I'm very glad I was able to attend Python Ireland's March talks meet-up last night, it's the first time (at last!) that I got to hear the Python chaps presenting, some very interesting stuff. Apparently they're doing a "return to the sources" with more introductory talks, after some time of …

I went through my 2nd Python teaching session today, with the same students than last time. Some improvements and still, so-so-so many things to improve. Teaching is something I really want to get better at so I'm really motivated to debug my process.

Having prepared more exercises to hand out …

I went to Limerick this week-end to attend the SkyNet/Ubuntu talks. It was good fun, I enjoy so much walking around UL campus and corridors, basking in old memories of when I was just settling in Ireland and was learning so much, all the time :)

The first talk was …

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This blog post by a teacher who's migrating his school IT system to an open-source infrastructure just came up on the Ubuntu-ie mailing list. It's happening in Northern Ireland but still goes on the list of "Irish schools using open-source" :)

That's really cool. The comments promise a follow-up post, I …