From brianhray at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 17:56:44 2016 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:56:44 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] [ANN] GOTO Discount for ChiPy Message-ID: GOTO Chicago May 24-25 Conference / May 23 & 26 Workshops < http://gotocon.com/chicago-2016/> GOTO Chicago is a premier software development conference that strives to deliver high-quality talks and workshops from seasoned professionals and 2016 is no different. This year we introduce you to some of the hottest topics brought to you by the innovators at the helm of these technologies and authors of some of the leading software books on the market. We would like to highlight for the Python community we have a workshop, Interactive Python Workshop < http://gotocon.com/chicago-2016/presentation/Interactive%20Python%20Workshop> on Monday May 23rd run by Brian Ray. Save $50 off Registration Members of the Python Community in Chicago can save $50 off registration, use the following promotion code when registering: chipy50 Our exciting array of presenters include: Neha Narkhede, Co-Creator of Apache Kafka and Co-Founder of Confluent Lars Bak and Kasper Lund, Co-Founders of Dart and V8 Casey Rosenthal, Engineering Mgr of the Traffic & Chaos Teams at Netflix Barry O?Reilly, Author of ?Lean Enterprise? Erich Gamma, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and member of the ?Gang of Four" Michael Nygard, Author of ?Release IT? Matt Kremer, Ionic Creator Project Lead Peter Lawrey, Author of Vanilla Java Blog Jessica Kerr, Functional Developper presenting Elm Francesc Campoy Flores, GO expert from Alphabet?s Google Cloud team Check out the confirmed speaker list here< http://gotocon.com/chicago-2016/speakers/>. Topics that will be covered at the conference and at the workshops are: * Microservices: Useful tips and examples on "how to" build, deploy and maintain a microservices architecture * Financial Services: Focused track on the challenges in Financial Services presented by industry field experts * Always On: Challenges of Running Systems that can't go down, cases from Netflix Chaos Engineering team and Uber's scalable architecture * Programming Languages: A look what is new with specific languages such as C++ & Go * Data and Distributed Systems: Dive into Kafka, Distributed build Systems at Google and Twitter's own Manhattan DB Project * DevOps Best Practices: Present day look at best practices in DevOps * High Performance Organizations: A glimpse into some of the approaches taken by High Performance Organizations including Lean Enterprise * JavaScript: The latest in the world of JavaScript * Fun Stuff: New and Fun things that you will enjoy, including how to look at your code as a crime scene * Solution Track: Real World examples and tools presentations from our sponsors GOTO Chicago is built out of a labour of love by passionate developers aiming to deliver a conference for software architects, seasoned programmers, system administrators, data-scientists and machine-learning engineers. 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Joe On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Joe Jasinski wrote: > Hi ChiPy, > > We are looking for speakers for the *April 14th* ChiPy meeting. We are > excited to hear talks from new and veteran speakers. > > In addition to our normal talks, we are looking for someone who is willing > to give a 5-10 minute "Module of the Month" lightning talk, covering a > useful Python module or module feature. > > *If you'd like to speak, keep in mind:* > > - Talks typically range between 10 and 45 min (including question time) > - Talks should be Python-related. > > *To submit a talk:* > > - Please send your talk idea to this list. > - We'll need you to fill out the talk proposal form to get you on the > schedule. > - http://www.chipy.org/meetings/topics/propose > > > Let me know if you have any questions, and hope to hear from you soon! > > If you'd like to attend the next meeting, you can rsvp at chipy.org or > via our Meetup group. > > -- > Joe J. Jasinski > www.joejasinski.com > -- Joe J. 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URL: From eviljoel at linux.com Tue Apr 12 01:01:16 2016 From: eviljoel at linux.com (eviljoel) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:01:16 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North Side Message-ID: <570C811C.9090808@linux.com> Hello All, I'm casting a little wider net for this event because I believe we are a little bit behind on our target number of registrations. This Saturday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working in collaboration with the Chicago Linux Users Group to run an event to teach activists about encryption. Details are below and attached. Please forward to any activists you know. Thanks, eviljoel Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and lawyers who support social movements. You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone and/or laptop. The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other refreshments will be served. There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on April 16th! Special Notes: Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit for a $25 cost. We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to tux at chicagolug.org with your request. Detail Summary: ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense Workshop - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI Location: - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore entrance on 23 East Illinois street. -------------- next part -------------- Subject: Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North Side Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and lawyers who support social movements. You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone and/or laptop. The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other refreshments will be served. There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on April 16th! Special Notes: Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit for a $25 cost. We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to tux at chicagolug.org with your request. Detail Summary: ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense Workshop - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI Location: - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore entrance on 23 East Illinois street. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 20:08:15 2016 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:08:15 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy April 2016 Meeting Message-ID: ChiPy, The Thursday April 14th meeting is just around the corner and we look forward to seeing you there. All are welcome! Please RSVP soon. *Please provide your full name in the RSVP for the security check at the doo*r. Join us at 6:00pm to hang out, network, and eat! New ChiPy attendees are invited to stop by the "ChiPy Welcoming Table" at 6:30pm, where you can learn more about ChiPy and meet some new people. *When:* Thursday April 14th - 6:00pm: doors open; food arrives - 6:30pm - 6:45: ChiPy Welcoming Table open - 7:00pm: Talks Start promptly *How:* You can rsvp at chipy.org or via our Meetup group. *Where:* Akuna Capital 333 S. Wabash Ave 26th Floor Chicago, IL *What:* *Multiple System Failure: A case study in debugging* By: Adam Forsyth Recently, the Braintree Python library wasn't working on Google App Engine. Braintree, GAE, requests, and urllib3 all had problems and I tracked down each one. I'll walk you through debugging with only basic tools -- editing the code to observe state and using git to find the responsible commit. This talk expects a basic understanding of web programming, git, and Python. *module of the month - usaddress* By: Cathy Deng usaddress is a python library that uses NLP methods to parse address strings into structured components (e.g. street name, city, zip). it is trained on real-world addresses with real-world data quirks - as a result, it's robust in handling messy data. usaddress was built by DataMade, a local civic technology company. TL;DR usaddress helps you avoid regex for address data, which is a terrible rabbit hole. *Hacking Bokeh* By: Brian Ray A brief introduction into Bokeh http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/ And a bit on how to build interactive graphs in jupyter notebooks or stand alone. Thanks always to all our Platinum sponsors, especially: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, and Telnyx. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ See you there! -- Joe J. 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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Send Chicago mailing list submissions to > chicago at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > chicago-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > chicago-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Chicago digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North > Side (eviljoel) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:01:16 -0500 > From: eviljoel > To: acm at uic.edu, DePaul Linux Community - Discuss > , The Chicago Python Users Group > , ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us, chicago-talk at pm.org > Subject: [Chicago] Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago > Near North Side > Message-ID: <570C811C.9090808 at linux.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello All, > > I'm casting a little wider net for this event because I believe we are a > little bit behind on our target number of registrations. > > This Saturday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working in > collaboration with the Chicago Linux Users Group to run an event to > teach activists about encryption. Details are below and attached. Please > forward to any activists you know. > > Thanks, > eviljoel > > > Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers > Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM > https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html > > On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group > along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will > co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will > be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and > lawyers who support social movements. > > You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - > it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be > sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps > you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with > neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. > > To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone > and/or laptop. > > The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in > downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last > approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to > attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue > stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other > refreshments will be served. > > There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that > you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this > event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website > (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on > April 16th! > > Special Notes: > > Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an > opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) > credit for a $25 cost. > > We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, > gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to > tux at chicagolug.org with your request. > > Detail Summary: > ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense > Workshop > - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm > - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI > > Location: > - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 > - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 > - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr > > An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore > entrance on 23 East Illinois street. > -------------- next part -------------- > Subject: Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North Side > > Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers > Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM > https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html > > On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group along > with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will co-host a > free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be open to > the public, though particularly structured for activists and lawyers who > support social movements. > > You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - it > is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be sharing > knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you can take > to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to influence > surveillance policy at the state and local level. > > To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone > and/or laptop. > > The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in > downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last > approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to > attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop > on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other > refreshments will be served. > > There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that you > RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, too! > Registrations are handled via the EFF website ( > https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on April > 16th! > > Special Notes: > > Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an > opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit > for a $25 cost. > > We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, > gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to > tux at chicagolug.org with your request. > > Detail Summary: > ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense > Workshop > - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm > - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI > > Location: > - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 > - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 > - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr > > An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore > entrance on 23 East Illinois street. > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 836 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/attachments/20160412/7b7280c0/attachment-0001.sig > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Chicago Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3 > *************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lm.velasquez12 at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 15:41:08 2016 From: lm.velasquez12 at gmail.com (Loren Velasquez) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:41:08 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tutor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Look into the chipy mentorship program and apply :) it's free that way! On Apr 13, 2016 14:38, "Seth Eheart" wrote: > Looking for a personal tutor in the Logan Square area to meet up with > twice a month. Can also meet downtown if need be. Usually 1-2 hour > meetings. Will compensate based on experience. > > Person being tutored is beginner to Python but not coding. > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > >> Send Chicago mailing list submissions to >> chicago at python.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> chicago-request at python.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> chicago-owner at python.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Chicago digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North >> Side (eviljoel) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:01:16 -0500 >> From: eviljoel >> To: acm at uic.edu, DePaul Linux Community - Discuss >> , The Chicago Python Users Group >> , ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us, chicago-talk at pm.org >> Subject: [Chicago] Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago >> Near North Side >> Message-ID: <570C811C.9090808 at linux.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hello All, >> >> I'm casting a little wider net for this event because I believe we are a >> little bit behind on our target number of registrations. >> >> This Saturday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working in >> collaboration with the Chicago Linux Users Group to run an event to >> teach activists about encryption. Details are below and attached. Please >> forward to any activists you know. >> >> Thanks, >> eviljoel >> >> >> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >> >> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will >> be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >> lawyers who support social movements. >> >> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - >> it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be >> sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps >> you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with >> neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. >> >> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >> and/or laptop. >> >> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue >> stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >> refreshments will be served. >> >> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this >> event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website >> (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >> April 16th! >> >> Special Notes: >> >> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) >> credit for a $25 cost. >> >> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >> >> Detail Summary: >> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >> Workshop >> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >> >> Location: >> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >> >> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> Subject: Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North Side >> >> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >> >> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be >> open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >> lawyers who support social movements. >> >> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - it >> is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be sharing >> knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you can take >> to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to influence >> surveillance policy at the state and local level. >> >> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >> and/or laptop. >> >> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop >> on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >> refreshments will be served. >> >> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, >> too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website ( >> https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >> April 16th! >> >> Special Notes: >> >> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit >> for a $25 cost. >> >> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >> >> Detail Summary: >> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >> Workshop >> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >> >> Location: >> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >> >> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: signature.asc >> Type: application/pgp-signature >> Size: 836 bytes >> Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >> URL: < >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/attachments/20160412/7b7280c0/attachment-0001.sig >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of Chicago Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3 >> *************************************** >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lane at strapr.com Wed Apr 13 16:09:12 2016 From: lane at strapr.com (Lane Campbell) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:09:12 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tutor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Seth, Have they done CodeAcademy yet? Regards, Lane Campbell (312) 775-2632 On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Seth Eheart wrote: > Looking for a personal tutor in the Logan Square area to meet up with > twice a month. Can also meet downtown if need be. Usually 1-2 hour > meetings. Will compensate based on experience. > > Person being tutored is beginner to Python but not coding. > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > >> Send Chicago mailing list submissions to >> chicago at python.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> chicago-request at python.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> chicago-owner at python.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Chicago digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North >> Side (eviljoel) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:01:16 -0500 >> From: eviljoel >> To: acm at uic.edu, DePaul Linux Community - Discuss >> , The Chicago Python Users Group >> , ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us, chicago-talk at pm.org >> Subject: [Chicago] Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago >> Near North Side >> Message-ID: <570C811C.9090808 at linux.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hello All, >> >> I'm casting a little wider net for this event because I believe we are a >> little bit behind on our target number of registrations. >> >> This Saturday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working in >> collaboration with the Chicago Linux Users Group to run an event to >> teach activists about encryption. Details are below and attached. Please >> forward to any activists you know. >> >> Thanks, >> eviljoel >> >> >> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >> >> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will >> be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >> lawyers who support social movements. >> >> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - >> it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be >> sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps >> you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with >> neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. >> >> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >> and/or laptop. >> >> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue >> stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >> refreshments will be served. >> >> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this >> event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website >> (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >> April 16th! >> >> Special Notes: >> >> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) >> credit for a $25 cost. >> >> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >> >> Detail Summary: >> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >> Workshop >> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >> >> Location: >> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >> >> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> Subject: Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North Side >> >> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >> >> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be >> open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >> lawyers who support social movements. >> >> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - it >> is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be sharing >> knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you can take >> to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to influence >> surveillance policy at the state and local level. >> >> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >> and/or laptop. >> >> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop >> on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >> refreshments will be served. >> >> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, >> too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website ( >> https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >> April 16th! >> >> Special Notes: >> >> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit >> for a $25 cost. >> >> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >> >> Detail Summary: >> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >> Workshop >> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >> >> Location: >> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >> >> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: signature.asc >> Type: application/pgp-signature >> Size: 836 bytes >> Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >> URL: < >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/attachments/20160412/7b7280c0/attachment-0001.sig >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of Chicago Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3 >> *************************************** >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From that.hector at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 17:24:17 2016 From: that.hector at gmail.com (Hector Rios) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:24:17 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tutor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Seth, I would suggest that you check out the Python project nights. http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPythonistas/events/163257702/ Keep an eye out for any events which have work nights. Those should be able to help you out with whatever questions you may have. As Loren mentioned, there is the ChiPy mentorship program but the registration just closed up. Check out Learn Python the Hard Way and University of Michigan's Python for Everybody (https://www.coursera.org/learn/python). Cheers, { "name": "Hector Rios", "title": "Software Developer", "contact": { "linkedin": "hrios10", "gmail": "that.hector", "site": "http://hectron.github.io/" } } On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Lane Campbell wrote: > Seth, > > Have they done CodeAcademy yet? > > > Regards, > Lane Campbell > (312) 775-2632 > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Seth Eheart wrote: > >> Looking for a personal tutor in the Logan Square area to meet up with >> twice a month. Can also meet downtown if need be. Usually 1-2 hour >> meetings. Will compensate based on experience. >> >> Person being tutored is beginner to Python but not coding. >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM, wrote: >> >>> Send Chicago mailing list submissions to >>> chicago at python.org >>> >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> chicago-request at python.org >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> chicago-owner at python.org >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >>> than "Re: Contents of Chicago digest..." >>> >>> >>> Today's Topics: >>> >>> 1. Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North >>> Side (eviljoel) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:01:16 -0500 >>> From: eviljoel >>> To: acm at uic.edu, DePaul Linux Community - Discuss >>> , The Chicago Python Users Group >>> , ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us, chicago-talk at pm.org >>> Subject: [Chicago] Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago >>> Near North Side >>> Message-ID: <570C811C.9090808 at linux.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I'm casting a little wider net for this event because I believe we are a >>> little bit behind on our target number of registrations. >>> >>> This Saturday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working in >>> collaboration with the Chicago Linux Users Group to run an event to >>> teach activists about encryption. Details are below and attached. Please >>> forward to any activists you know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> eviljoel >>> >>> >>> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >>> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >>> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >>> >>> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >>> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >>> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will >>> be open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >>> lawyers who support social movements. >>> >>> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - >>> it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be >>> sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps >>> you can take to protect your communications, and how to work with >>> neighbors to influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. >>> >>> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >>> and/or laptop. >>> >>> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >>> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >>> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >>> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue >>> stop on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >>> refreshments will be served. >>> >>> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >>> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this >>> event, too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website >>> (https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >>> April 16th! >>> >>> Special Notes: >>> >>> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >>> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) >>> credit for a $25 cost. >>> >>> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >>> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >>> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >>> >>> Detail Summary: >>> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >>> Workshop >>> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >>> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >>> >>> Location: >>> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >>> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >>> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >>> >>> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >>> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> Subject: Surveillance Self-Defense 101 - April 16, Chicago Near North >>> Side >>> >>> Surveillance Self-Defense 101: A teach-in for activists and lawyers >>> Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM >>> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2016-04-16.html >>> >>> On Saturday, April 16th, members of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group >>> along with Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will >>> co-host a free workshop on surveillance self-defense. The workshop will be >>> open to the public, though particularly structured for activists and >>> lawyers who support social movements. >>> >>> You are not expected to be a technical expert to attend this session - >>> it is geared towards regular smartphone and laptop users. We will be >>> sharing knowledge of surveillance, some immediate and practical steps you >>> can take to protect your communications, and how to work with neighbors to >>> influence surveillance policy at the state and local level. >>> >>> To get the most out of the event, we recommend that you bring your phone >>> and/or laptop. >>> >>> The event will take place at SPACE, located at 444 N. Wabash Ave in >>> downtown Chicago. The session will start at 11:00am, and will last >>> approximately four hours. We recommend that you take public transit to >>> attend the event. SPACE is conveniently located near the Grand Avenue stop >>> on the CTA Red Line, and is wheelchair accessible. Pizza and other >>> refreshments will be served. >>> >>> There is no cost to attend, but we encourage (though not require) that >>> you RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. And feel free share this event, >>> too! Registrations are handled via the EFF website ( >>> https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI). We look forward to seeing you on >>> April 16th! >>> >>> Special Notes: >>> >>> Legal professionals licensed to practice in Illinois will have an >>> opportunity to receive Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit >>> for a $25 cost. >>> >>> We will have vegetarian food options available. If you prefer a vegan, >>> gluten free, or other food option, please send an email to >>> tux at chicagolug.org with your request. >>> >>> Detail Summary: >>> ChicagoLUG and Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense >>> Workshop >>> - Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 11:00am - 3:00pm >>> - RSVP: https://www.eff.org/04-16-16-CHI >>> >>> Location: >>> - SPACE - 444 N. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 >>> - OpenStreetMap Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3575222994 >>> - Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/VGtqEXpLGzr >>> >>> An alternate entry to the event is through the After Words Bookstore >>> entrance on 23 East Illinois street. >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>> Name: signature.asc >>> Type: application/pgp-signature >>> Size: 836 bytes >>> Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >>> URL: < >>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/attachments/20160412/7b7280c0/attachment-0001.sig >>> > >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Subject: Digest Footer >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> End of Chicago Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3 >>> *************************************** >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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... 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It is going to be a lot of fun, food and Python - and I assure you - you'll learn a lot even more as a mentor! Chicago Python User group is one of the most vibrant user group in the country with a great network of accomplished Python developers. The ChiPy Mentorship program is a one on one skill & knowledge sharing endeavor that is totally free and volunteer driven. So if you are looking for some help to get started with Python programming or want to hone your Python knowledge in data science, web development, this is a great opportunity. If you are a already a developer and want to learn by teaching others, this is a great way to give back to the community. The program runs for three month starting April 2016 and ending in July 2016. At the end of which M/M pairs compete against each other to win prizes and the glory of the Best M/M Pair title! Join ChiPy at http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_ and http://chipy.org http://www.chipy.org/pages/sigs/mentorship/ - Learn More I've invited you to fill out the form ChiPy Mentorship Program April - July 2016. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SryzRjPzFonOTuCEYSGLpYpBw8zRNLSs0aO64-mWu6A/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shekay at pobox.com Fri Apr 15 12:00:32 2016 From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:00:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] 2 Data Science Mentors, 1 Web Dev Mentor In-Reply-To: <001a1135be2ce343460530848774@google.com> References: <001a1135be2ce343460530848774@google.com> Message-ID: On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:44 AM, wrote: > > > As I mentioned, we are still looking for 2 Data Science Mentors and 1 Web Dev Mentor. 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Message-ID: Hello ChiPy members, I currently have 2 direct hire openings with companies in Lombard and Downer Grove that I am reaching out to you all to see if anyone is interested or if you have someone to recommend, I am happy to offer a generous referral bonus. 1) Software Developer * Location: Lombard, IL. * Company: A global in-flight entertainment company that provides connectivity solutions for over 150 major commercial airlines. * Role: Will be developing software that runs on the onboard server that handles media distribution. * Requirements: At least 2 years of back-end development with Python and strong Linux experience. * Desired: General knowledge of networking, LAN, Android, and/or streaming video. 2) Software Engineer * Location: Downer Grove, IL. * Company: A leader in medical imaging software that allows doctors and medical groups to share medical images via the cloud. * Role: Will be developing a scalable, highly available, distributed system for storage, search, and retrieval of medical images. * Requirements: At least 2 years of back-end development with Python and strong Linux experience. * Desired: Experience with Nginx, MariaDB, and/or OpenStack. 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The Finance SIG has to this point focused primarily on topics related to algorithmic trading but we are interested a variety of topics at the intersection of python and finance. For example, do you have experience working with finance data like XBRL? Are you interested in building models? Broader topics in computational finance and economics? I would be excited to see a presentation in behavioral finance on topics like buy/sell decisions, risk taking, etc. If you have seen something interesting lately and want to refer someone please let me know. One of the things that makes ChiPy great is the many contributions from our talented, diverse community. I'm looking forward to hearing you speak. Best Regards, David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric at intellovations.com Sun Apr 17 14:23:54 2016 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:23:54 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] PyOhio 2016 CFP Open Now! Message-ID: *PyOhio 2016 CFP Open Now!* PyOhio invites all interested people to submit proposals for scheduled talks, tutorials, and panels. All topics of interest to Python programmers will be considered. Presentation talk slots are 40-minutes or 20-minutes (plus short Q&A time.) Tutorial slots are 110 minutes long. *Who Should Submit a Proposal?* You. Your friends. Your friends' friends. Anyone with any level of Python knowledge is a candidate for a great topic at this conference. As we get attendees of all kinds, we need speakers of all kinds. In particular, we welcome submissions from first-time speakers! *Submit Early!* The proposal deadline is *May 15* but the earlier you submit, the better! Our reviewers will provide feedback as they review proposals. 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Please let me know if you > would like to present at this meeting or in the future. > > The Finance SIG has to this point focused primarily on topics related to > algorithmic trading but we are interested a variety of topics at the > intersection of python and finance. For example, do you have experience > working with finance data like XBRL? Are you interested in building models? > Broader topics in computational finance and economics? I would be excited > to see a presentation in behavioral finance on topics like buy/sell > decisions, risk taking, etc. If you have seen something interesting lately > and want to refer someone please let me know. > > One of the things that makes ChiPy great is the many contributions from > our talented, diverse community. 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If you know any JavaScript Devs who are interested in expanding their horizons (I work in the Financial Consulting space), this could definitely be the start of a really great experience for them. Please feel free to forward my contact info to anyone who may be interested. We'll buy pizza and beer for the next ChiPy meeting if you help us find the right person. Thank you JS -- ==== JS Irick 312-307-8904 Consultant: truqua.com Coach: atlascrossfit.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidkunio at gmail.com Fri Apr 22 00:53:07 2016 From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 04:53:07 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Finance SIG: FinMath - Tuesday 26th Message-ID: Hi ChiPy, Next Tuesday come on out to the University of Chicago. Thanks to the Financial Math program for hosting and providing dinner. We have a great meeting planned. 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Brian, The "problem" with Python (if you can call it that) is that it is mature technology. It's not like a Unicorn whose weaknesses have yet to be revealed. To the extent that there is negative press, it happened a long time ago. The big problems are/were the GIL and general performance (hard to optimize). Projects like PyPy, Nuitka, Cython and others are making headway in these areas I think. Future negative press will probably only emerge if all of them flop. Just my 2? Skip From mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 11:36:23 2016 From: mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com (Michael Tamillow) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:36:23 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have looked at that Gartner hype curve before and other Gartner tools and am fully convinced that Gartner is a $7.3 billion dollar company that just makes up stuff and then brands it effectively. I think this falls perfectly in line with what Data Science is all about. Looks awesome! Mike On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > "So if I were to position Python at the peak, which I'm not going to > spoil the results you will see at my talk, then it would be right on > "Activity beyond early adopters", and before "Negative press begins"." > > Brian, > > The "problem" with Python (if you can call it that) is that it is > mature technology. It's not like a Unicorn whose weaknesses have yet > to be revealed. To the extent that there is negative press, it > happened a long time ago. The big problems are/were the GIL and > general performance (hard to optimize). Projects like PyPy, Nuitka, > Cython and others are making headway in these areas I think. Future > negative press will probably only emerge if all of them flop. > > Just my 2? > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul at paulmayassociates.com Thu Apr 28 10:53:54 2016 From: paul at paulmayassociates.com (Paul May) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:53:54 -0000 Subject: [Chicago] congrats to the Textura company Message-ID: <167753734816374@198.154.215.62:465> Congrats to all the people at Textura, Way to go on a lot hard and tenacity making this happen. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura The $663 million deal is a 31 percent premium over the Deerfield company's Wednesday closing price. Thanks, Paul President o 708-479-1111 c 312-925-1294 Paul May & Associates, Inc. (PMA) paul at paulmayassociates.com link up http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates like on http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates tweet @paulmayassoc google + https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates Paul May Associates Job Feed http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q (The following links were included with this email:) http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura mailto:paul at paulmayassociates.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q (The following links were included with this email:) http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura mailto:paul at paulmayassociates.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dinaldo at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 12:28:12 2016 From: dinaldo at gmail.com (Don Sheu) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:28:12 -0700 Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Paul Graham's blog post, "Python Paradox," was August 2004. Might help with some of the anchors in your hype curve. http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html ? On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Michael Tamillow < mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com> wrote: > I have looked at that Gartner hype curve before and other Gartner tools > and am fully convinced that Gartner is a $7.3 billion dollar company that > just makes up stuff and then brands it effectively. > > I think this falls perfectly in line with what Data Science is all about. > Looks awesome! > > Mike > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Skip Montanaro > wrote: > >> "So if I were to position Python at the peak, which I'm not going to >> spoil the results you will see at my talk, then it would be right on >> "Activity beyond early adopters", and before "Negative press begins"." >> >> Brian, >> >> The "problem" with Python (if you can call it that) is that it is >> mature technology. It's not like a Unicorn whose weaknesses have yet >> to be revealed. To the extent that there is negative press, it >> happened a long time ago. The big problems are/were the GIL and >> general performance (hard to optimize). Projects like PyPy, Nuitka, >> Cython and others are making headway in these areas I think. Future >> negative press will probably only emerge if all of them flop. >> >> Just my 2? >> >> Skip >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Don Sheu 312.880.9389 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My Python user group in May meets at Redfin *http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/230373146/ * *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE*: *The information contained in this message may be protected trade secrets or protected by applicable intellectual property laws of the United States and International agreements. 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Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Paul May wrote: > > Congrats to all the people at Textura, > > Way to go on a lot hard and tenacity making this happen. > > http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura > > The $663 million deal is a 31 percent premium over the Deerfield company's Wednesday closing price. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > President > > o 708-479-1111 > c 312-925-1294 > Paul May & Associates, Inc. (PMA) > paul at paulmayassociates.com > link up http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates > like on http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates > tweet @paulmayassoc > google + https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates > Paul May Associates Job Feed http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lane at strapr.com Thu Apr 28 13:06:21 2016 From: lane at strapr.com (Lane Campbell) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:06:21 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] congrats to the Textura company In-Reply-To: <57223538.0af6c20a.4cfd4.25bcSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> References: <57223538.0af6c20a.4cfd4.25bcSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <507D2C5A-DEB6-4C1F-8E2A-D6AC072D8A8F@strapr.com> Wow, exciting! Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Paul May wrote: > > Congrats to all the people at Textura, > > Way to go on a lot hard and tenacity making this happen. > > http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura > > The $663 million deal is a 31 percent premium over the Deerfield company's Wednesday closing price. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > President > > o 708-479-1111 > c 312-925-1294 > Paul May & Associates, Inc. (PMA) > paul at paulmayassociates.com > link up http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates > like on http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates > tweet @paulmayassoc > google + https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates > Paul May Associates Job Feed http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lane at strapr.com Thu Apr 28 13:06:21 2016 From: lane at strapr.com (Lane Campbell) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:06:21 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] congrats to the Textura company In-Reply-To: <57223538.0af6c20a.4cfd4.25bcSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> References: <57223538.0af6c20a.4cfd4.25bcSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <507D2C5A-DEB6-4C1F-8E2A-D6AC072D8A8F@strapr.com> Wow, exciting! Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Paul May wrote: > > Congrats to all the people at Textura, > > Way to go on a lot hard and tenacity making this happen. > > http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160428/NEWS08/160429822/oracle-buying-construction-software-maker-textura > > The $663 million deal is a 31 percent premium over the Deerfield company's Wednesday closing price. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > President > > o 708-479-1111 > c 312-925-1294 > Paul May & Associates, Inc. (PMA) > paul at paulmayassociates.com > link up http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmayassociates > like on http://www.facebook.com/paulmayassociates > tweet @paulmayassoc > google + https://plus.google.com/+Paulmayassociates > Paul May Associates Job Feed http://tinyurl.com/p3mj55q > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hanalee07 at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 13:35:26 2016 From: hanalee07 at gmail.com (Hana Lee) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:35:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't know if this really counts as negative press or just idiosyncratic prefeerence, but I had an interesting conversation with a Ruby developer who intensely disliked Python (to the point of making a Slack trigger for it with "Wash your mouth out!" when I brought up Python). His main problem was semantic whitespace, which he claimed made it difficult to track down bugs. It surprised me because that's actually one of the aspects I like best about Python: it enforces code readability, which makes it easier rather than harder for me to debug. I didn't push the argument though. In computational biology circles, where there was a massive wave of adopting Python after primarily using Perl, the switch was often described in terms of a religious conversion experience. I got on the boat myself after being told, "Python makes me enjoy programming again." I don't think there's really been any negative press there yet, so peak of the hype cycle is probably appropriate there. Sincerely, Hana -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidkunio at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 21:10:54 2016 From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:10:54 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It might be interesting to examine perl, ruby, and/or fortran and see if you could document their path through the hype lifecycle. When was peak perl? Did perl ever make it's way back up the ramp of productivity? Would also be interesting to compare to Java and/or C. Does the curve look different for compiled vs interpreted languages? It seems to me that they have been more durable after hitting peak, would be interesting to tease out their staying power. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:54 PM Hana Lee wrote: > I don't know if this really counts as negative press or just idiosyncratic > prefeerence, but I had an interesting conversation with a Ruby developer > who intensely disliked Python (to the point of making a Slack trigger for > it with "Wash your mouth out!" when I brought up Python). His main problem > was semantic whitespace, which he claimed made it difficult to track down > bugs. It surprised me because that's actually one of the aspects I like > best about Python: it enforces code readability, which makes it easier > rather than harder for me to debug. I didn't push the argument though. > > In computational biology circles, where there was a massive wave of > adopting Python after primarily using Perl, the switch was often described > in terms of a religious conversion experience. I got on the boat myself > after being told, "Python makes me enjoy programming again." I don't think > there's really been any negative press there yet, so peak of the hype cycle > is probably appropriate there. > > Sincerely, > Hana > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From proba at allstate.com Fri Apr 29 17:45:08 2016 From: proba at allstate.com (Robare, Phillip (TEKSystems)) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 21:45:08 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <50869A74BA4F07468AD797C9BFF1FE3E28824239@A0185-XPO1026-C.ad.allstate.com> The "Gartner Hype Curve" is enterprisey, unscientific management gobbledy-goop. The kool-aide at Deloitte must be strong. Let us look at what is being "graphed". The x axis is time but without any metric on the axis. The most you can say is that points to the right come after points on the left. Imagine buying a bond where the issuer promises to pay you in the future, but refuses to specify how far in the future. They y axis is the most squishy and enterprisey. It is labelled "Expectations". This is not a metric (measurable) quantity. It is impossible to compare one set of expectations to another set for exactly the same reason that a set of strings is not comparable to a set of integers. But wait, you may say, if we are talking about the same technology across time aren't we talking about the same set of expectations? No, the graph is implicitly saying that set of expectations is a function of time, i.e. the set of expectations changes with time. If the expectations are changing then whatever metric function you are applying to the set is either itself changing or is extremely simple. Either way the output is essentially meaningless. Let's substitute 'expectation of a financial return' for expectation. This would give us a graph that would essentially be a stock price chart. The Gartner curve does not look like the graph of any successful technology company - not Apple (APPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle(ORCL) or Intel (INTC). The closest stock chart I've seen to a Gartner curve is Textura's (TXTR) and I don't think that the event points on the hype curve have any relation to the expectation of financial return for that company. Maybe you can sort of see the curve occurring in stock charts. Maybe Apple is overlapping hype curves of Mac, IPod, and IPhone. This is the province of chartists who look for patterns like "head and shoulders" and "support/resistance levels" in stock prices. These patterns occur in a random walk as well. I won't be winning anything on Quantopian.com by automating the recognition of either chart patterns or the hype curve. The Python Foundation will never issue dividend checks or provide the founders with a payoff when they get acquired in a buyout even though a lot of people have invested in Python. So we don't even have money as a proxy for the y axis. So we can't measure where we are on the curve, either on the x or y axis, and it has no predictive capability except as a sequence of 'events'. There is no science in applying it. As a paradigm it cannot be proven wrong nor can it be proven right. It does posit that the next to final step is third generation tools and libraries. I think we have that in Python for web (1:WSGI, 2:Zope 3:Django/Flask), graphing (1:Tkinter Canvas, 2:Matplotlib, 3:Bokeh) and many other fields. The final prediction of the curve is 20 to 30% adoption. I don't think that any modern language will ever get there for the same reason that NBC will never again have 30% market share. There is too much competition today. Even in the days of Cobol/Fortran domination there were plenty of RPG and 360ASM jobs. And the curve calls the final time the Plateau of Productivity. We are certainly productive. So in answer to your question, that is where we are. And it doesn't mean anything that the hype is rising. Phil Robare From: Chicago [mailto:chicago-bounces+proba=allstate.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Brian Ray Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:35 AM To: The Chicago Python Users Group Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype I am working on a talk regarding "Python Hype" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/python-hype-brian-ray Would love some feedback. As you are my key support group, I'm looking for your opinions, thoughts, comments, concerns.... Also, expect a Survey soon to follow. Thanks! -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MDiPierro at cs.depaul.edu Fri Apr 29 19:17:30 2016 From: MDiPierro at cs.depaul.edu (DiPierro, Massimo) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:17:30 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] DePy 2016 Message-ID: <0FB09095-52CD-47B3-92C3-5F9D07FC34F4@cs.depaul.edu> Hello everybody, there is one more week to register for DePy 2016. http://mdp.cdm.depaul.edu/DePy2016 I happy to offer free registration to Chipy members. Massimo From MDiPierro at cs.depaul.edu Fri Apr 29 19:16:25 2016 From: MDiPierro at cs.depaul.edu (DiPierro, Massimo) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:16:25 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] DePy 2016 In-Reply-To: <50869A74BA4F07468AD797C9BFF1FE3E28824239@A0185-XPO1026-C.ad.allstate.com> References: <50869A74BA4F07468AD797C9BFF1FE3E28824239@A0185-XPO1026-C.ad.allstate.com> Message-ID: <3DBA238F-4F97-4565-B748-D741BBCA13CB@cs.depaul.edu> On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Robare, Phillip (TEKSystems) > wrote: The "Gartner Hype Curve" is enterprisey, unscientific management gobbledy-goop. The kool-aide at Deloitte must be strong. Let us look at what is being "graphed". The x axis is time but without any metric on the axis. The most you can say is that points to the right come after points on the left. Imagine buying a bond where the issuer promises to pay you in the future, but refuses to specify how far in the future. They y axis is the most squishy and enterprisey. It is labelled "Expectations". This is not a metric (measurable) quantity. It is impossible to compare one set of expectations to another set for exactly the same reason that a set of strings is not comparable to a set of integers. But wait, you may say, if we are talking about the same technology across time aren't we talking about the same set of expectations? No, the graph is implicitly saying that set of expectations is a function of time, i.e. the set of expectations changes with time. If the expectations are changing then whatever metric function you are applying to the set is either itself changing or is extremely simple. Either way the output is essentially meaningless. Let's substitute 'expectation of a financial return' for expectation. This would give us a graph that would essentially be a stock price chart. The Gartner curve does not look like the graph of any successful technology company - not Apple (APPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle(ORCL) or Intel (INTC). The closest stock chart I've seen to a Gartner curve is Textura's (TXTR) and I don't think that the event points on the hype curve have any relation to the expectation of financial return for that company. Maybe you can sort of see the curve occurring in stock charts. Maybe Apple is overlapping hype curves of Mac, IPod, and IPhone. This is the province of chartists who look for patterns like "head and shoulders" and "support/resistance levels" in stock prices. These patterns occur in a random walk as well. I won't be winning anything on Quantopian.com by automating the recognition of either chart patterns or the hype curve. The Python Foundation will never issue dividend checks or provide the founders with a payoff when they get acquired in a buyout even though a lot of people have invested in Python. So we don't even have money as a proxy for the y axis. So we can't measure where we are on the curve, either on the x or y axis, and it has no predictive capability except as a sequence of 'events'. There is no science in applying it. As a paradigm it cannot be proven wrong nor can it be proven right. It does posit that the next to final step is third generation tools and libraries. I think we have that in Python for web (1:WSGI, 2:Zope 3:Django/Flask), graphing (1:Tkinter Canvas, 2:Matplotlib, 3:Bokeh) and many other fields. The final prediction of the curve is 20 to 30% adoption. I don't think that any modern language will ever get there for the same reason that NBC will never again have 30% market share. There is too much competition today. Even in the days of Cobol/Fortran domination there were plenty of RPG and 360ASM jobs. And the curve calls the final time the Plateau of Productivity. We are certainly productive. So in answer to your question, that is where we are. And it doesn't mean anything that the hype is rising. Phil Robare From: Chicago [mailto:chicago-bounces+proba=allstate.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Brian Ray Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:35 AM To: The Chicago Python Users Group > Subject: [Chicago] Python Hype I am working on a talk regarding "Python Hype" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/python-hype-brian-ray Would love some feedback. As you are my key support group, I'm looking for your opinions, thoughts, comments, concerns.... Also, expect a Survey soon to follow. Thanks! -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717 _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From foresmac at gmail.com Fri Apr 29 21:01:37 2016 From: foresmac at gmail.com (Chris Foresman) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:01:37 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Requests update Message-ID: Adam, That fix you were looking for in requests was released: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/community/updates/#id1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam at adamforsyth.net Sat Apr 30 01:13:10 2016 From: adam at adamforsyth.net (Adam Forsyth) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:13:10 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Requests update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Chris! For those of you who may not remember, or who missed my talk, one of the problems I ran into was that requests doesn't consider Google App Engine a supported platform. The GAE standard library isn't 100% compatible with the ... well, the standard standard library. requests 2.10.0, which was just released, allows an external library called requests-toolbelt to provide an adapter adding GAE support . Now, in order to make the Braintree library (which depends on requests) work on GAE, you can add these lines to your app before you import the Braintree library: import requestsfrom requests_toolbelt.adapters import appengine appengine.monkeypatch() And it will "just work". Adam On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Chris Foresman wrote: > Adam, > > That fix you were looking for in requests was released: > http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/community/updates/#id1 > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From randy7771026 at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 08:02:05 2016 From: randy7771026 at gmail.com (Randy Baxley) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:02:05 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Requests update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Love it Adam. Even though I got a flavor of wtf from Robare I sort of love what he had to say about the curve Brian is working with. I made a lot of people a lot of money in commodities with charting as the visual that really only connected in my wooly brain to the neural networks we were using to predict commodity markets. I predict not only 3rd gen but forth gen products are coming for Python. You want to nail me down to when? Well that will be even more fun because now you have to throw in the question of what is the currency for Open Source development. The picture to me is not the masses of folks committing to GitHub but there is an intersection there. It is a relative small Aramco type operation that builds up people like Beazley and can also support a wild hair such as myself sort of like the original teams IBM hired in the 60s and 70s to support the moon shot. So a moon shot type project would really squeeze the period of the next curve to peak and could be three years. Without a moon shot project and with the current 3000 people duplicating efforts it will be 20 years. I love that Brian is thinking about this and that he has built up so many people. One of the the things that govs and corps do is support uni chairs and put their people in those chairs. That will also be one of the vectors. Unis will change though and some MOOC platform will drive that. Not without warm touches though. Thought of our two Brians and Derek inserted here. Hope folks have fun and get productive ideas at DePy. Great Talking to y'all. I leave you with a fun warm touch from last week that has a Houston and Chicago component. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edU1-4MtEbg On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Adam Forsyth wrote: > Thanks Chris! > > For those of you who may not remember, or who missed my talk, one of the > problems I ran into was that requests doesn't consider Google App Engine a > supported platform. The GAE standard library isn't 100% compatible with the > ... well, the standard standard library. > > requests 2.10.0, which was just released, allows an external library > called requests-toolbelt to > provide an adapter adding GAE support > . > Now, in order to make the Braintree library (which depends on requests) > work on GAE, you can add these lines to your app before you import the > Braintree library: > > import requestsfrom requests_toolbelt.adapters import appengine > appengine.monkeypatch() > > > And it will "just work". > > Adam > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Chris Foresman > wrote: > >> Adam, >> >> That fix you were looking for in requests was released: >> http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/community/updates/#id1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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... 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