Python in Education - Request for Ideas

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From the latest issue of the "Python Weekly" newsletter:

News

The Python Software Foundation Board Committee for Python in Education wants to hear how the PSF can help members of our community increase the presence of Python in education.

Our first goal is to gather ideas from the community on ways the PSF can fund work to improve Python in education. We want to collect a broad spectrum of ideas and projects at all levels and in all disciplines. After the ideas phase, we will use the ideas provided to guide our request for proposals.

Here’s the full timeline:

• January 23- February 18, 2019: Request for Ideas phase
• February 18 - March 31, 2019: Request for Proposals phase
• April 1-17, 2019: Review process
• April 18, 2019: Notify the accepted proposals
• June-August of 2019: Accepted proposal work begins

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/01/python-in-education-request-for-ideas.html

Are there any substantial ideas we could submit to the PSF for making PythonTurtle better in order to help spreading Python in education?

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This weekend is the last chance to submit a proposal. An accepted proposal could ensure financing for some serious development.

@cool-RR If you have an idea and are willing to drive this forward in case it gets accepted let me know and we'll grab the chance!

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Candidates, unless you have better ideas, may be #107, #102, #85. Also #93 and #90. There's also #65 that may be related to #102.

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Submission date has been deferred. From the updated blog post:

Here is the revised timeline:

April 4 - May 9: Request for Proposals phase
May 10 - May 31: Review process
June 1: Notify the accepted proposals
June-August of 2019: Accepted proposal work begins

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Bad news: Our submission was rejected.

Hi Ram -

We appreciated your patience as our group reviewed all the proposals we received.

At this time, the PSF Python in Education committee is not able to fund your proposal for PythonTurtle. We have limited resources and received several proposals so only a few were selected for the board to review. However, we would like to consider your request in the future when we do this process again.

Thank you,

I'm interested which proposals made it. Hopefully we'll see that transparently posted on http://pyfound.blogspot.com/ 🤞