From gclemmer at newurbanresearch.org Tue Aug 4 23:40:09 2009 From: gclemmer at newurbanresearch.org (Gina Clemmer) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:40:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PyAR2] Just Announced - Mapping Arkansas Communities Workshop REGISTER TODAY Message-ID: <1249422009_SectionID-153678_HitID-1249419200181_SiteID-15089_EmailID-75016640_DB-1@ss31.gmmailer03.com> Mapping Arkansas Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis Little Rock: April 24th, 2009 Complete Computing Inc. - One City Center, 400 West 7th Street Little Rock, AR 72201 *Note: The one-day workshop is 8:30am - 4:30pm. More Info/Registration: www.nur-online.com Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community. Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following: Create thematic maps Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and display spatial trends in information. Address mapping (geocoding) Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their projects or incidents such as crime and disease. Download and Map Census & American Community Survey Data Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as poverty, race, language, population, transportation, education and workforce characteristics. Participants will also learn to: Conduct spatial queries Download free shapefiles Create well-designed maps Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises are designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required. Materials + Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation, exercises and reference worksheets, + ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set, + Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files (converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful geographies + Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local Demographic Analysis Online Workshop What People Are Saying University of Arkansas - Medical Sciences: "This workshop was a very helpful experience and well taught." Northwest Arkansas Community College: "The class was great and very informative. The hands on activities were great and the instructor was fabulous." Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Services: "Great Job!" Injury Free Coalition for Kids: "Great experience, will be a great help in my job." 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For more information, go to training.oreilly.com/videosurvey Until next time-- Marsee Henon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat Aug 22 16:33:15 2009 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:33:15 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas Plans Message-ID: Hello, Everyone - After taking a few weeks off to get my daughter off to College, it's time for me to start work on pyArkansas 2009. Our planed date is Saturday, November 14th at UCA. We have Jacob Kaplan-Moss (the creator of the Django web framework) and Gloria Jacobs scheduled to come as well as speakers from the UCA and Hendrix Departments of Computer Science. There will be room for 4 talks and open space as well. I would like to see over 100 people attend this year. Here's what needs to get done. I can not emphasize enough that I can not do all of this alone! Last year we had Chad Cooper giving way too much of his time, but he's moved to Texas and we're on our own. I want to assure you that you can do this. The only requirement is that you want ot help out. I will help you (because I have a whole year experience :-). There are a lot of people who have told me they want this conference to go forward -- I do, too -- but a miniconference is a community effort. Time to step up! To do ASAP 1. We need to create a flier so we can get a mailing out to high schools/colleges. We have $500.00 pledged from the Conway Advertising and Promotion (A&P) Commission that I was planning to use towards this. Anyone out there have the talent to create a 85.x11 "poster"? If not, I have a friend who owns a print shop that may be willing to help out. Perhaps Char Russell at the Chamber of Comerce has some contacts. Who wants to take this on? 2. We need to get requests for support out. My employer, Novasys Health, has indicated they are willing to help out, but we need someone to contact local businesses (Acxiom, HP, SW Energy, etc.) requesting funds. This is extremely important!! The Conway Chamber of Commerce has pledged help, but we have to show that we are serious. My initial budget called for about $3,500.00 (some of which we may be able to get offset with "free" hotel rooms, etc.). Anyone want to take on fundraising? 3. Jacob has indicated he would like to teach an "advanced" Django course. Anyone out there willing to do a "Django 101" class? Just sho how to create a basic web site and Jacob will take it from there. To Start On: 1. Swag. Everyone likes free stuff, and there are companies willing to give it away! Someone needs to contact O'Reilly, Manning, Wingware, WearPython, etc. and ask for freebies. This is, or can be, a really fun position to take on. 2. Promotion. Get the word out to mailing lists, tweets, newspaper, tv, anyone who will listen. If you have contacts with any media outlet this may be for you. 3. Web site. We have a presence on http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage. Who wants to keep it up to date? I am going to contact Chad Rusell as well as some folks in town who he has indicated may be in a position to help out. I remain excited about this. --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nathandavis2121 at gmail.com Mon Aug 24 18:18:34 2009 From: nathandavis2121 at gmail.com (Nathan Davis) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:18:34 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] PyAR2 Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3c3f5c1e0908240918x4dfd8c59v24930e635ab72140@mail.gmail.com> 3. Web site. We have a presence on http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage. Who wants to keep it up to date? I will volunteer to keep the site updated. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM, wrote: > Send PyAR2 mailing list submissions to > pyar2 at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2 > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pyar2-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pyar2-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PyAR2 digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. pyArkansas Plans (Greg Lindstrom) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:33:15 -0500 > From: Greg Lindstrom > To: pyar2 , pyar2-organizers at python.org > Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas Plans > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, Everyone - > > After taking a few weeks off to get my daughter off to College, it's time > for me to start work on pyArkansas 2009. Our planed date is Saturday, > November 14th at UCA. We have Jacob Kaplan-Moss (the creator of the Django > web framework) and Gloria Jacobs scheduled to come as well as speakers from > the UCA and Hendrix Departments of Computer Science. There will be room > for > 4 talks and open space as well. I would like to see over 100 people attend > this year. > > Here's what needs to get done. I can not emphasize enough that I can not do > all of this alone! Last year we had Chad Cooper giving way too much of his > time, but he's moved to Texas and we're on our own. I want to assure you > that you can do this. The only requirement is that you want ot help out. > I > will help you (because I have a whole year experience :-). There are a lot > of people who have told me they want this conference to go forward -- I do, > too -- but a miniconference is a community effort. Time to step up! > > To do ASAP > > 1. We need to create a flier so we can get a mailing out to high > schools/colleges. We have $500.00 pledged from the Conway Advertising and > Promotion (A&P) Commission that I was planning to use towards this. Anyone > out there have the talent to create a 85.x11 "poster"? If not, I have a > friend who owns a print shop that may be willing to help out. Perhaps Char > Russell at the Chamber of Comerce has some contacts. Who wants to take > this > on? > > 2. We need to get requests for support out. My employer, Novasys Health, > has indicated they are willing to help out, but we need someone to contact > local businesses (Acxiom, HP, SW Energy, etc.) requesting funds. This is > extremely important!! The Conway Chamber of Commerce has pledged help, but > we have to show that we are serious. My initial budget called for about > $3,500.00 (some of which we may be able to get offset with "free" hotel > rooms, etc.). Anyone want to take on fundraising? > > 3. Jacob has indicated he would like to teach an "advanced" Django course. > Anyone out there willing to do a "Django 101" class? Just sho how to > create > a basic web site and Jacob will take it from there. > > > To Start On: > > 1. Swag. Everyone likes free stuff, and there are companies willing to > give it away! Someone needs to contact O'Reilly, Manning, Wingware, > WearPython, etc. and ask for freebies. This is, or can be, a really fun > position to take on. > > 2. Promotion. Get the word out to mailing lists, tweets, newspaper, tv, > anyone who will listen. If you have contacts with any media outlet this > may > be for you. > > 3. Web site. We have a presence on > http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage. Who wants to keep it up to > date? > > > I am going to contact Chad Rusell as well as some folks in town who he has > indicated may be in a position to help out. I remain excited about this. > > --greg > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/pyar2/attachments/20090822/4c9e4c3b/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PyAR2 mailing list > PyAR2 at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2 > > > End of PyAR2 Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4 > ************************************ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 02:05:47 2009 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:47 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] PyArkansas Update Message-ID: Good news! We've had some people step up to the task of organizing pyArkansas! This is a community mini-conference and I'm really happy to see others join in the, ahem, fun. Here's who I have down: * Fund Raising *Chad Russell of the Conway Chamber of Commerce has taken this on. I can't begin to tell you how extraordinary this it (but I"ll try). When I approached the Chamber last year I really didn't expect much. Chad and his friends really came through and is taking on, in my opinion, the toughest part of pyArkansas. Other local conferences can not believe the support we get from Conway (and they are very happy for us). *Swag* Paul Watson has agreed to tackle this. I'll start compiling a list of people/agencies we can ask. There are a lot of "Python" businesses we can approach (O'Reilly, Wingware, Python Magazine, etc.) and some local businesses as well. I'd like a nice swag bag if we can build one. *Promotion* Bob Fahr is going to build the poster. We need others to contact local media (Newspaper, TV, Radio, Living Local, etc.) to get the word out and get us some coverage. We also need to get invites out to Arkansas High Schools and Colleges/Universities. *Web* Nathan Davis will keep our web (wiki) up to date. I'll be meeting with Chad next week to discuss what to do next. I know we need the poster/flier and inviations to go out next month. More later. Check out the wiki at http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/Organizers --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srilyk at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 03:36:37 2009 From: srilyk at gmail.com (Wayne) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:37 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] PyArkansas Update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <333efb450908251836k221e2f84yece578f20c60150f@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > > *Promotion* > Bob Fahr is going to build the poster. We need others to contact local > media (Newspaper, TV, Radio, Living Local, etc.) to get the word out and get > us some coverage. We also need to get invites out to Arkansas High Schools > and Colleges/Universities. When we get the poster I can put some up around UCA and put something up on SCTV. If we don't have a list I would be willing to compile a list of radio/newspaper contact info (and contact said places). I bet we could get a spokesperson on 94.9 Tom FM as the ordinary listener of the week if they're still doing that. I think Greg would be the best candidate for that ;) > > > *Web* > Nathan Davis will keep our web (wiki) up to date. > I think that would be a good place to store contact info for media folks. -Wayne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From supercooper at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 13:54:09 2009 From: supercooper at gmail.com (Chad Cooper) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:54:09 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] PyArkansas Update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8398c3a60908260454x161ff0ax6c4674cb8502da4c@mail.gmail.com> chad! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Good news! We've had some people step up to the task of organizing > pyArkansas! This is a community mini-conference and I'm really happy to see > others join in the, ahem, fun. Here's who I have down: > * > Fund Raising > *Chad Russell of the Conway Chamber of Commerce has taken this on. I > can't begin to tell you how extraordinary this it (but I"ll try). When I > approached the Chamber last year I really didn't expect much. Chad and his > friends really came through and is taking on, in my opinion, the toughest > part of pyArkansas. Other local conferences can not believe the support we > get from Conway (and they are very happy for us). > > *Swag* > Paul Watson has agreed to tackle this. I'll start compiling a list of > people/agencies we can ask. There are a lot of "Python" businesses we can > approach (O'Reilly, Wingware, Python Magazine, etc.) and some local > businesses as well. I'd like a nice swag bag if we can build one. For some of last year's swag, I contacted Doug Hellman ( doug.hellmann at gmail.com) with Python Magazine and he gladly donated 100 copies of PyMag. He's a nice guy and I bet he'd be willing to help out again. Also, at Wingware, Stephan Deibel (info at wingware.com) is who hooked us up with the 3 full multi-OS Wingware Pro IDE licenses, you may want to contact him again as well. Greg's idea for using the Wal-Mart shopping bags as swag bags was a great idea too...didn't you get those at a huge discount from one of the Conway store managers or something? HTH coop > > *Promotion* > Bob Fahr is going to build the poster. We need others to contact local > media (Newspaper, TV, Radio, Living Local, etc.) to get the word out and get > us some coverage. We also need to get invites out to Arkansas High Schools > and Colleges/Universities. > > *Web* > Nathan Davis will keep our web (wiki) up to date. > > I'll be meeting with Chad next week to discuss what to do next. I know we > need the poster/flier and inviations to go out next month. > > More later. Check out the wiki at > http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/Organizers > > --greg > > _______________________________________________ > PyAR2 mailing list > PyAR2 at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 16:25:24 2009 From: paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com (paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:24 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyAR'09 swag Message-ID: <4a89b8680908260725qbc5f19evff30c488c6302414@mail.gmail.com> I see that the organizer's site already has a list of items that we would like to include. Do we have any rules of engagement regarding what and/or how much goes into the swag kit? Should the inclusion of swag material be done in conjunction with seeking a donation? It would probably be best if we have a single point of contact for vendors regarding swag and giveaways and donations. If someone is handling that, great. In talking with organizations who might provide swag, they would probably be interested in some of the demographics of the conference. For example, what percentage of the attendees will be students? I have attached a spreadsheet with the attendees list from the web site. I guessed at states for Austin (AR) and Frisco (TX). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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