[Baypiggies] Brainstorming: PyCon through the year

[Charles Merriam]

Sounds possible.  Some videos, like the Easy AI talk can take me ten
hours or more:  it has interesting code samples that demand being
typing in and tweaked.  Most others are summarized into a good review.
 Instead of a meet & watch, I'd be more interested in a weekly
breakfast at Hobbee's to each go over a video or two.



On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>> The list of videos from PyCon (on the link sent by Shailen
>> (http://pycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc)) are 12 dozen + 2 = 146.
>> If we met once per week, in a setting with a large projector or TV, and
>> watched two or three of these videos, we wouldn't finish for an entire year.
>> How many of us would actually sit down and watch the videos we wanted to see
>> from PyCon? Or, is it something we want to do but just never get around to
>> it?
>> If we watched them as a group -- a few every Saturday for example, and then
>> had a discussion around the topic, we would learn so much more ---
>> especially if the videos we chose for the day were themed on a particular
>> subject and more knowledgeable people from that subject also showed up to
>> discuss the topics with us.
>> This is just a brainstorming idea. I don't want to take away from the
>> summary talks that Jim is arranging for our next meet. Plus, I'm not
>> committed to organizing this because I have too much on my plate and things
>> are falling off.
>> But, if you like this idea, I throw it out to the community. I wouldn't say
>> no to helping people if they needed help to organize the first meeting.
>
> Seems like a fun idea.  I wouldn't mind hosting a 3 hour session at my
> house in Concord every Saturday, but I doubt that people would want to
> drive to Concord ;)
>
> -jj
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