From brian at python.org Mon Feb 3 17:00:39 2014 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:00:39 -0000 Subject: [portland] PyCon 2014 Call for Proposals, New Website Message-ID: Hi Portland Python Users Group! PyCon 2014, taking place April 9-17 in Montreal, has just passed 1600 tickets sold, and we're seeing sales ramp up very quickly. Late last week we were announcing the 1500 mark, and with a cap of 2000 tickets, we expect these last four hundred to move quickly. Head to https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/ to buy yours today! This year's talk schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/talks/, along with a keynote series including EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow; IPython creator, Fernando Perez; PSF director, Jessica McKellar; PSF chairman, Van Lindberg; and Python's creator, Guido van Rossum. The tutorial schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/tutorials/, and spaces are limited! You'd be hard pressed to find a better value than our tutorials. We've long thought PyCon to be family friendly, and last year's aYoung Codera tutorials were a hugely successful step towards showing it. The tutorials are back again this year, with registration opening shortly for children 12 and over: https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/letslearnpython/. For kids under 12, we're pleased to be offering childcare! See https://us.pycon.org/2014/childcare/ for details. The 5K Charity Fun Run is on its third year, with proceeds benefiting the EFF. It's a fun time and supports a good cause. For the 5K and many other events, check out the Events section on https://us.pycon.org/2014/ Make sure your passport is in order, as you need one to cross the border. More details available here: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2014/01/pycon-attendees-from-us-you-need.html For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pycon, and on our blog at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you in Montreal! Diana Clarke, Chair diana.joan.clarke at gmail.com Brian Curtin, Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org From brian at python.org Mon Feb 3 17:05:24 2014 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:05:24 -0000 Subject: [portland] PyCon 2014 - 400 tickets remain! Message-ID: Hi Portland Python Users Group! [I apologize for a second email - this got sent with an old and out-of-date subject line.] PyCon 2014, taking place April 9-17 in Montreal, has just passed 1600 tickets sold, and we're seeing sales ramp up very quickly. Late last week we were announcing the 1500 mark, and with a cap of 2000 tickets, we expect these last four hundred to move quickly. Head to https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/ to buy yours today! This year's talk schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/talks/, along with a keynote series including EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow; IPython creator, Fernando Perez; PSF director, Jessica McKellar; PSF chairman, Van Lindberg; and Python's creator, Guido van Rossum. The tutorial schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/tutorials/, and spaces are limited! You'd be hard pressed to find a better value than our tutorials. We've long thought PyCon to be family friendly, and last year's aYoung Codera tutorials were a hugely successful step towards showing it. The tutorials are back again this year, with registration opening shortly for children 12 and over: https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/letslearnpython/. For kids under 12, we're pleased to be offering childcare! See https://us.pycon.org/2014/childcare/ for details. The 5K Charity Fun Run is on its third year, with proceeds benefiting the EFF. It's a fun time and supports a good cause. For the 5K and many other events, check out the Events section on https://us.pycon.org/2014/ Make sure your passport is in order, as you need one to cross the border. More details available here: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2014/01/pycon-attendees-from-us-you-need.html For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pycon, and on our blog at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you in Montreal! Diana Clarke, Chair diana.joan.clarke at gmail.com Brian Curtin, Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org From teknotus at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 20:34:22 2014 From: teknotus at gmail.com (Daniel Johnson) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:34:22 -0800 Subject: [portland] New C/C++/Assembly users group Message-ID: There are many Python packages that use C or C++. You probably need one just to connect to a database. I'm working on starting a users group for those languages which aren't python, but can be bound to python. New Relic is hosting on Second Tuesdays. This day might be easy for you to remember. ;-) Should be a beginner talk first, and advanced talk second. website http://pdxbyte.org/ mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdxbyte -- teknotus (Take Notice) From cherice at urbanairship.com Tue Feb 18 19:16:28 2014 From: cherice at urbanairship.com (Cherice Withers-Melchior) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:16:28 -0800 Subject: [portland] New C/C++/Assembly users group In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Daniel... thank you so much for this info! Good luck with your new group. I love hearing of new groups like this popping up in our community! ...Cherice On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > There are many Python packages that use C or C++. You probably need > one just to connect to a database. I'm working on starting a users > group for those languages which aren't python, but can be bound to > python. > > New Relic is hosting on Second Tuesdays. This day might be easy for > you to remember. ;-) > > Should be a beginner talk first, and advanced talk second. > > website > http://pdxbyte.org/ > mailing list > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdxbyte > > -- > teknotus (Take Notice) > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > Portland at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -- *Cherice Withers-Melchior* Recruiter Urban Airship | 1417 NW Everett St. | Suite 300 | Portland OR 97209 e: cherice at urbanairship.com | c: 503-201-2161 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michelle at pdxpython.org Tue Feb 25 05:53:20 2014 From: michelle at pdxpython.org (Michelle Rowley) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:53:20 -0800 Subject: [portland] New group forming: Code for Portland Message-ID: Hey PDX Pythonistas, Here's an announcement about a cool new Meetup one of our members (Mele Sax-Barnett) is helping to organize. Please share far and wide, and RSVP for the first meeting on Sunday, March 2nd! There's an awesome group forming in Portland that seeks to bring together programmers and government for public good, and they could use your help: Interested in building the next generation of civic hackers and innovators here in Portland? We're just getting started! Code for Portland is a Code for America brigade that will have regular meetups and other events to help bring together creative problem solvers with local community groups and government. Let's build a better Portland together! "Use the power of technology to make our community a better place with Code for Portland" What: Code for Portland's 1st Meetup to talk about the types of projects and areas of public service you're interested in working on. When: Sunday, March 2, 2014 from 1-5pm Where: Esri R&D Center (aka Geoloqi HQ) 920 SW 3rd Ave #400 REGISTER HERE: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-portland-kickoff-meeting-tickets-10729996709 More info: http://calagator.org/events/1250465691 Even more info: http://codeforamerica.org/about/brigade/ All programming languages are needed! Please share. All levels of technical ability are encouraged to attend. Your technical and non-technical skills are all needed in navigating the waters of this collaborative effort. Michelle Rowley Organizer, Portland Python User Group Executive Director, Code Scouts Founder + Chief Culture Strategist, Cultivate & Co. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ethan at stoneleaf.us Thu Feb 27 16:14:30 2014 From: ethan at stoneleaf.us (Ethan Furman) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:14:30 -0800 Subject: [portland] Fwd: ANN: Python Job Board - Call for volunteers In-Reply-To: <530F52DE.9000704@python.org> References: <530F52DE.9000704@python.org> Message-ID: <530F5656.3090807@stoneleaf.us> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ANN: Python Job Board - Call for volunteers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:59:42 +0100 From: M.-A. Lemburg Organization: Python Software Foundation (PSF) To: Python List [Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)] Dear Python Community, for many years, the Python Job board (http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/) was run by volunteers - most of the time by just one volunteer at a time until they moved on to spend their time on other things. We've now reached such a point again. In these years, the volume on the job board has significantly increased, as it got more and more popular. It is now at around 2-5 postings per day and most of those positions get filled quickly - which is an indication of how useful this service is to the Python community. To scale up and revive the job board, the PSF would now like to setup a *team of volunteers* to run the job board and this is our call for help. How does the job board work ? ----------------------------- At the moment, the job board is maintained on the legacy site (http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/), but since we've launched our brand new website (http://www.python.org/), we'd like to move the job board over to that site. Instead of the repository based approach used on the old site, the new site has database support to aid in more easily processing and filing job listings. There's a job board mailing list which helps coordinate the task of reviewing and filing job offers. Currently, all job submissions get sent to this mailing list, but with the job board app, the submission process can be moved over to the website's database. What does it take to run the job board ? ---------------------------------------- You have to review the job postings, request changes if they are too long, don't clearly state the need for Python skills, or have quality issues. After review, the job board app will then allow posting the jobs on the website by simply setting the status to published. Communication with the submitters is usually done by email and via the mailing list, so all team members can see the communication and help out if necessary. Please note: This is just a high level overview. The details need to be hashed out by the new team. Does the job board app work already ? ------------------------------------- It does, but is disabled at the moment due to lack of volunteers. Since the site just launched there may also well be some issues with the job board app. On the positive side there's a lot happening around the site at the moment, so if you have change requests, these will usually be implemented quickly - or you can jump in, hack on the job board app and submit a pull request yourself: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/tree/master/jobs These are exciting times and this is your chance to make a difference ! Ok, I like new challenges - where do I sign up ? ------------------------------------------------ Great :-) Please write to jobs at python.org I have a question... -------------------- If you have questions, you can write me or the PSF board at psf at python.org. Many thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director Python Software Foundation http://www.python.org/psf/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list