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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group pt.comp.lang.python
This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the
unmoderated newsgroup pt.comp.lang.python.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
pt.comp.lang.python Portuguese version of comp.lang.python newsgroup
RATIONALE:
Portuguese is the seventh most spoken language in the world with around 215million native speakers in all continents, and the third most spoken in Europe. Python is taught in most universities from Angola to Brazil, not onlyin Computer Science (CS) courses but mostly in biological sciences (e.g.,biopython is used to teach genome and proteome sequence analysis), earth sciences (python is widely used as a scripting language in open source GIS software), statistics (numpy, pandas), etc. The focus of most courses outside CS is neither on developing programming skills nor on python as a language, resulting in huge deficiencies in python programming, and many questions remain unanswered. This is more so in developing countries such as Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape verde, etc. where the english language is neitherwell spoken nor read. For those reasons, I propose the creation of the pt.comp.lang.python newsgroup, similar to it.comp.lang.python, es.comp.lang.python or de.comp.lang.python.
CHARTER:
The newsgroup pt.comp.lang.python is intended for general discussions and questions about Python with some flexibility for more general programming topics (e.g. software design) all using the Portuguese language.
Posters to this newsgroup are asked to refrain from harrassment, personal
attacks, and disruptive communication. Articles containing binary computer
files including, but not limited to, programs or images, are forbidden. HTML
posts are discouraged.
Users should exercise their best judgement and use consideration for the
copyright laws of their country. If in doubt, ask.
PROCEDURE:
For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup
Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its
final resolution should subscribe to news.groups.proposals and
participate in the relevant threads in that newsgroup. This is both
a courtesy to groups in which discussion of creating a new group is
off-topic as well as the best method of making sure that one's
comments or criticisms are heard.
All discussion of active proposals should be posted to
news.groups.proposals
To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to
news.groups.proposals.
If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the
discussion may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be
taken to ensure that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals
as well.
We urge those who would like to read or post in the proposed
newsgroup to make a comment to that effect in this thread; we ask
proponents to keep a list of such positive posts with the relevant
message ID.
Such lists of positive feedback for the proposal may constitute good
evidence that the group will be well-used if it is created.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.lang.python
PROPONENT:
César Ribeiro <[email protected]>
unmoderated group pt.comp.lang.python
This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the
unmoderated newsgroup pt.comp.lang.python.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
pt.comp.lang.python Portuguese version of comp.lang.python newsgroup
RATIONALE:
Portuguese is the seventh most spoken language in the world with around 215million native speakers in all continents, and the third most spoken in Europe. Python is taught in most universities from Angola to Brazil, not onlyin Computer Science (CS) courses but mostly in biological sciences (e.g.,biopython is used to teach genome and proteome sequence analysis), earth sciences (python is widely used as a scripting language in open source GIS software), statistics (numpy, pandas), etc. The focus of most courses outside CS is neither on developing programming skills nor on python as a language, resulting in huge deficiencies in python programming, and many questions remain unanswered. This is more so in developing countries such as Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape verde, etc. where the english language is neitherwell spoken nor read. For those reasons, I propose the creation of the pt.comp.lang.python newsgroup, similar to it.comp.lang.python, es.comp.lang.python or de.comp.lang.python.
CHARTER:
The newsgroup pt.comp.lang.python is intended for general discussions and questions about Python with some flexibility for more general programming topics (e.g. software design) all using the Portuguese language.
Posters to this newsgroup are asked to refrain from harrassment, personal
attacks, and disruptive communication. Articles containing binary computer
files including, but not limited to, programs or images, are forbidden. HTML
posts are discouraged.
Users should exercise their best judgement and use consideration for the
copyright laws of their country. If in doubt, ask.
PROCEDURE:
For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup
Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its
final resolution should subscribe to news.groups.proposals and
participate in the relevant threads in that newsgroup. This is both
a courtesy to groups in which discussion of creating a new group is
off-topic as well as the best method of making sure that one's
comments or criticisms are heard.
All discussion of active proposals should be posted to
news.groups.proposals
To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to
news.groups.proposals.
If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the
discussion may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be
taken to ensure that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals
as well.
We urge those who would like to read or post in the proposed
newsgroup to make a comment to that effect in this thread; we ask
proponents to keep a list of such positive posts with the relevant
message ID.
Such lists of positive feedback for the proposal may constitute good
evidence that the group will be well-used if it is created.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.lang.python
PROPONENT:
César Ribeiro <[email protected]>