From chris.freeman.pdx at gmail.com Wed Nov 29 12:45:19 2017 From: chris.freeman.pdx at gmail.com (Chris Freeman) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:45:19 +0000 Subject: [portland] Advent of Code 2017 Message-ID: AdventOfCode (http://adventofcode.com/2017) starts Friday Dec 1! From their About page: Advent of Code is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels. They are self-contained and are just as appropriate for an expert who wants to stay sharp as they are for a beginner who is just learning to code. Each puzzle calls upon different skills and has two parts that build on a theme. Sev and I created a slack workspace to support each other, and anyone else interested in the challenges. Use the link below to join our pdxAdventofCode slack channel https://join.slack.com/t/pdxadventofcode/shared_invite/enQtMjc3NjI0ODQ1ODg5LWI1NzE2OTZiYzY3MTljOTI0ZjAyNzkyZjMzZjBlNWVkM2M4Y2QzMmU1NDkwYTUxNWE1YTdhODVhYjI3ZWY4Y2Q PyLadies: We are also looking for additional admins from PyLadies if anyone is interested. (Can someone please forward this to the PyLadies email group?) Good Luck, Chris and Sev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric at ericholscher.com Thu Nov 30 11:47:57 2017 From: eric at ericholscher.com (Eric Holscher) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:47:57 -0800 Subject: [portland] PyCascades, Jan 22-23, Vancouver BC Message-ID: Hey everyone, Just wanted to reach out to everyone to remind y'all that we are having our first PNW regional Pycon, PyCascades 2018 ?! It's in beautiful Vancouver (BC) on Jan 22-23 -- only a ~5 hr drive, ~7hr beautiful train ride, or 1hr flight away. We currently have a bunch of lovely Python folks from Seattle & Vancouver, but not so many from Portland! I'll be there, and would love to see more folks from PDX attend. It's a really great chance to get to know our regional community, and I think it will be a lovely event. Check out the amazing talks (including a py3 retro from Guido!) here: https://www.pycascades.com/talks/ -- the tickets are also really reasonably priced, so that shouldn't stop you from coming! A few more details regarding the available tickets and the charges that apply: - We have three types of tickets. If your employer pays for your conference, please choose the Corporate ticket to ensure that we can support other members of the community with cheaper tickets and financial aid. - Our lovely conference t-shirt will only be available through presale. We might not have t-shirts for sale at the conference. So make sure you buy your ticket now if you want a wearable souvenir. - We?ve added a few questions to the ticket sales process that will help us gather some more details about our attendees. We aim for dedicating much of our sponsorship budget to financial aid. Answering the questions will help us in maximising that budget. Be as honest as you feel safe to be, we will not share your data with anyone outside the group of organizers. - We welcome your introductions to prospects for sponsoring PyCascades. For example introductions to the right person at your company is a great help for our sponsorship sales leads. Now head over to the tickets page and get yours while they last -- we are 70% sold out already! Cheers, Eric -- Eric Holscher Co-founder, Read the Docs & Write the Docs Director, Python Software Foundation http://ericholscher.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: