On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > ^_^
Well, it's not my list - I'm just publicizing the call for content as a favor. Please pass along any suggestions to those concerned. But I would *assume* that Sugar might be a candidate... Vern > >> 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/ > -- 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
