From brianhray at gmail.com  Sun Apr 12 23:01:26 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:01:26 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
Message-ID: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>

I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
happen.

If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
haven't already.

I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.

Warm Regards, Brian

-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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From travis at domain51.com  Mon Apr 13 23:55:32 2015
From: travis at domain51.com (Travis Swicegood)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:55:32 +0000
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Well, I'll go first I guess.

I got onto this list because of my involvement in the Austin Python
community.  There are two meetups, APUG and AWPUG.  One focuses general
Python (with a slight tendency toward scientific computing) and the other
is web-specific.  I'm no longer involved in the day-to-day of either group
as I'm no longer in Austin, but do participate from afar on occasion.

I'm currently in SoCal and still in the process of figuring out the Python
community here.  The size of Los Angeles makes it a lot harder to have as
cohesive of a community, or at least that's my diagnosis.  That said, there
are smaller pockets that are doing really cool stuff!



On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From eric at intellovations.com  Tue Apr 14 00:58:38 2015
From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:58:38 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi! I'm Eric Floehr, founder of the Central Ohio Python Users Group and
past three-time chair of PyOhio. I look forward to meeting everyone here
and learning and sharing our experiences!

Cheers,

Eric
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From mail at honzajavorek.cz  Mon Apr 13 09:14:42 2015
From: mail at honzajavorek.cz (Honza Javorek)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:14:42 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi, thanks for adding me. I planned to somehow add myself to this list, but
never actually got to do it.

I am Honza Javorek, three years ago I founded Pyvo, Python User Group in
Brno (Czech Republic) and helped to bootstrap another one in Ostrava (Czech
Republic). While living in Prague now, I try to still support the Brno
meetup (although I found co-organizers and they do most of the work now) as
much as I can and I am trying to push forward local Python community with
helping other projects to happen, these days mainly with preparations for
Django Girls Prague in May.

In the past we did some friendly meetings and visits with meetups around,
such as Rubyslava in Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna.rb in Vienna (Austria)
and we also have some connections to PySilesia and Pykonik in Poland.
Recently I don't do this much due to lack of time, though.

Cheers,
Honza






On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From jmkoni at icloud.com  Tue Apr 14 00:28:29 2015
From: jmkoni at icloud.com (Jennifer Konikowski)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:28:29 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CE0BD925-2F6C-4265-AC04-A930027F4792@icloud.com>

Hi!

I'm Jennifer Konikowski and I'm the primary organizer for PyLadies Boston. We have a crazy large amount of ladies in our group who are totally new to programming and also a large amount of scientists and academics due to our location. We run monthly meet ups and smaller weekly beginner meet ups.

Jennifer

> On Apr 12, 2015, at 17:01, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
> 
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
> 
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
> 
> Warm Regards, Brian
> 
> -- 
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From christianzlong2 at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 04:16:40 2015
From: christianzlong2 at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:16:40 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAP3KJdhr04q2sVcYCR67+1NSnLXURCBSWVTeCSFshJu8NMy7YQ@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, Brian, for setting this up. I'm Christian Long, I organize the
Fox Valley Python User Group. We're just starting out, and we're quite
small, so I'm looking for tales of how you started and grew your
groups.

I was at the Montreal Python Group meeting tonight, and it was an
interesting evening of talks. There were about 200 people there, with
about half that number being out-of-town visitors from Pycon. They
move their meetings around; tonight's was at Notman House - some kind
of tech hub in a nicely restored old building.


On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From pjf at maestropublishing.com  Tue Apr 14 05:17:37 2015
From: pjf at maestropublishing.com (Peter Farrell)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:17:37 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi, My name is Peter Farrell. I'm the manager of PyMNtos - Twin Cities
Python User Group (Minnesota). Our group is exploding in the past couple of
years.  We've gone from 75-ish members to over 700+ members in the past 18
months. Cheers, Peter

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
wrote:

> Hi! I'm Eric Floehr, founder of the Central Ohio Python Users Group and
> past three-time chair of PyOhio. I look forward to meeting everyone here
> and learning and sharing our experiences!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric
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From clayton at sixfeetup.com  Tue Apr 14 16:23:46 2015
From: clayton at sixfeetup.com (Clayton Parker)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:23:46 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Message-ID: <523CA24D-83CA-49AA-A38D-A4935F6618A2@sixfeetup.com>

Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of IndyPy, the Indianapolis Python User Group.

We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every year!

Clayton
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From ntoll at ntoll.org  Tue Apr 14 17:06:35 2015
From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:06:35 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi!

I'm Nicholas Tollervey - I help to organise the London Python Code Dojo
(see: http://ntoll.org/article/how-to-run-an-awesome-code-dojo), I'm one
of the PyconUK organisers and I also run the education track at PyconUK.

I've had a great time at Pycon and want to try some of the ideas I
learned from everyone else back here in the UK.

Also, there are around 7 people involved in the dojo - if you don't
mind, I'll point them in the direction of this mailing list.

Cheers,

N.

On 12/04/15 22:01, Brian Ray wrote:
> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
> 
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
> 
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
> 
> Warm Regards, Brian
> 


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From randy at thesyrings.us  Tue Apr 14 17:10:44 2015
From: randy at thesyrings.us (Randy Syring)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:10:44 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Message-ID: <552D2DF4.9030202@thesyrings.us>

Randy Syring.  I founded DerbPy and run it along with help from the guys 
from Level 12 (my company).  We are a couple hours south of IndyPy in 
the Louisville area.

http://www.meetup.com/derbypy/

*Randy Syring*
Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner

/"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/

On 04/14/2015 10:23 AM, Clayton Parker wrote:
> Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of IndyPy, the Indianapolis Python User Group.
>
> We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every year!
>
> Clayton

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From peppers at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 17:51:41 2015
From: peppers at gmail.com (Terry Peppers)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:51:41 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <552D2DF4.9030202@thesyrings.us>
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Message-ID: <CABYR-xkJ0OrtJdNm9VteTEZhCVi-m1Ug9KTwEZgXZ=2W88kT3w@mail.gmail.com>

Terry Peppers. I help run the Testing in Python mailing list and have in
the past run the Testing in Python Birds of a Feather, also known as TiP
BoF @ PyCon. While TiP BoF was absent @ Pycon 2014 and PyCon 2015, there's
a high likelihood of it's reemergence at PyCon next year, but with a format
change.

TiP BoF started in 2008 as a group of 20 and ballooned to a group of 400 @
PyCon 2013 in Santa Clara. Scale is a challenge.

- t.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us> wrote:

> Randy Syring.  I founded DerbPy and run it along with help from the guys
> from Level 12 (my company).  We are a couple hours south of IndyPy in the
> Louisville area.
>
> http://www.meetup.com/derbypy/
>
> *Randy Syring*
> Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner
>
> /"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
> and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/
>
> On 04/14/2015 10:23 AM, Clayton Parker wrote:
>
>> Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of IndyPy,
>> the Indianapolis Python User Group.
>>
>> We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every year!
>>
>> Clayton
>>
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From barbara.shaurette at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 18:25:47 2015
From: barbara.shaurette at gmail.com (Barbara Shaurette)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:25:47 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Message-ID: <CAKxDO2a3CbPCOy_8HiFvEyyPBM3KLfduFgTZVM-PtUAuq0Nq3Q@mail.gmail.com>

Barbara Shaurette here - thanks for the add. I did found the PyLadies
chapter in Austin, but I don't organize it anymore - for that you want Sara
Safavi.

I do teach the Young Coders classes at PyCon (and some smaller
conferences), along with the occasional one-off beginner class. It looks
like I'll be involved with Django Girls (at least for DjangoCon here in
Austin this year). Young Coders will be back at PyCon 2016, and I'm
developing an intermediate curriculum to go along with it for next year.



On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Terry Peppers <peppers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Terry Peppers. I help run the Testing in Python mailing list and have in
> the past run the Testing in Python Birds of a Feather, also known as TiP
> BoF @ PyCon. While TiP BoF was absent @ Pycon 2014 and PyCon 2015, there's
> a high likelihood of it's reemergence at PyCon next year, but with a format
> change.
>
> TiP BoF started in 2008 as a group of 20 and ballooned to a group of 400 @
> PyCon 2013 in Santa Clara. Scale is a challenge.
>
> - t.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us>
> wrote:
>
> > Randy Syring.  I founded DerbPy and run it along with help from the guys
> > from Level 12 (my company).  We are a couple hours south of IndyPy in the
> > Louisville area.
> >
> > http://www.meetup.com/derbypy/
> >
> > *Randy Syring*
> > Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner
> >
> > /"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
> > and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/
> >
> > On 04/14/2015 10:23 AM, Clayton Parker wrote:
> >
> >> Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of IndyPy,
> >> the Indianapolis Python User Group.
> >>
> >> We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every year!
> >>
> >> Clayton
> >>
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From brianhray at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 19:35:34 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:35:34 -0500
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Barb:

Would you mind introducing or forwarding this list info to Sara so she can
join.

Also I know Peter Wang does a lot of stuff in Austin. CC'd (Peter, you may
want to join this list if not on already, all these introductions are
amazing).

Cheers, Brian

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Barbara Shaurette <
barbara.shaurette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barbara Shaurette here - thanks for the add. I did found the PyLadies
> chapter in Austin, but I don't organize it anymore - for that you want Sara
> Safavi.
>
> I do teach the Young Coders classes at PyCon (and some smaller
> conferences), along with the occasional one-off beginner class. It looks
> like I'll be involved with Django Girls (at least for DjangoCon here in
> Austin this year). Young Coders will be back at PyCon 2016, and I'm
> developing an intermediate curriculum to go along with it for next year.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Terry Peppers <peppers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Terry Peppers. I help run the Testing in Python mailing list and have in
> > the past run the Testing in Python Birds of a Feather, also known as TiP
> > BoF @ PyCon. While TiP BoF was absent @ Pycon 2014 and PyCon 2015,
> there's
> > a high likelihood of it's reemergence at PyCon next year, but with a
> format
> > change.
> >
> > TiP BoF started in 2008 as a group of 20 and ballooned to a group of 400
> @
> > PyCon 2013 in Santa Clara. Scale is a challenge.
> >
> > - t.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Randy Syring.  I founded DerbPy and run it along with help from the
> guys
> > > from Level 12 (my company).  We are a couple hours south of IndyPy in
> the
> > > Louisville area.
> > >
> > > http://www.meetup.com/derbypy/
> > >
> > > *Randy Syring*
> > > Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner
> > >
> > > /"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
> > > and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/
> > >
> > > On 04/14/2015 10:23 AM, Clayton Parker wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of
> IndyPy,
> > >> the Indianapolis Python User Group.
> > >>
> > >> We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every year!
> > >>
> > >> Clayton
> > >>
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From simeonf at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 20:05:31 2015
From: simeonf at gmail.com (Simeon Franklin)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:05:31 -0700
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Hey all -

I'm Simeon Franklin. I co-organize the San Francisco Python Meetup with
Grace Law and Hy Carrel. Which segues into the "how to grow" story:

If you can meet consistently, provide interesting talks, and make sure
there is free food and beverages you will accumulate a community of folks
who keep coming back. But consistency is really hard on the solo organizer.
Its a lot of work between speaker recruitment, sponsor/host recruitment,
mailing list management, plus the once a month commitment of time for the
event itself.

Grace Law used to run SF Python Meetup herself with great success until she
had a skiing accident and couldn't organize for a bit. We had no meetups
for 9 months! Hy and I both volunteered about the same time to help out and
gradually Grace trusted us with more organizing duties. Now we each work
about equally aside from speaker recruitment where Grace still takes the
lead.

The great thing about this is that in any given month only two of us do
much work. Life happens and people travel, get sick, have career shifts or
whatever. Our leadership group has had all that but we keep rolling with 2
events in an average month and between 125 and 250 people at each event.

Based on experience I don't think a meetup is long term sustainable if it
rests solely on the efforts of a single person...

The other thing I'd observe about our growth is that the "normal" Meetup
format (formal talks) makes it really difficult to serve the whole
community. Long beginner talks likely bore the software professionals but
long advanced talks discourage the beginners.

I've personally deeply enjoyed adding a "Project Night" aimed at welcoming
new people into our community and the local Pythonistas have made this an
easy night - every month we have volunteer mentors willing to answer
questions and at least one or two volunteers to teach tutorial style
sessions. We still have a "Talks Night" but the second event each month has
really helped with the diversity of our community along several axes.

- regards
Simeon


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barb:
>
> Would you mind introducing or forwarding this list info to Sara so she can
> join.
>
> Also I know Peter Wang does a lot of stuff in Austin. CC'd (Peter, you may
> want to join this list if not on already, all these introductions are
> amazing).
>
> Cheers, Brian
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Barbara Shaurette <
> barbara.shaurette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Barbara Shaurette here - thanks for the add. I did found the PyLadies
> > chapter in Austin, but I don't organize it anymore - for that you want
> Sara
> > Safavi.
> >
> > I do teach the Young Coders classes at PyCon (and some smaller
> > conferences), along with the occasional one-off beginner class. It looks
> > like I'll be involved with Django Girls (at least for DjangoCon here in
> > Austin this year). Young Coders will be back at PyCon 2016, and I'm
> > developing an intermediate curriculum to go along with it for next year.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Terry Peppers <peppers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Terry Peppers. I help run the Testing in Python mailing list and have
> in
> > > the past run the Testing in Python Birds of a Feather, also known as
> TiP
> > > BoF @ PyCon. While TiP BoF was absent @ Pycon 2014 and PyCon 2015,
> > there's
> > > a high likelihood of it's reemergence at PyCon next year, but with a
> > format
> > > change.
> > >
> > > TiP BoF started in 2008 as a group of 20 and ballooned to a group of
> 400
> > @
> > > PyCon 2013 in Santa Clara. Scale is a challenge.
> > >
> > > - t.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Randy Syring.  I founded DerbPy and run it along with help from the
> > guys
> > > > from Level 12 (my company).  We are a couple hours south of IndyPy in
> > the
> > > > Louisville area.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.meetup.com/derbypy/
> > > >
> > > > *Randy Syring*
> > > > Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner
> > > >
> > > > /"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
> > > > and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/
> > > >
> > > > On 04/14/2015 10:23 AM, Clayton Parker wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hellooooo, my name is Clayton Parker and I'm the co-organizer of
> > IndyPy,
> > > >> the Indianapolis Python User Group.
> > > >>
> > > >> We are now in our 8th year and have been growing stronger every
> year!
> > > >>
> > > >> Clayton
> > > >>
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From iam at younggun.kim  Tue Apr 14 21:40:28 2015
From: iam at younggun.kim (Younggun Kim)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:40:28 -0400
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Hi, I'm Younggun Kim from Seoul Korea.

I'm organizing PyCon KR since its inaugural in 2014. Also I translate some
IT books (especially Python which I prefer) into Korean.
Though I'm not an educator, have an interest in how to teach coding to
kids. It's because the kids might be my co-worker in someday hopefully :)
I'm very happy to be here PyCon 2015 as a session staff and learned a lot
of things to get my event goes smoothly!
Hope meet you at Portland next year.

Best Wishes,
Younggun

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From darjeeling at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 22:39:39 2015
From: darjeeling at gmail.com (Kwon-Han Bae)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:39:39 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi. I'm KwonHan from Korea either.

I created Python Korea and organized First PyCon.KR 2014 last year.
and preparing second PyCon KR 2015 with several guys with younggun.

I thought our community needs more power to collect people, spread python
and contribute python eco-system.
so I joined the meeting, and get many things to do.
thanks for sharing what you did.
if you have sometime to visit korea. ping me. we can make some meetup with
pythonistas.

https://twitter.com/darjeelingt

https://www.facebook.com/kwonhan.bae ( it's almost korean sorry )




2015-04-14 15:40 GMT-04:00 Younggun Kim <iam at younggun.kim>:

> Hi, I'm Younggun Kim from Seoul Korea.
>
> I'm organizing PyCon KR since its inaugural in 2014. Also I translate some
> IT books (especially Python which I prefer) into Korean.
> Though I'm not an educator, have an interest in how to teach coding to
> kids. It's because the kids might be my co-worker in someday hopefully :)
> I'm very happy to be here PyCon 2015 as a session staff and learned a lot
> of things to get my event goes smoothly!
> Hope meet you at Portland next year.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Younggun
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> > recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make
> this
> > happen.
> >
> > If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
> you
> > haven't already.
> >
> > I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> > Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> > couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn
> from
> > your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> > safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
> >
> > Warm Regards, Brian
> >
> > --
> > Brian Ray
> > @brianray
> > (773) 669-7717
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From shekay at pobox.com  Wed Apr 15 03:37:15 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:37:15 -0500
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Hi all,

I'm Sheila Miguez, another Chicago person, and I was very inspired to run
some events after watching a talk[1] by Asheesh and Jessica a while back
about the Boston group.

I help run python office hours at my hackerspace[2] as well as a monthly
python project night hosted at Braintree. Once or twice a year depending on
student availability I help run Open Sources Comes to Campus[3]. It's not
strictly python, but the projects section has been all python due to
founder effect.

I've also recently started helping NumFOCUS[4] as a tech flunky. NumFOCUS
runs events like PyData.

I'd like to hear what other groups do for their office hours/project night
types of events. How much structure do you provide, and do you recruit
instructor attendees?

[1] <
http://pyvideo.org/video/719/diversity-in-practice-how-the-boston-python-user
>.
[2] <https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Python_Office_Hours>
[3] <http://discourse.openhatch.org/>
[4] <http://numfocus.org>


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From kevin.horn at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 04:02:59 2015
From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:02:59 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Howdy!

I've been lurking on this list for quite a while, but it's so low-traffic I
had kind of forgotten I was subscribed to it.  An intro thread is a great
idea to change that!

My name's Kevin Horn and I'm one of the co-organizers of DFW Python
(Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas).  I'm also one of the organizers of PyTexas and a
board member of the newly formed PyTexas Foundation.  Shameless plug:
PyTexas will be held in College Station, TX (yes, again) September 25th -
27th this year.  Come and see us!

I recognize quite a few names here, and I've even met a few of you in
person.  Nice to see you all (in some cases, again).

Sheila M: Don't you also help maintain pyvideo.org?  Thanks for that.
Also, office hours at a hackerspace is an idea I hadn't considered.  Could
I convince you to elaborate on that (perhaps in a separate thread)?

Barbara: Any chance you can come teach a class at PyTexas again this year?
We missed you last year...

Randy: I really enjoyed your talks at PyTexas last year (I actually just
rewatched one of them last week).  Hope to see you again, though I know
it's a bit of a hike for you.

Nice to "meet" the rest of you!


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:37 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm Sheila Miguez, another Chicago person, and I was very inspired to run
> some events after watching a talk[1] by Asheesh and Jessica a while back
> about the Boston group.
>
> I help run python office hours at my hackerspace[2] as well as a monthly
> python project night hosted at Braintree. Once or twice a year depending on
> student availability I help run Open Sources Comes to Campus[3]. It's not
> strictly python, but the projects section has been all python due to
> founder effect.
>
> I've also recently started helping NumFOCUS[4] as a tech flunky. NumFOCUS
> runs events like PyData.
>
> I'd like to hear what other groups do for their office hours/project night
> types of events. How much structure do you provide, and do you recruit
> instructor attendees?
>
> [1] <
>
> http://pyvideo.org/video/719/diversity-in-practice-how-the-boston-python-user
> >.
> [2] <https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Python_Office_Hours>
> [3] <http://discourse.openhatch.org/>
> [4] <http://numfocus.org>
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Wed Apr 15 13:40:47 2015
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:40:47 -0400
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Message-ID: <552E4E3F.5050402@nedbatchelder.com>

Hi, I'm Ned Batchelder, the primary organizer of the Boston Python user 
group.  I like seeing the new energy on the list!

As people begin talking more in depth about what they do or need, let's 
start new threads so that everything isn't labelled "Mass Add", unless 
what you mean is you all want to join me in Massachusetts! :)

--Ned.

On 4/12/15 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>


From brianhray at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 15:52:17 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:52:17 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy Website
Message-ID: <CANKg38u8XKbwzm_3Ud0M_=jaCSSc9f3ygmzPp_7U3VfJc=-Hig@mail.gmail.com>

As I just sent my last email regarding the Mentorship program, I thought of
another thing that might be helpful to others. That is our chipy.org
website.

We did things a little backwards, we started with our own website
http://chipy.org and then integrated later with meetup.com The combination
of the two serves us well. Also the source for our site are on github if
you wish to use:

https://github.com/chicagopython/chipy.org

It has a lot of nice features including:


   - django admin for scheduling meetings
   - RSVP system
   - integration with meetup.com (pulls RSVP)
   - A sharable HASH encoded url of RSVP list to share with venue
   - Flat pages for keeping notes and stuff like our Code of conduct.

Cezar (CC'd) get's the credit for this very useful site we love.


Cheers again (haha), Brian


-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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From brianhray at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 15:46:54 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:46:54 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
Message-ID: <CANKg38uaWTxKHaYhBFHgSOH36+tLfoY24zBuOxo2TKWLx4KCpA@mail.gmail.com>

I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is probably
too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has created.

As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for over a
decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding some
other organizers
<http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix and letting them (or
forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One domain, is our awesome
Mentorship program.

In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of mentors/mentees. He
writes about the experience on his blog:


   -
   http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
   -
   http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html

Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you want
to start a similar program in your area.


Cheers, Brian

ChiPy Organizer

http://chipy.org




-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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From tathagatadg at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 16:40:40 2015
From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:40:40 +0000
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
Message-ID: <CAB32_MOc_GLjCdgJb3J7BMLUwQF9fLVSHUPphw8YzPVXEaNyWw@mail.gmail.com>

Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
and help others become better programmer.

If you are on meetup.com - checkout:

Our amazing mentors for this term:

http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595

What the mentor and mentee are up to:
http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823

Mentorship FAQ:
http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700





On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is probably
> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has created.
>
> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for over
> a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding some other organizers
> <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix and letting them (or
> forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One domain, is our awesome
> Mentorship program.
>
> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of mentors/mentees.
> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>
>
>    -
>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>    -
>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>
> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
> want to start a similar program in your area.
>
>
> Cheers, Brian
>
> ChiPy Organizer
>
> http://chipy.org
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From berker.peksag at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 16:53:54 2015
From: berker.peksag at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Berker_Peksa=C4=9F?=)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:53:54 +0300
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy Website
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38u8XKbwzm_3Ud0M_=jaCSSc9f3ygmzPp_7U3VfJc=-Hig@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38u8XKbwzm_3Ud0M_=jaCSSc9f3ygmzPp_7U3VfJc=-Hig@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAF4280Kp_K8-azc+LbH5CmyXgAbVbZgfD3Vh_TvF4GV6PBH57A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I just sent my last email regarding the Mentorship program, I thought of
> another thing that might be helpful to others. That is our chipy.org
> website.
>
> We did things a little backwards, we started with our own website
> http://chipy.org and then integrated later with meetup.com The combination
> of the two serves us well. Also the source for our site are on github if
> you wish to use:
>
> https://github.com/chicagopython/chipy.org
>
> It has a lot of nice features including:
>
>
>    - django admin for scheduling meetings
>    - RSVP system
>    - integration with meetup.com (pulls RSVP)
>    - A sharable HASH encoded url of RSVP list to share with venue
>    - Flat pages for keeping notes and stuff like our Code of conduct.

Hi Brian and Cezar,

This looks great! We've developed a similar website for Python
?stanbul a while ago:

    https://github.com/pyistanbul/website

--Berker

From brianhray at gmail.com  Mon Apr 20 23:01:17 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:01:17 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Fwd: [Chicago] ChiPy May Meeting: Ultimate
	Language Shootout
In-Reply-To: <CACdfcwVR2J0KvH-s5_6PC+UGf2wkwUPzfh2VWvMfk_BpqbhZ0w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACdfcwVR2J0KvH-s5_6PC+UGf2wkwUPzfh2VWvMfk_BpqbhZ0w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CANKg38vLR-nuhC_+u+EGpw3HJv7mjFRzFmXBFLeqGKoA4vs6gA@mail.gmail.com>

Just wanted to share with you guys this very cool event that we put on
every year...

The guys did an awesome job making the poster.

Cheers, Brian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Joe Jasinski* <joe.jasinski at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2015
Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy May Meeting: Ultimate Language Shootout
To: The Chicago Python Users Group <chicago at python.org>


ChiPy May Meeting: Ultimate Language Shootout
[image: Chipy Meeting: Ultimate Language Shootout]
Pick any programming language. Present and introduce the language at the
May 14th ChiPy meeting. Do at least one comparison to Python. Talks should
be approximately 5 minutes.  Audience members will vote on their favorite
presentation and the winner takes home $100s cash, thanks to Chicago Python
User Group (http://chipy.org).
*Submit your talk proposal here:*
http://www.chipy.org/meetings/topics/propose
Put the language name in title and description.
*Want to Watch? *
Just RSVP on ChiPy's website: http://www.chipy.org  <http://www.chipy.org>
or via our Meetup group:  http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/221954090/
It is FREE to watch. Food and drink will be provided.
*Event Summary: *
ChiPy's Ultimate Language Shootout
*When:* Thursday May 14th at 7pm
*Where: *
   The Franklin Center (Compliments of Computer Futures)
   2nd floor (follow signs)
   227 West Monroe Street
   Chicago IL 60606
If you'd like to help sponsor this Meetup, please contact us at
http://www.chipy.org/contact/ or reach out to any of the organizers.
*About ChiPy:*
Visit our website at: http://www.chipy.org/
ChiPy is Chicago's official Python Programming Language user group and is
responsible for holding well-attended monthly meetings, for running a very
successful Python mentorship program, and for driving numerous other
Python-related events.




-- 
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@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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From amjoconn at gmail.com  Mon Apr 20 23:06:36 2015
From: amjoconn at gmail.com (Albert O'Connor)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:06:36 +0000
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAMAY4402ok-oqABPs3BnhSLUyHhOBXGmLUcgzzUXn=UhCieiwQ@mail.gmail.com>

Evening everyone.

I am Albert O'Connor and I help organize WatPy the Waterloo Python group in
Ontario Canada (watpy.ca).

We have been working on running more teaching events and providing a better
way for people to access materials. For scientific Python we have worked on
a tool to turn markdown (versioned in a repo) into iPython notebooks.

Our next project is to turn markdown into an interactive website using
PyPy.js.

Cheer,
Albert

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 17:02 Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make this
> happen.
>
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.
>
> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn from
> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>
> Warm Regards, Brian
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
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From mariak at mariakathryn.net  Mon Apr 20 23:43:41 2015
From: mariak at mariakathryn.net (Maria McKinley)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:43:41 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CAMAY4402ok-oqABPs3BnhSLUyHhOBXGmLUcgzzUXn=UhCieiwQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAMAY4402ok-oqABPs3BnhSLUyHhOBXGmLUcgzzUXn=UhCieiwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKPMSAj1awQhmyyNGBWj9k3e1YfJoeuWK5P3EqHGBoSp4A35UQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone,

I organize a group of developers at the University of Washington.
Developers in academia suffer from not being able to code with other
developers. We don't even get code reviews. So, I started this group so we
can talk about our code, the unique issues we run into developing for
research, and learn from each other. The most interesting thing we have
been doing lately is going through design patterns. Each meeting we talk
about a new design pattern, and how we would implement it in different
languages, and how it might be useful for research/data analysis software.

So glad to hear about different meeting ideas and organizations!

cheers,
Maria

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Albert O'Connor <amjoconn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Evening everyone.
>
> I am Albert O'Connor and I help organize WatPy the Waterloo Python group in
> Ontario Canada (watpy.ca).
>
> We have been working on running more teaching events and providing a better
> way for people to access materials. For scientific Python we have worked on
> a tool to turn markdown (versioned in a repo) into iPython notebooks.
>
> Our next project is to turn markdown into an interactive website using
> PyPy.js.
>
> Cheer,
> Albert
>
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 17:02 Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> > recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make
> this
> > happen.
> >
> > If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
> you
> > haven't already.
> >
> > I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> > Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> > couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn
> from
> > your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
> > safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
> >
> > Warm Regards, Brian
> >
> > --
> > Brian Ray
> > @brianray
> > (773) 669-7717
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www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley


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From trey at treyhunner.com  Wed Apr 22 01:06:35 2015
From: trey at treyhunner.com (Trey Hunner)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:06:35 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CAKPMSAj1awQhmyyNGBWj9k3e1YfJoeuWK5P3EqHGBoSp4A35UQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAMAY4402ok-oqABPs3BnhSLUyHhOBXGmLUcgzzUXn=UhCieiwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <5536D7FB.4090609@treyhunner.com>

Hi Maria,

I'm interested in how your design pattern discussions work.  Where do
you find design patterns?  Are you using a list/book or does someone
suggest a pattern each time?  Do you announce the pattern beforehand?

Thanks!

On 04/20/2015 02:43 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I organize a group of developers at the University of Washington.
> Developers in academia suffer from not being able to code with other
> developers. We don't even get code reviews. So, I started this group so we
> can talk about our code, the unique issues we run into developing for
> research, and learn from each other. The most interesting thing we have
> been doing lately is going through design patterns. Each meeting we talk
> about a new design pattern, and how we would implement it in different
> languages, and how it might be useful for research/data analysis software.
> 
> So glad to hear about different meeting ideas and organizations!
> 
> cheers,
> Maria
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Albert O'Connor <amjoconn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Evening everyone.
>>
>> I am Albert O'Connor and I help organize WatPy the Waterloo Python group in
>> Ontario Canada (watpy.ca).
>>
>> We have been working on running more teaching events and providing a better
>> way for people to access materials. For scientific Python we have worked on
>> a tool to turn markdown (versioned in a repo) into iPython notebooks.
>>
>> Our next project is to turn markdown into an interactive website using
>> PyPy.js.
>>
>> Cheer,
>> Albert
>>
>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 17:02 Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
>>> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make
>> this
>>> happen.
>>>
>>> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
>> you
>>> haven't already.
>>>
>>> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
>>> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
>>> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn
>> from
>>> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend and
>>> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
>>>
>>> Warm Regards, Brian
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Ray
>>> @brianray
>>> (773) 669-7717
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> 

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From trey at treyhunner.com  Wed Apr 22 01:01:08 2015
From: trey at treyhunner.com (Trey Hunner)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:01:08 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Hello from San Diego Python
Message-ID: <5536D6B4.30403@treyhunner.com>

Hi all,

I haven't done an introduction email, so here it is.

I'm Trey and I'm one of the co-organizers of the San Diego Python users
group.  I put up the open space card at PyCon and I was very happily
surprised at how many showed up and at how well we self-organized.

A couple interesting things we do in our San Diego Python group:

- We organize a few workshops every year.  We have an Intro to Python
one and a Django TDD one: http://pythonsd.org/pages/workshops.html

- Our monthly meetups consist exclusively of 5 minute lightning talks,
anywhere from 5 to 8 of them.  Switching to lightning talks has greatly
widened our talk pool (beginners give talks regularly) and tends to
produce a more diverse and interesting set of topics every month.

- We have a study group we host every Saturday afternoon.  No one person
runs this meetup.  There are at least 6 people who know how to setup the
tables, do introductions, and generally run this meetup.

- We try to keep a friendly regular near the door during our study
groups and monthly meetups so anyone walking in late can be greeted and
introduced to others.  During our study groups, we often applause after
newcomers announce what they are learning.

- Our Saturday study group brings in a much more diverse crowd than our
monthly meetups.  During the study groups, regulars often coax beginners
to try out our monthly meetups and sometimes convince newcomers to give
lightning talks.

I think that sums up our group pretty well.  I'm not sure if any of the
other SD Python organizers have joined this list.  If so, please add on
anything I forgot to mention!

-- 
Trey Hunner
http://treyhunner.com

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From willingc at willingconsulting.com  Wed Apr 22 02:15:04 2015
From: willingc at willingconsulting.com (Carol Willing)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:15:04 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Hello from San Diego Python
In-Reply-To: <5536D6B4.30403@treyhunner.com>
References: <5536D6B4.30403@treyhunner.com>
Message-ID: <5536E808.3030507@willingconsulting.com>

Hi all,

I'm Carol and I co-organize San Diego Python and PyLadies San Diego. 
Although I missed the PyCon open space, I wish that I hadn't :)

Thanks to Trey my introduction will be brief. We do all of what he 
mentions. A couple of additions:

- Occasionally, we have speakers like Travis Swicegood of Continuum for 
a special monthly meeting. If you are ever in town, please let us know 
since we would like to have you as a speaker.

- This year, we teamed with the other Southern California Python groups 
as well as Southern California PyLadies groups to have two expo booths 
at Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). We hope to do it again next year.

- Inspired by Shauna's poster on WelcomeBot, we recently added a Welcome 
Bot to the San Diego Python IRC channel.

I'm enjoying reading all the cool things everyone is doing.

Warmly,
Carol

On 4/21/15 4:01 PM, Trey Hunner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't done an introduction email, so here it is.
>
> I'm Trey and I'm one of the co-organizers of the San Diego Python users
> group.  I put up the open space card at PyCon and I was very happily
> surprised at how many showed up and at how well we self-organized.
>
> A couple interesting things we do in our San Diego Python group:
>
> - We organize a few workshops every year.  We have an Intro to Python
> one and a Django TDD one: http://pythonsd.org/pages/workshops.html
>
> - Our monthly meetups consist exclusively of 5 minute lightning talks,
> anywhere from 5 to 8 of them.  Switching to lightning talks has greatly
> widened our talk pool (beginners give talks regularly) and tends to
> produce a more diverse and interesting set of topics every month.
>
> - We have a study group we host every Saturday afternoon.  No one person
> runs this meetup.  There are at least 6 people who know how to setup the
> tables, do introductions, and generally run this meetup.
>
> - We try to keep a friendly regular near the door during our study
> groups and monthly meetups so anyone walking in late can be greeted and
> introduced to others.  During our study groups, we often applause after
> newcomers announce what they are learning.
>
> - Our Saturday study group brings in a much more diverse crowd than our
> monthly meetups.  During the study groups, regulars often coax beginners
> to try out our monthly meetups and sometimes convince newcomers to give
> lightning talks.
>
> I think that sums up our group pretty well.  I'm not sure if any of the
> other SD Python organizers have joined this list.  If so, please add on
> anything I forgot to mention!
>


-- 
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Developer | Willing Consulting
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From shekay at pobox.com  Wed Apr 22 04:46:22 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:46:22 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] python office hours at ps1
Message-ID: <CAHCs_rZKJwLy+dVh+GQzMh=3oPgC-Taw_uiLkxArvoehBMYTqQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.horn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sheila M: Don't you also help maintain pyvideo.org?  Thanks for that.
> Also, office hours at a hackerspace is an idea I hadn't considered.  Could
> I convince you to elaborate on that (perhaps in a separate thread)?
>


Our space (ps1) has various events including member-run office hours. We've
got math office hours, electronics office hours, and python office hours.

The ps1 event is smaller than the larger project night that happens in the
loop. Basically, I and others greet new people as they walk in and chat a
little to see what they are interested in. People hang out for a few hours
chatting and working on things.

I enjoy when people show up who have never been to a hackerspace before
because then I get to show them around and explain the place.

Some issues I have --

I'd like to get better at guiding people who show up without any plans.
Sometimes people show up because they are generally curious about things,
but have no specific goals.

I'd like to be able to matchmake people to open source projects with local
maintainers. It would be cool to take people from an Open Source Comes to
Campus event in to some project with local maintainers.

I'd like to be better at guiding people to a map of projects and tutorials
for topics of interest. Right now I have a wiki page that is not tightly
organized <https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Python_Office_Hours>.





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From shekay at pobox.com  Thu Apr 23 01:13:34 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:13:34 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
Message-ID: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>

If any of you have groups that record talks, please feel free to ask Will
and I to index them on pyvideo.org. Open an issue to make requests. We
currently index ChiPy (I'm a local, it's very easy to get information about
the group), and some other groups (when I discover them!). I would like to
include more groups.

https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/issues



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From hodgestar at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 01:23:46 2015
From: hodgestar at gmail.com (Simon Cross)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:23:46 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>

We recorded the talks of PyConZA and I opened an issue on pyvideo.org
ages ago for including them but it never got processes. Should I open
a new issue?

From shekay at pobox.com  Thu Apr 23 01:28:13 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:28:13 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>

Please do. We had a suggestion feature on pyvideo.org itself that filled up
with spam, and it was rather clunky to begin with. We decided to the github
issue tracker to handle things.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Simon Cross <hodgestar at gmail.com> wrote:

> We recorded the talks of PyConZA and I opened an issue on pyvideo.org
> ages ago for including them but it never got processes. Should I open
> a new issue?
>



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From hodgestar at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 01:39:29 2015
From: hodgestar at gmail.com (Simon Cross)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:39:29 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAD5NRCFBY8TH_O2xv3YBm0fsbA2g4ezq8z99_R035sTfy97RbA@mail.gmail.com>

Woot. New issue created -- https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/issues/102.

Thanks!

From brianhray at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 02:41:38 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:41:38 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CAD5NRCFBY8TH_O2xv3YBm0fsbA2g4ezq8z99_R035sTfy97RbA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CANKg38vbwX32hNLL0CDMeU1qzCT7DPn4rWNdGU_a+QbthVkkuA@mail.gmail.com>

Sheila and husband Carl have done a great job providing video support for
ChiPy and many other places for many years.

I am sometimes torn on the concept. Does video recording hurt or help
in-person attendance? Does it scare anyone from talking?

Cheers, Brian


>

-- 
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@brianray
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From mal at egenix.com  Thu Apr 23 09:49:55 2015
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:49:55 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38vbwX32hNLL0CDMeU1qzCT7DPn4rWNdGU_a+QbthVkkuA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>	<CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>	<CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>	<CAD5NRCFBY8TH_O2xv3YBm0fsbA2g4ezq8z99_R035sTfy97RbA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <5538A423.8060806@egenix.com>

On 23.04.2015 02:41, Brian Ray wrote:
> Sheila and husband Carl have done a great job providing video support for
> ChiPy and many other places for many years.
> 
> I am sometimes torn on the concept. Does video recording hurt or help
> in-person attendance? Does it scare anyone from talking?

We've been doing videos since our very first meeting and it helps
in getting more members as well as motivates speakers to give
talks.

For people who would rather not like to be recorded, we make it
very easy to opt-out.

https://www.youtube.com/user/PyDDF/playlists

We're a German user group, so the videos are in German as well.

-- 
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From hodgestar at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 10:11:25 2015
From: hodgestar at gmail.com (Simon Cross)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:25 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] pyvideo.org and groups
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38vbwX32hNLL0CDMeU1qzCT7DPn4rWNdGU_a+QbthVkkuA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_raT0yfu20GjfrkBqKvv5oyLmKLuyv7HZ-MbbVgf8SN4tQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAD5NRCGGENm=Bz4zeZxbyp3ZZ5ENXDsRU03Wwg7U4xfedGaGhw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAHCs_rYQLzA+7gw2wSPnBop0CMTujQ5eOkymA_H16EAVx8QGDA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAD5NRCFBY8TH_O2xv3YBm0fsbA2g4ezq8z99_R035sTfy97RbA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAD5NRCGK63SHaQVxUOPz4Bo5ibSd8HCoPEcO9+H=X3f_0-CdFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sometimes torn on the concept. Does video recording hurt or help
> in-person attendance? Does it scare anyone from talking?

I think recording talks by default and having a well-publicised and
easy way of opting out is a good compromise for many conference.

There are many advantages for all of speakers, attendees and those who
can't attend:

* Speakers get to see themselves speak and improve.
* Speakers get a video they can include in submissions to larger conferences.
* Attendees get a video they can refer back to if they'd like to watch
a talk again.
* Attendees can watch talks they missed because they were attending a
different track.
* Non-attendees can watch talks.
* Organizers can watch talks (they almost never have time during the
conference itself).
* There is a public record of the talk in case there are things like
reports of code of conduct violations, copyright infringement or
disclosure of private information or business secrets.

Attending a conference and watching a talk video are very different
experiences. I've never had anyone indicate to me that they'd consider
not attending in person because videos are available, but I'd be
interested to hear thoughts from people who have.

Schiavo
Simon

From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Fri Apr 24 13:23:52 2015
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:23:52 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] python office hours at ps1
In-Reply-To: <CAHCs_rZKJwLy+dVh+GQzMh=3oPgC-Taw_uiLkxArvoehBMYTqQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHCs_rZKJwLy+dVh+GQzMh=3oPgC-Taw_uiLkxArvoehBMYTqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <553A27C8.9040603@nedbatchelder.com>



On 4/21/15 10:46 PM, sheila miguez wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.horn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sheila M: Don't you also help maintain pyvideo.org?  Thanks for that.
>> Also, office hours at a hackerspace is an idea I hadn't considered.  Could
>> I convince you to elaborate on that (perhaps in a separate thread)?
>>
>
> Our space (ps1) has various events including member-run office hours. We've
> got math office hours, electronics office hours, and python office hours.
>
> The ps1 event is smaller than the larger project night that happens in the
> loop. Basically, I and others greet new people as they walk in and chat a
> little to see what they are interested in. People hang out for a few hours
> chatting and working on things.
>
> I enjoy when people show up who have never been to a hackerspace before
> because then I get to show them around and explain the place.
>
> Some issues I have --
>
> I'd like to get better at guiding people who show up without any plans.
> Sometimes people show up because they are generally curious about things,
> but have no specific goals.
>
> I'd like to be able to matchmake people to open source projects with local
> maintainers. It would be cool to take people from an Open Source Comes to
> Campus event in to some project with local maintainers.
In Boston, we've tried having a regular email that goes out announcing 
projects maintained by members.  It hasn't really taken off, but we're 
going to keep trying it.  For example: 
http://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/messages/76549008/
>
> I'd like to be better at guiding people to a map of projects and tutorials
> for topics of interest. Right now I have a wiki page that is not tightly
> organized <https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Python_Office_Hours>.
>
Helping people find things to do is an interesting problem.  People have 
ways to learn the language (various online sites, books, etc). Then they 
get to the end of that on-ramp, and they have no destination to guide 
their next phase of learning.  I started pulling together project ideas 
here: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/kindling.html

Some are just elaborate exercises (project euler, for example), some are 
full-fledged project ideas.  I'm hoping that people can find something 
there to spark their interest.

If you have suggestions for the page, I'm interested in expanding it.

--Ned.

From shekay at pobox.com  Fri Apr 24 16:51:42 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:51:42 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] python office hours at ps1
In-Reply-To: <553A27C8.9040603@nedbatchelder.com>
References: <CAHCs_rZKJwLy+dVh+GQzMh=3oPgC-Taw_uiLkxArvoehBMYTqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAHCs_rZ6nd+71HwUUWiSYuG9FR-mBEM1mUbFGT+PmRd5RjyAdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to be able to matchmake people to open source projects with local
>> maintainers. It would be cool to take people from an Open Source Comes to
>> Campus event in to some project with local maintainers.
>>
> In Boston, we've tried having a regular email that goes out announcing
> projects maintained by members.  It hasn't really taken off, but we're
> going to keep trying it.  For example:
> http://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/messages/76549008/


One thing helpful about meeting in a hackerspace is that we have a few
things around hte space that could use contributors. The members management
app is django, and we have a door entry system that is written in go that
talks to the members management app. We've got some python irc bots that
interact with the space and have a thingsbus that people could put things
on.

We are experimenting with giving member points to people who make
contributions but I haven't seen any requesters yet (I'm on the board and
we go through member point granting every week at the board meeting).

One interesting things I've noticed as a maintainer of pyvideo.org with
Will -- sometimes people who are not involved will start with sweeping
change suggestions (e.g. convert all the function based views to class
based views, rearrange the repo and settings style so that it is more like
2scoops style, etc.) and those types of things can take a lot of energy to
reject or accept or mentor.

Given that experience, I think I want to talk to any of the ps1 project
maintainres to work out some beginning guidelines for accepting help. I
know I have that feeling myself for pyvideo -- I'd like to be able to
direct energy to specific things first rather than overarching ambitious
changes.

The chipy mentorship program is neat and project nights or office hours and
events like those could be places where mentors/mentees help or perhaps
places where mentees could find new things to work on. I know one of the
mentees because I met him at office hours and he asked if he could help
with pyvideo since he's interested in service apis. I told him to talk to
me again after we had worked out the deployment issues because after that
we'd find it easier to spend time pushing features. The lack of deployment
ifnrastructure really soaked up a lot of energy. Boy is it good to have
that out of the way.




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From brianhray at gmail.com  Mon Apr 27 06:33:48 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:33:48 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] PyLadies from Pune, Maharashtra, India
Message-ID: <CANKg38sOnh_=gbHZ_TURvmpXyTW8CFHG+4T-hHAxZRy9V-sESw@mail.gmail.com>

I somehow find this inspiring:
http://www.punemirror.in/pune/campus/Actions-SPEAK-LOUDER-/articleshow/47061684.cms

Another win for Python, PSF, and PyLadies.


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From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Apr 29 20:01:46 2015
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:01:46 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <55411C8A.7050008@unc.edu>

On 4/12/2015 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
> haven't already.

Holy smokes. I'm an original member of this list and it never sees any 
traffic, so I consigned it to a deeply buried folder. By chance I looked 
today and it has had all this traffic this month I missed.

I help facilitate TriPython (formerly TriZPUG), a Python user group 
founded in 2002 in central North Carolina encompassing Raleigh, Durham, 
and Chapel Hill (and thereby the universities NCSU, Duke, and UNC) 
called the "Research Triangle" for the very large but old school 
technology park plopped in the middle of cow paths between those cities. 
The Triangle is not to be confused with the "Piedmont Triad" area of 
North Carolina to the west encompassing Winston-Salem, Greenboro, and 
High Point which have their own Python user group (PYPTUG). The Triangle 
and the Triad are about 100 miles apart.

TriPython has a monthly formal meeting and after-meeting social which 
rotates between the three cities of the Triangle. Additionally, instead 
of having a formal mentor program, TriPython has a weekly project night, 
one in each of the three cities. A project night is like office hours. 
People who need help can get help. People who just want to hang out with 
other Python programmers hang out and give help if needed. Somehow free 
pizza materializes at project nights.

These events are arranged so that you can go to a TriPython event every 
week of the month if you wish (and some do), go to an event on any of 
the week nights of Monday through Thursday at least once per month, and 
find a TriPython event in your city of the Triangle at least once per 
month if you are adverse to driving the 20 miles across the Triangle.

We have hosted a regional PyCarolinas Conference once that involved 
three other Python user groups in North and South Carolina. We have 
hosted numerous week-long training camps for both Python and Python web 
frameworks of various stripes. We have taken our Python curriculum, 
called PyCamp, on the road to other user groups for many years and I see 
some of those hosts of those PyCamps introducing themselves on this mass 
add. Despite our accumulated better judgment in how difficult organizing 
conferences can be on a user group, we are in the early planning stages 
of hosting a PyData Conference.

We have a local and independently organized PyLadies chapter with a lot 
of cross-over membership and cross-cooperation. I need to follow up and 
make sure they know about this list as well as our neighboring Piedmont, 
Charlotte, and Hub City Python user groups.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
(919) 599-3530

From francois.dion at gmail.com  Wed Apr 29 23:08:22 2015
From: francois.dion at gmail.com (Francois Dion)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:08:22 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <55411C8A.7050008@unc.edu>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:

> On 4/12/2015 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
>
>> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if you
>> haven't already.
>>
>
> The Triangle is not to be confused with the "Piedmont Triad" area of North
> Carolina to the west encompassing Winston-Salem, Greenboro, and High Point
> which have their own Python user group (PYPTUG).


Must be my cue :)

I also have been subscribed to this list for a few years, since I started
PYPTUG in 2011. PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group, or PYPTUG has had
meetings in the Piedmont Triad area of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High
Point (and places in between like Thomasville and Kernersville). There is a
bit more detail on the beginnings of PYPTUG here:
http://www.pyptug.org/2012/08/python-piedmont-triad-user-group.html

And the main reason I started it is on that page: "to promote and advance
computing, electronics and science in general in North Carolina using the
Python programming language, and through workshops and project nights where
people can learn, get help and mentor others. A secondary goal is to make
you, the artist, the engineer, the investor, the manager, the programmer,
the scientist, the teacher, better at your job."

Currently we typically have 1 monthly meeting at Wake Forest U (in
Winston-Salem) and 1 project night at Inmar (also in Winston Salem) per
month (although we had more this year). If you'd like to come by and
present on a subject, do drop me a note.

We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker hackerspace,
some lunch and learn with local schools and businesses, many Raspberry Pi
sessions over the past 3 years, and of course the Project Nights. During
those, we have a Newbie's Corner to provide one on one help either to learn
Python or to use it, set up a computer etc. We've also had some interesting
projects, ranging from the Pi-A-Sketch, to our latest project that consumed
all our free time in 2015, NSC-01:

The first ever 7 node computing cluster sent into near space using a High
Altitude Balloon (and within the FAA regulations on weight...). All
controlled by Python 3: http://www.pyptug.org/p/team-near-space-circus.html

Of course we had to put the xkcd cartoon from import antigravity on the
payload itself, along with a QR code for PYPTUG and a notice to finder.

This has allowed us to involve the student population a bit more. And since
their involvement, High Point U is now using Python and Raspberry Pis in 3
departments. We've also had meetings at local technical community colleges.
Next on my list is to get something going with High Schools. I've already
started that ball rolling.

I do realize that I need to expand the geographical area in which we hold
our meetings. Greensboro and High Point have to start to be in the monthly
rotation, just as TriPython have been doing in their area, as it has been
hard to grow membership (around 120 at this time). Of course, we are still
young, but I've been keeping track of the suggestions on this list to
figure out what to do next.

Francois
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From manoranjan.113 at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 16:19:25 2015
From: manoranjan.113 at gmail.com (Manoranjan Padhy)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:49:25 +0530
Subject: [group-organizers] Python Developers Baroda, India
Message-ID: <CAFiYDT7=48oYuf1-KFmUbP3bFhp0TdkJ+U-CmeVBS_wScZYM2A@mail.gmail.com>

Hey!

I am Manoranjan Padhy and I along with Harsh Dattani facilitate Python
Developers Baroda [ https://www.facebook.com/pydevbaroda ] User Group in
Baroda, India. PyDev Baroda is a pretty young user group though. We
formulated around 6 months back as there wasn't any local user group in our
city or nearby. Even though the group is quite young but we have gathered
quite a momentum since past few months.

We organise monthly meetups to collaborate with other Python literates to
scale the community. Moreover we are exploring people who are interested in
Python either to learn or to develop using it. In fact we are also planning
a large scale conference in months to come.

Would be very much glad if members in the list can advice something or come
up with some creative Ideas. One more thing I also wanted to know about
channels using wich we can generate funds for smooth scaling of the group.


Regards,
Manoranjan Padhy
www.maoranjan.me
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From dinaldo at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 17:21:27 2015
From: dinaldo at gmail.com (Don Sheu)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:21:27 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hey folks, I organize Puget Sound Programming Python. We summarize our name
as PuPPy. I founded the group in August 2014 with Dusty Phillips the author
of *Python 3 Object Oriented Programming*. Our first meeting
<http://pupyug.org/post/90374380872/first-meeting-coming-august-9th-women-and-code>
was a mini-conference that explored tactics and strategy for including more
women in engineering. Facebook hosted us.

Founding of this group was inspired by my friend Brian Ray's example with
what he does with his group ChiPy. Yannick Gingras was instrumental in
getting our group going and introduced Dusty Phillips and me to each other.

This month rather than go dark during a PyCon month, we held two events.
Normally we meet second Wednesdays. This month we met on the 1st at Qumulo
<http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/220404014/>. Though I expected a
smaller turnout for a PyCon month, we had 40 attendees with a waiting list
of over 70.

Because of the large number of our members who couldn't attend because of
space limitations, we partnered with Seattle Data/Analytics/Machine
Learning for a second event this past Tuesday at Redfin
<http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221665531/>. We had over 150 RSVPs.
About 130 made it to the meetup.

Upcoming events at Indeed
<http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012040/>.com and Google
<http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012063/> have 130 and 170 RSVPs
respectively.

Please visit us. I've invited Audrey Roy Greenfeld, Danny Roy Greenfeld,
Larry Hastings, Yannick Gingras, and Brian Ray to form an advisory council
for us. With our organizers Dusty Phillips and Alan Vezina we'll create a
form of an editorial calendar for our future meetups with topics for each
meeting.

I hope that the editorial calendar will help our speakers select speaking
slots and out-of-town visitors to pick meetups to attend.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow organizers Dusty
Phillips, Alan Vezina, Brian Nitz, Tammy Lee, Paul Briant, David Kurkov,
and Colin Dietrich.

Visit us!
?

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 4/12/2015 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> >
> >> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
> you
> >> haven't already.
> >>
> >
> > The Triangle is not to be confused with the "Piedmont Triad" area of
> North
> > Carolina to the west encompassing Winston-Salem, Greenboro, and High
> Point
> > which have their own Python user group (PYPTUG).
>
>
> Must be my cue :)
>
> I also have been subscribed to this list for a few years, since I started
> PYPTUG in 2011. PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group, or PYPTUG has had
> meetings in the Piedmont Triad area of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High
> Point (and places in between like Thomasville and Kernersville). There is a
> bit more detail on the beginnings of PYPTUG here:
> http://www.pyptug.org/2012/08/python-piedmont-triad-user-group.html
>
> And the main reason I started it is on that page: "to promote and advance
> computing, electronics and science in general in North Carolina using the
> Python programming language, and through workshops and project nights where
> people can learn, get help and mentor others. A secondary goal is to make
> you, the artist, the engineer, the investor, the manager, the programmer,
> the scientist, the teacher, better at your job."
>
> Currently we typically have 1 monthly meeting at Wake Forest U (in
> Winston-Salem) and 1 project night at Inmar (also in Winston Salem) per
> month (although we had more this year). If you'd like to come by and
> present on a subject, do drop me a note.
>
> We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker hackerspace,
> some lunch and learn with local schools and businesses, many Raspberry Pi
> sessions over the past 3 years, and of course the Project Nights. During
> those, we have a Newbie's Corner to provide one on one help either to learn
> Python or to use it, set up a computer etc. We've also had some interesting
> projects, ranging from the Pi-A-Sketch, to our latest project that consumed
> all our free time in 2015, NSC-01:
>
> The first ever 7 node computing cluster sent into near space using a High
> Altitude Balloon (and within the FAA regulations on weight...). All
> controlled by Python 3:
> http://www.pyptug.org/p/team-near-space-circus.html
>
> Of course we had to put the xkcd cartoon from import antigravity on the
> payload itself, along with a QR code for PYPTUG and a notice to finder.
>
> This has allowed us to involve the student population a bit more. And since
> their involvement, High Point U is now using Python and Raspberry Pis in 3
> departments. We've also had meetings at local technical community colleges.
> Next on my list is to get something going with High Schools. I've already
> started that ball rolling.
>
> I do realize that I need to expand the geographical area in which we hold
> our meetings. Greensboro and High Point have to start to be in the monthly
> rotation, just as TriPython have been doing in their area, as it has been
> hard to grow membership (around 120 at this time). Of course, we are still
> young, but I've been keeping track of the suggestions on this list to
> figure out what to do next.
>
> Francois
> --
> raspberry-python.blogspot.com - www.pyptug.org - www.3DFutureTech.info -
> @f_dion
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From manoranjan.113 at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 21:12:59 2015
From: manoranjan.113 at gmail.com (Manoranjan Padhy)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 00:42:59 +0530
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
In-Reply-To: <CACvX9QCHRF7GTPuK2WKUszkV2mTATjBqtzN6evJQc1-0_eVoCQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38v5LvGwkEyi4AtaLFSk6bn_wbspgRzPNexT1izN0f774g@mail.gmail.com>
 <55411C8A.7050008@unc.edu>
 <CAOLi1KCA5c=gb2L-1236im8RWxy_b9bEbVikO6kNxZa_nbT_wg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CACvX9QCHRF7GTPuK2WKUszkV2mTATjBqtzN6evJQc1-0_eVoCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAFiYDT5x2+i3pLhPfeo7x5wuuXFasO5MB1=cnjV155Qjt78mMw@mail.gmail.com>

Hey!

I am Manoranjan Padhy and I along with Harsh Dattani facilitate Python
Developers Baroda [ https://www.facebook.com/pydevbaroda ] User Group in
Baroda, India. PyDev Baroda is a pretty young user group though. We
formulated around 6 months back as there wasn't any local user group in our
city or nearby. Even though the group is quite young but we have gathered
quite a momentum since past few months.

We organise monthly meetups to collaborate with other Python literates to
scale the community. Moreover we are exploring people who are interested in
Python either to learn or to develop using it. In fact we are also planning
a large scale conference in months to come.

Would be very much glad if members in the list can advice something or come
up with some creative Ideas. One more thing I also wanted to know about
channels using wich we can generate funds for smooth scaling of the group.


Regards,
Manoranjan Padhy
www.maoranjan.me

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey folks, I organize Puget Sound Programming Python. We summarize our name
> as PuPPy. I founded the group in August 2014 with Dusty Phillips the author
> of *Python 3 Object Oriented Programming*. Our first meeting
> <
> http://pupyug.org/post/90374380872/first-meeting-coming-august-9th-women-and-code
> >
> was a mini-conference that explored tactics and strategy for including more
> women in engineering. Facebook hosted us.
>
> Founding of this group was inspired by my friend Brian Ray's example with
> what he does with his group ChiPy. Yannick Gingras was instrumental in
> getting our group going and introduced Dusty Phillips and me to each other.
>
> This month rather than go dark during a PyCon month, we held two events.
> Normally we meet second Wednesdays. This month we met on the 1st at Qumulo
> <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/220404014/>. Though I expected a
> smaller turnout for a PyCon month, we had 40 attendees with a waiting list
> of over 70.
>
> Because of the large number of our members who couldn't attend because of
> space limitations, we partnered with Seattle Data/Analytics/Machine
> Learning for a second event this past Tuesday at Redfin
> <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221665531/>. We had over 150
> RSVPs.
> About 130 made it to the meetup.
>
> Upcoming events at Indeed
> <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012040/>.com and Google
> <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012063/> have 130 and 170 RSVPs
> respectively.
>
> Please visit us. I've invited Audrey Roy Greenfeld, Danny Roy Greenfeld,
> Larry Hastings, Yannick Gingras, and Brian Ray to form an advisory council
> for us. With our organizers Dusty Phillips and Alan Vezina we'll create a
> form of an editorial calendar for our future meetups with topics for each
> meeting.
>
> I hope that the editorial calendar will help our speakers select speaking
> slots and out-of-town visitors to pick meetups to attend.
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow organizers Dusty
> Phillips, Alan Vezina, Brian Nitz, Tammy Lee, Paul Briant, David Kurkov,
> and Colin Dietrich.
>
> Visit us!
> ?
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On 4/12/2015 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> > >
> > >> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
> > you
> > >> haven't already.
> > >>
> > >
> > > The Triangle is not to be confused with the "Piedmont Triad" area of
> > North
> > > Carolina to the west encompassing Winston-Salem, Greenboro, and High
> > Point
> > > which have their own Python user group (PYPTUG).
> >
> >
> > Must be my cue :)
> >
> > I also have been subscribed to this list for a few years, since I started
> > PYPTUG in 2011. PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group, or PYPTUG has had
> > meetings in the Piedmont Triad area of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High
> > Point (and places in between like Thomasville and Kernersville). There
> is a
> > bit more detail on the beginnings of PYPTUG here:
> > http://www.pyptug.org/2012/08/python-piedmont-triad-user-group.html
> >
> > And the main reason I started it is on that page: "to promote and advance
> > computing, electronics and science in general in North Carolina using the
> > Python programming language, and through workshops and project nights
> where
> > people can learn, get help and mentor others. A secondary goal is to make
> > you, the artist, the engineer, the investor, the manager, the programmer,
> > the scientist, the teacher, better at your job."
> >
> > Currently we typically have 1 monthly meeting at Wake Forest U (in
> > Winston-Salem) and 1 project night at Inmar (also in Winston Salem) per
> > month (although we had more this year). If you'd like to come by and
> > present on a subject, do drop me a note.
> >
> > We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker
> hackerspace,
> > some lunch and learn with local schools and businesses, many Raspberry Pi
> > sessions over the past 3 years, and of course the Project Nights. During
> > those, we have a Newbie's Corner to provide one on one help either to
> learn
> > Python or to use it, set up a computer etc. We've also had some
> interesting
> > projects, ranging from the Pi-A-Sketch, to our latest project that
> consumed
> > all our free time in 2015, NSC-01:
> >
> > The first ever 7 node computing cluster sent into near space using a High
> > Altitude Balloon (and within the FAA regulations on weight...). All
> > controlled by Python 3:
> > http://www.pyptug.org/p/team-near-space-circus.html
> >
> > Of course we had to put the xkcd cartoon from import antigravity on the
> > payload itself, along with a QR code for PYPTUG and a notice to finder.
> >
> > This has allowed us to involve the student population a bit more. And
> since
> > their involvement, High Point U is now using Python and Raspberry Pis in
> 3
> > departments. We've also had meetings at local technical community
> colleges.
> > Next on my list is to get something going with High Schools. I've already
> > started that ball rolling.
> >
> > I do realize that I need to expand the geographical area in which we hold
> > our meetings. Greensboro and High Point have to start to be in the
> monthly
> > rotation, just as TriPython have been doing in their area, as it has been
> > hard to grow membership (around 120 at this time). Of course, we are
> still
> > young, but I've been keeping track of the suggestions on this list to
> > figure out what to do next.
> >
> > Francois
> > --
> > raspberry-python.blogspot.com - www.pyptug.org - www.3DFutureTech.info -
> > @f_dion
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