From carl at personnelware.com Tue May 11 00:05:11 2010 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:05:11 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChiPy at ITA Thu May 13, 7p Message-ID: ChiPy ========================= When: 7 PM Thursday May 13, 2010 Where: ITA This will be our Best Meeting Ever! Topics ------ 1. 7:00 How to contribute to Python (Brian Curtin) 2. 7:45 Pizza (Imaginary Landscape) 3. 8:00 Building the Python Interpreter and Going for Speed (William Scullin) 4. 8:45 Book Giveaway (O'Reilly) Details ------- 1. How to contribute to Python Brian Curtin http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/ covers an interesting topic (to me), and I think it would be cool to show an example of how to contribute a fix to Python. My idea is to go from start-to-finish finding a bug in Python, checking out the source, fixing the bug, making a patch, signing up on the tracker, then submitting the patch. A documentation fix would probably be easiest/quickest, but I could look around the bug tracker and keep a really small standard library bug in my back pocket so we can fix some actual code. 2. Pizza Imaginary Landscape Local Python shop wants to make sure we don't pass out from starvation. Return the favor by visiting http://chicagopython.com 3. Building the Python Interpreter and Going for Speed William Scullin A summary of lessons learned by building CPython with non-gnu compilers on x86 and non-x86 platforms. We've got some fun, and actually sort of depressing data learned from trying to scale out a python science code to 32,768 cores. None of it is a surprise, but it's got some interesting implications for large distributed applications of all stripes that if I'm lucky, someone will stand up and point out the obvious solutions. 4. Book Giveaway O'Reilly Take notes and be ready to answer questions - correct answer gets you a book. Location -------- Illinois Technology Association (ITA) 200 S. Wacker Drive 15th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 312.435.2805 http://www.illinoistech.org Metra: exit on Adams St, walk East across the bridge, first door on the right. Show your ID to security. Be on the list or they will be sad. http://chipy.org/FrontPage#sign-up About the group --------------- ChiPy is made up of people of all levels of programming and Python knowledge. At every meeting we have had both beginning programmers, people who are just starting to use Python, as well as experienced Python programmers. Don't be intimidated about coming to a meeting. Note that ChiPy is not a formal organization. We collect no dues, elect no officers, and keep no roster. Signing up for the mailing list carries no obligation. Nor does showing up at the meetings. Nor, at least so far, does anything else we have done, although we always appreciate it when our presenters show up. (They usually do!) http://chipy.org From carl at personnelware.com Wed May 12 20:22:31 2010 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:22:31 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] http://chipy.org/#sign-up so I can order pizza today Message-ID: I need to get the pizza order in today around 3, so I need a good head count, so if you are going to come, get on the list now. not 2:55, cuz the phone will ring and you will answer it instead of signing up. Last month 15 people signed up the day of the meeting. that's messed up, yo. https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVLOTNTU3oxTzJKYjB3RmV4eVZkMEE6MA -- Carl K