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These questions and more may or may not be answered properly on this page. In a nutshell, here's a list of things that happen here:
On December 31st, 2000 on the Python Tutor email list we were discussing several perplexing connections between Danny Yoo and Tim Peters, when each of us saw the image of a large black obelisk in the viewing area of our email clients. We were briefly accelerated to superhuman levels of intelligence in order to fully receive the message being subliminally implanted in our minds to lie dormant until the appropriate signal.
But enough of the boring part. I'll skip to the relevant bit. As we returned to our normal lives and previous intelligence levels, one guy was a little lagged behind because he was playing Quake III Arena during the entire mystical encounter. So he had superhuman intelligence for a few moments longer and babbled thusly:
"should we be making our individual python project's code available to each other? There must be quite a few scripts in various stages of completion spread throughout the tutor subscribers. As a newbie (to programming as well as python), I would normally be embarrassed about releasing my hideously amateurish code, though I would have no problems sharing it with other list members. Ugly as my code may be, some of it has actually proven to be useful, so surely others here have written useful stuff as well. Making projects available to each other would give those without a project something to get into, and who knows, some stuff might get developed to the point of public release. What do you think? Sorry to sound like an open source evangelist........... "
Here's the link to this historic moment in the Tutor Archives: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2000-December/002885.html
The site changes in apearance so much because Rob, the guy who maintains it, gets creative whenever things don't go quite as planned with women in his life. This is often as frequent as a couple of times a week. The better it looks, the thicker the smoke where he crashed and burned this time. Oh, wait…. That's not true at all. Ah, well, it's already written, so we'll just run with it.
If you've made it through all this madness (hope you had your towel!), and you think you'd like to help out, feel free. Send in anything you think might or might not come in handy for future and current Pythoneers. If you have nothing to offer, but time to kill, you can always look through the Tutor Archives, find good examples of things being explained well, and point it out. (Or better yet, do the editorial work and send that in!)
by Rob Andrews