[python-sg] one-north meetup group

[George Loo]

Hi George Goh,

we met in Python, I was the one who gave a similar talk about Android Python.

Nice to have a local mailing list. Thanks to the one who set it up.

Regards,
George Loo


On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Martin <martin.brochhaus at googlemail.com> wrote:
> +1 for Holland Village
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM, George Goh <georgegohkokleong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Martin <martin.brochhaus at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know what "One North" means (sorry. stupid foreigner here *g). Do
>>> we need another name for this meetup? Why not try to breathe a bit more life
>>> into the already existing Python User Group? But we can discuss this face to
>>> face at our first meetup anyways.
>>
>> One North refers to the R&D "district" of Singapore roughly bordered by
>> Commonwealth Ave, Buona Vista Road, and the Ayer Rajah Expressway. Here's
>> the wikipedia link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-North)
>> I used the term "meetup group" very loosely(and not to distract from our
>> already excellent PUG Singapore), and the "One North" name because there
>> seemed to be a concentration of Pythonistas in the One-North area and it
>> seemed fitting to organize meets in the area.
>>
>>>
>>> I think quarterly meetups are way too little for a Python user group.
>>> Monthly meetups would be much better. The Python User Group in Cologne for
>>> example meets every second Thursday of the month and has 50 users subscribed
>>> to the mailing list and 15 to 18 members showing up each month, which is
>>> quite nice. Sometimes there are months where everyone seems to be busy or on
>>> vacations and only a handful of people show up but hey - they have become
>>> friends and just use the time to have a Pizza together. So we really don't
>>> need to worry about having enough members or having enough talks or
>>> whatever. I'm pretty sure any meetup with whatever agenda there may be will
>>> definitely not turn out to be boring or time wasted.
>>
>> Ditto.
>>
>>>
>>> I guess we have more than 4 people willing to meet already and thus we
>>> should go on and decide on a day. After we have decided on a day, we might
>>> roughly discuss an agenda?
>>> I have created a doodle for making finding a date
>>> easier: http://www.doodle.com/8ktycdt5f96drbru#table
>>
>> Thanks! Will check it out.
>>
>>>
>>> I assumed that we might want to have the meetup this months already (when
>>> the energy and enthusiasm is still fresh *g)
>>> I think Thursdays are perfect for this kind of stuff. On Mondays and
>>> Tuesdays corporate employees might need to work longer in order to dig
>>> through the shit that has piled up over the weekend. On Fridays many
>>> companies have a somehow more relaxed work-pace, so if a meetup on Thursday
>>> takes a bit longer, its not too bad to be tired on a Friday :)
>>
>> I second Thursdays. Thursday is the new Friday. :-)
>>>
>>> I would ask everyone to tick off the checkboxes for the days and times
>>> where you would have time. Make sure you take your normal work hours and
>>> commuting time into account. We haven't decided on a venue yet (have we?),
>>> but I'm sure we would be able to find something that is central enough for
>>> anybody.
>>
>> When Mark and I were talking about the meetup, we were thinking about the
>> pubs in Holland Village.
>> It's not too far from the Orchard Road area, and plus there are direct
>> buses from the Shenton Way area. If there's no reasonable objection, then
>> may I suggest that we go to Holland Village for the first meet and then
>> decide on subsequent meets at other places?
>>>
>>> I know that I did not take part in the discussion George and Mark had (as
>>> mentioned in the opening post), so please apologize if I am acting too
>>> quickly here. If you guys already have different plans / approaches, just
>>> let me know and ignore the doodle. If you think its a good way to go on,
>>> vote now :)
>>
>> No worries :-) Social events should get people interested and be open to
>> suggestions.
>> Otherwise, it'd just be anti-social!
>> -George
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