From gslindstrom at gmail.com  Wed Nov  4 16:24:12 2009
From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (gslindstrom at gmail.com)
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2009 07:24:12 -0800
Subject: [PyAR2] Announcing O'Reilly Answers - A useful site that's, well,
	a different kind of animal
Message-ID: <1257348252.26109.0.385253@post.oreilly.com>

This message, originally from Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>,
has been forwarded to you by gslindstrom at gmail.com
with the following comment:

FYI, --greg

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Hi,

Can you share this announcement with anyone you think will be
interested?

Thanks!


Announcing O'Reilly Answers
A useful site that's, well, a different kind of animal

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers 
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zkpabt5qpv11u6sso1t87urh4094qv9h2hifmtf8,
and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a
community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing
answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference
speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly).

Why Answers, and why now?
O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing
and idea generation. We've created the usual means of facilitating
communication between customers, O'Reilly folks, and the outside experts
we call "alpha geeks" who contribute to O'Reilly books, conferences, and
websites. We can connect through  reader reviews, errata submissions,
book forums,  blog comments, Get Satisfaction, our customer service
department, and more. But too much of this conversation is siloed, and
not enough is public (e.g., discussions on our internal mailing list for
editors, or personal responses to customer questions). O'Reilly Answers
will be the place where much of that communication happens from this
point forward.

Why participate?
The lofty reason: Like O'Reilly, you want to "change the world by
spreading the knowledge of innovators." That's our mission, and we've
been fortunate enough to build a community of passionate, committed
people who love to learn and share their knowledge as they work towards
a better world for us all.

The "nice, but what's in it for me" reasons: reputation, recognition,
and rewards.

Get Recognized: "Find interesting people" is a core activity at
O'Reilly, and an important component of our success. We see Answers as
an important way to discover and connect with our next authors, online
instructors, videographers, and speakers.

Build Your Reputation: You've learned a lot, why not get credit for all
that knowledge? As your submissions to Answers are voted up, your
personal reputation on the site increases. At launch, your reputation
will be based solely on your participation in O'Reilly Answers. Soon,
we're expanding  across oreilly.com, so the book errata and book reviews
you've submitted, books you've registered, and conferences you've
attended, will add reputation points. You'll also earn badges
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zmv2pvqr6pe31ahbli9omel3btme0f546ip26ng8 
to mark accomplishments and milestones.

Earn Rewards: Glory is great, but discounts and deals are nice, too. We
want to reward your contributions to the O'Reilly community. Shortly
we'll have a point-based system in place that you can redeem for books,
training, courses, and conferences. Details soon, but in the meantime,
any actions you take now will count towards your total points.

This is just v.1:
The best part of any project on the web is watching it take on a life of
its own. With that in mind, we're looking forward to *your* suggestions
about where O'Reilly Answers should go, what features should be added,
and what benefits and rewards we can offer all of you.

I'd like to acknowledge the projects that have proceeded Answers and
inspired us, such as SitePoint Forums (we distribute their books),
StackOverflow, Yahoo! Answers, Knol, and many others. They're great
resources, and we think the O'Reilly community can create a useful site
that's, well, a different kind of animal.

One last thing: O'Reilly Answers is in beta and you may encounter bugs.
We're still working on many improvements to the site, such as feeds for
each tag, but would love to hear your suggestions for features and
improvements. Please send any suggestions/questions/bug reports to
answers at oreilly.com.


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From gslindstrom at gmail.com  Thu Nov 12 22:36:53 2009
From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:53 -0600
Subject: [PyAR2] Sprint on Saturday?
Message-ID: <a9f39a410911121336k7cb341dfg99260889a41c731d@mail.gmail.com>

Hey everyone,

Do we want to get the Chamber of Commerce's "Big Room" Saturday night to do
stuff?   I know it's late and I've let this go, but I think we can get it on
short notcie if we want it.  Otherwise, we can use a hotel lobby again (if
we even want to).

gotta run.  I'm gig'n tonight!
--greg
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From gslindstrom at gmail.com  Fri Nov 20 05:03:02 2009
From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (gslindstrom at gmail.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:03:02 +0000
Subject: [PyAR2] Learning Python
Message-ID: <000325579f025c47e80478c58d0b@google.com>

I have received 3 copies of O'Reilly's "Learning Python" (4th Edition).  
They are free to anyone who wants them with the only requirement being that  
you write a review for the O'Reilly web page (and our web page,  
eventually). This is a huge book (~1,200 pages) and covers virtually  
everything Python. I've used it already to bone up on modules and packages  
and I plan on reading up on iterators and generators as well as starting  
Python 3.

If you would like a copy of the book, please let me know. At the end of  
November I will take everyone and pick 3 at random (using Python, of  
course). This is a benefit of being in a User Group and I must emphasize  
that if you receive a book you must write a review. You don't have to read  
all 1,200 pages; pick the sections that interest you and go from there. I  
would love to have a river of books flowing through our group, but we must  
not abuse the privilege.

Many thanks to Marsee at O'Reilly!

--greg
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From gslindstrom at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 13:47:32 2009
From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (gslindstrom at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:47:32 +0000
Subject: [PyAR2] Learning Python Drawing and More Books!
Message-ID: <001636833e6e7c078004791d58af@google.com>

I have heard from 5 people interested in the "Learning Python" books we  
received from O'Reilly. It's been a few days since I've heard from anyone  
else, so I'll go ahead and make the drawing. I'll load the 5 names into a  
list and shuffle it. The first 3 names get the books.

defiant:~ glindstrom$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> names = ['Carl','Sagar','Wayne','Eric','Paul']
>>> import random
>>> random.shuffle(names)
>>> names
['Sagar', 'Paul', 'Eric', 'Carl', 'Wayne']


Congratulations to Saga, Paul and Eric. Get me your addresses and I'll send  
you your books. Remember, you will need to write a review; I'll send  
information on that, too. If you want to mail me your address off list,  
send it to gslindstrom at gmail.com.

I have more books to give away if you are willing to review them.

The Art of Community (how to organize, motivate and maintain a volunteer  
community)
Head First iPhone Development
Unix System Administration Using Python

If you are interested and willing to write a review, please let me know.  
Drawing will be held on or before December 1.

--greg
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From waynejwerner at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 15:09:11 2009
From: waynejwerner at gmail.com (Wayne Werner)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:09:11 -0600
Subject: [PyAR2] Learning Python Drawing and More Books!
In-Reply-To: <001636833e6e7c078004791d58af@google.com>
References: <001636833e6e7c078004791d58af@google.com>
Message-ID: <333efb450911240609q12b96182tb0e2f9b7074ae7bb@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:47 AM, <gslindstrom at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The Art of Community (how to organize, motivate and maintain a volunteer
> community)
> Head First iPhone Development
> Unix System Administration Using Python
>
> If you are interested and willing to write a review, please let me know.
> Drawing will be held on or before December 1.


Is the Unix book Noah Gift's? If so, I've already got that, if not I'd like
to be in the drawing for that.

Also, go ahead and put me in for the Art of Community.

Congrats to the others!

-Wayne


-- 
To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called
gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness,
every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and
exaltation, but stupidity hasn?t. - Primo Levi
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From gslindstrom at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 16:59:24 2009
From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:59:24 -0600
Subject: [PyAR2] User Group Web Page
Message-ID: <a9f39a410911240759v2c720410o23955c1490f02abd@mail.gmail.com>

I would like someone to step up to create a web page for pyAR^2.  I have a
host and the domain name.

What do we want in a web page??

Any takers?
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From waynejwerner at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 18:00:34 2009
From: waynejwerner at gmail.com (Wayne Werner)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:34 -0600
Subject: [PyAR2] User Group Web Page
In-Reply-To: <a9f39a410911240759v2c720410o23955c1490f02abd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a9f39a410911240759v2c720410o23955c1490f02abd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <333efb450911240900m373f1365w129f61b0a03554b5@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would like someone to step up to create a web page for pyAR^2.  I have a
> host and the domain name.
>
> What do we want in a web page??
>
> Any takers?


I don't have much free time (being a full-time college student and parent),
but I'll offer the little bit I have. I'm not very current on my css/html
skills, but if we don't have anyone more willing, I'll see what I can put
together in the next few weeks....

Of course this would be a perfect opportunity to review some O'Reilly book
on the subject, right? ;)

-Wayne
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From wade.austin at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 20:35:22 2009
From: wade.austin at gmail.com (Wade Austin)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0600
Subject: [PyAR2] User Group Web Page
In-Reply-To: <a9f39a410911240759v2c720410o23955c1490f02abd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a9f39a410911240759v2c720410o23955c1490f02abd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f0f419ae0911241135s2d88a73bm2ca1cb532e3d53ec@mail.gmail.com>

I am willing to help out. I have plenty of experience in site design.
Not much of a graphic artist though.

I recommend we look at using Pinax http://pinaxproject.com/ Its a
collection of Django apps for building community type sites. I have
never used it in a project but it looks interesting.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like someone to step up to create a web page for pyAR^2.? I have a
> host and the domain name.
>
> What do we want in a web page??
>
> Any takers?
>
>
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Wade
http://www.wadeaustin.com