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From: milapbhojak.exe at gmail.com (Milap Bhojak)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:09:54 +0530
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hello Pythonistas,

Milap and Juned here Initiator of PyGuj (Python Users Group - Gujarat).
PyGuj started as a group of 3 people in March 2014 and We are group of 100+
active python developers. As we are following the mision of PSF "to
promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to
support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community
of Python programmers". We do monthly meet-ups, Hackathons and workshops.

You could find us here,
Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pyguj
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PyGuj
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PyGuj

Thanks :)
Milap & Juned.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Manoranjan Padhy <manoranjan.113 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I am Manoranjan Padhy and I along with Harsh Dattani facilitate Python
> Developers Baroda [ https://www.facebook.com/pydevbaroda ] User Group in
> Baroda, India. PyDev Baroda is a pretty young user group though. We
> formulated around 6 months back as there wasn't any local user group in our
> city or nearby. Even though the group is quite young but we have gathered
> quite a momentum since past few months.
>
> We organise monthly meetups to collaborate with other Python literates to
> scale the community. Moreover we are exploring people who are interested in
> Python either to learn or to develop using it. In fact we are also planning
> a large scale conference in months to come.
>
> Would be very much glad if members in the list can advice something or come
> up with some creative Ideas. One more thing I also wanted to know about
> channels using wich we can generate funds for smooth scaling of the group.
>
>
> Regards,
> Manoranjan Padhy
> www.maoranjan.me
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks, I organize Puget Sound Programming Python. We summarize our
> name
> > as PuPPy. I founded the group in August 2014 with Dusty Phillips the
> author
> > of *Python 3 Object Oriented Programming*. Our first meeting
> > <
> >
> http://pupyug.org/post/90374380872/first-meeting-coming-august-9th-women-and-code
> > >
> > was a mini-conference that explored tactics and strategy for including
> more
> > women in engineering. Facebook hosted us.
> >
> > Founding of this group was inspired by my friend Brian Ray's example with
> > what he does with his group ChiPy. Yannick Gingras was instrumental in
> > getting our group going and introduced Dusty Phillips and me to each
> other.
> >
> > This month rather than go dark during a PyCon month, we held two events.
> > Normally we meet second Wednesdays. This month we met on the 1st at
> Qumulo
> > <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/220404014/>. Though I expected a
> > smaller turnout for a PyCon month, we had 40 attendees with a waiting
> list
> > of over 70.
> >
> > Because of the large number of our members who couldn't attend because of
> > space limitations, we partnered with Seattle Data/Analytics/Machine
> > Learning for a second event this past Tuesday at Redfin
> > <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221665531/>. We had over 150
> > RSVPs.
> > About 130 made it to the meetup.
> >
> > Upcoming events at Indeed
> > <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012040/>.com and Google
> > <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/221012063/> have 130 and 170
> RSVPs
> > respectively.
> >
> > Please visit us. I've invited Audrey Roy Greenfeld, Danny Roy Greenfeld,
> > Larry Hastings, Yannick Gingras, and Brian Ray to form an advisory
> council
> > for us. With our organizers Dusty Phillips and Alan Vezina we'll create a
> > form of an editorial calendar for our future meetups with topics for each
> > meeting.
> >
> > I hope that the editorial calendar will help our speakers select speaking
> > slots and out-of-town visitors to pick meetups to attend.
> >
> > I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow organizers Dusty
> > Phillips, Alan Vezina, Brian Nitz, Tammy Lee, Paul Briant, David Kurkov,
> > and Colin Dietrich.
> >
> > Visit us!
> > ?
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 4/12/2015 5:01 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself
> if
> > > you
> > > >> haven't already.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > The Triangle is not to be confused with the "Piedmont Triad" area of
> > > North
> > > > Carolina to the west encompassing Winston-Salem, Greenboro, and High
> > > Point
> > > > which have their own Python user group (PYPTUG).
> > >
> > >
> > > Must be my cue :)
> > >
> > > I also have been subscribed to this list for a few years, since I
> started
> > > PYPTUG in 2011. PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group, or PYPTUG has had
> > > meetings in the Piedmont Triad area of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and
> High
> > > Point (and places in between like Thomasville and Kernersville). There
> > is a
> > > bit more detail on the beginnings of PYPTUG here:
> > > http://www.pyptug.org/2012/08/python-piedmont-triad-user-group.html
> > >
> > > And the main reason I started it is on that page: "to promote and
> advance
> > > computing, electronics and science in general in North Carolina using
> the
> > > Python programming language, and through workshops and project nights
> > where
> > > people can learn, get help and mentor others. A secondary goal is to
> make
> > > you, the artist, the engineer, the investor, the manager, the
> programmer,
> > > the scientist, the teacher, better at your job."
> > >
> > > Currently we typically have 1 monthly meeting at Wake Forest U (in
> > > Winston-Salem) and 1 project night at Inmar (also in Winston Salem) per
> > > month (although we had more this year). If you'd like to come by and
> > > present on a subject, do drop me a note.
> > >
> > > We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker
> > hackerspace,
> > > some lunch and learn with local schools and businesses, many Raspberry
> Pi
> > > sessions over the past 3 years, and of course the Project Nights.
> During
> > > those, we have a Newbie's Corner to provide one on one help either to
> > learn
> > > Python or to use it, set up a computer etc. We've also had some
> > interesting
> > > projects, ranging from the Pi-A-Sketch, to our latest project that
> > consumed
> > > all our free time in 2015, NSC-01:
> > >
> > > The first ever 7 node computing cluster sent into near space using a
> High
> > > Altitude Balloon (and within the FAA regulations on weight...). All
> > > controlled by Python 3:
> > > http://www.pyptug.org/p/team-near-space-circus.html
> > >
> > > Of course we had to put the xkcd cartoon from import antigravity on the
> > > payload itself, along with a QR code for PYPTUG and a notice to finder.
> > >
> > > This has allowed us to involve the student population a bit more. And
> > since
> > > their involvement, High Point U is now using Python and Raspberry Pis
> in
> > 3
> > > departments. We've also had meetings at local technical community
> > colleges.
> > > Next on my list is to get something going with High Schools. I've
> already
> > > started that ball rolling.
> > >
> > > I do realize that I need to expand the geographical area in which we
> hold
> > > our meetings. Greensboro and High Point have to start to be in the
> > monthly
> > > rotation, just as TriPython have been doing in their area, as it has
> been
> > > hard to grow membership (around 120 at this time). Of course, we are
> > still
> > > young, but I've been keeping track of the suggestions on this list to
> > > figure out what to do next.
> > >
> > > Francois
> > > --
> > > raspberry-python.blogspot.com - www.pyptug.org - www.3DFutureTech.info
> -
> > > @f_dion
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> >
> > --
> > Don Sheu
> > (312) 880-9389
> >
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From mariak at mariakathryn.net  Fri May  1 07:07:35 2015
From: mariak at mariakathryn.net (Maria McKinley)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:07:35 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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Hi Trey,

I am using a book, but just for myself really. I announce the pattern when
I announce the meeting. I read over the chapter, look at the wikipedia
page, and come up with some sort of intro. After my intro, we talk about
the pattern and about questions we have, and then we generally go over the
code example(s) on the wikipedia page, and try to understand what the code
does and why the pattern would be useful. We then try to come up with how
we have or could use this pattern in our own coding.

cheers,
Maria

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Trey Hunner <trey at treyhunner.com> wrote:

> Hi Maria,
>
> I'm interested in how your design pattern discussions work.  Where do
> you find design patterns?  Are you using a list/book or does someone
> suggest a pattern each time?  Do you announce the pattern beforehand?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 04/20/2015 02:43 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I organize a group of developers at the University of Washington.
> > Developers in academia suffer from not being able to code with other
> > developers. We don't even get code reviews. So, I started this group so
> we
> > can talk about our code, the unique issues we run into developing for
> > research, and learn from each other. The most interesting thing we have
> > been doing lately is going through design patterns. Each meeting we talk
> > about a new design pattern, and how we would implement it in different
> > languages, and how it might be useful for research/data analysis
> software.
> >
> > So glad to hear about different meeting ideas and organizations!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Maria
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Albert O'Connor <amjoconn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Evening everyone.
> >>
> >> I am Albert O'Connor and I help organize WatPy the Waterloo Python
> group in
> >> Ontario Canada (watpy.ca).
> >>
> >> We have been working on running more teaching events and providing a
> better
> >> way for people to access materials. For scientific Python we have
> worked on
> >> a tool to turn markdown (versioned in a repo) into iPython notebooks.
> >>
> >> Our next project is to turn markdown into an interactive website using
> >> PyPy.js.
> >>
> >> Cheer,
> >> Albert
> >>
> >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 17:02 Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just added a bunch of organizers to this list per Catherine's
> >>> recommendation. Also spoke with Ned. Thanks everyone for helping make
> >> this
> >>> happen.
> >>>
> >>> If you get a chance, please send a quick note to introduce yourself if
> >> you
> >>> haven't already.
> >>>
> >>> I'll start, I am Brian Ray, One of the (now) many organizer's for ChiPy
> >>> Chicago Python User Group. We have gotten supper organized in the last
> >>> couple years and what to share what we learned. We also want to learn
> >> from
> >>> your experiences. PyCon was very helpful. Have a super great weekend
> and
> >>> safe travels to those leaving PyCon. This year.
> >>>
> >>> Warm Regards, Brian
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Brian Ray
> >>> @brianray
> >>> (773) 669-7717
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> >
>
> --
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> http://treyhunner.com
>
>


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From shekay at pobox.com  Fri May  1 15:44:13 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 08:44:13 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] python office hours and study groups
Message-ID: <CAHCs_raxGteM8dY6ErY4n9v9H_2ZSD+QKd+z_CVF5e6wvWZM_w@mail.gmail.com>

editing subject line from the Mass Add thread.

How long does the study group session last?

Do you think a short presentation of a concept followed by a regular office
hours/project night where people can voluntarily join anyone who wants to
discuss the topic more would work in an office hours setting? Or should an
entire session be devoted to the concept?

I find people who show up without a lot of background in software
engineering and/or computer science who want to know more about these
things. I'm wondering if opening up a project night or office hours with a
quick introduction to a data structure, algorithm, or engineering concept
might be helpful and motivating for those people.

cheers

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
wrote:

> Hi Trey,
>
> I am using a book, but just for myself really. I announce the pattern when
> I announce the meeting. I read over the chapter, look at the wikipedia
> page, and come up with some sort of intro. After my intro, we talk about
> the pattern and about questions we have, and then we generally go over the
> code example(s) on the wikipedia page, and try to understand what the code
> does and why the pattern would be useful. We then try to come up with how
> we have or could use this pattern in our own coding.
>
> cheers,
> Maria
>
[trimmed introductions]



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From shekay at pobox.com  Fri May  1 17:45:41 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:45:41 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Mass Add
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
wrote:
[cool stuff!]

> We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker hackerspace,
>
[more cool stuff!]

So much neat work. Do you have a summary of all this posted in a public
place? I'd like to point some of my hackerspace people to it. The archives
here are private, so I can't merely provide a link to your post.



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From francois.dion at gmail.com  Fri May  1 18:02:43 2015
From: francois.dion at gmail.com (Francois Dion)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 12:02:43 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Python and maker / hackerspaces
Message-ID: <CAOLi1KDNT75JfT0O9fAg+EDoevZGVJp-B07y7TkMzxmkudadWw@mail.gmail.com>

My blogging is several order of magnitude slower than the actual doing of
stuff, itself at least an order of magnitude or two slower than what I'd
like to accomplish, unfortunately.

Still, I have a tutorials page that covers a few of the workshops:
http://raspberry-python.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

I've not kept up with this page, except to add the High Altitude Balloon
page. Lots to be done...

Francois

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:45 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [cool stuff!]
>
>> We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker hackerspace,
>>
> [more cool stuff!]
>
> So much neat work. Do you have a summary of all this posted in a public
> place? I'd like to point some of my hackerspace people to it. The archives
> here are private, so I can't merely provide a link to your post.
>
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
>



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From shekay at pobox.com  Fri May  1 19:03:24 2015
From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 12:03:24 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] Python and maker / hackerspaces
In-Reply-To: <CAOLi1KDNT75JfT0O9fAg+EDoevZGVJp-B07y7TkMzxmkudadWw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOLi1KDNT75JfT0O9fAg+EDoevZGVJp-B07y7TkMzxmkudadWw@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks kindly.

Would you mind if I actually shared your email content from before? I
wasn't sure if the expectation is private in general, but it seems like a
big list.

Or maybe we could turn the archives public?

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My blogging is several order of magnitude slower than the actual doing of
> stuff, itself at least an order of magnitude or two slower than what I'd
> like to accomplish, unfortunately.
>
> Still, I have a tutorials page that covers a few of the workshops:
> http://raspberry-python.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
>
> I've not kept up with this page, except to add the High Altitude Balloon
> page. Lots to be done...
>
> Francois
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:45 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> [cool stuff!]
>>
>>> We've had some nice workshops in collaboration with Fablocker
>>> hackerspace,
>>>
>> [more cool stuff!]
>>
>> So much neat work. Do you have a summary of all this posted in a public
>> place? I'd like to point some of my hackerspace people to it. The archives
>> here are private, so I can't merely provide a link to your post.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> shekay at pobox.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> raspberry-python.blogspot.com - www.pyptug.org - www.3DFutureTech.info -
> @f_dion
>



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From mal at egenix.com  Sat May  2 19:10:53 2015
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 19:10:53 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] Adding user group events to the Python calendars
Message-ID: <5545051D.9000702@egenix.com>

Some of you may not be aware, but there is a user group calendar
for Python user group events maintained by a group of volunteers
(including myself).

More about the Python events calendar:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar

Details on submitting an event:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_Event

The events will then show up on the python.org homepage as well
as https://www.python.org/events/, the https://twitter.com/PythonEvents
twitter feed and the RSS channels of the calendars.

If you want to find regional events, you can use this map mashup:
http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events/

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From brianhray at gmail.com  Tue May 12 23:34:48 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:34:48 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
In-Reply-To: <CAB32_MOc_GLjCdgJb3J7BMLUwQF9fLVSHUPphw8YzPVXEaNyWw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAB32_MOc_GLjCdgJb3J7BMLUwQF9fLVSHUPphw8YzPVXEaNyWw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CANKg38tc1hAFuALyXivWoJPNHL5dCc+E1=jChDu790STyCg_6Q@mail.gmail.com>

Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html

Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?  Any
additional advice on those who want to implement their own?


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
> and help others become better programmer.
>
> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
>
> Our amazing mentors for this term:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
>
> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
>
> Mentorship FAQ:
> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is probably
>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has created.
>>
>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for over
>> a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding some other organizers
>> <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix and letting them (or
>> forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One domain, is our awesome
>> Mentorship program.
>>
>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of mentors/mentees.
>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>>
>>
>>    -
>>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>>    -
>>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>>
>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
>> want to start a similar program in your area.
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Brian
>>
>> ChiPy Organizer
>>
>> http://chipy.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian Ray
>> @brianray
>> (773) 669-7717
>>
>


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From tathagatadg at gmail.com  Wed May 13 00:11:12 2015
From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 22:11:12 +0000
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!

Update on current program:
Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html

Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we are
planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program - where
developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the mentor
and mentees.

I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the mentorship
program. Soon ;)


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
> http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
>
> Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?  Any
> additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
>> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
>> and help others become better programmer.
>>
>> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
>>
>> Our amazing mentors for this term:
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
>>
>> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
>>
>> Mentorship FAQ:
>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is probably
>>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has created.
>>>
>>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
>>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding some
>>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix and
>>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One domain,
>>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
>>>
>>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of mentors/mentees.
>>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>>>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>>>    -
>>>    http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>>>
>>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
>>> want to start a similar program in your area.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, Brian
>>>
>>> ChiPy Organizer
>>>
>>> http://chipy.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Ray
>>> @brianray
>>> (773) 669-7717
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Brian Ray
> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
>
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From mariak at mariakathryn.net  Wed May 13 01:31:57 2015
From: mariak at mariakathryn.net (Maria McKinley)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:31:57 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought it
was canceled. I'm bummed now.

Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one in
Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there a
link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.

thanks,
Maria

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
>
> Update on current program:
> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
>
> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we are
> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program - where
> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the mentor
> and mentees.
>
> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the mentorship
> program. Soon ;)
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
> >
> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?  Any
> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> tathagatadg at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
> >> and help others become better programmer.
> >>
> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
> >>
> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
> >>
> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
> >>
> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
> >>
> >> Mentorship FAQ:
> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
> probably
> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
> created.
> >>>
> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
> some
> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
> and
> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
> domain,
> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
> >>>
> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
> mentors/mentees.
> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    -
> >>>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
> >>>    -
> >>>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
> >>>
> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Brian
> >>>
> >>> ChiPy Organizer
> >>>
> >>> http://chipy.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Brian Ray
> >>> @brianray
> >>> (773) 669-7717
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brian Ray
> > @brianray
> > (773) 669-7717
> >
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From christianzlong2 at gmail.com  Wed May 13 03:48:43 2015
From: christianzlong2 at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 20:48:43 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net> wrote:
> Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought it
> was canceled. I'm bummed now.
>
> Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one in
> Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there a
> link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
> it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
>
> thanks,
> Maria
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
>>
>> Update on current program:
>> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
>>
>> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
>> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we are
>> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program - where
>> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the mentor
>> and mentees.
>>
>> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the mentorship
>> program. Soon ;)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
>> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
>> >
>> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?  Any
>> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
>> tathagatadg at gmail.com
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
>> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
>> >> and help others become better programmer.
>> >>
>> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
>> >>
>> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
>> >>
>> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
>> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
>> >>
>> >> Mentorship FAQ:
>> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
>> probably
>> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
>> created.
>> >>>
>> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
>> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
>> some
>> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
>> and
>> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
>> domain,
>> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
>> >>>
>> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
>> mentors/mentees.
>> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>    -
>> >>>
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>> >>>    -
>> >>>
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>> >>>
>> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
>> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers, Brian
>> >>>
>> >>> ChiPy Organizer
>> >>>
>> >>> http://chipy.org
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Brian Ray
>> >>> @brianray
>> >>> (773) 669-7717
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Brian Ray
>> > @brianray
>> > (773) 669-7717
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From tathagatadg at gmail.com  Thu May 14 00:16:35 2015
From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 17:16:35 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Christian! my Coding Dojo team mate - I was in Harry's team as well.

@Maria: We used Ned's kindling problem list to pick the initial 5 problems
from.

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/kindling.html



On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
> running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
> The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
> Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
> wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
> wrote:
> > Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought
> it
> > was canceled. I'm bummed now.
> >
> > Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one
> in
> > Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there
> a
> > link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
> > it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Maria
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
> >>
> >> Update on current program:
> >> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
> >>
> >> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
> >> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we
> are
> >> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program -
> where
> >> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the
> mentor
> >> and mentees.
> >>
> >> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the
> mentorship
> >> program. Soon ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
> >> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
> >> >
> >> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?
> Any
> >> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> >> tathagatadg at gmail.com
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky
> to
> >> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to
> learn
> >> >> and help others become better programmer.
> >> >>
> >> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
> >> >>
> >> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
> >> >>
> >> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
> >> >>
> >> >> Mentorship FAQ:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
> >> probably
> >> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
> >> created.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
> >> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
> >> some
> >> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
> >> and
> >> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
> >> domain,
> >> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
> >> mentors/mentees.
> >> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if
> you
> >> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Cheers, Brian
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ChiPy Organizer
> >> >>>
> >> >>> http://chipy.org
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Brian Ray
> >> >>> @brianray
> >> >>> (773) 669-7717
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Brian Ray
> >> > @brianray
> >> > (773) 669-7717
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> >> Group-Organizers at python.org
> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maria Mckinley
> > Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience
> > www.mariakathryn.net
> > www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
> >
> >
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From christianzlong2 at gmail.com  Thu May 14 03:04:56 2015
From: christianzlong2 at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 20:04:56 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
In-Reply-To: <CAB32_MNCtB8WywTgE5HEZo9qShM3k3QCm-Des+6SuuFV53g1UQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Tathagata, your team's presentation was awesome. Perfect spirit of the event.


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta
<tathagatadg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christian! my Coding Dojo team mate - I was in Harry's team as well.
>
> @Maria: We used Ned's kindling problem list to pick the initial 5 problems
> from.
>
> http://nedbatchelder.com/text/kindling.html
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
>> running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
>> The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
>> Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
>> wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought
>> > it
>> > was canceled. I'm bummed now.
>> >
>> > Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one
>> > in
>> > Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there
>> > a
>> > link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about
>> > forking
>> > it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Maria
>> >

From mariak at mariakathryn.net  Sat May 16 01:32:04 2015
From: mariak at mariakathryn.net (Maria McKinley)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 16:32:04 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Thanks. So, what does 'keep us all moving along' look like? Tathagata,
thanks for the pointer, I'll check out Ned's list.

cheers,
Maria

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
> running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
> The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
> Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
> wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
> wrote:
> > Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought
> it
> > was canceled. I'm bummed now.
> >
> > Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one
> in
> > Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there
> a
> > link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
> > it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Maria
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
> >>
> >> Update on current program:
> >> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
> >>
> >> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
> >> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we
> are
> >> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program -
> where
> >> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the
> mentor
> >> and mentees.
> >>
> >> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the
> mentorship
> >> program. Soon ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
> >> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
> >> >
> >> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?
> Any
> >> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> >> tathagatadg at gmail.com
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky
> to
> >> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to
> learn
> >> >> and help others become better programmer.
> >> >>
> >> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
> >> >>
> >> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
> >> >>
> >> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
> >> >>
> >> >> Mentorship FAQ:
> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
> >> probably
> >> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
> >> created.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
> >> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
> >> some
> >> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
> >> and
> >> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
> >> domain,
> >> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
> >> mentors/mentees.
> >> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
> >> >>>    -
> >> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if
> you
> >> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Cheers, Brian
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ChiPy Organizer
> >> >>>
> >> >>> http://chipy.org
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Brian Ray
> >> >>> @brianray
> >> >>> (773) 669-7717
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Brian Ray
> >> > @brianray
> >> > (773) 669-7717
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> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maria Mckinley
> > Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience
> > www.mariakathryn.net
> > www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
> >
> >
> > *NOTICE:* Due to Presidential Executive Orders still not rescinded by
> > President Obama, the National Security Agency may have read this email
> > without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable
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-- 
Maria Mckinley
Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience
www.mariakathryn.net
www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley


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From christianzlong2 at gmail.com  Sat May 16 01:38:30 2015
From: christianzlong2 at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:38:30 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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Nicholas kept track of time, and made sure the groups weren't getting
stuck or designing more than they could build in an hour. He also made
sure we gave our full attention to the speakers as they were
presenting their team's project.


On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net> wrote:
> Thanks. So, what does 'keep us all moving along' look like? Tathagata,
> thanks for the pointer, I'll check out Ned's list.
>
> cheers,
> Maria
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Christian Long <christianzlong2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Too bad you missed the Coding Dojo, it was a lot of fun. Nicholas made
>> running one look easy, but he did have to keep us all moving along.
>> The challenge he gave us was was to write a text-based adventure game.
>> Our team wrote Pycon Palace, and Harry Percival's team (of course)
>> wrote a big test suite for a one-line game.
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought
>> > it
>> > was canceled. I'm bummed now.
>> >
>> > Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one
>> > in
>> > Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there
>> > a
>> > link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about
>> > forking
>> > it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Maria
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta
>> > <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
>> >>
>> >> Update on current program:
>> >> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
>> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
>> >>
>> >> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
>> >> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we
>> >> are
>> >> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program -
>> >> where
>> >> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the
>> >> mentor
>> >> and mentees.
>> >>
>> >> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the
>> >> mentorship
>> >> program. Soon ;)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
>> >> > http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
>> >> >
>> >> > Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?
>> >> > Any
>> >> > additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
>> >> tathagatadg at gmail.com
>> >> > > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to
>> >> >> learn
>> >> >> and help others become better programmer.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Our amazing mentors for this term:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
>> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Mentorship FAQ:
>> >> >> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
>> >> probably
>> >> >>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
>> >> created.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group
>> >> >>> for
>> >> >>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started
>> >> >>> adding
>> >> some
>> >> >>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
>> >> and
>> >> >>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
>> >> domain,
>> >> >>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
>> >> mentors/mentees.
>> >> >>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>    -
>> >> >>>
>> >>
>> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>> >> >>>    -
>> >> >>>
>> >>
>> >> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if
>> >> >>> you
>> >> >>> want to start a similar program in your area.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Cheers, Brian
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> ChiPy Organizer
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> http://chipy.org
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> --
>> >> >>> Brian Ray
>> >> >>> @brianray
>> >> >>> (773) 669-7717
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Brian Ray
>> >> > @brianray
>> >> > (773) 669-7717
>> >> >
>> >> -------------- next part --------------
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>> >> >
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>> >> Group-Organizers mailing list
>> >> Group-Organizers at python.org
>> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Maria Mckinley
>> > Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience
>> > www.mariakathryn.net
>> > www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
>> >
>> >
>> > *NOTICE:* Due to Presidential Executive Orders still not rescinded by
>> > President Obama, the National Security Agency may have read this email
>> > without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable
>> > cause.
>> > They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. Click
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>> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
>
>
>
>
> --
> Maria Mckinley
> Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience
> www.mariakathryn.net
> www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
>
>
> NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders still not rescinded by
> President Obama, the National Security Agency may have read this email
> without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause.
> They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. Click here
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From ntoll at ntoll.org  Sat May 16 09:07:07 2015
From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 08:07:07 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
In-Reply-To: <CAKPMSAgYAbyoWDB=U-BUUh47PkKw_cM11kyQvSBGWXXggx_M9w@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

I ran the dojo at Pycon. We run one monthly in London. I've been asked
about what we do so many times that I wrote a nuts and bolts blog post here:

http://ntoll.org/article/how-to-run-an-awesome-code-dojo

I hope you find it useful and I'm more than happy to answer any
questions people may have!

All the best,

Nicholas.

On 13/05/15 00:31, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Wait, the Coding Dojo at PyCon happened? I couldn't find it, so thought it
> was canceled. I'm bummed now.
> 
> Thanks for posting about your coding dojo. I'm working on organizing one in
> Seattle, and am happy to have more information on other events! Is there a
> link you can post about the one at PyCon, or how did you go about forking
> it? I haven't read your post yet, so forgive me if it is posted there.
> 
> thanks,
> Maria
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Great! I haven't heard the episode yet, hopefully sometime soon!
>>
>> Update on current program:
>> Our mid term was a Coding dojo:
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/05/blog-post.html
>>
>> Thanks to Nick Tollervey for organizing Coding Dojo at PyCon so that we
>> were able to effortlessly fork it for the Mentorship program. Next we are
>> planning to have a hackathon as a final of the mentorship program - where
>> developers outside the mentorship program can work together with the mentor
>> and mentees.
>>
>> I'll have create page on chipy.org with details on running the mentorship
>> program. Soon ;)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Saw this mention (thanks Ned) at 22:30:
>>> http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html
>>>
>>> Any updates on how the second season of our mentorship is going T?  Any
>>> additional advice on those who want to implement their own?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
>> tathagatadg at gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian is far too kind with his generous words ... We have been lucky to
>>>> have an amazing bunch of people in our user group who are eager to learn
>>>> and help others become better programmer.
>>>>
>>>> If you are on meetup.com - checkout:
>>>>
>>>> Our amazing mentors for this term:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48806595
>>>>
>>>> What the mentor and mentee are up to:
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48756823
>>>>
>>>> Mentorship FAQ:
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/messages/boards/thread/48812700
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am going to brag a bit here for Tathagata (aka "T"), as he is
>> probably
>>>>> too humble to brag about himself, and the Mentorship program he has
>> created.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a transition from being the BDFL of Chicago Python User Group for
>>>>> over a decade and from pressure from the community, I started adding
>> some
>>>>> other organizers <http://www.chipy.org/pages/organizers/>to the mix
>> and
>>>>> letting them (or forcing them) to take ownership to a domain. One
>> domain,
>>>>> is our awesome Mentorship program.
>>>>>
>>>>> In it's second season, "T"'s mentorship has 19 pairs of
>> mentors/mentees.
>>>>> He writes about the experience on his blog:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    -
>>>>>
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2015/03/chipy-python-mentorship-dinner-march.html
>>>>>    -
>>>>>
>> http://blog.tathagata.me/2014/10/chicago-python-user-group-mentorship.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wanted to share this idea with you. Would be happy to help if you
>>>>> want to start a similar program in your area.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, Brian
>>>>>
>>>>> ChiPy Organizer
>>>>>
>>>>> http://chipy.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Brian Ray
>>>>> @brianray
>>>>> (773) 669-7717
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Ray
>>> @brianray
>>> (773) 669-7717
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From ntoll at ntoll.org  Sat May 16 09:31:18 2015
From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 08:31:18 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] ChiPy's Mentorship Program
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On 16/05/15 00:38, Christian Long wrote:
> Nicholas kept track of time, and made sure the groups weren't getting
> stuck or designing more than they could build in an hour. He also made
> sure we gave our full attention to the speakers as they were
> presenting their team's project.
> 

Put simply, I was very politely in "teacher" mode. ;-)

In London we call this person the cat-herder because, well... I'm sure
you can work it out. ;-)

There are now about 7 of us who cat herd regularly (we rotate). It's
actually a *lot* of fun because you get to see how the different groups
are solving the problems in a different way (I often think stuff like,
"just wait until group 2 find out what group 4 have done" etc...).

Basically, you call out the time left every 15 minutes and walk around
the groups making sure they're on task (and getting them back on track
if not), or asking questions of them so they're thinking about all the
right sorts of things (for example, "all the groups except group 5 have
addressed such-and-such aspect of the problem, I'd best ask group 5
about it"). The right sorts of questions to ask tend to fall out from
observing what all the groups are doing.

I guess the important thing is to only allow yourself to ask questions
rather than suggest solutions.

"So how are you going to do X..?"

"I see you've done Y, but what happens when Z is the case?"

"You're obviously nearly finished, do you have tests to prove it works?"

etc...

;-)

The "show and tell" bit at the end is where the cat-herder works hardest
because everyone wants to contribute and there's a lot of friendly
banter between teams as they discover how they've all solved the same
problem (but in different ways - it's fun to see "aha" moments). In
London we simply say:

* Show us the code running (or not, in which case we want to see it
failing). This is usually one person from the group explaining.

* Talk us through the code and the process you went through to get to
the current state. Usually, *everyone* in a group wants to tell you
about their contribution.

* Questions from the floor.

Think of it as a public many-to-many code review in a supportive (and
often humorous) atmosphere. Since everyone's head is in the same problem
space, people are quick to see the merits, strengths and weaknesses of
different solutions.

It's my favourite part of the evening.

In case you're wondering what it looks like in the London dojo, here's a
video of a team at last week's dojo demonstrating a dancing game they'd
coded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdZky4v6vk

(In contrast, my team used the turtle module to generate a "dance" on
screen).

Here's a rather less silly example from a couple of year's ago (we were
generating game worlds - the team demoing have done something akin to
Age of Empires)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28czn3hA9NY

N.


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From mariak at mariakathryn.net  Thu May 21 07:16:22 2015
From: mariak at mariakathryn.net (Maria McKinley)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 22:16:22 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] python office hours and study groups
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Hi there,

Sorry got swamped, and just now clearing out the inbox. I think it really
depends on what people want to get out of it. I don't think anyone who is
not already a little knowledgable in design patterns would get much out of
just a short presentation. You might get a general idea of the concept, but
would have no idea how or when or why to apply it in real life. My group is
senior developers, who are mostly self-taught, so this is their first intro
to the concepts, and even for them it takes a good hour discussion to
figure out the how, when, and why of it. I suppose making the discussion of
actual code after the intro voluntary, in case people would rather work on
their own projects, would work, but might give some the idea they can
understand it with just an intro. Some people like to throw around
terminology they don't really understand, so getting an intro with
voluntary learn-more-about-it might just foster that. Just thinking out
loud at this point. ;-)

Hope this helps,
Maria

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:44 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> editing subject line from the Mass Add thread.
>
> How long does the study group session last?
>
> Do you think a short presentation of a concept followed by a regular
> office hours/project night where people can voluntarily join anyone who
> wants to discuss the topic more would work in an office hours setting? Or
> should an entire session be devoted to the concept?
>
> I find people who show up without a lot of background in software
> engineering and/or computer science who want to know more about these
> things. I'm wondering if opening up a project night or office hours with a
> quick introduction to a data structure, algorithm, or engineering concept
> might be helpful and motivating for those people.
>
> cheers
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Trey,
>>
>> I am using a book, but just for myself really. I announce the pattern when
>> I announce the meeting. I read over the chapter, look at the wikipedia
>> page, and come up with some sort of intro. After my intro, we talk about
>> the pattern and about questions we have, and then we generally go over the
>> code example(s) on the wikipedia page, and try to understand what the code
>> does and why the pattern would be useful. We then try to come up with how
>> we have or could use this pattern in our own coding.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Maria
>>
> [trimmed introductions]
>
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
>



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From simeonf at gmail.com  Thu May 21 21:26:17 2015
From: simeonf at gmail.com (Simeon Franklin)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:26:17 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Recruiting speakers
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Hey All -

The San Francisco Python Meetup is putting out a call for speakers.

We typically shake the bushes about once a year and fill in rest of the
slots with local volunteers who seek us out or people we specifically reach
out to. The call for speakers is our chance to get talks proposals from
people we didn't know we wanted!

If you know somebody in your community with a cool Python talk who will be
in the San Francisco area in 2015 please have them get in contact with me
or direct them to our signup form - https://goo.gl/CdnG51

We don't have our schedule for the year posted but we typically have
presentation night on the 2nd Wednesday night of the month at Yelp in SF.
We usually have between ~175 Pythonistas present for presentation night and
you can see past meetups and accepted talks at http://sfpythonmeetup.com

Thanks all!

-regards
Simeon Franklin
SF Python Meetup
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