[Chicago] Dec meeting talks and venue

[Adam Forsyth]

I'd be glad to give a (short) talk about how Braintree evolved as a
business (on the tech entrepreneurship side) or a (short) talk about what
we call the "Chicago Process" -- how Braintree develops software.

Neither is specifically Python related so please -1 if you're not
interested / you feel they're too off topic.

For context, Jason's email in the October meeting thread:

Googling for BrainTree's offices for last meeting I came across this
article about how BrainTree came to be as a
business<http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-braintree>.
It got me thinking about how to (profitably?) run a software development
business--you know, the thing that generates money to pay developer
salaries, stock the fridge with beer, rent office space, sponsor PyCon,
Chipy, and other community activities.

Would anyone be interested in giving a talk on this?

Given EBay's recent acquisition of Braintree someone talking about this is
even more relevant and would make it the BEST MEETING EVER!



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for brain tree.
>
> +1 for Adam talking about Braintree's business, e.g. how to run a dev shop.
>
>
> --
> Jason Wirth
>     213.675.5294
>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Braintree is available to host / sponsor as usual if we do the meeting
>>> at our office.
>>>
>>> We could also probably sponsor at least partially if people wanted to do
>>> more of a casual, non-office event.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Philip Doctor <diomedestydeus at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using Storm a lot recently.  I'd be happy to talk about Storm
>>>> with python bolts (and a tiny side of clojure) for ~20-30 minutes if
>>>> there's interest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We currently have no Python talks lined up for December, or a place to
>>>>> have talks.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have some dicussion about using the topic for devops. hanging out
>>>>> with the chicago freelancers on Monday, having our own casual hang out
>>>>> on the normal Thursday.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who has done anything interesting and will talk about it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Does someone have a place we could meet?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Carl K
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Chicago mailing list
>>>>> Chicago at python.org
>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Chicago mailing list
>>>> Chicago at python.org
>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Chicago mailing list
>>> Chicago at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> sheila
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chicago mailing list
>> Chicago at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/attachments/20131203/d802c2fc/attachment.html>