From d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk Wed Jun 1 01:01:34 2011 From: d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk (Daley Chetwynd) Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:01:34 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] PyPy speaker sought Message-ID: <1306882894.6227.1458126921@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hi all, As the organiser of the Python Sheffield user group, I'm always looking for future Python speakers for our meetings. At our last meeting this evening, I asked the group members what they would like to see future talks on. One of the main responses was for a future talk on PyPy. This could start off with the history of the PyPy project, before moving onto the rationale for PyPy, its benefits, implementations of PyPy and plenty of code examples. The speaker could be someone with lots of experience in PyPy, or ideally someone who has been involved in the development of PyPy itself. Is there anyone here who'd be interested in giving such a talk, or knows of someone who can? We're a free group of Python users, so we'd be looking for someone within travelling distance of Sheffield who doesn't mind giving up their free time to come and speak to us. I can promise you an enthusiastic audience of Pythonistas and plenty of questions. :) Thanks for your help, Daley Chetwynd (@pysheff) -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow From matth at netsight.co.uk Fri Jun 3 18:18:31 2011 From: matth at netsight.co.uk (Matt Hamilton) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:18:31 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Python / Plone Developer Wanted (Bristol) Message-ID: <3D39BB58-C5B2-4D7E-90BB-189EA6796E4D@netsight.co.uk> Hi All, Netsight are looking for a new full-time developer. Founded in 1999, we are one of Bristol's longest running web design and development firms. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to build a successful career in software and web development, and work with a great local company. Find out more about us at http://www.netsight.co.uk/about We are looking for developers with experience in Python, or who are enthusiastic to learn what has become one of the fastest growing programming languages. Ideally you would have demonstrable experience in web development and the processes involved in building web sites in a commercial environment. We expect you to have a good working knowledge of the frontend web languages: HTML, CSS and Javascript. About 90% of our work involves Plone, an Open Source Content Management system, and whilst we don't expect you to have direct experience in Plone we want someone willing to get their hands dirty and learn what we believe is the best system out there for web publishing. We are actively involved in the wider Plone community and there is an opportunity for travel for various events ? later this year we are all off to San Francisco for a week at the annual Plone Conference. We are looking for someone who likes to solve problems and who is happy to look things up for themselves. You're likely to be working in small teams, so you'll need to be happy asking colleagues for help when you need it or want to bounce ideas off someone. We are a pretty relaxed company and have an informal, open-plan office, and we enjoy a dram of whisky on a Friday afternoon. That said, we need people who can manage their time effectively and take responsibility for the work they are doing. We work with organisations and businesses from a wide variety of sectors, so there is quite a lot of variety to the projects that we take on. Whilst we aim to build re-usable, modular systems, every client is different and so each project includes requirements analysis and client liason, in which the whole team is involved. Requirements: ? At least 2 years experience in commercial web development. ? Knowledge of Python. ? Experience of some kind of server-side web publishing system. ? Good communication skills ? this role will quickly become client facing to at least some degree, as you clarify requirements and report progress to members of the clients' organisations. You will also need the ability to work well in small, closely-knit teams (typically of 2 to 4 people) and effectively argue your case when needed. ? The ability to not freak out due to lack of braces in a language (councilling available). What?s in it for you? ? Starting salary in the region of ?30,000 (depending on experience). ? Laptop and mobile phone. ? Conference attendance allowance. ? A relaxed working environment. ? Share options as you progress (and associated dividends). Please send your CV to careers at netsight.co.uk NO AGENCIES. -Matt -- Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Understand. Develop. Deliver http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting From David_J_Pearson at uk.ibm.com Sat Jun 4 17:03:14 2011 From: David_J_Pearson at uk.ibm.com (David J Pearson) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 16:03:14 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] AUTO: David J Pearson Is Travelling And Taking Longer To Respond. (returning 06/06/2011) Message-ID: I am out of the office until 06/06/2011. I am currently working with customers in Europe and travelling -- It may take me longer to respond to your message(s). If you need to contact me urgently, please send SMS text message to my mobile phone (number on my bluepages record). Thanks David J Pearson MBCS CITP CEng MIET Technical Staff Member Solution Architect, Lotus Software Services - NE IOT IBM Lotus Symphony Services Technical Lead Lotus Software, IBM United Kingdom Ltd Mailto:David_J_Pearson at uk.ibm.com Note: This is an automated response to your message "python-uk Digest, Vol 94, Issue 2" sent on 4/6/11 11:00:02. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. From stuart at stuartbishop.net Wed Jun 8 15:58:51 2011 From: stuart at stuartbishop.net (Stuart Bishop) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:58:51 +0700 Subject: [python-uk] Jolt Online Gaming is hiring (another Python elated job) In-Reply-To: <136B081A067C45D383C0EF01B113A97B@mac.com> References: <55B0C121-876F-4F78-BE65-371CE7851470@netsight.co.uk> <136B081A067C45D383C0EF01B113A97B@mac.com> Message-ID: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Rob Cowie wrote: > Absolutely. It's getting harder and harder though in my experience. I'm in > Leeds, looking for python-related jobs with absolutely no luck. Leeds 0 - > London ~10. The gap widens. Check out http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/careers . We often have several Python positions open, some tied to location but the Python positions tend to be telecommute from anywhere, maybe with a preferred timezone. -- Stuart Bishop http://www.stuartbishop.net/ From d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk Wed Jun 15 14:12:23 2011 From: d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk (Daley Chetwynd) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:12:23 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Next Python Sheffield June 28th Message-ID: <1308139943.24160.1463397025@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hi all, The next Python Sheffield meeting has been confirmed for Tuesday June 28th at the GIST Lab. The meeting will run from 19:00 - 21:00, although doors will be open at the GIST Lab from 18:30. The GIST Lab is located opposite Sheffield train station and behind the Showroom cinema: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab This month we've got the following three speakers: James Hensman: NumPy and SciPy - Freedom for Data Scientists David Jones: Google Summer of Code - Helping Scientists Write Python Robie Basak: Enhancing Python Performance with C At our last meeting we had 20 people attending. If you'd like to join us for this meeting, please register for free at: http://pysheff1106.eventbrite.com/ The Python Sheffield group is open to all levels of Python user, including those that don't currently know the Python language, but would like to learn. To find out more about the group, follow @pysheff on Twitter or see the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield We're also always looking for future speakers, so if you'd like to talk on anything Python-related and fancy a trip over to Sheffield, please get in touch. Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin From tartley at tartley.com Tue Jun 21 20:26:19 2011 From: tartley at tartley.com (Jonathan) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:26:19 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Python jobs at Rangespan Message-ID: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> Hey folks, We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job posts. My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working here, so I thought I'd share this with the list: Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently around ten people, based in Paddington Station, London. In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards of quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough to start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but is still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the future of the company. We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high profile that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python core contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors & project leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability experts. We'll need a data scientist, too. The sort of experience we're looking for includes: * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web Services, MySQL and MongoDB. * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web services & web applications. * Automated deployments to EC2. * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a wealth of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere is informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly proficient. We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to the quality of candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our founders "It's critical to the success of our business to create the highest quality engineering team possible." Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city banks, plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I judged to be really attractive. I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of applications. Our formal job postings information is here: http://rangespan.com/jobs/ but in practice I think we'd be a little flexible about roles for the right applicant. Best regards, Jonathan -- Jonathan Hartley tartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From menno at freshfoo.com Tue Jun 21 21:15:15 2011 From: menno at freshfoo.com (Menno Smits) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:15:15 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Python jobs at Rangespan In-Reply-To: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> References: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> Message-ID: <4E00EDC3.3010302@freshfoo.com> Hey JB, I've been meaning to ask you how it's going at Rangespan. You sound pretty psyched about the job which is fantastic. What kind of stuff have you been working on so far? Is the working style quite different from Resolver? (do you do TDD, pair-programming etc?) We just got back yesterday from California. Susanna had a conference to go to at Stanford but we also spent some time in San Fran, Yosemite and Napa Valley. It was a pretty fast paced trip, especially with Amelia (shattered now), but it was a lot of fun. Yosemite was the highlight for me - it's just stunning. Hopefully see you soon... M ps. Christian and one of the other guys from work are in Florence at Europython - somewhat jealous :( On 21/06/11 19:26, Jonathan wrote: > Hey folks, > > We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job posts. > My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working here, so I > thought I'd share this with the list: > > Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently around > ten people, based in Paddington Station, London. > > In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards of > quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale > e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between > major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting > across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough to > start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but is > still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the > future of the company. > > We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong > computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or > proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high profile > that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python core > contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors & project > leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability experts. We'll > need a data scientist, too. > > The sort of experience we're looking for includes: > > * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web > Services, MySQL and MongoDB. > * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new > practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. > * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web services > & web applications. > * Automated deployments to EC2. > * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. > * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. > * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. > > The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a wealth > of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere is > informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly proficient. > We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to the quality of > candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our founders "It's critical > to the success of our business to create the highest quality engineering > team possible." > > Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely > depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal > offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city banks, > plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I judged to > be really attractive. > > I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of > applications. Our formal job postings information is here: > http://rangespan.com/jobs/ but in practice I think we'd be a little > flexible about roles for the right applicant. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan > > -- > Jonathan Hartley tartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com > Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk From menno at freshfoo.com Tue Jun 21 21:27:06 2011 From: menno at freshfoo.com (Menno Smits) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:27:06 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Python jobs at Rangespan In-Reply-To: <4E00EDC3.3010302@freshfoo.com> References: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> <4E00EDC3.3010302@freshfoo.com> Message-ID: <4E00F08A.8050004@freshfoo.com> Ack! Sorry everyone, I blame jet-lag. Everyone except Jonathan, feel free to ignore! On 21/06/11 20:15, Menno Smits wrote: > Hey JB, > > I've been meaning to ask you how it's going at Rangespan. You sound > pretty psyched about the job which is fantastic. What kind of stuff have > you been working on so far? Is the working style quite different from > Resolver? (do you do TDD, pair-programming etc?) > > We just got back yesterday from California. Susanna had a conference to > go to at Stanford but we also spent some time in San Fran, Yosemite and > Napa Valley. It was a pretty fast paced trip, especially with Amelia > (shattered now), but it was a lot of fun. Yosemite was the highlight for > me - it's just stunning. > > Hopefully see you soon... M > > ps. Christian and one of the other guys from work are in Florence at > Europython - somewhat jealous :( > > > On 21/06/11 19:26, Jonathan wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job posts. >> My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working here, so I >> thought I'd share this with the list: >> >> Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently around >> ten people, based in Paddington Station, London. >> >> In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards of >> quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale >> e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between >> major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting >> across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough to >> start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but is >> still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the >> future of the company. >> >> We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong >> computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or >> proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high profile >> that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python core >> contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors & project >> leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability experts. We'll >> need a data scientist, too. >> >> The sort of experience we're looking for includes: >> >> * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web >> Services, MySQL and MongoDB. >> * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new >> practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. >> * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web services >> & web applications. >> * Automated deployments to EC2. >> * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. >> * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. >> * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. >> >> The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a wealth >> of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere is >> informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly proficient. >> We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to the quality of >> candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our founders "It's critical >> to the success of our business to create the highest quality engineering >> team possible." >> >> Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely >> depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal >> offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city banks, >> plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I judged to >> be really attractive. >> >> I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of >> applications. Our formal job postings information is here: >> http://rangespan.com/jobs/ but in practice I think we'd be a little >> flexible about roles for the right applicant. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jonathan >> >> -- >> Jonathan Hartley tartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com >> Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk From lvisintini at gmail.com Wed Jun 22 04:47:25 2011 From: lvisintini at gmail.com (Luis Visintini) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:47:25 -0300 Subject: [python-uk] Introduction Message-ID: <4E0157BD.5030405@gmail.com> >>> print 'Hello World' Hello everyone, My name is Luis and I'm a Python user/developer/lover from Argentina. I recently subscribed to this mailing list and I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. I'm moving to London next august and, since here in Argentina we also have a Python mailing list and a very active python community (in which I try to be relatively active), I wanted to submerge in the UK Python Community. This is probably is off-topic, but if any of you have tips or advice regarding my trip, I'm all ears. Also, I'm in kind of a job hunt, so it would be awesome if any of you could give me some advise regarding that. You can check my CV at http://bit.ly/hek67K Help is always appreciated. However, if you can't provide any assistance, that?s OK too. I'm always in the mood for stimulating conversation. Are there any events or python conferences approaching? Do some of you get together to have some beers sometimes? Perhaps I could tag along and you can listen someone speak bad English. haha. that's all, everyone. see you around. Luis From lvisintini at gmail.com Wed Jun 22 04:53:26 2011 From: lvisintini at gmail.com (Luis Visintini) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:53:26 -0300 Subject: [python-uk] Python jobs at Rangespan In-Reply-To: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> References: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> Message-ID: <4E015926.1060407@gmail.com> Jonathan, It may not be much but perhaps you would like to take a look at my CV at http://bit.ly/hek67K Kind Regards. Luis On 06/21/2011 03:26 PM, Jonathan wrote: > Hey folks, > > We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job > posts. My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working here, > so I thought I'd share this with the list: > > Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently around > ten people, based in Paddington Station, London. > > In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards > of quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale > e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between > major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting > across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough > to start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but > is still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the > future of the company. > > We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong > computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or > proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high profile > that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python core > contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors & project > leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability experts. We'll > need a data scientist, too. > > The sort of experience we're looking for includes: > > * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web > Services, MySQL and MongoDB. > * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new > practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. > * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web > services & web applications. > * Automated deployments to EC2. > * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. > * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. > * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. > > The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a > wealth of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere > is informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly > proficient. We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to > the quality of candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our founders > "It's critical to the success of our business to create the highest > quality engineering team possible." > > Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely > depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal > offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city > banks, plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I > judged to be really attractive. > > I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of > applications. Our formal job postings information is here: > http://rangespan.com/jobs/ but in practice I think we'd be a little > flexible about roles for the right applicant. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan > -- > Jonathan Hartleytartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com > Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ntoll at ntoll.org Wed Jun 22 08:34:05 2011 From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas Tollervey) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:34:05 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Introduction In-Reply-To: <4E0157BD.5030405@gmail.com> References: <4E0157BD.5030405@gmail.com> Message-ID: iHola! Luis, Welcome to London (in August)! There's quite an active and very friendly Python scene in London: A Monthly code dojo (announced on this list) An occasional Pyssup - (Python/Beer/Social) DJUGL - Django User Group A Python in Finance group... IIRC there might even be a PythonUK un-conference sometime this autumn. (???) All the best, Nicholas. On 22 Jun 2011, at 03:47, Luis Visintini wrote: > >>> print 'Hello World' > > Hello everyone, > > My name is Luis and I'm a Python user/developer/lover from Argentina. > > I recently subscribed to this mailing list and I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. > > I'm moving to London next august and, since here in Argentina we also have a Python mailing list and a very active python community (in which I try to be relatively active), I wanted to submerge in the UK Python Community. > > This is probably is off-topic, but if any of you have tips or advice regarding my trip, I'm all ears. > Also, I'm in kind of a job hunt, so it would be awesome if any of you could give me some advise regarding that. > You can check my CV at http://bit.ly/hek67K > Help is always appreciated. > > However, if you can't provide any assistance, that?s OK too. I'm always in the mood for stimulating conversation. > > Are there any events or python conferences approaching? > Do some of you get together to have some beers sometimes? > Perhaps I could tag along and you can listen someone speak bad English. haha. > > that's all, everyone. > > see you around. > > Luis > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk From tartley at tartley.com Wed Jun 22 11:20:30 2011 From: tartley at tartley.com (Jonathan) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:20:30 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Python jobs at Rangespan In-Reply-To: <4E015926.1060407@gmail.com> References: <4E00E24B.4000605@tartley.com> <4E015926.1060407@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4E01B3DE.60601@tartley.com> On 22/06/2011 03:53, Luis Visintini wrote: > Jonathan, > > It may not be much but perhaps you would like to take a look at my CV > at http://bit.ly/hek67K > > Kind Regards. > > Luis > > > On 06/21/2011 03:26 PM, Jonathan wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job >> posts. My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working here, >> so I thought I'd share this with the list: >> >> Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently >> around ten people, based in Paddington Station, London. >> >> In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards >> of quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale >> e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between >> major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting >> across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough >> to start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but >> is still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the >> future of the company. >> >> We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong >> computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or >> proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high profile >> that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python core >> contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors & project >> leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability experts. We'll >> need a data scientist, too. >> >> The sort of experience we're looking for includes: >> >> * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web >> Services, MySQL and MongoDB. >> * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new >> practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. >> * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web >> services & web applications. >> * Automated deployments to EC2. >> * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. >> * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. >> * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. >> >> The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a >> wealth of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere >> is informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly >> proficient. We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to >> the quality of candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our >> founders "It's critical to the success of our business to create the >> highest quality engineering team possible." >> >> Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely >> depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal >> offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city >> banks, plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I >> judged to be really attractive. >> >> I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of >> applications. Our formal job postings information is here: >> http://rangespan.com/jobs/ but in practice I think we'd be a little >> flexible about roles for the right applicant. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jonathan >> -- >> Jonathan Hartleytartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com >> Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk Hey Luis, Thanks very much for the c.v. Very best of luck with the move to London. Whatever happens, we should go our for lunch or a beer, to welcome you to England! I'll wait a day or two to see what else our many job postings gather and then let everyone know what we're thinking. 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From Richard.Catley at roberthalf.co.uk Mon Jun 20 17:43:51 2011 From: Richard.Catley at roberthalf.co.uk (Catley, Richard [UK]) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:43:51 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Midlands Python Developer needed Message-ID: <0C054AD4286B1F488B0D4EFF950ED0560B8F4C682F@E1-1EXC-MBX01.eu.msds.rhi.com> Hi I'm looking for a Python/Django developer for a company in the Midlands. Great environment and team. If you're open to hearing about new opportunities do let me know. Kind regards Richard Richard Catley Consultant Robert Half Technology [cid:image001.jpg at 01CC2F68.F9D93E10] 282 - 292 Witan Court Witan Gate West Milton Keynes MK9 1EJ T: +44 (0)1908 201420 F: +44 (0)1908 694877 [cid:image003.jpg at 01CC2F69.3C6B5380] Connect with me RECRUITING? RESOURCES JOB SEARCH With more than 360 locations, Robert Half Finance & Accounting is the world's first and largest specialised financial & accounting recruiting firm, placing high quality candidates at all levels. 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In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards of quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide high-scale e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary marketplace between major online retailers, and a vast network of suppliers, transacting across millions of products daily. Development has progressed enough to start deploying and demonstrating the reality of this vision, but is still early enough that all of us have a substantial effect on the future of the company. We have roles for various levels, up to ?50k base, plus equity in a company that has a fighting chance of revolutionizing the relationship between retailers and suppliers. The sort of experience we're looking for includes: * Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web Services, MySQL and MongoDB. * Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and TDD. * Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web services & web applications. * Automated deployments to EC2. * Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code. * Ability to attract additional world-class software developers. * BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field. The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a wealth of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere is informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly proficient. To quote one of our founders "It's critical to the success of our business to create the highest quality engineering team possible, so that we can provide the best technical infrastructure in the world." We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to the quality of candidates we insist upon. If you want to work alongside the best of the best, drop us a line. I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, and if you want to make a formal application, see http://rangespan.com/jobs/ Cheers Jonathan -- Jonathan Hartley Developer Rangespan Ltd +44/0 7737 062 225 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Entirely mine. Sorry folks. And for this one too. On 22/06/2011 20:04, Luis Visintini wrote: > Yeah, my bad > I apologize > > Luis > > On 22/06/2011 13:42, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:53:26PM -0300, Luis Visintini wrote: >>> It may not be much but perhaps you would like to take a look at >>> my CV at >> >> You gotta love reply-to lists... >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -- Jonathan Hartley tartley at tartley.com http://tartley.com Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley From jason at potatolondon.com Thu Jun 23 16:02:46 2011 From: jason at potatolondon.com (Jason Cartwright) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:02:46 -0700 Subject: [python-uk] Django developers required in London & Bristol Message-ID: Hi all, Potato is a 28 person strong London-headquartered webdev agency. Our clients include Google, PayPal and News Int. We're developer-lead and all about the code - employing no designers, no sysadmins and certainly no Flash developers. Have a look at the roles and drop us a line. We would love to have a cup of tea and a chat, even if you're not interested in applying straight away. http://www.potatolondon.com/people/jobs/django-developer-london/ http://www.potatobristol.com/people/jobs/django-developer-bristol/ Jason -- Jason Cartwright www.potatolondon.com From d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk Sun Jun 26 13:35:24 2011 From: d_chetwynd at fastmail.co.uk (Daley Chetwynd) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:35:24 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Next Python Sheffield June 28th Message-ID: <1309088124.22853.1467334665@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hi all, There's now just two days left until the next Python Sheffield meeting on Tuesday June 28th at the GIST Lab. The meeting runs from 19:00 - 21:00, although doors will be open at the GIST Lab from 18:30. The GIST Lab is located opposite Sheffield train station and behind the Showroom cinema: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab This month we've got the following three speakers: James Hensman: NumPy and SciPy - Freedom for Data Scientists David Jones: Google Summer of Code - Helping Scientists Write Python Robie Basak: Enhancing Python Performance with C We've currently got 12 people registered for this meeting. If you'd like to attend then please register for free at: http://pysheff1106.eventbrite.com/ More information can be found on the Python Sheffield group by following @pysheff on Twitter or from the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield We're always looking for future speakers, so if you'd like to talk on anything Python-related and fancy a trip over to Sheffield, please let us know. :) Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow From tibs at tibsnjoan.co.uk Mon Jun 27 21:37:19 2011 From: tibs at tibsnjoan.co.uk (Tony Ibbs) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:37:19 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 5th July Message-ID: From the google group: The next meeting will be a talks meeting, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). If you've got any particular talks, please let the group know, otherwise we shall see what turns up. Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 2nd August, another dojo/coding meeting * Tuesday 6th September, talks again * Tuesday 4th October, dojo/coding again Tibs From brian.curtin at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 05:21:00 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:21:00 -0500 Subject: [python-uk] Python User Group International Survey Message-ID: The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding international Python user community. The survey contains questions on user group organization, events, demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting the survey (example statistics include the number of active members and the size and topics for recent user group events). We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions. The PSF blog post announcing the survey: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (http://jesstess.com), organizer for the Boston Python Meetup (http://meetup.bostonpython.com), and Jesse Noller (http://jessenoller.com/), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input and feedback from survey specialists and others. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups out of this effort. 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Student - ?40 Early Bird (end of June) - ?50 Normal - ?60 On the Door - ?70 Registration page - https://secure.python.ie/pycon-ireland-2011 Interested in giving a talk? You can submit your talk via http://python.ie/pyconireland/callfor/#paper If your company is interested in sponsoring our event, sponsorship brochure and form to submit your interests details can be found here:- http://python.ie/pyconireland/callfor/#sponsor More details of the conference can be found at our site - http://python.ie/pyconireland/ Cheers, /// Vicky Lee (PyCon Ireland 2011) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will have a say in shaping the culture as well as the technical direction of the new company. ?This is a great chance to get involved in a brand new team and new a system. Responsibilities: Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods. Develop and manage the new system and its on-going upgrades. Working closely with other business departments; write software and build automation continuously to enhance the core offering and automate back end processes. Contribute to building and managing a team of developers (local and remote) as the company grows Requirements: BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related field Fluency in Python; and familiarity with one or more of: Java, PHP, C++ Knowledge of working with Google App Engine Good understanding of supporting technologies such as HTML, Javascript, CSS, Web services, JSON, XML Expertise in data structures and algorithms Knowledge of Agile methodologies Excellent communication skills a must Please send your CV to newstartup at i-tao.com (i-tao.com is not an agency and not the entity this job is advertised for, we are a technology partner) NO AGENCIES. -Ron From fontani at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 18:13:13 2011 From: fontani at gmail.com (Marco Fontani) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:13:13 -0000 Subject: [python-uk] [ANNOUNCE] Dynamic Languages conference 2011 Message-ID: Hi all, I wanted to let you know about a conference we are organising in Edinburgh which (some of) you may be interested in. The Dynamic Languages Conference has officially opened its website to registrations at http://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk. The Dynamic Languages Conference (26th-27th August) is a new, free of charge, event held in Edinburgh to coincide with the parent festival, the Turing Festival (http://www.turingfestival.com, 26th-28th August) which is the European Festival of Digital Culture and Technology (EFDCT), an official part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world?s greatest cultural and artistic event. Dynamic Languages Conference has been sponsored by a number of organisations. The conference is aimed at bringing the Open Source Dynamic Languages together at one event where they can discuss in an open forum and compare the various methods they employ to achieve similar goals. We welcome people from any of the Dynamic Languages such as Perl, Ruby (including the Rails community), Python, PhP, Javascript etc., our goal is inclusion and sharing of experience and approach. This year we are seeking speakers to talk on one of two subjects: Dynamic Language and Application Development for the Internet which will be the Friday track; Dynamic Languages and System Administration which is the Saturday Track. This event, Dynamic Languages, is free though you will need to register to obtain a ticket to the whole of the event. The parent festival (Turing Festival) which runs over the same period has also launched its site and invites people to attend for a modest fee. We are seeking speakers to attend the festival and they can also register and submit talks through our website athttp://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk. There will be guest speakers talking at both the Dynamic Languages and Turing Festival. We are pleased to announce that the well known Richard Stallman will be our guest of honour and will speak at both the Dynamic Languages and the Turing Festival event. If you do not have an Act account already please use the new user link to register for this event, Act only keeps your details for conference registration with other Act events it is not used for any other purpose or passed to a third party, you can then submit a talk or make your conference schedule when we publish. The closing date for talks is Friday 29th July and the Schedule will be released on Monday 8th August. The Dynamic Languages event will be held in the magnificent Surgeon?s Hall on the Friday (26th August), and the Informatics Building on the Saturday (27th August). The Dynamic Languages event has been originally organised by members of the Glasgow and NorthWestEngland Perl Mongers groups though we are seeking help/support from any other open source language group, if you are a member of such a group, or a leader then we would be happy to hear from you and to work with you to invite your community to this event. We are still seeking keynote speakers who may be able to gain sponsorship to the event. Please submit this to all mailing lists, user groups or message boards that you know of or to any interested parties. If you have an idea for a small event to be run in conjunction to this event, such as a hackathon or BoF then please contact Mark or Marco who will be happy to try and work with you to achieve this. More information about The Turing Festival Creative Destruction Digital Technology And The Death And Rebirth Of Culture And Society Edinburgh in August is where the cream of European technical and digital talent will come together with the world?s largest Arts Festival to thrash out the issues at the heart of our cultural and economic future. The world is being remade in front of our eyes ? this is your chance to take part in that struggle. 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