From kirby.urner at gmail.com  Mon Jan 11 18:52:45 2016
From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:52:45 -0800
Subject: [portland] Fwd: PythonCamp 2016 - Free (German) Knowledge Exchange
 (plus other news)
Message-ID: <CAPJgG3SEUHzDVZ+114-Gb4RFBifZeZgmrDo7OB=bJO-5WW6AuA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm sure others here saw this (appended).

I'm archiving it here to prove Portland is uber-cosmopolitan, with a direct
flight to Germany and everything.[1]  It'd be cool to drop everything and
just go, rent a car in Frankfurt -- no, take a train, yeah.

Google translate appearing right at the top of the gmail message does a
decent job if that's your client.  I'm impressed.

FYI, I'm winding up at O'Reilly Media in the next couple weeks after a good
run, taking on students through alternative experimental venues (ours was
nothing if not experimental).  Tonight I'm lurking in on a bootcamp @
<guild />.[2]

Like, I'm teaching competitor Californians Python 3.x via Saisoft.net.
California actually pays for some of its IT workers to get free in-place
professional development courses, wow.

Hey, I just found out about the new string interpolation features planned
for 3.6, thanks to an alert mentor whom I was observing.  Am I the last to
know about this?:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/

Bringing up the rear,

Kirby
oreillyschool.com






---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Oliver Frietsch <python at friets.ch>
Date: 2016-01-11 12:10 GMT-08:00
Subject: PythonCamp 2016 - Free (German) Knowledge Exchange
To: python-announce-list at python.org
Cc: PythonCamp DE <info at pythoncamp.de>


This is an announcement of a popular & free-to-participate, Python-focused
un-conference taking place in Cologne, Germany. My apologies to all readers
from other countries.

-----

Liebe Python-Fans,

es ist wieder soweit: Am  * Freitag, den 15. Januar *  ?ffnen wir die
Online-Anmeldung f?r Teilnehmer des PythonCamps 2016!

Die nunmehr siebte Ausgabe des PythonCamps wird erneut durch die Python
User Group K?ln sowie den Python Software Verband e.V. in den R?umen
unseres Partners GFU Cyrus AG in K?ln ausgerichtet.

* PythonCamp 2016: Sa-So, 02.04.2016 - 03.04.2016 *
*            http://www.pythoncamp.de             *

Unsere zweit?gige Veranstaltung richtet sich an alle, die sich f?r die
Programmiersprache Python und deren Einsatz begeistern - sei es im Bereich
Web Development, Automatisierung, Scientific Computing oder einfach nur zum
Spa?. Die Themen des PythonCamps sind so vielf?ltig wie die
Einsatzm?glichkeiten von Python selbst, denn das Programm wird - wie bei
einem BarCamp ?blich - ausschlie?lich von unseren Teilnehmern selbst
gestaltet.

Ihr habt einen Vortrag oder eine Demo im Angebot, m?chtet eine
Diskussionsrunde leiten oder mit Gleichgesinnten ein offenes Brainstorming
abhalten? Alles ist m?glich - bringt euren Session-Vorschlag einfach mit.
Ihr seid noch keine "Vortrags-Veteranen"? Das macht nichts. In unserer
famili?ren Atmosph?re haben schon viele Teilnehmer ihren ersten
?ffentlichen Vortrag gehalten - traut euch!

Dank unserer Sponsoren k?nnen wir euch diese "Un-Konferenz" *kostenlos*
(Hinweis: Teilnahme nur nach Voranmeldung) anbieten und sorgen dabei
tags?ber auch f?r euer leibliches Wohl. So treffen bei uns seit Jahren
Berufst?tige, Studenten und auch Sch?ler aus den verschiedensten
T?tigkeitsfeldern, Branchen und Organisationen aufeinander und bereichern
sich gegenseitig.

Meldet euch fr?hzeitig an - unsere Pl?tze sind begrenzt!

Euer PythonCamp Orga-Team
info at pythoncamp.de

P.S.: Du kennst eine weitere Mailingliste, deren Leser unser PythonCamp
ebenfalls interessieren k?nnte? Wir freuen uns ?ber Anregungen!

-- 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

       Support the Python Software Foundation:
       http://www.python.org/psf/donations/


[1]
https://www.condor.com/us/flights/germany/frankfurt-int/from-portland-oregon/index.jsp

[2]  PDX Code Guild, 2626 SW Corbett, look for me there
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From robotbill at gmail.com  Wed Jan 13 16:19:11 2016
From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:19:11 -0800
Subject: [portland] Brandon Rhodes Speaking to PuPPy Tonight. Streaming Live!
Message-ID: <CAPskiotpZzyNsggbMJ8iGd-opD0VcZF_Z7q+BUjLo3sqJewygQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,

Don Sheu the organizer of Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy) wrote to
let us know that Brandon Rhodes, the PyCon chair, will be speaking to PuPPy
tonight. This will be live streamed, so if you're are interested you can
watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghG7zz8G2I
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From pacopablo at pacopablo.com  Fri Jan 22 19:13:38 2016
From: pacopablo at pacopablo.com (John Hampton)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:13:38 -0800
Subject: [portland] [JOB] Python Developer
Message-ID: <CAHm5RMcXcePV+DzE6=0R6dD9TuOtCmY399KcJnMhCRRfbMCOkA@mail.gmail.com>

The company for which I work, Erickson Information Services, is looking to
hire a Python developer.  We are an IT company that provides services to a
local group of companies owned by, and including, Erickson Group, Ltd.


We have developed some internal tools and websites for the companies.  The
largest of which is the picking and receiving application for our
warehouse.  Currently it uses PythonCE on a Symbol MC9060 ?mobile computer?
[1] which talks to a web backend written in Pylons.  We are looking to
upgrade the Pylons backend to Flask as well as switch the client
application from the MC9060 to a Surface and Bluetooth scanner.  The
project will involve web stuffs, interfacing Python with C APIs, GUIs, and
others.


Beyond programming barcode scanner applications, we also have plans for
internal websites, integration between a telephony provider, such as
Twilio, and our ticketing system, and other projects as they may arise.


I am looking for someone with solid Python knowledge.  You don?t need to be
a guru, but I do need someone who is comfortable with things like list
comprehensions, appropriate uses of lambda, generators, etc.  While I think
any competent programmer can learn Python, I need someone who can start
digging into the existing code immediately.  I feel that anyone that is
already comfortable with Python can do so.


This is a full time position with medical, dental, vision, 401k, vacation
and paid time off.


If you are interested, or know someone who may be, please send your resume
/ cv and salary expectations to john dot hampton at erickson dot is. (yes,
that?s a .is domain) [2]


Erickson Information Services is located in Beaverton.  It is close to the
Beaverton Transit Center close to Beaverton-Hillsdale and I-217.  Having a
vehicle is not required, but will be helpful, when having to work with the
warehouse which is located in Hillsboro.


-John



[1]
http://www.isisintegration.co.uk/images/products/symbol_mc9000g_sidebar.jpg
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From robotbill at gmail.com  Sat Jan 23 15:54:25 2016
From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:54:25 -0800
Subject: [portland] Presentation Night This Thursday!
Message-ID: <CAPskiouL6rOtwjm2N2poOFsbcLeJ3N5Rn2ZB0GJdeBcY3pWnLQ@mail.gmail.com>

Presentation Night is back! This Thursday, January 28th at 6:30pm at Urban
Airship.

This week Amjith Ramanujam will be presenting "Modern Command Line".

Creating user-friendly command line tools in Python. Command line tools
need not be arcane incantations that requires you to memorize volumes of
man pages.


RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/226271539/

Hope to see you there!
Joe
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From robotbill at gmail.com  Sat Jan 23 16:00:15 2016
From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:00:15 -0800
Subject: [portland] [JOB] Python Developer
In-Reply-To: <CAHm5RMcXcePV+DzE6=0R6dD9TuOtCmY399KcJnMhCRRfbMCOkA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHm5RMcXcePV+DzE6=0R6dD9TuOtCmY399KcJnMhCRRfbMCOkA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPskiovxd5LmMP-fCJP08bZQR7eMT7YFhbew=o8W88PSf3_NYQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi John,

Just so you know, we're still looking for a pizza sponsor for this month's
presentation night on Thursday. In exchange for Pizza we'll tweet about you
and give you 5 minutes to talk to the audience about your company and the
open position.

If this interests you, please let me know. We'd very much appreciate it.
I've included our full sponsorship blurb below for your information.

Thanks,
Joe


Thank you for your interest in the Portland Python User Group!

We're a group of ~1600 Python developers in Portland who meet twice a month
to share ideas, discuss projects, and hack together. Our event calendar can
be found on Meetup at: http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/. Sponsoring our
group is an excellent way of connecting with the Python community in
Portland.

The most common type of sponsorship is the support of a single meeting with
food. Hot Lips Pizza is a favorite, and costs roughly $7/head, with a usual
turn out of 30-50 Pythonistas per meeting. However, it's important to note
that this can vary quite a bit - we've had more than 80 members at a
sponsored event in the past! The quantity of food needed is determined the
morning of the scheduled meeting based on the RSVP numbers. I would email
you around noon the day of the meeting with the final RSVP count, then
you'd take charge of ordering the pizza and having it delivered to the
meeting.

In exchange for supporting a meeting, we offer:


   -

   Acknowledgement in all promotional materials about the sponsored
   meeting, including tweets, blog posts and mailing list announcements
   -

   A logo, link, and blurb of your choice on our Meetup site, which shall
   remain for 3 months
   -

   Acknowledgement and thanks during the opening announcements of the
   sponsored meeting
   -

   3-5 minutes at the beginning of the sponsored meeting to speak to the
   group about your organization
   -

   An invitation to bring your organization's swag and promotional
   materials to make available at the sponsored meeting
   -

   An invitation to join our post-meeting social hour and network with
   members


A this time donations to The Portland Python User Group are not
tax-deductible, but we are working with the Python Software Foundation to
coordinate taking donations under the umbrella of their 501(c)(3)
designation.

Please feel free to get in touch if you'd like to discuss sponsoring one of
our meetings, or supporting our group in another way.


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:13 PM, John Hampton <pacopablo at pacopablo.com>
wrote:

> The company for which I work, Erickson Information Services, is looking to
> hire a Python developer.  We are an IT company that provides services to a
> local group of companies owned by, and including, Erickson Group, Ltd.
>
>
> We have developed some internal tools and websites for the companies.  The
> largest of which is the picking and receiving application for our
> warehouse.  Currently it uses PythonCE on a Symbol MC9060 ?mobile computer?
> [1] which talks to a web backend written in Pylons.  We are looking to
> upgrade the Pylons backend to Flask as well as switch the client
> application from the MC9060 to a Surface and Bluetooth scanner.  The
> project will involve web stuffs, interfacing Python with C APIs, GUIs, and
> others.
>
>
> Beyond programming barcode scanner applications, we also have plans for
> internal websites, integration between a telephony provider, such as
> Twilio, and our ticketing system, and other projects as they may arise.
>
>
> I am looking for someone with solid Python knowledge.  You don?t need to be
> a guru, but I do need someone who is comfortable with things like list
> comprehensions, appropriate uses of lambda, generators, etc.  While I think
> any competent programmer can learn Python, I need someone who can start
> digging into the existing code immediately.  I feel that anyone that is
> already comfortable with Python can do so.
>
>
> This is a full time position with medical, dental, vision, 401k, vacation
> and paid time off.
>
>
> If you are interested, or know someone who may be, please send your resume
> / cv and salary expectations to john dot hampton at erickson dot is. (yes,
> that?s a .is domain) [2]
>
>
> Erickson Information Services is located in Beaverton.  It is close to the
> Beaverton Transit Center close to Beaverton-Hillsdale and I-217.  Having a
> vehicle is not required, but will be helpful, when having to work with the
> warehouse which is located in Hillsboro.
>
>
> -John
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.isisintegration.co.uk/images/products/symbol_mc9000g_sidebar.jpg
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From robotbill at gmail.com  Sat Jan 23 16:06:22 2016
From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:06:22 -0800
Subject: [portland] Presentation Night This Thursday!
In-Reply-To: <CAPskiouL6rOtwjm2N2poOFsbcLeJ3N5Rn2ZB0GJdeBcY3pWnLQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAPskiouL6rOtwjm2N2poOFsbcLeJ3N5Rn2ZB0GJdeBcY3pWnLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPskiovEU6pxY=--xgBe5Vf9xFpV-NbR6FKgyQTL3+2==yMKWA@mail.gmail.com>

Also a reminder, if you're interested in presenting to the group in the
future please fill out this form http://bit.ly/portland-python-proposals

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Joe Lewis <robotbill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Presentation Night is back! This Thursday, January 28th at 6:30pm at Urban
> Airship.
>
> This week Amjith Ramanujam will be presenting "Modern Command Line".
>
> Creating user-friendly command line tools in Python. Command line tools
> need not be arcane incantations that requires you to memorize volumes of
> man pages.
>
>
> RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/226271539/
>
> Hope to see you there!
> Joe
>
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From kirby.urner at gmail.com  Sat Jan 23 16:27:53 2016
From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:27:53 -0800
Subject: [portland] [JOB] Python Developer
In-Reply-To: <CAHm5RMcXcePV+DzE6=0R6dD9TuOtCmY399KcJnMhCRRfbMCOkA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHm5RMcXcePV+DzE6=0R6dD9TuOtCmY399KcJnMhCRRfbMCOkA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPJgG3RXreeCK6q7i0pFgx3ZbHhmXhQQw8z5=WHxQBNN_GXxQg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the useful job opening announcement.  I haunt the Chipy listserv
too and appreciate seeing those.

As a teacher of the Python language, for PDX Code Guild, I'm always on the
lookout for real world job openings to decode:  "list comprehension",
"Pylons" -- this is the language to know.  What does it all mean?  Tiny
newspaper ads were relatively worthless in terms of giving insight into a
real world situation.

I'm also steering people towards Python User Group.  Our Guild meetup
forked off some time ago, as shown by the meetup mashup.  I let them know
another group in town is the one true Portland Python User Group that meets
at Urban Airship.

Kirby


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:13 PM, John Hampton <pacopablo at pacopablo.com>
wrote:

> The company for which I work, Erickson Information Services, is looking to
> hire a Python developer.  We are an IT company that provides services to a
> local group of companies owned by, and including, Erickson Group, Ltd.
>
>
>
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From robotbill at gmail.com  Mon Jan 25 21:53:31 2016
From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:53:31 -0800
Subject: [portland] Presentation Night This Thursday!
In-Reply-To: <CAPskiovEU6pxY=--xgBe5Vf9xFpV-NbR6FKgyQTL3+2==yMKWA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAPskiouL6rOtwjm2N2poOFsbcLeJ3N5Rn2ZB0GJdeBcY3pWnLQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAPskiovEU6pxY=--xgBe5Vf9xFpV-NbR6FKgyQTL3+2==yMKWA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPskiouySJQ7xqNbTOVPZ-My8pSyrv2WvQtoXT3rosqcOj-a7A@mail.gmail.com>

Also, there will be Pizza thanks to Erickson Information Systems (
https://erickson.is/)!

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Joe Lewis <robotbill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also a reminder, if you're interested in presenting to the group in the
> future please fill out this form http://bit.ly/portland-python-proposals
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Joe Lewis <robotbill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Presentation Night is back! This Thursday, January 28th at 6:30pm at
>> Urban Airship.
>>
>> This week Amjith Ramanujam will be presenting "Modern Command Line".
>>
>> Creating user-friendly command line tools in Python. Command line tools
>> need not be arcane incantations that requires you to memorize volumes of
>> man pages.
>>
>>
>> RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/226271539/
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>> Joe
>>
>
>
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