[Baypiggies] Message sent to Suresh (baypiggies meetup)

[Kevin Wright]

Hi Wesley,

You said:

>  (can't remember the 2nd location),

NOTE: All of this information is to the best of my recollection. 

The second location was at my company, Aspect Development (later i2 Technologies), on Shoreline and Charleston in Mountain View. Aspect was a heavy user of Python and JPython (later renamed to Jython). They had ported their Explore client from C++ to Jython and even invested in Python development back in around 2000. I found out about BayPiggies because I took your Python class at USCS extension.

The BayPiggies meeting was at Aspect/i2 for around a year I believe until they laid off most of the employees. I remember Guido showing up for at least three of the meetings we had there. 
--Kevin


> On Jan 15, 2016, at 12:20 AM, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com <mailto:aahz at pythoncraft.com>> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, William Deegan wrote:
> >
> > - bdbaddog 1:37 PM
> > - Suresh I see your intentions weren't bad. However I believe you now know
> > there is a python users group in the bay area since 2002.
> 
> Not that it really matters, but I believe that BayPIGgies was started in
> 1996 or 1997.  It certainly existed before I started learning Python
> 12/1998.
> 
>  
> Actually, no. :-) I think Deirdre *wanted* to start it around that time, but it originate until May 1999 (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-May/000235.html <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-May/000235.html>). The meeting, however, didn't happen due to an email mishap (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-July/000344.html <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-July/000344.html>).
> 
> The 1st meeting really took place in Jul 1999 (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-July/000346.html <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-July/000346.html>). I was there when Guido was the speaker at the CoffeeNet in SF where it was SRO with ppl peeking in from outside trying to hear/get in.
> 
> Anyone remember then moving it down from SF to ... (can't remember the 2nd location), but then we moved to Google in Mtn View, then Stanford, then i2 then (can't remember) then Symantec, then LinkedIn, and so where are we now?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Wesley
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