[Microbit-Python] Closing down this mailing list

[Nevil Hunt]

Hi Nicholas,


Yes, I've not posted to it much in the last year but it was really useful when MicroPython for the micro:bit was getting going!

So, thanks for setting it up and thanks for the great work you, Damien, Mark and others put into the project.

Mu is fantastic and I like the look of the new Plotter feature.

I also think the speech synthesiser was an inspired idea. (My micro:bit can still sing thanks to the code you gave me!)


Maybe if WhaleyGeek is listening he could add a MicroPython thread to the Slack Channel instead?



All the best,


Mr Zbit


________________________________
From: Microbit <microbit-bounces+nevil.hunt=hotmail.co.uk at python.org> on behalf of Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
Sent: 09 April 2018 17:50
To: For Pythonic MicroBit related discussions
Subject: [Microbit-Python] Closing down this mailing list

Hi Folks,

I'm sad to say that for quite some time, the only emails sent to this
mailing list are spam (I should know, I get it delivered for appraisal
as the list admin). Since engagement is lacking from "real people" and
unless I hear a *really good reason not to* I'm going to delete this
mailing list at the end of this week -- Friday 13th.. ;-) What's the
worst that could happen..? (Rhetorical question.)

Thank you all for your contributions to MicroPython on the micro:bit -
especially Damien George and Mark Shannon, who have pulled off something
quite amazing by getting so much functionality into such a small device.

If you're looking for active, welcoming and colourful communities who
use MicroPython in an educational context you should check out two places:

* The MicroPython home page (especially the forums):
http://micropython.org/ The awesome PyBoard2 is coming out soon..! They

[http://micropython.org/static/img/Mlogo_138wh.png]<http://micropython.org/>

MicroPython - Python for microcontrollers<http://micropython.org/>
micropython.org
MicroPython. MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.



also have a micro:bit section in the forums.

* The CircuitPython community forming around Adafruit's boards
(CircuitPython is Adafruit's "flavour" of MicroPython):
https://learn.adafruit.com/category/circuitpython or
https://discordapp.com/channels/327254708534116352/327298996332658690
(with around 600 active users chatting online).

I'll be at PyCon in about a month's time in Cleveland. If you're there
too, come find me and say "hi". Two of the keynote speakers at this
year's PyCon are related to micro:bit: Qumisha and I met three years ago
and I smuggled her a bunch of micro:bits for her to use with the kids
who were learning to program in Python at her library (her keynote is
about her work with kids). Josh (who is only 13 years old) is keynoting
the education summit and talking about his amazing EduBlocks project
which provides a blocks based interface to MicroPython on the micro:bit.

Best wishes,

N.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/microbit/attachments/20180409/43d0ee09/attachment.html>