[Edu-sig] Python Education Summit

[kirby urner]

Off hand, I'm not taking "not hearing from the listowner" as a reason to
change ownership.

Hypothetically, the listowner was appointed by the BDFL sometime in the
murky past.  I long ago accepted life in a benevolent dictatorship.

Kirby



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.lowe at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we aren't hearing from the list owner, I would be happy to take that
> ... If we can get the over arching maillist admins to make that change, I
> am happy to help. (After making a thorough effort to reach out to Wilson
> directly, of course!)
>
> Chalmer
> On Jan 8, 2015 7:15 AM, "kirby urner" <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>> I don't think we've ever heard from listowner Wilson on this list.  We do
>> get good spam filtering I think.
>>
>> I've put in a request to be at the upcoming Pycon but I don't think it's
>> been approved.  I was unable to attend last year.
>>
>> Edu-wise my focus believe or not has been the Python community in
>> Bangalore, actually IT more generally, but women more specifically.
>>
>> Long story on math-teach.  I try not to duplicate too much of what I post.
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Hoping *my* message will make it to the edu-sig list ...
>>>
>>> Please read the important announcement from Chalmer Lowe below.
>>>
>>> @Jeff: any chance you could investigate the mailing list issue and
>>> ownership?   I never did so myself when I was maintaining the edu-sig page
>>> ... and perhaps I should have.
>>>
>>> André
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.lowe at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> SNIP
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have attempted to reach out to the edu-sig on four occasions to
>>>> advertise to them that the Edu Summit was coming.
>>>>
>>>> On two occasions, I sent edu-sig messages to the distro with a full
>>>> rundown on the details, but neither of them made it through. I reached out
>>>> to wilson at visi.com, who is purportedly the owner of the edu-sig
>>>> distro for assistance in late December, but got NO response.
>>>>
>>>> I thought it was potentially due to some sort of spam filtering,
>>>> especially since my posts included links and comments such as 'sign up',
>>>> etc. so over the past several days, I have tried to send very simple test
>>>> messages to the edu-sig mailing list, all to no avail.
>>>>
>>>> I am on the distro and get messages from it, but can't send to it. I
>>>> see that you can send to the distro... so if you would be so kind as to
>>>> assist and wouldn't mind posting the following to the edu-sig distro (at
>>>> least until I get my account problems worked out), I would be most grateful
>>>> for the help...
>>>>
>>>> <start>---------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> For those who wish to go to the Python Education Summit please feel
>>>> free to sign up at the EventBrite Link... There was an error and the
>>>> invite-only caveat is not applicable in years past, so please feel free to
>>>> sign up and tell your friends.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pycon-2015-education-summit-tickets-15029161627
>>>>
>>>> The Pycon Description of the Summit:
>>>> https://us.pycon.org/2015/events/edusummit/
>>>>
>>>> For the current list of proposed talks... see our Google Moderator Site
>>>> http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=211b44
>>>>
>>>> And of course, we are always looking for people willing to help out:
>>>> http://pycon.blogspot.com/2014/12/looking-for-volunteers-pycon-2015.html
>>>> <end>---------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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