FYI, making contact with OpenStudy. There's been subsequent message traffic and an uptick in visits to Martian Math / Wikieducator as a result.
Kirby ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kirby urner <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM Subject: Greetings re Python.org Community To: [email protected] > From: Jon Birdsong > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:31:43 -0500 > Subject: OpenStudy Introduction to Python.org Community > To: [email protected] > > Hi Webmaster, > > My name is Jon Birdsong and I am writing you from the educational startup > OpenStudy. At OpenStudy, our goal is to make the world one big study group. > To do this, we have partnered with many open content and Open Course Ware > programs, including MIT (http://bit.ly/ajYjrd). We are reaching out > to python.org to see if you all would be interested in learning more about us > and how we could benefit the python.org community for free. > > Another reason for the email is the growing community of python learners on > our site already. Our MIT OCW Intro to Comp Sci 6.0 Study Group has over 4500 > students asking questions, doing problem sets together, and learning the > language. > > I look forward to hopefully hearing from one of the members of the Python.org > community. > > Best, > Jon Birdsong > > P.s. If you want learn more about us, you can view the coverage we received > from CNN or Read Write Web. > Greetings Jon -- I'm one of the many PSF members who engages in Python mentoring. I'm sure there are a great many ways the OpenStudy group might interleave with "Python Nation" (I call it that because we have a government of sorts). Likely the 4500 have some overlap with edu-sig, our Python in education cite w/ discussion list. My own focus is called Martian Math and is an Open Education Resource (OER) on Wikieducator, which might be construed as a "competitor" to MIT's OCW, but what would that even mean? Kirby Urner Portland, Oregon Institute for Science, Engineering & Public Policy (isepp.org) 4dsolutions.net Holden Web (Portland) Python Software Foundation (2009) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
