuck, just finished with his Google App Engine book, me one of the tech reviewers, so we were looking forward to meeting. Andre Roberge was there to deliver a great talk on Crunchy and receive steering privileges vis-a-vis edu-sig home page, so yeah, a lot was accomplished (lots more than I just said, sharing perspective -- education big the year before that too, some dinners). I'm still on the Chicago list, made some new friends. So maybe there's one for Atlanta? I'm still uncertain about my February agenda. A theme over hear has been "escape from Georgia", our company having been joined by a refugee from Savannah. Were we to represent ourselves at Pycon, she'd be a logical delegate. She'd blend right in. Thanks in part to diversity list, I'm especially interested in not sending guys (as in XYs) from my small business, or at least not exclusively. If there's only to be one, it won't be me. OSCON is another matter however, given no hotel bill or airfare. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
