I would second the call for Python. This reminds me of the HacKid conference which I was trying to get here in Utah a couple years ago: http://hackid.org
On 03 Apr 2012, at 20:15, Brian J. Rogers wrote: > Good point, I completely forgot about Python. > > When I sent the email to the ruby group, I let them know that because I > don't think I'd be able to head this up, I'd be willing to make calls > and see if we could get sponsors for space (physical and server) and > also to schools to get kids to come. > > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 20:09 -0600, Merrill Oveson wrote: >> Why not teach python? >> >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Brian J. Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So I saw a tweet from someone plugging CoderDojo.com >>> >>> It is basically a regularly scheduled workshop aimed at kids and >>> teaching them how to program, and from what I see it is geared to fill >>> in the gap left by public school's lack of programming options. While I >>> may not be able to regularly help on this, I think it would be great and >>> I would make an effort into helping. I'm even willing to work with the >>> Utah Ruby group and join forces so we can give kids an option or even >>> being able to do both. >>> >>> I think it would be really cool to get this going, as it seems that this >>> whole project is rather new. What do you guys think? >>> >>> -- >>> Brian J. Rogers >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> UPHPU mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
