From reneey at gmail.com Tue Nov 11 18:37:51 2014 From: reneey at gmail.com (Renee Yang) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:37:51 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Software Developer at Lucasfilm (SF) Message-ID: Hi all, I work at Lucasfilm as a software developer in the Information Systems group, and we are looking for someone to join our team. The details of the position are here: https://www.lucasfilm.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=6017&CurrentPage=1 I have been working at Lucasfilm for eight years, so if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Renee From peter at farrellpolymath.com Sat Nov 15 21:37:15 2014 From: peter at farrellpolymath.com (Peter Farrell) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:37:15 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Python Outreach Message-ID: Hello, fellow BayPiggies! I saw many of you when I spoke at an event last December on learning math and science using Python. This video of Jessica McKellar speaking about the future of Python reminded me of the importance of getting the word out there about Python. I'd love to hear from anybody who's involved in an outreach program: getting Python into schools in the area (or out of the area). If anybody knows of teachers wanting to be able to use Python in their math and science courses, I'd be excited to get involved! I have a half dozen or so laptops loaded with Python I can bring to a school (I know how wary they are of installing stuff on their computers) for some hands-on Python projects! I hold introductory Python programming classes on the Peninsula and I post videos of my STEAM-Python explorations on my YouTube channel for you to check out. Hope to hear from you soon! Peter Farrell www.farrellpolymath.com 650-430-6292 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scottrobertgarrison at gmail.com Tue Nov 18 22:32:37 2014 From: scottrobertgarrison at gmail.com (Scott Garrison) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:32:37 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Baypiggies Digest, Vol 109, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Peter, I work at AltSchool, a private K-8 school in SF, as as a backend engineer. We use Python for our Django backend and EmberJS for much of the front end. As of now our teachers use Scratch and a few other programs to introduce programming to the students. I haven't heard of any python being utilized, although I've suggested iPython Notebook to many in our research team and received quite a bit of enthusiasm. I'll forward your information, but please get back to me with more information about what you'd like to do. We are building an "expert network" for mentors and guest lecturers to enrich our classrooms. Also, for anyone looking for employment, please contact me, or check out AltSchool.com, as we are currently looking for more talented developers. We are currently building tools for the teachers, our operations team along with a variety of hardware (wearables and audio-video) for research purposes. As an engineer here, I've never been wanting for encouragement, interesting and difficult work or a sense of worth. All of the problems that we are working on have immediate implications for the teachers, students or parents involved with the school so there is a sense of accomplishment that isn't always available in other start ups. Cheers, Scott Garrison (longtime baypiggies lurker) On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:00 AM, wrote: > Send Baypiggies mailing list submissions to > baypiggies at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > baypiggies-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > baypiggies-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Baypiggies digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Python Outreach (Peter Farrell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:37:15 -0800 > From: Peter Farrell > To: baypiggies at python.org > Subject: [Baypiggies] Python Outreach > Message-ID: > < > CAGmhprQKew9obHCFniUReXxOaFR+PtQu4txdny2d5g+tJ37dgQ at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, fellow BayPiggies! > > I saw many of you when I spoke at an event last December on learning math > and science using Python. > > This video of Jessica McKellar speaking > about > the future of Python reminded me of the importance of getting the word out > there about Python. I'd love to hear from anybody who's involved in an > outreach program: getting Python into schools in the area (or out of the > area). > > If anybody knows of teachers wanting to be able to use Python in their math > and science courses, I'd be excited to get involved! 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URL: From raul at wello.com Wed Nov 19 23:10:49 2014 From: raul at wello.com (Raul Velez) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:10:49 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Posting for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python) Message-ID: *Wello Senior Software Engineer* Wello is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for designing beautiful web applications and an interest in health and wellness technology. You will have an unprecedented say in shaping our product as an early member of the team. If you are someone that loves to build software, architect and work in small teams, we?d love to tell you more about the opportunity. WHAT IS WELLO Wello makes it easier to get fit and stay healthy by taking what?s proven to work ? meeting with experts ? and combining it with emerging video technology. Wello delivers live personal and group training over two-way video to clients across the country and around the world. Wello was acquired in 2014 by the world?s leading weight management company, Weight Watchers International. In addition to supporting the core Weight Watchers brand and products, Wello is continuing to offer and build its live training product through Wello.com. Wello operates from its San Francisco headquarters. WHAT MAKES WELLO SPECIAL We are a small team of incredibly passionate people looking to make the world healthier. We launched publicly in July 2012 and have a product that people LOVE. We operate as an agile start-up in San Francisco (in SOMA) with the added benefit of an international brand behind us. RESPONSIBILITIES ? Develop new features end-to-end with the help of the product and design teams ? Be a champion of open source and development best practices ? Be a generalist and shape the company and its engineering culture here in SF ? Mentor junior engineers in the team ? Write elegant code that is production ready while not letting perfect be the enemy of good QUALIFICATIONS ? A passion for building intuitive software that delights users ? 5+ years of prior experience building consumer software using ? JS/Python/Ruby and MySQL/PostGreSQL ? Practical knowledge of building scalable web applications ? Undergraduate or Graduate degree in engineering preferred NICE TO HAVES ? General knowledge of Django ? Knowledge of a good A/B testing framework LEADERSHIP TEAM Ann Scott Plante, Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, worked at Bain & Company. BA Dartmouth, MBA Stanford. Leslie Silverglide, Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, previously founded and sold Mixt Greens. BA Johns Hopkins, MSc Oxford, MBA Stanford. Amol Kher, Chief Technology Officer, led teams at Netflix, Google and Microsoft. 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Details follow: Date: *Friday, December 5* Time: *6:30PM to 9:00PM* Location: *1125 Jackson Street, Albany, CA (directly off the Buchanan freeway ramp)* Sponsor: *YAKiToMe.com* (a development-stage web2py-based TTS app) Cost: *Free* RSVP: *please RSVP by replying inline to this post* Parking: Plentiful free parking is readily available directly in front of the meeting room *Agenda: *We'll have an informal mixer from 6:30PM to 7:00PM, with refreshments (like pizza and drinks). Then, a 1 hour talk by Massimo and hopefully two 20-minute volunteered talks. *Call for Talks*: Please volunteer to give a talk. Or a 5 minute lightning pitch for your web2py app or cool web2py trick. Please let me know privately or via a posting here. *Equipment Needs: *We will need a digital projector that can plug into a laptop. If you are coming and can lend a working projector for the night, please let me know as it would be much appreciated. Otherwise, I will have to rent one. If you are giving a presentation, please plan on bringing your own laptop. I will have a Windows laptop available just in case. *Spread The Word*. If you belong to the python user's group in San Francisco or elsewhere in the Bay Area or are a member of a Django, Drupal, Ruby or other web framework user's group, please help spread the word about this meetup. This posting will be the official organizing document for the meetup, so post your questions and comments here. Thanks, and hope to meet a bunch of web2py'ers on December 5! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard at yakitome.com Wed Nov 26 01:18:14 2014 From: richard at yakitome.com (Richard Gordon) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:18:14 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Update - Meetup Friday 12/5 @ 6:30PM - 9:00PM in East Bay, Albany Message-ID: <54751C46.5080806@yakitome.com> Hi Bay Area Piggies: Web2py is a powerful, python web development framework that, unlike Ruby and Django, do not require learning additional languages other than python and the usual suspects: html, css, and javascript. This reduction in languages makes for rapid development and prototyping. Web2py has received web awards, has a thriving community, is well documented, and I vouch for it (for whatever that's worth). Anyway, I am hosting the original founder of web2py, Massimo Di Pierro to meet, greet and presentthe latest info on web2py. There will be two other talks: - Dexter Hadley, Md/PhD from Stanford University Division of Systems Medicine Department of Pediatrics on using web2py to crowd source disease signatures from open funcitonal genomics data. - Richard Gordon, MSEE Stanford University and Super YAK at YAKiToMe! on building YAKiToMe.com with Web2py. Both these technical talks will cover some history and experience with what works and possibly what could be improved in web2py. Details follow: Date:*Friday, December 5* Time:*6:30PM to 9:00PM* Location:*1125 Jackson Street, Albany, CA (directly off the Buchanan freeway ramp)* Sponsor:*YAKiToMe.com* (a development-stage web2py-based TTS app) Cost:*Free* RSVP:*please RSVP by replying inline to this post at the web2py Google group * Parking: Plentiful free parking is readily available directly in front of the meeting room *Agenda: *We'll have an informal mixer from 6:30PM to 7:00PM, with pizza. Then, talks until 9:00PM. PLEASE RSVP! *Spread The Word*. If you belong to the python user's group in San Francisco or elsewhere in the Bay Area or are a member of a Django, Drupal, Ruby or other web framework user's group, please help spread the word about this meetup. This posting will be the official organizing document for the meetup, so post your questions and comments here. Thanks, and hope to meet a bunch of web2py'ers on December 5! -- *Richard Gordon* Super YAK /YAKiToMe! Voice of the web.^(TM)/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: