[Edu-sig] PSF Brochure - call for submissions

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:36, Vern Ceder <vceder at 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
> vceder at gmail.com, vceder at dogsinmotion.com
> The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
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