On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Kushal Das <m...@kushaldas.in> wrote:
> On 05/08/17, vijay kumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > As we discussed couple of months ago[0], PythonExpress project requires > > funding to take care of certain things. > > > > a) Keeping the tutor motivated and encouraged to conduct multiple > workshops > > seems to be tough. Even though we take care of travel and accommodation > > with or without the help of colleges, we find short of tutors some times. > > IMO, we should provide a small token amount to tutors to show > appreciation. > > > > This is generally a good idea. But, it also depends on the number of > requests, amount, and total funding available. > > Presently we have 0 fund but PSSI members had few times show interest to support in short run.(Need to confirm again) For Long run, we need to plan for fund raising plan.(PSF, attendeee, colleges , corporates) > > b) we should think of an option to provide college students certificates > as > > a workshop without certificates is not welcomed as much by all colleges > and > > students. > > I think that this can be resolved in 2 ways. > > 1. Request college to pay us if they need certificates - hard copy. > > 2. Generate soft copies of certificate (PDF) and share it with students > > once college uploads the student details. > > Giving out certificates is a double edged sword. One way, it will get us > a lot more participations in the initial round of workshops in the > colleges every year. In the other way, that certification will not have > any value for job or for any company. It will at max prove that student > was in a place for few hours (or that can also be manipulated by the > person entering data from the college). > Yes but we should give try to see if giving certificate is helping. > > > > > > Also, > > c) Conducting Intermediate level workshop for the students who has taken > > the the beginners level since we are not able to find tutors. > > This is a good idea. Otherwise we will have a lot of people who knows > the syntax of the language, and used it for a few hours in their life > time. > > > > Btw, is there any update on the syllabus work for the workshops? > > we haven't got much success on content creation. Any contrubutor can help us with send PR for this project. https://github.com/pythonindia/wye-tutorials > Kushal > -- > Fedora Cloud Engineer > CPython Core Developer > https://kushaldas.in > https://dgplug.org > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Thanks, Vijay _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
