Fwd: Greetings re Python.org Community
kirby urner
There's been subsequent message traffic and an uptick in visits to
Martian Math / Wikieducator as a result.
Kirby
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Greetings re Python.org Community
To: jon.bi...@openstudy.com
> From: Jon Birdsong
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:31:43 -0500
> Subject: OpenStudy Introduction to Python.org Community
> To: webm...@python.org
>
> 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)