From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Wed Jan 9 08:35:54 2019 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 07:35:54 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy January 2019 Main Meeting Message-ID: Hey ChiPy, We have a great meeting planned with a bunch of great talks to start out the new year. Hope to see you all there! Thank you to our host and food/drink sponsor TEKSystems! Please be sure to RSVP by noon the day of the event. *When:*Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, 6 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org by noon the day of the event. *Where:* TEKSystems 111 N. Canal Street *What:* - *Three Python Nuances I Wish I'd Known Earlier* By: Jess Unrein Experience Level: Novice I'll briefly go over three Python gotchas that have given me headaches in the past that I wish I had known about earlier. We'll talk about a good use case for deepcopy, why default mutable arguments are unexpectedly tricky, and the difference "is" and "==" comparators. - *What's the deal with Florida's news?* By: Jordan Nelson Experience Level: Novice When thinking about Florida News many have heard of the ubiquitous Florida man. This talk will look at news from around the country and attempt to quantify if Florida man truly exists. I used Python to build functions that scrape satirical, national, and local news sites and built a basic model to compare news across various states. Python libraries highlighted in this talk include: requests, Beautiful Soup, and sklearn. - *Busy-Beaver: Increasing Community Engagement with Python* By: Aly Sivji , Chris Luedtke Experience Level: Novice With over four thousand members, the Chicago Python Users Group is one of the largest Python communities in the world. Slack has become the primary method of communication amongst members in-between events. We developed an open-source Slack bot, codename: Busy Beaver, to increase member engagement. This talk will introduce Busy Beaver, provide a high-level walkthrough of its architecture and code, and discuss the future roadmap of the project. - *Advent of Code* By: Sree P Experience Level: Novice Breif overview of ?Advent Of Code? and walkthrough of one of the challenges - *Staying alive with systemd* By: Siva Manivannan Experience Level: Intermediate Keep your Python applications alive and kicking with systemd. *Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors: Metis and TelnyxAlso thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit.Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ * -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bainada.iit at gmail.com Mon Jan 14 18:51:09 2019 From: bainada.iit at gmail.com (Adam Bain) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:51:09 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] Ultimate Language Shootout 2019 (Feb 14, 2019) Message-ID: Hey Pythonistas, It's time again for the Ultimate Language Shootout For those of you not familiar with this classic ChiPy special event here's how it works: Pick any programming language other than Python. Present and introduce the language at the February 14th ChiPy meeting. Do at least 1 comparison to Python. Talks should be approximately 5 minutes. Audience members will vote on their favorite presentation and the winner takes home a prize. Sound cool? Enter your talk here: http://bit.ly/chipy-shootout-2019 See you all at the Feb 14 meeting to talk about your favorite non-Python language or to just watch the others and cheer on your favorite. Adam Bain Chipy, Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bainada.iit at gmail.com Mon Jan 14 18:51:27 2019 From: bainada.iit at gmail.com (Adam Bain) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:51:27 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] Chicago Polyglot Meeting (Jan 30th) Message-ID: Hello again Pythonistas, I'd like to invite you all to a really great event at the end of this month, Jan 30th. ChiPy, Chicago Ruby and Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG) are co-hosting the 3rd Chicago Polyglot Mingle. *polyglot*: "knowing or using several langauges" Come on down to Sully's House and enjoy socializing and networking with software developers from various Chicago user groups, over free food and beverages. I'm really excited to seeing you there at this awesome Chicago's tech social! Please RSVP now at chicagopolyglot.com and sign up under ChiPy! Adam Bain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bainada.iit at gmail.com Wed Jan 30 01:56:14 2019 From: bainada.iit at gmail.com (Adam Bain) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:56:14 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] Chicago Polyglot Mingle postponed until Feb 12th Message-ID: Hi everyone, Due to the extreme cold moving in on Jan 30th, for the safety of all attendees, the Chicago Polyglot mingle has being postponed until Feb 12th. While we regret not being able to hold the event tonight, we hope that you can make the new date. Ticket logistics: If you have already had tickets, you are still set for the new date. If you do not plan to come on the 12th, if you don't mind, please cancel your ticket so that we can get an accurate head count and so that other people who could not originally attend are able to do so. If you have still yet to sign up, a new block of tickets is going up at ChicagoPolyglot.com shortly, please use the "ChiPy" Thank you for your understanding. 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If you do not plan to come on the 12th, and you don't mind, please cancel your ticket so that we can get an accurate head count and so that other people who could not originally attend are able to do so. If you are still yet to sign up, a new block of tickets is going up at ChicagoPolyglot.com shortly. You can sign up under the "ChiPy" ticket type. I appreciate your understanding. I am really looking forward to the 12th where we will have this gathering of ChiPy, Chicago Ruby, CJUG and other Chicago user groups. Stay safe, Adam Bain > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: