From brian at startupinstitute.com  Tue Apr  2 18:54:33 2013
From: brian at startupinstitute.com (Brian Dant)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:54:33 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Hellooooooo
Message-ID: <CANScVUdW3Zw5qX4-QkmmLwwjAC8HoGxi8hkiQFjHVrHBsMrfXg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Fellow Group Organizers,

I'm writing just to say "hi". ;)  I'm from Boston, and can usually be found
hanging at the Boston Python User group and the Django Boston group.

I'm subscribing here b/c I'm a co-organizer of Code Mentors
Boston<http://www.meetup.com/Code-Mentors-Boston/>,
and I'd like to soak up your wisdom.  Our group is technically language
agnostic, but I just say that to reel them in, then we corral them in to
Python.

If it's not ok to be a part of this group unless we're pure Python, please
let me know.

Best,
BD
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From rivera at joel.mx  Mon Apr  8 23:20:13 2013
From: rivera at joel.mx (Joel Rivera)
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:20:13 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites
Message-ID: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>

Hi everyone,

I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website
for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I
do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you
are going to reach sponsors.

I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from
Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of
their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there
was a mention to another group that already does that.

Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated.

Regards.
-- 
Rivera?


From juan.gomez at ieee.org  Tue Apr  9 03:58:27 2013
From: juan.gomez at ieee.org (Juan Gomez)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:58:27 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites
In-Reply-To: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
Message-ID: <8A89ECB3-2F62-4E04-AD0C-91F537F48156@ieee.org>

Hey Joel,

I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website.

You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/

and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com

We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider.

Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have.

Cheers,

- Juan 


On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera <rivera at joel.mx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website
> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I
> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you
> are going to reach sponsors.
> 
> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from
> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of
> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there
> was a mention to another group that already does that.
> 
> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards.
> -- 
> Rivera?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Group-Organizers mailing list
> Group-Organizers at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers

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From juan_gomez at me.com  Tue Apr  9 03:57:29 2013
From: juan_gomez at me.com (Juan Gomez)
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:57:29 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites
In-Reply-To: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
Message-ID: <DBC23A9B-DA74-40DE-AD05-EDFC71D1348F@me.com>

Hey Joel,

I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website.

You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/

and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com

We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider.

Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have.

Cheers,

- Juan 


 
On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera <rivera at joel.mx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website
> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I
> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you
> are going to reach sponsors.
> 
> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from
> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of
> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there
> was a mention to another group that already does that.
> 
> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards.
> -- 
> Rivera?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Group-Organizers mailing list
> Group-Organizers at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers

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From deb at eximiousproductions.com  Tue Apr  9 21:39:30 2013
From: deb at eximiousproductions.com (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:39:30 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Hellooooooo
In-Reply-To: <CANScVUdW3Zw5qX4-QkmmLwwjAC8HoGxi8hkiQFjHVrHBsMrfXg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANScVUdW3Zw5qX4-QkmmLwwjAC8HoGxi8hkiQFjHVrHBsMrfXg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAE3dWx8My2nM+O-dhJaAOXiNcSw8RGBX7X_=uPmHKDk7nLvSfQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bryan,
Thanks for introducing yourself! Our group welcomes everyone from python
experts
to folks who are just checking out the language. We are also happy to share
any of our python learning resources/expertise. For instance, all of the
stuff here is licensed for reuse, http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/

I've seen the weekly practices you're running on meetup and would have
already swung by if I didn't have a standing Tuesday committment. I hope
those are going well!
Cheers,
Deb


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Brian Dant <brian at startupinstitute.com>wrote:

> Hello Fellow Group Organizers,
>
> I'm writing just to say "hi". ;)  I'm from Boston, and can usually be found
> hanging at the Boston Python User group and the Django Boston group.
>
> I'm subscribing here b/c I'm a co-organizer of Code Mentors
> Boston<http://www.meetup.com/Code-Mentors-Boston/>,
> and I'd like to soak up your wisdom.  Our group is technically language
> agnostic, but I just say that to reel them in, then we corral them in to
> Python.
>
> If it's not ok to be a part of this group unless we're pure Python, please
> let me know.
>
> Best,
> BD
> *--------*
> *Brian Dant || Web Developer || Startup Institute ||
> @briandant<http://www.twitter.com/briandant>|
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>
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From ryan.freckleton at gmail.com  Wed Apr 10 05:05:20 2013
From: ryan.freckleton at gmail.com (Ryan Freckleton)
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:05:20 -0600
Subject: [group-organizers] Watch PyCon videos?
In-Reply-To: <CAE3dWx8WcbtJPBCKyeJANRMEFSLBW4H-6f9MTHmi59yStWp0VA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5155FD2D.70709@nedbatchelder.com>
	<CAGCtaoPHi4iNeWDht+5j-sk9JW-7LWvOb=Y6drLFzCL0Hn--hQ@mail.gmail.com>
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We just did this at PySprings. We had an initial live presentation on
SQLAlchemy and then watched the "Good Enough Is Good Enough" presentation
afterwards.

It generated a lot of good discussion, we had a few new people that got
engaged, so I was really happy about that. At the end, people gave 5/5
points for the value of the meeting.

=====
--Ryan E. Freckleton


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Deb Nicholson
<deb at eximiousproductions.com>wrote:

> Maybe it would make the most sense to group the videos around a loose
> theme, like web programming or big data and then include a couple of
> relevant lightning talks?
>
> Comfy chairs and popcorn (maybe beer too) would also be a plus.
> Cheers,
> Deb
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Catherine Devlin
> <catherine.devlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We've done this a couple times at the Dayton Dynamic Languages meeting,
> > where it's perfect because it's a very small but chatty group.  A single
> > 30-min video takes us about two hours since we're constantly stopping the
> > video, saying, "Wait, what?", explaining things to one another, and
> trying
> > things out.  If you can get that dynamic going, it's much more valuable
> > than just watching videos alone.
> >
> > Good reminder, we should really do this more.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I always have a problem post-PyCon, which is that I mean to watch videos
> >> of talks I didn't see, but then I don't watch them.  Has anyone tried
> >> running an event that consists just of watching PyCon videos together?
>  A
> >> poll beforehand could select the videos to screen, then put the video on
> >> the big screen, watch together, and have a q+a/discussion afterward.
> Does
> >> this work?  Is it weird to watch a talk on video in person?
> >>
> >> --Ned.
> >> ______________________________**_________________
> >> Group-Organizers mailing list
> >> Group-Organizers at python.org
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers>
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> >
> >
> > --
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From jorge.vargas at gmail.com  Wed Apr 17 08:21:46 2013
From: jorge.vargas at gmail.com (Jorge Vargas)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:21:46 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Introducing PythonDominicana
Message-ID: <CAOsApWMMqF5QrE6d5HqsPEe5KT4Ut2sQtbw-N_tab5=Nk8kZyw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

I'll like to tell you a bit about what we have been doing so far in the
Dominican Republic.

The usergroup has been around since late last year. Our first event was
sept 25. And so far we have been meeting every two weeks, with the
exception of xmas break. For a total of 14 sessions. Right now we have
about 20 regulars and another 20 that go depending on the subject and we
are looking for ways to expand and have a bigger reach.

Every talk we have had has been documented and are stored in the "events"
section of our G+ page bit.ly/PythonDominicana were we have over 150
followers we also launched python.do which is our community website back in
January. We recently started a facebook group (due to popular demand)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pythondo/, we have a twitter account but
that isn't used much https://twitter.com/pythondominican we also have
several videos up at http://www.youtube.com/user/pythondominicana

and it think's that's about it.
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Wed Apr 17 13:17:28 2013
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:17:28 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites
In-Reply-To: <DBC23A9B-DA74-40DE-AD05-EDFC71D1348F@me.com>
References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
	<DBC23A9B-DA74-40DE-AD05-EDFC71D1348F@me.com>
Message-ID: <516E84C8.4090309@nedbatchelder.com>

Joel, thanks for sharing this, I hadn't seen it before.  A custom site 
that defers to meetup.com for most of the machinery is a really nice 
compromise.  Are other people using this code?  Are you considering 
generalizing it so multiple groups can share the code without forking?

--Ned.

On 4/8/2013 9:57 PM, Juan Gomez wrote:
> Hey Joel,
>
> I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website.
>
> You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/
>
> and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com
>
> We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider.
>
> Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Juan
>
>
>   
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera <rivera at joel.mx> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website
>> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I
>> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you
>> are going to reach sponsors.
>>
>> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from
>> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of
>> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there
>> was a mention to another group that already does that.
>>
>> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards.
>> -- 
>> Rivera?
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Group-Organizers mailing list
>> Group-Organizers at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Wed Apr 17 13:21:46 2013
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:21:46 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Code for PUG websites
In-Reply-To: <DBC23A9B-DA74-40DE-AD05-EDFC71D1348F@me.com>
References: <1365456013.1173.35.camel@magnum.mitas>
	<DBC23A9B-DA74-40DE-AD05-EDFC71D1348F@me.com>
Message-ID: <516E85CA.2040204@nedbatchelder.com>

Joel, BTW, I also noticed on the map on your home page, there's a spot 
labeled, "Sprint Center," and for a moment I thought, "Wow, they have a 
place just to do sprints!"  :)

--Ned.

On 4/8/2013 9:57 PM, Juan Gomez wrote:
> Hey Joel,
>
> I'm Juan from Kansas City and you're right that we do use the meetup API to pull information from meetup.com and display it in our website.
>
> You can take a look at our website here: http://pythonkc.com/
>
> and the source code for the website is here: https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc.com
>
> We host the website on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) so there's some Gondor specific stuff in the code, but you can modify it to re-use it on any hosting provider.
>
> Hope this help and I'd be glad to answer any other questions you might have.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Juan
>
>
>   
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Joel Rivera <rivera at joel.mx> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm from Python Monterrey, Mexico and I'm thinking on building a website
>> for the group (pymty.org), currently we use meetup/google groups, but I
>> do think that a website gives a better impression in particular if you
>> are going to reach sponsors.
>>
>> I was at the BOF on the PyCon 2013 and I remember that some guys from
>> Kansas mention that they were looking to integrate/share the code of
>> their website (for what I see they integrate the meetup apis) and there
>> was a mention to another group that already does that.
>>
>> Any information related to the subject will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards.
>> -- 
>> Rivera?
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Group-Organizers mailing list
>> Group-Organizers at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
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From jessica.mckellar at gmail.com  Mon Apr 22 04:12:59 2013
From: jessica.mckellar at gmail.com (Jessica McKellar)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:12:59 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Introducing PythonDominicana
In-Reply-To: <CAOsApWMMqF5QrE6d5HqsPEe5KT4Ut2sQtbw-N_tab5=Nk8kZyw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOsApWMMqF5QrE6d5HqsPEe5KT4Ut2sQtbw-N_tab5=Nk8kZyw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKDZRcjwSBJ_25hru7nuREtRuqskRju2vTBcDfjp09VhLhZn+A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jorge,

> I'll like to tell you a bit about what we have been doing so far in the
> Dominican Republic.

Thanks for the summary, and congratulations on your growth!

If there's anything the PSF can do to help support PythonDominicana,
please don't hesitate to reach out. This includes:

* Sprint funding, through http://pythonsprints.com/

* Funding for introductory workshops and diversity outreach
initiatives, through
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education

Also, it looks like you've got all the infrastructure you need, but
for what it's worth the PSF can cover meetup.com fees for user groups:

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/03/user-groups-psf-can-help-cover-your.html

(You can also submit a general grant request for your hosting costs if
you're not using Meetup: http://www.python.org/psf/grants/)

Regards,
-Jessica

From jorge.vargas at gmail.com  Mon Apr 29 10:40:45 2013
From: jorge.vargas at gmail.com (Jorge Vargas)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:40:45 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Introducing PythonDominicana
In-Reply-To: <CAKDZRcjwSBJ_25hru7nuREtRuqskRju2vTBcDfjp09VhLhZn+A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOsApWMMqF5QrE6d5HqsPEe5KT4Ut2sQtbw-N_tab5=Nk8kZyw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKDZRcjwSBJ_25hru7nuREtRuqskRju2vTBcDfjp09VhLhZn+A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOsApWNk2mAdLjxbrLiGp77yKz+TLJeo6P=PDseH74tyOC2D-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Jessica,

Thank for your answer and support.
I think we are ok in funding.
However we do plan to request a grant of some sort to travel to some towns
in the country were people have requested talks from our part.
As for meetup.com we have discussed the possibility and that's a tool that
is used very little here in Dominican Republic. However we do plan to add
that in the future.

We'll make a formal request when we think it's necessary, regards.


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Jessica McKellar <
jessica.mckellar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
>
> > I'll like to tell you a bit about what we have been doing so far in the
> > Dominican Republic.
>
> Thanks for the summary, and congratulations on your growth!
>
> If there's anything the PSF can do to help support PythonDominicana,
> please don't hesitate to reach out. This includes:
>
> * Sprint funding, through http://pythonsprints.com/
>
> * Funding for introductory workshops and diversity outreach
> initiatives, through
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education
>
> Also, it looks like you've got all the infrastructure you need, but
> for what it's worth the PSF can cover meetup.com fees for user groups:
>
>
> http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/03/user-groups-psf-can-help-cover-your.html
>
> (You can also submit a general grant request for your hosting costs if
> you're not using Meetup: http://www.python.org/psf/grants/)
>
> Regards,
> -Jessica
>
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