Re: PyKhmer re-introduction

[Sitthykun LY]

Hi Vireax,

We never forget your name and your face.

Friday last week, I created schedule python class in Meetup.com.

As you mention about the name of a team is not important(whatever) it just show up a trademark.

I agree with your viewpoints
It's time to sleep, I will continue discussion by tomorrow.

Cheer!!

Sitthykun

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Vireax <vir...@ximplex.info> wrote:

Hi,

My name is Vireax in case you have forgotten. I came to Thailand in
March 2012. I'm now at the highest stress level of my research,
hopefully, my final defense will be in next 3 months. I won't be back
until December 2014 because Betagro contracted me for 8 months
training in LopBuri before I can move to their production plant in
Phnom Penh.

I checked pykhmer.info yesterday, restructured the site, and added 3
more core pages as milestones for people who need to act on something.

For Sitthykun, I found your discussion in mailing list last October
about buying new domain. It is fine for me, but I want to make sure
that every member has full commitment. In case building a new site can
proceed, I'll maintain .info as a backup plan as previously from .org
domain and write documentation there.

For everyone, I have never been and will never be a software
developer. My main field in mechanical engineering is already hard
enough. However, I see Python can be introduced to beginners easily
and it is beautiful to engineers and researchers with rigid and open
source supports comparatively to commercial software such as Matlab or
Mathematica. So, I can only contribute to Python by translating
documentation and guiding some of my school exercises. I'll leave PR
and training to people who are more comfortable with the task.

The problem was PyKhmer is just a name. It is really difficult to
promote something without a baseline, metaphorically to marketing
people and lawyers who make their living without mining facilities or
manufacturing plants. The site and the team were frozen except nobody
announced it. I know countless stories of teams who rise and fall but
I'm not ready to accept the failure of this project.

My solution, in short, I speak fairly English and Python, I'll take
the responsibility to translate documentation for beginners while also
practicing the language itself. I do need everyone to help me
translate and review. I put the source at Github so that we can work
in team. I'm preparing "A Byte of Python" and "The Python Tutorial",
most CS's terms are difficult to translate to Khmer and I simply hate
transliteration. It will be tedious and never exciting but this is my
baseline before promoting the brand.

Your solution, please help expand the site. I don't have a clear time
frame yet, but for the time being, the first step is to list gentle
introduction to Python for beginners, the second step is to let people
involve in QA - mainly around Python programming language, the third
step is to let them explain correctly to us and to other people, and
then, let's start some projects together. I added todo-list at the end
of each page. Please expand something at your own site(s), in blog
post section, in sub-pages, and link to them from the main page. I
expect the site to be minimal for easy navigation for every reader.
So, the main section are 1) PyKhmer and so on, 2) Tutorial,  3)
Documentation,  4) Projects,  5) Forum and 6) Blog post. From this
outline, everyone should have clear picture of the site structure.

I usually don't talk much. I usually can't write long essay except for
my thesis. I hope this email can explain everyone enough my commitment
with the team.

Best regards,

Vireax

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