From rshepard at appl-ecosys.com  Tue Jan  8 18:43:33 2013
From: rshepard at appl-ecosys.com (Rich Shepard)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:43:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>

   I'm starting to learn plone4 for both upgrading my company web site and as
the front end to a large, web-hosted client application with postgres
(running on linux with apache) as the back end. I'm reading books and web
sites/blogs but could benefit from local expertise, too. For that matter,
I'm open to offering equity in this latter application (which I want to sell
to a separate company when the first couple of clients are up and running)
for help developing it.

Rich


From kirby.urner at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 19:28:06 2013
From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:28:06 -0800
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
Message-ID: <CAPJgG3TrLDJwdvEQ5Qv=SYqD0jvQwX6w-DhA3Pytg5FKwZyWuQ@mail.gmail.com>

I've bumped into Richard Amerman a few times in the last few months, I
think starting with OSCON, so I know he's around.  Might be worth
contacting.

http://www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=933377512&targetid=profile

Kirby


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   I'm starting to learn plone4 for both upgrading my company web site and
> as
> the front end to a large, web-hosted client application with postgres
> (running on linux with apache) as the back end. I'm reading books and web
> sites/blogs but could benefit from local expertise, too. For that matter,
> I'm open to offering equity in this latter application (which I want to
> sell
> to a separate company when the first couple of clients are up and running)
> for help developing it.
>
> Rich
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> Portland mailing list
> Portland at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/portland<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland>
>
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From rshepard at appl-ecosys.com  Tue Jan  8 19:32:22 2013
From: rshepard at appl-ecosys.com (Rich Shepard)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:32:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
In-Reply-To: <CAPJgG3TrLDJwdvEQ5Qv=SYqD0jvQwX6w-DhA3Pytg5FKwZyWuQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
	<CAPJgG3TrLDJwdvEQ5Qv=SYqD0jvQwX6w-DhA3Pytg5FKwZyWuQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301081031520.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, kirby urner wrote:

> I've bumped into Richard Amerman a few times in the last few months, I
> think starting with OSCON, so I know he's around.  Might be worth
> contacting.

Kirby,

   Thanks! I'll follow up on your suggestion.

Rich


From jon at upstartlabs.com  Tue Jan  8 19:57:06 2013
From: jon at upstartlabs.com (Jon Baldivieso)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:57:06 -0800
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
Message-ID: <9341C664-364C-466C-A2FA-4C01123B0E3B@upstartlabs.com>

Hi Rich -- I made a few attempts at creating a Portland Plone Users group years ago, but it seemed like there wasn't really a user base here to support it. Seattle has more active users, though. I'd put out a message to the Plone Users list if trying to drum up people there. (I formerly worked at a consultancy deploying Plone sites, but am no longer doing CMS work.)

Good luck!

Jon

Jon Baldivieso | Senior Project Manager | Upstart Labs | www.upstartlabs.com




On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>  I'm starting to learn plone4 for both upgrading my company web site and as
> the front end to a large, web-hosted client application with postgres
> (running on linux with apache) as the back end. I'm reading books and web
> sites/blogs but could benefit from local expertise, too. For that matter,
> I'm open to offering equity in this latter application (which I want to sell
> to a separate company when the first couple of clients are up and running)
> for help developing it.
> 
> Rich
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Portland mailing list
> Portland at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland

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From rshepard at appl-ecosys.com  Tue Jan  8 20:03:42 2013
From: rshepard at appl-ecosys.com (Rich Shepard)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:03:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
In-Reply-To: <9341C664-364C-466C-A2FA-4C01123B0E3B@upstartlabs.com>
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
	<9341C664-364C-466C-A2FA-4C01123B0E3B@upstartlabs.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301081102280.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Jon Baldivieso wrote:

> I made a few attempts at creating a Portland Plone Users group years ago,
> but it seemed like there wasn't really a user base here to support it.

Jon,

   I had the same issues with a LaTeX/TeX users group locally.

> Seattle has more active users, though.

   I saw that and will join their mail list.

Thanks,

Rich


From carlos.hanson at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 20:29:41 2013
From: carlos.hanson at gmail.com (Carlos Hanson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:29:41 -0800
Subject: [portland] Any Plone 4 Users Here?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301080939040.30877@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
Message-ID: <CAJLpMWky6A-+PFeK2LcDMeyZ5duP+uRrrZKXfQD1WjosjVaA2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I'm starting to learn plone4 for both upgrading my company web site and as
> the front end to a large, web-hosted client application with postgres
> (running on linux with apache) as the back end. I'm reading books and web
> sites/blogs but could benefit from local expertise, too. For that matter,
> I'm open to offering equity in this latter application (which I want to sell
> to a separate company when the first couple of clients are up and running)
> for help developing it.
>
> Rich

I have developed a few apps in Plone 3.5, but never needed to upgrade
them to Plone 4. I thought I was going to stop playing with Plone, but
recently decided to start up again.


-- 
Carlos Hanson

From teknotus at gmail.com  Wed Jan  9 02:24:14 2013
From: teknotus at gmail.com (Daniel Johnson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:24:14 -0800
Subject: [portland] Meeting tonight
Message-ID: <CA+nDE0iv-CPw2n+W79xiQ2Cwa15rHE6s-73Ffo3aG1QwWysoiw@mail.gmail.com>

According to meetup there is a meeting tonight. Seems like it should
have been mentioned here as well...

Also put it up on http://calagator.org/events/1250463352

Python monthly presentation meeting
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 6:30?9pm

Urban Airship
334 NW 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209, US

This month's meeting is sponsored by Glider! Glider is a SaaS company
that helps teams work together to close contract negotiations quickly.
They're venture funded (TechStars, True Ventures) and looking to grow
their technical team.

Please RSVP if you'd like to partake in the refreshments provided by Glider.



Talks:

* Machine Learning with Python Intermediate Talk by Michel Pelletier

This talk will include an introduction to Machine Learning for new Pythonistas.



* Lighting Talks All levels by YOU!

Bring your 5-minute talks to share with the group. Anyone is welcome
to give a lightning talk! Sign up at the beginning of the meeting.



Join us afterward at Bailey's to continue the discussion over a beverage.


Join us on our python.org mailing list and on #pdxpython on Freenode.
All are welcome!

PDX Python on Twitter http://twitter.com/pdxpython

Portland Python Web Site http://pdxpython.org/

From keturn at keturn.net  Thu Jan 10 00:42:13 2013
From: keturn at keturn.net (Kevin Turner)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:42:13 -0800
Subject: [portland] Meeting tonight
In-Reply-To: <CA+nDE0iv-CPw2n+W79xiQ2Cwa15rHE6s-73Ffo3aG1QwWysoiw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+nDE0iv-CPw2n+W79xiQ2Cwa15rHE6s-73Ffo3aG1QwWysoiw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1357774933.22190.140661175584157.0A9B4E3D@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013, at 05:24 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> According to meetup there is a meeting tonight. Seems like it should
> have been mentioned here as well...

Thanks for catching that, Daniel.  Our regular organizer was out of town
this week, and I may have dropped some balls while filling in, including
that one.

(This is probably a good time to mention that we could use a new
co-organizer for the group to help spread the load around and increase
our Truck Number.*)

Also a reminder that while this list is often pretty darn quiet, we do
maintain the meetup page for events:
http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/

and the IRC channel is usually active, #pdxpython on chat.freenode.net.


Thanks to all of you who came out last night!

To recap, we had Machine Learning with Python by Michel Pelletier, who
gave a high-level introduction to Scikit-Learn and talked a bit about
how it works for them at Trapit.
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

Justin Abrahms introduced his application for following github activity
at a somewhat more reasonable pace than the every-commit notifications:
http://gitstreams.com/

Eric Holscher shared his plans for the next six months, after years of
Python development: [no URL, mountains and trees don't have URLs (yet),
go outside]

Michael Schurter talked about using mmstats to get visibility on the
progress of scripts:
http://blog.schmichael.com/2012/10/03/mmstats-in-scripts/

Christopher Swenson on Sublime Text's plug-in API:
https://github.com/swenson/sublime_whitespace

and Raphael (sorry, I didn't catch your last name) gave a lightning
introduction to getting started with Django:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/

We also heard from this month's food sponsor, Glider, about the work
they're doing with collaboration on contracts and other secure
documents.  They're hiring!  http://glider.com/about-us/careers/

And speaking of food, thank you for being the test subjects for my
attempt to provide a gluten-free menu.  Please pass along any feedback
to me (we know: get food there earlier!), and if you liked the food,
there's more where that came from at http://CulturedCavemanPDX.com.

Lastly, we had a request for streaming the event, for those who can't
make it downtown (or for those who can't find a seat; there were a lot
of you last night!).  If you have any expertise in that sort of thing
and would be willing to help out on presentation nights, please do let
us know.

Cheers,

 - Kevin


* Truck Number: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TruckNumber

From brian at python.org  Mon Jan 14 16:34:44 2013
From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:34:44 -0000
Subject: [portland] PyCon 2013 Schedule Announced!
Message-ID: <mailman.2319.1358177684.2938.portland@python.org>

Hi Portland Python Users Group!

It's that time of year again: the PyCon schedule has been announced and the rush to pick up tickets is on! https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/ was completed last week, and we've seen a sharp increase in sales as we approach 1,500 registrations. This year we're limiting the attendance to 2,500 for our second year in Santa Clara, CA. The conference runs from March 13-21.

The 2013 edition of PyCon is going to be the biggest and best yet. We've added a sixth track of talks, giving you 114 presentations to view. Tutorials are better than ever, with an even wider range of topics than before. They keynotes are being given by an excellent group: Eben Upton, Jessica McKellar, Raymond Hettinger, and Guido van Rossum.

Tickets are available now at https://us.pycon.org/2013/registration/. Student rates were cut in half for 2013 to $125, and individual registrations are only $350. Corporate tickets are currently $600. No matter what group you fall into, the value PyCon provides is incredible.

We've got a ton of great events going on throughout the conference. There's a workshop for kids 12 and under to learn Python - https://us.pycon.org/2013/events/letslearnpython/. The successful PyData conference is running during the sprints - http://sv2013.eventbrite.com/. The Postgres community is running PyPgDay during the tutorials - https://us.pycon.org/2013/events/pgday/.

We're once again doing the 5K run, and the open spaces and sprints will be a blast as well. We also have a few tricks up our sleeve that we'll update you on at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ and https://www.twitter.com/PyCon.

If your organization is interested in sponsoring PyCon, check out our prospectus at https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/prospectus/ and contact conference chairman Jesse Noller at jnoller at python.org with any questions.

Thanks for your time, and we hope to see you at PyCon 2013!

Jesse Noller
PyCon Chairman
jnoller at python.org

Brian Curtin
PyCon Publicity Coordinator
brian at python.org


From kirby.urner at gmail.com  Mon Jan 21 08:24:46 2013
From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:24:46 -0800
Subject: [portland] reminder re Apachecon (new Portland conference)
Message-ID: <CAPJgG3Rq3oE=Tv=bvwuoL=nfoOnL2jYGqdtVzd249YhhaywSUw@mail.gmail.com>

I know we who live in town and intend to attend Apachecon in February do
not need hotel rooms.

However, if you have friends that do, or you yourself want the lowest
tutorial rates, check here:

http://na.apachecon.com/

Send 'em a link.

This is the first Apachecon in Portland and brings many more open source
projects into focus.

Make new friends.  Network.  Discover new projects.

Here's a schedule:

http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/

Kirby
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From michelle at pdxpython.org  Fri Jan 25 07:39:34 2013
From: michelle at pdxpython.org (Michelle Rowley)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:39:34 -0800
Subject: [portland] ApacheCon coming up - 25% discount on registration!
Message-ID: <CAE7UraPdpmgjqPHH5LZW6_XLUbE=BediXwbOUv38zd3YHOSYLw@mail.gmail.com>

Hey all,

Just FYI, we've been offered a 25% discount on ApacheCon coming up
next month here in Portland. The discount applies not only to the full
conference registration, but to the half-day tutorials, which look
really good. See more details below.

----
ApacheCon (http://na.apachecon.com/) is coming up here in Portland
February 26th - 28th. To honor our city and its programmers, the
conference organizers have made a special discount rate for us. Anyone
registering with promo code PDXGROUPS will receive a 25% discount on
tutorials. Some of the awesome half-day tutorials available are:

* Apache httpd Basics
* Crash Course on Web Services Security
* A Beginner's Guide to Apache CouchDB
* Getting Started with Apache Flex
* Working with Apache Cocoon

And there are many more. This is a great opportunity to increase your
skills + knowledge about server-side development with Apache. Since
it's in Portland, it's also a really great deal for us Portlanders who
don't have to pay for a hotel.

If you can't make the conference, there are also some free and open
events happening:

* Barcamp on 2/24
* Apache Hackathon on 2/25

You don't need to register for the conference to take part in those -
Portland community members are welcome to come along, meet Apache
project members and try to find points of common interest. (If
software fails one might try beer).

Feel free to pass on the 25% discount rate to any other Portland locals!