[Baypiggies] Brainstorming new talk ideas...

[jim]

   were you that little girl whose parents wanted to 
cure of her overwhelming optimism? 
   one christmas her parents gave her gloomy brother 
a train set and a baseball glove and lots of other 
wonderful toys. 
   to her they gave a small paper bag that contained 
a small piece of poop. 
   when she opened it, her eyes filled with joy: 
"oh, papa, oh, mama! thank you for the pony!" 

   as to future meetings: 
april : damian eades : c/c++ extensions for computer vision 
may : come one, come all : pycon recaps 
june : alex martelli : abstraction 

july and subsequent months : : as yet not scheduled 



On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 21:30 -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
> I want a pony!
> 
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Glen Jarvis
>         <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>         
>         > I don't know the official schedule, but I imagine that our
>         next BayPIGgies
>         > meeting will be sharing "What I learned from PyCon."
>         > However, for the May meeting, I'd like to pitch an idea. I'd
>         like to see a
>         > Django themed evening. I'm a big fan of Pylons and other
>         frameworks -- in
>         > fact, I want to learn more about them -- especially for
>         larger scaled
>         > systems. But, my bread and butter these days is Django and I
>         am going deeper
>         > and deeper into it. I also saw that Simeon and quite a few
>         others do Django
>         > work.
>         > I could do an introductory talk (or handle a topic of
>         interest), but I'd
>         > like to see others do a more advanced subject. For example,
>         Simeon mentioned
>         > a profiling tool for Django (which I'd not used before and
>         would like to
>         > learn more about).
>         > What do you think about a 'Django themed' evening? What
>         topics are people
>         > most interested in? Who else would be willing to speak?
>         
>         
>         I'd love to see a PyCon summary meeting, of course.
>         
>         I'd also be happy to see a Django talk, although I'd like to
>         see a
>         power users talk.  It seems to me that Django is really easy
>         to get up
>         and running with, but it's easy to run into brick walls.  I'd
>         love to
>         see a talk from someone who has tips and tricks for breaking
>         through
>         brick walls without excessive use of monkey patching.  I'd
>         also love
>         to see someone tell me the practical difficulties of using a
>         different
>         templating engine.  I know it's possible, but I want to hear
>         from
>         someone who's done it in production and can talk about the
>         drawbacks
>         he encountered.
>         
>         Simeon, if you want to help with such a meeting, don't feel
>         like
>         you're hogging the mic.  Your last meeting was great :)
>         
>         -jj
>         
>         --
>         In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small
>         things
>         with great love. -- Mother Teresa
>         http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
>         
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> 
> -- 
> cordially,
> Anna
> --
> I am the mother of all things and all things shall wear a sweater!
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