From robotbill at gmail.com Fri Mar 4 22:57:22 2016 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 19:57:22 -0800 Subject: [portland] Present to Portland Python! Message-ID: Are you working on something cool and want to share it with your peers? Did you recently discovered a great new Library and think everyone should know about it? Are you speaking at PyCon and want to practice in front of a welcoming audience? Fill out our form http://bit.ly/portland-python-proposals so that we can schedule you! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robotbill at gmail.com Tue Mar 22 00:34:57 2016 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:34:57 -0700 Subject: [portland] Presentation Night This Thursday! Message-ID: Presentation Night is this Thursday, March 24th at 6:30pm at Urban Airship. This month Paul Hobsen will present "Python in Civil/Environmental Engineering". There will be time for lightning talk after. If you have something you want to share, come prepared to give a 5 minute talk. If you've never given a talk before, don't worry we have a guide goo.gl/GdRz9H RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/229152085/ Are you working on something cool and want to share it with your peers? Did you recently discovered a great new Library and think everyone should know about it? Are you speaking at PyCon and want to practice in front of a welcoming audience? Fill out our form http://bit.ly/portland-python-proposals so that we can schedule you! If you're interested in sponsoring pizza for this or a future Presentation Night contact me, either directly or via Meetup. I hope to see you all there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirby.urner at gmail.com Sat Mar 26 15:18:33 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:18:33 -0700 Subject: [portland] blogosphere tailspin... great Urban Airship meetup! Message-ID: Greetings Pythonistas! What I'm appending at the end just looked like an interesting opportunity, and since we share infrastructure with Meetup anyway... why not? Then... I wanted to circle a couple paragraphs in this blogpost, a way of reintroducing myself and my friend Patrick, a neighbor and also co-worker at the recently-close code school run by O'Reilly. Patrick and I anchored the Python Track, authored by Steve Holden and still available on-line as a really substantive curriculum here: http://archive.oreilly.com/oreillyschool/courses/Python1/index.html http://archive.oreilly.com/oreillyschool/courses/Python2/index.html http://archive.oreilly.com/oreillyschool/courses/Python3/index.html http://archive.oreilly.com/oreillyschool/courses/Python4/index.html (creative commons, PDF downloads a feature -- just doesn't have quizzes and projects, which is what Patrick and I, Kelly and others, would coach them through). Patrick is hoping to share his "Python versus Python" talk, which I've seen at the Linus Pauling House (across from Third Eye on Hawthorne) and thought was excellent. Since moving on from O'Reilly, he's all about actually trapping physical pythons, the snakes, in the Florida Everglades, using the scipy stack. He has a patent pending on a tubular design, photo-recognition module in the offing. Oh the irony, where is the xkcd comic? http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2016/03/twists-and-turns.html (pictures). Neither Patrick nor I are snake haters in any way; his family has a pet python (so does mine). The situation is Florida is unfortunate. The line of research he's pursuing could have applications in many domains, especially this part involving computer vision. There should be a way of clicking through on those slides in my blog post (if your client shows them in the first place) to the underlying Photostream which has a few more pix from the talk, all downloadable. Another feature of interest may be the survey of the Powell's Python-related inventory, a good window into the State of Python in our time. For future reference anyway, feel free to bookmark etc. [ I've also got some old Pycons in there (as Albums), past user groups and even a bar camp or two. I hope to get some pix at the upcoming Pycon of course (yes I registered, but didn't propose to give a talk as I don't want to miss anything by doing mine -- maybe next year?). ] BTW, I really love that colorful multi-monitor Windyty [tm] vector field display in the lobby, you can tell I've not been to the Vestas building in awhile. That went well with the GIS flavor of the talk, same ideas (vectored flows, grid overlays). I hope to make the next couple Python Circus things at 2626 SW Corbett, distinct from the User Group, this coming Monday @ . Full disclosure: I used to show up on their team page but went off in the latest re-shuffle. I may go on again down the road. https://flic.kr/p/E15V2R (in my PDX Code Guild Album). Of late I've been encouraging code schools in Vietnam to experiment with the MEAN stack why not? There's an interest in just sticking with one language, newly possible given JavaScript's migration to the server. I've circled mean.io etc. More on edu-sig (a Python.org listserv I co-own). Of course I couldn't presume to be the main mentor for a boot camp with such a JavaScript-only stack. I'm more about Python on the back end, but that's just me (and some other people :-D). We welcome diversity as the more robust JavaScript becomes, the easier become our jobs more generally (where JavaScript is a dependency). I like the idea of cross-training in at least two stacks and keep sampling Clojure as another fun one. Wouldn't it be cool if as a part of a Computer Science degree at PSU one could elect to do one semester in Vietnam attending a code school intensive in JavaScript. It'd still be in English and students there would come here, a reciprocal agreement, nothing new in academia. You'd knock out some other requirements in International Studies or whatever, presuming additional courses were available in your destination academy. In lieu of a five minute lightning talk, here's my 7-minute Youtube, delivered asynchronously, very recently uploaded, featuring Jupyter Notebooks with Pi Day a theme: https://youtu.be/x61uUu_amDk See you soon, at Pycon maybe if not before! Kirby Urner (Hawthorne District, Patrick too!) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aaron Wykoff Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:54 AM Subject: [Portland-Technology-Careers-N-Beers] Take Over This Meetup? To: Portland-Technology-Careers-N-Beers-announce at meetup.com I recently moved back to LA from Portland, and am looking for someone to take over ownership of this Meetup, Portland Technology Careers N' Beers. There are over 1,000 members. I'd like to see it survive and thrive. 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