("Forum" used below to mean any technical solution for people to ask &
answer questions)Nicholas jumped in before I could ask him what the status of the pyedu.io initiative is. My own belief is that, for such a forum [using whatever technical solution] to be valuable or even viable, it should have a certain "official" backing. And it needs to have a certain quorum of support from a core team of developers and educators. Entirely unsurprisingly, this has come up at every year's Teacher track at PyCon UK. I would be delighted if this year it comes about. And I'd be more than happy to advertise and support it in any way I can. But it risks becoming a graveyard of one-off posts or "Is anybody there...?" if it doesn't have at least enough people to give some kind of answer. I speak as someone who's a moderator or list owner on nearly a dozen python.org properties, including python-list, python-win32, webmaster@ and planet@. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it does need two groups of people (who might well overlap). A group which can "manage" the forum, in whatever way it requires: moderating posts, confirming accounts, dealing with administrivia. And a pool of people which is big enough that any question can be addressed, even if by a polite brush-off or a redirect to some more suitable resource, within a reasonable space of time. That "big enough" doesn't actually have to be very big. This latter group should arise naturally from the community of people which such a forum builds up. And I'm not suggesting that any more formal process is necessary. However, if *everyone* involved in the forum is a drive-by questioneer, then more questions will be asked than answered and the forum will be significantly less useful. I have no idea if this is the kind of thing planned for the Python-in-Education site, but I personally think that having that badge of "approval" from the PSF would help people coalesce around the "official" forum rather than scatter in a dozen different directions. However, I haven't been on any of the Cas forums which may be where many teachers look or start. TJG On 20/09/2016 10:43, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > The Python Software Foundation is in the process of setting up a > pythonineducation.org website (or pyedu.io). > > Perhaps a Slack channel would be an appropriate solution for this forum? > > N. > > On 20/09/16 09:16, Leo Huckvale wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I >> and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested >> building a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to >> interact. The main aims of this would be to provide somewhere: >> >> - where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any* >> level, without fear, and preferably at short notice) >> - to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year >> - to build a community around teaching Python in schools >> >> It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF >> mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education >> site there. >> >> One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get >> a few developers and educators on board and see how it goes. >> >> Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar >> projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer! >> >> Best regards, >> Leo Huckvale >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
