Thonny, an educational Python IDE needs a sponsor

[Aivar Annamaa <aivar.annamaa@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I am teaching assistant in University of Tartu, Estonia. Over last few 
years I've developed a nice tool for teaching programming to the 
beginners -- Thonny IDE (http://thonny.org).

It is growing in popularity (I'm proud that Raspberry Pi education team 
has chosen it to be Raspberry's default Python IDE), but it's not in the 
Debian repository yet.

I've prepared the package (https://mentors.debian.net/package/thonny), 
but I haven't found the sponsor 
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878741).

I'd be really glad if someone from Debian Edu team would sponsor Thonny 
and maybe also gave some feedback about how Thonny would fit better into 
your vision of an educational computing environment.

best regards,
Aivar Annamaa
University of Tartu
Estonia