[Chicago] This Thursday July 12: ChiPy July Meeting at "1871"

Sun Jul 15 01:44:25 CEST 2012

Video maybe - I am getting things setup for SciPy, I leave tomorrow.

Irony warning, the audio is pretty bad.  The level of the signal
coming out of the laptop was way higher than the mic.  There wasn't a
mixer that I could use to adjust it.   So I was having to flip my one
control up and down trying to keep the laptop audio from clipping and
the voice from being too soft.  Plus all the time that Adrian talked
while his laptop was playing, he is pretty much drowned out.  which
was very often.

At some point I realized it could be fixed by having Adrian turn down
the volume on his laptop, but I think that was near the end and I had
pretty much given up.

Chris had mic problems and when I said "wait" someone else said "just
shout" and he did, so audio is crap there too.

Josh faked me out by starting his talk from the middle table so he
could use a beer bottle as a prop.  remember running back from the
front of the room, I think Cezar started things, I have no idea.

I guess I need to be more assertive about doing sound checks and such.
 It will a bit disruptive, but will cut down on stuff like this
happening, so probably a net win.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Adrian Holovaty <adrian at holovaty.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Eric! I can't really post the slides, because they're an
> interactive Web app (e.g., that music visualization thing), and it
> would take a bunch of effort to put it somewhere other than my laptop.
> But I believe video of the talk will be posted online. :-)
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Eric Stein <toba at des.truct.org> wrote:
>> Will the slides be posted? I'd love to have the slides from Adrian's talk if
>> possible.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> P.S. Adrian that talk was awesome.
>>
>>
>> On 07/10/2012 08:34 AM, Brian Ray wrote:
>>>
>>> Adrian Holovaty, Co-creator of Django, founder of EveryBlock, long
>>> time ChiPy member, will be presenting on extracting music information
>>> from sound. Ben Toews (aka mastahyeti), security expert, gets fancy
>>> with his SQL injecting tool.  Joshua Herman, Python evangelist,  will
>>> hit the bottle (that is bottle.py). As promised we will have table
>>> tenis (aka ping pong) tables set up so come in early if you want to
>>> play. Doors open at 6pm, meeting starts promptly at 7pm. Free, as in
>>> Beer. Robots Welcome.
>>>
>>> If your not convinced by this amazing line up, flawless venue, bouncy
>>> ping pong tables, and charismatic sponsors... this will be our best
>>> meeting ever!
>>>
>>> RSVP at http://chipy.org/
>>>
>>> Quick Links:
>>> YES http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/50/yes
>>> MAYBE http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/50/maybe
>>>
>>> When
>>> ----
>>>
>>> Thursday July 12th, 2012 at 7PM (doors open at 6pm)
>>>
>>> Where
>>> -----
>>>
>>> "1871"
>>> The Merchandise Mart
>>> 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza
>>> 12th Floor
>>> Chicago, IL, 60654
>>>
>>> Directions to The Mart:
>>> http://www.mmart.com/merchmart/index.cfm/plan-your-visit/directions/
>>>
>>> Directions once you're in the building:
>>> Walk to any center bank of elevators, take to the 12 floor. Walk to
>>> West end of the building.
>>>
>>> Agenda
>>> -------
>>>
>>> 1) 6pm-7pm Table Tenis and Social hour
>>>
>>> Thank you Killer Spin http://www.killerspin.com/ for donation of the
>>> table tenis and equipment. Also thank you Textura for donations of
>>> pizza and drink.
>>>
>>> 2) 7pm  Official Start time. Intro, word from our sponsors
>>>
>>> 3) 7:15pm Extracting musical information from sound
>>> By: Adrian Holovaty
>>> Music Information Retrieval technology has gotten good enough that you
>>> extract musical metadata from your sound files with some degree of
>>> accuracy. Find out how to use Python (along with third-party APIs) to
>>> determine everything from the key/tempo of a song to the pitch/timbre
>>> of individual notes. Then we'll do some amusing analysis of popular
>>> tunes. This is a talk from PyCon 2012, with some small improvements.
>>>
>>> 4) 8:10pm BBQSQL
>>> By: Ben Toews
>>> Ben recently discovered event driven concurrency. He will be talking
>>> about some of the basics as well as trying to compare it with other
>>> concurrency options. The focus will be on its application in a few
>>> recent projects as well as a comparison of Python's gevent and
>>> node.js.
>>>
>>> 5) 8:45pm Web app development with bottle.py, twitter bootstrap and
>>> formalchemy.
>>> By: Joshua Herman
>>> Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight micro web-framework for
>>> Python. It is distributed as a single file module. I will show you how
>>> to use it with twitter bootstrap and interface with form alchemy so
>>> you can make a quick utility fast.
>>>
>>> A word...
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> from our meeting sponsor...
>>>
>>> """Textura is experiencing excellent growth. We are looking to add
>>> Python Developers (end to end development) to join our team. Textura
>>> provides an opportunity to work with the latest and greatest
>>> technologies. In addition, we provide excellent growth opportunities,
>>> support creativity, and offer competitive compensation & benefits.
>>> Please contact Jessica Cassidy 312-496-7975 or
>>> jessica.cassidy at texturacorp.com if interested in learning more."""
>>>
>>>
>>> About ChiPy
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers. Participants range
>>> from absolute beginners to seasoned veterans. In short, *everyone* is
>>> welcome (including you)! Every second Thursday of the month ChiPy
>>> members gather to give talks on a wide variety of topics related to
>>> Python and related technology. Our community benefits from a variety
>>> of participants, so we would love it if you would make yourself a
>>> participant!
>>>
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Carl K