On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:36, Vern Ceder <vce...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we > aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in > education.
Do you have the OLPC XO Sugar software on your list? Almost all of it except Etoys (Smalltalk) and SimCity is in Python. Pippy is a limited Python IDE for children, and Turtle Art lets users call Python in any amount from a single function call to an application, providing an even easier starting point for students. I can provide endless detail. ^_^ > So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content > for the PSF brochure. Please feel free to write up your successes with > Python and submit them. They will be considered for inclusion in the > brochure as mentioned in the call for submissions below. > > Cheers, > Vern > > Call for submissions for promotional brochure > > A new PSF project aims to create professional quality promotional > material about Python. The first goal is to create a brochure to > showcase the many ways Python is used. It will include use cases to > highlight the ways the language allows users to accomplish their tasks > both in educational and in professional settings. > > Project team members Marc-André Lemburg, Jan Ulrich Hasecke, and Armin > Stross-Radschinski created this Plone marketing brochure for the > German Zope User Group. It is the inspiration for this new project. > > Community feedback and awareness is vitally important for the success > of this initiative, mainly to gather information to be used in the > brochure. We are especially looking for interesting projects that can > be discussed as use-cases. > > If you have any suggestions for information to include in the > brochure, please contact Marc-André Lemburg or send an email to > brochure AT getpython DOT info. > > UPDATE: more information about the brochure, including a newsletter, > can be found here - http://brochure.getpython.info/ > > -- > Vern Ceder > vce...@gmail.com, vce...@dogsinmotion.com > The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
