From robotbill at gmail.com Thu Jun 4 16:22:53 2015 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:22:53 -0700 Subject: [portland] Summer Portland Python Schedule Message-ID: Hi All, Summer is here and that means people are taking vacation, and spending less time cooped up indoors. For the next several months Portland Python is going to try an experiment: combining project night and presentation night into one evening. We?ll be reducing the number of meetings to one a month. The first hour will be dedicated to a presentation by a member of the Python community. After the presentation ends we?ll ask to audience what projects they?re working on, and what they need help with. Then we?ll break into groups. You can work individually, with others, ask for help, offer to help, or just chat with other pythonistas. The first meeting with the new format will be on Thursday, June 25th, which means we?ll be canceling the June 11th meeting. Erin Call will be giving a talk on why mentorship is so important to our community as a whole, and her own experiences mentoring up and coming developers with an open source project she developed. You won't want to miss this one! RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/222074670/ Hope to see you all on the 25th! The Portland Python User Group Organizers From robotbill at gmail.com Wed Jun 10 06:27:46 2015 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:27:46 -0700 Subject: [portland] OSCON Pass Raffle at our June 25th Meeting Message-ID: <6CA005E0-8BD1-48BA-A18C-2FB754B62893@gmail.com> Good news everyone! O'Reilly has graciously donated an OSCON pass as well as several eBooks to raffle off at our event night this month, on June 25th, 2015 at Urban Airship. Make sure to be there for or our exciting new event night format and a chance to win! Also, user group members can use the discount code PDXPUG to get a 20% discount on all OSCON passes, and every four uses of this code will earn Portland Python another pass to raffle off. Register by June 11th to receive early bird pricing. For those of you who don't know, O'Reilly is a sponsor of Portland Python and this is what they have to say about OSCON: O?Reilly OSCON is happening July 20-24 in Portland, and explores what?s new in open source languages, tools, and techniques. OSCON is the best place to sharpen your skills and discover important new trends, making you better at what you do and rekindling your love of all things digital. Check out the impressive agenda and speaker lineup at http://www.oscon.com . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robotbill at gmail.com Wed Jun 17 06:18:07 2015 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:18:07 -0700 Subject: [portland] Call for Open Source Bridge Volunteers Message-ID: <9F0638D8-416A-48AD-9A49-903D1597659C@gmail.com> Hi Everyone, The Open Source Bridge Conference is next week and they still need volunteers. Check out the message below for information about volunteering. Thanks, Joe Hello! It?s time for the 2015 Open Source Bridge Conference! June 23-26th http://opensourcebridge.org/ What is Open Source Bridge? It?s an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities. Participants include developers, hardware hackers, community organizers, and people involved in the business of open source. We?re completely volunteer run, and that means you, your coworkers, your friends, your family, etc. We repay our volunteers with a super cool t-shirt (new art this year!), delicious food, and a free pass to the conference. Free pass to the conference?!?! Yep, when you volunteer to work 8+ hours we give you a free pass to the whole thing. The Session Chair shifts even include sitting in on a session! If we?ve piqued your interest, follow the link, create a login, sign up for some shifts, earn a free pass. http://volunteer.opensourcebridge.org Please share the link, after you?ve snagged the shifts you want, of course. Let us know if you have any questions, or if you find any bugs in the app. <>volunteer at opensourcebridge.org We're so excited to have you join us, the conference is going to be great! Chris Freeman and Amanda Lane OSB Volunteer Coordinators -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robotbill at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 06:51:46 2015 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:51:46 -0700 Subject: [portland] Presentation and Talk Night this Thursday Message-ID: <8021D457-E941-446F-80FE-1D9297D923D6@gmail.com> Hi Everybody! This Thursday, June 25th 6:30pm at Urban Airship, we?ll be debuting our new event night format for Portland Python! We?ll start with a presentation by Erin Call entitled ?Frustrate Them for a Lifetime,? a talk on mentorship within the Python community and the challenges and rewards involved. And immediately following we?ll have a hack night with the opportunity for mentors to talk to mentees, mentees to talk to mentors, and anyone to talk to anyone about our favorite programming language: Python! We?re also excited to announce pizza will be sponsored by Emma, and O?Reilly publishing has donated several eBooks as well as a free a Bronze three day (Wednesday, July 22nd through Friday, July 24th) session pass to OSCON in Portland, to be raffled off after Erin?s talk! RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/222074670/ As always, all levels are welcome. We hope to see you there!