[Microbit-Python] Closing down this mailing list

[Damien George]

Thanks must also go to Nicholas for all of his hard work!  He has done a
huge amount of work related to MicroPython on the micro:bit: coding,
design, testing, rallying the troops, building the community, and many
other things.  He was there from the very beginning.  Thank you Nicholas!

And I agree that this mailing list can be closed.  Better to concentrate
the discussion on the other channels.

On 10 April 2018 at 17:12, Nick Sarbicki <nick.a.sarbicki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure what the other slack group is.
>
> But there is a (quite large) python developers slack group which would be
> happy to host a MicroPython community (it already hosts the pipenv
> community).
>
> You can find it here https://pyslackers.com/
>
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, 23:40 Nevil Hunt, <nevil.hunt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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/>
>> 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.
>>
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