From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat Sep 4 15:54:35 2010 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:54:35 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2010 Message-ID: It's hard for me to believe that a week ago I was in Waco enjoying pyTexas. In the last 168 hours some amazing things have happened for our humble little conference and I thought I'd share. But, first off, some of you have asked for some history to share with potential donors: This is the third annual pyArkansas conference. The first conference came about because Chad Cooper and I thought it would be a good idea and neither of us knew any better. From the start we received -- what's the word I want to use here? -- unbelievable support from Dr. Chenyi Hu and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Arkansas as well as the Conway Chamber of Commerce. UCA not only supplies us with classroom space but also permits us to use their computer labs so every participant has access to a computer set up will all software required to fully participate in classes. They also toss in a system administrator for the day and Dr. Hu and Dr. Bernard Chen have taught classes. The Conway Chamber of Commerce has supplied financial support as well as hotel accommodations for speakers we have brought in. In 2009, the Conway Advertising and Promotions Commission donated $500.00 so we could mail a flier to every High School in the State of Arkansas. In 2008 we had 77 people register for the initial conference but only 55 attend (due, in part, to sever thunderstorms that day). We brought in Noah Gift (via the O'Rielly Speakers Program) who drove to Conway from Atlanta not knowing if there would be gasoline to purchase along the way (that was a time of $4.00/gal gas and regional shortages). Noah presented a class on "Unix System Administration Using Python" and gave everyone attending a copy of his just published O'Rielly boof of the same name. Jeff Rush (from the Texas Python Users Group, member of the Python Software Foundation, and former National Advocacy Chairman) drove in to present 3 classes. In 2009 we had 78 people attend including Gloria W. Jacobs (freelance programmer out of New York) who went to Hendrix College on the Friday night before pyArkansas to present a "Women in Technology" talk. Gloria then presented two classes at pyArkansas. Jacob Kaplan-Moss (co-creator of the Django Web Framework) flew in to present classes on Django to a most appreciative crowd. Other classes included "Introduction to Python for Complete Beginners" (Dr. Bernard Chen, UCA), "Introduction to Python for Programmers" (Dr. Carl Burch, Hendrix College), and "Image Processing with Jython" (Dr. Chenyi Hu, UCA). Additionally, we had attendees from no fewer than 5 Arkansas Universities (not including UCA)! pyArkansas 2010 shows no indication of slowing down as we have the following talk proposals: - Introduction to Python (Dr. Carl Burch, Hendrix College) - Google App Engine (Chris Harris) - Simple Game Design (Dr. Bernard Chen, UCA) - Scientific Computing and Education (Wesley Emeneker, UA Fayetteville) - Matplotlab (W. Emeneker) - Calling C from Python (W.Emeneker) - GUI Design with tkInter (Wayne Wener) - Python in the Real World (W. Werner) In addition, Gloria W. Jacobs has agreed to fly down to present classes on just about anything (she has a fondness for concurrency) and I'm aware of many of our friends from pyTexas are planning to make the trip to Conway. We will feature at least 3 hours of Open Space for people to sign up on the spot to present on their topics of interest. The wiki should be up later today (Saturday). I am working with Brad Allen (pyTexas) to get a webfaction site up and running. As far as finances, we have about $500.00 in the bank. Here are the expenses I see: - $1000.00 to bring in Gloria. This is air fare, hotel, car and honorarium. I think it's a good idea not only to bring in "outside talent" but a female in particular so our young ladies can see that it's OK to be....well....a geek! If we can find someone to contribute $1000.00 (and if it's ok with Gloria), we will identify them as sponsoring Gloria's appearance in what I hope is a program. - $150.00 to print up a flier. We had it done on glossy paper last year and it's worth the expense. Anyone out there want to design it? 8 1/2 x 11 size. - $150.00 to mail fliers to High Schools/Universities. - $400.00 honorarium. I like to give the teachers of 2 and 3 hours classes a little something for the effort. Also, UCA supplies a system admin for the day and, although he's paid by UCA, he works his tail off for us and I think that's worth a little extra. - $250.00 Other stuff. Odds and ends that come up (printing costs, etc.) That's about $2000.00. I'll write the Conway Chamber of Commerce but our friend, Chad Russel, has left them and I don't know if we will ever have a friend like him, again. We still need talk submissions. If you are interested, please submit a paragraph describing what you want to speak on. Also let us know if you want a 30 or 60 minute slot. If there's more I can't think of it. I hope to have the web site up later today. This sounds like a cliche, but this looks like the best conference (by far) we've put on, yet! Best Regards, --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat Sep 11 16:02:40 2010 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:02:40 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas Update Message-ID: Another 168 hours and, once again, I really can't believe the response we are getting for the conference. We have a moin (fancy wiki) up and running and I have some content on it. There has been some discussion of moving the start time to 9:00 to make it a little easier on our out of town guests (and it looks like we will have a lot of them). We have received word from lots of people about talks, but we still need more! Dr. Gabriel Ferrer would like to give a talk on Real-Time Image Processing using Cython, Numpy and PyGame. It's a 30-minute talk and is perfect for "what can do actually do with Python"? These are the kind of talks that show people Python is more than just a "toy". I'll work more on the schedule this week, but we need more talks! I'll be getting some text to Dr. Hu at UCA so he can get word out to our High Schools. I figured a letter from UCA would get more attention than a letter from Yours Truly. I hope to get that to him by Monday and he was gracious enough to take it on. Dr. Burch is sending word out to Arkansas Colleges and Universities. How can we get work out to professional programmers? Anyone have a contact at Acxiom? HP? Where else? I wrote Conway Corporation's "Living Local". Does anyone want to contact newspapers and TV stations? How about KARN (maybe we could get a slot on their morning or arternoon shows!)? Who else can help us get the word out? What about public access channels at UCA (or in *your* area :-)? We will have a mountain of books and things to give away. O'Reilly has donated 15 ebooks (this is cool because the winners can choose the book they want) and some swag. Manning Publishing is sending books (and swag). No Starch Press is sending books (and swag). Wingware has given us 2 licenses for their professional IDE (which runs on 3 different operating systems) and swag. ActiveState has donated one of their Komodo Editors (and swag). I have written Barnes and Noble asking if they would donate a Nook but have not heard back. We will go with the raffle ticket system that worked last year, but we will do it just a little differently (an idea I got from our friends at pyTexas). We will give people a short registration form. When they return it we will give them their raffle tickets and record their ticket numbers on their form. If we keep the forms in order, we can match the ticket number with their name (I think we will still do the "double" tickets where they keep a stub, though). I have asked Dr. Hu about getting temporary Internet access for attendees. What we would do is, at registration, ask if the attendee would like access. We would have half-sheets of paper with individual usernames/passwords along with an id number. We record their id number on the registration form and then give ti to them so they have instructions. It's a bit of work and was nice at pyTexas and pyOhio, but certainly is not a requirement for people to have a good day. As far as state-wide Python communication, I could have a mailing list set up, arkansas at python.org or is there another means of communications that would work better (facebook?)? I'll have more, later. Please consider submitting a talk proposal (30 or 60 minute)! * Logging * Web topics * Sphinx * File Access (reading/writing) * Any "Intermediate" topic * Cool Applications --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat Sep 18 16:15:45 2010 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:15:45 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2010 Update Message-ID: Saturday morning means I'm at the Chick-Fil-A in Conway working on pyArkansas! We're 4 weeks out and there's a lot going on. We are receiving support from a number of fronts and I can't help but feel pyArkansas is on the verge of becoming a real event over the next few years. Novasys Health has verbally committed to covering the cost of the conference to the tune of $1,500.00. That's a really big deal to me because times are pretty tough and there's nothing making them do this other than wanting to give back to the Python community. As soon as we get the official word -- and the $$ :-) -- I'll get an email for you to thank them. Sure, it's where I work, but it's a very nice gesture on their part. Gloria W Jacobs has agreed to come down to speak on concurrency (1-hour) and a comparison of web frameworks (1-hour). She is a free-lance programmer out of New York and is obsessed with getting young people -- particularly young women -- into computer related careers (all without being a militant nutcase about it!). I'm very happy that she can come to speak because she is incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about teaching. She is interested in getting together after dinner to do....what? A mini sprint? I received a call from the Center for High Performance Computing at UA Fayettville. A very nice woman bu the name of Kelly Emeneker asked if I would like a professionally designed web site for pyArkansas! She does this kind of thing for a living and, I believe, has been allotted some time by her superiors to do this because they feel conferences like pyArkasas are important. This rates way up on the cool-meter and we should see something as early as next week. My mind is already working on next year; could we have classes on multiple campuses and use teleconferencing? Check out Kelly's work at http://hpc.uark.edu/cidays/ There is a boatload of swag and giveaways pledged: - Wingware has supplied 2 professional editors and swag (gliders and pens). I use this editor and it is very, very nice. They are also offering a 50% discount to anyone attending the conference who want to purchase the editor. - ActiveState has supplied 1 editor and swag. - O'Reilly Publishing has supplied 15 (count 'em, 15) e-books. The winners get a code and select the title of their choice. Sweet! - No Starch Press has supplied books (including Lego League!) and swag - Manning Publishing is sending books. I'm putting together the schedule of classes and we are just about full. This year we will have two different ways for people to take the "Introduction to Python" class. A traditional class taught by Carl Burch and a "Teach-In" organized by Brad Allen of the Dallas Python Users Group (and pyTexas organizer). Dr. Burch taught the intro class last year and it was very well received (I popped in a couple of times and really enjoyed his energy). This class is perfect for people wanting a hands-on lecture format. The other class, a "teach-in", is a new concept (to me, at least), where students load a course on their computers and work through exercises dealing with various concepts of Python. There are volunteers working with the students to get them going and answering questions. The software uses a unit testing framework so, after the student codes in their solution, they can see if it is correct. Fro what I understand, this is popular in the Ruby world and was well received at pyTexas last month. Brad has volunteered to organize it, but we will need volunteers to step up and make it work. That means you -- YOU -- have an opportunity to help make the conference a success! There has always been concern over the schedule of classes. Traditionally, we have put classes in the morning and talks in the afternoon. This works well for "newbies", but has left our more seasoned Pythonistas with nothing to do in the morning. To help resolve this, we are going with 2 classes in the morning, "Intro to Python" and "Teach In" and then use the other 2 classrooms for talks. We have a 2-hour class on Blender, but I'm going to put that in the afternoon so out friends from Henderson State University can take the intro class in the morning and then the Blender class in the afternoon (they are going to use Blender to analyze astronomical data!). The other classes will be organized, I hope, to allow people the best opportunity to attend various topics. Other conferences video tape the talks. While I like the idea of having talks online for others to see, it's a huge effort and may dissuade people from presenting talks. We have 20 people signed up on the web site. Dr. Hu and his friends at UCA will be sending out letters to area high schools and Dr. Burch at Hendrix is getting word out ot Colleges/Universities. The rest of us need to get work out to professional (and amateur) programmers. It really is best to have all sorts of people at these things. So contact people you know and get them signed up! I'll need two people willing to run the registration desk from 8:00AM -- Noon on Saturday. I'll ask my daughters but, if you know someone willing to do it, it would be a uge weight off my shoulders. I'd still like at least 2 more talks. Or teachers, encourage your students to present a 30-minute talk. It will be a very friendly audience and great practice for them. Please make sure it's Python related, though. Thanks for your support. Let me know what's on your mind and how we can make pyArkansas even better! --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We're 4 weeks out and there's a lot going on. We are > receiving support from a number of fronts and I can't help but feel > pyArkansas is on the verge of becoming a real event over the next few > years. > > Novasys Health has verbally committed to covering the cost of the > conference to the tune of $1,500.00. That's a really big deal to me > because times are pretty tough and there's nothing making them do this > other than wanting to give back to the Python community. As soon as > we get the official word -- and the $$ :-) -- I'll get an email for > you to thank them. Sure, it's where I work, but it's a very nice > gesture on their part. > > Gloria W Jacobs has agreed to come down to speak on concurrency > (1-hour) and a comparison of web frameworks (1-hour). She is a > free-lance programmer out of New York and is obsessed with getting > young people -- particularly young women -- into computer related > careers (all without being a militant nutcase about it!). I'm very > happy that she can come to speak because she is incredibly > knowledgeable and enthusiastic about teaching. She is interested in > getting together after dinner to do....what? A mini sprint? That's me :) I am a bit nutty, but not in those directions :) Many thank-yous to Novasys for covering my expenses. I am starting to prepare the material this weekend. I am really busy this year, with three freelance projects, but I feel that tech talks are extremely important, and are a great way to give back to the community. I will have small bits of code people can download, more supple mental material than anything else, sice I won't want the code to detract from the talk. If there's any sort of mini code sprints one wishes to do, let me know! I'd be happy to spend time on something either Friday or Saturday evening. > > I received a call from the Center for High Performance Computing at UA > Fayettville. A very nice woman bu the name of Kelly Emeneker asked if > I would like a professionally designed web site for pyArkansas! She > does this kind of thing for a living and, I believe, has been allotted > some time by her superiors to do this because they feel conferences > like pyArkasas are important. This rates way up on the cool-meter and > we should see something as early as next week. My mind is already > working on next year; could we have classes on multiple campuses and > use teleconferencing? Check out Kelly's work at > http://hpc.uark.edu/cidays/ > > There is a boatload of swag and giveaways pledged: > > * Wingware has supplied 2 professional editors and swag (gliders > and pens). I use this editor and it is very, very nice. They > are also offering a 50% discount to anyone attending the > conference who want to purchase the editor. > * ActiveState has supplied 1 editor and swag. > * O'Reilly Publishing has supplied 15 (count 'em, 15) e-books. > The winners get a code and select the title of their choice. Sweet! > * No Starch Press has supplied books (including Lego League!) and swag > * Manning Publishing is sending books. > > I'm putting together the schedule of classes and we are just about > full. This year we will have two different ways for people to take > the "Introduction to Python" class. A traditional class taught by > Carl Burch and a "Teach-In" organized by Brad Allen of the Dallas > Python Users Group (and pyTexas organizer). Dr. Burch taught the > intro class last year and it was very well received (I popped in a > couple of times and really enjoyed his energy). This class is perfect > for people wanting a hands-on lecture format. The other class, a > "teach-in", is a new concept (to me, at least), where students load a > course on their computers and work through exercises dealing with > various concepts of Python. There are volunteers working with the > students to get them going and answering questions. The software uses > a unit testing framework so, after the student codes in their > solution, they can see if it is correct. Fro what I understand, this > is popular in the Ruby world and was well received at pyTexas last > month. Brad has volunteered to organize it, but we will need > volunteers to step up and make it work. That means you -- YOU -- have > an opportunity to help make the conference a success! > > There has always been concern over the schedule of classes. > Traditionally, we have put classes in the morning and talks in the > afternoon. This works well for "newbies", but has left our more > seasoned Pythonistas with nothing to do in the morning. To help > resolve this, we are going with 2 classes in the morning, "Intro to > Python" and "Teach In" and then use the other 2 classrooms for talks. > We have a 2-hour class on Blender, but I'm going to put that in the > afternoon so out friends from Henderson State University can take the > intro class in the morning and then the Blender class in the afternoon > (they are going to use Blender to analyze astronomical data!). The > other classes will be organized, I hope, to allow people the best > opportunity to attend various topics. Other conferences video tape > the talks. While I like the idea of having talks online for others to > see, it's a huge effort and may dissuade people from presenting talks. > > We have 20 people signed up on the web site. Dr. Hu and his friends > at UCA will be sending out letters to area high schools and Dr. Burch > at Hendrix is getting word out ot Colleges/Universities. The rest of > us need to get work out to professional (and amateur) programmers. It > really is best to have all sorts of people at these things. So > contact people you know and get them signed up! > > I'll need two people willing to run the registration desk from 8:00AM > -- Noon on Saturday. I'll ask my daughters but, if you know someone > willing to do it, it would be a uge weight off my shoulders. > > I'd still like at least 2 more talks. Or teachers, encourage your > students to present a 30-minute talk. It will be a very friendly > audience and great practice for them. Please make sure it's Python > related, though. I am pinging a friend in Philly who is an excellent speaker, and has done OAuth in Python on the Droid (as well as other good things). She knows PyGame quite well, and she can talk about a variety of fun stuff. I'll let you know if she can make it. > > Thanks for your support. Let me know what's on your mind and how we > can make pyArkansas even better! Greg, thanks for this effort! 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The PyCon conference days will be March 11-13, preceded by two tutorial days (March 9-10), and followed by four days of development sprints (March 14-17). PyCon 2011 is looking for proposals for the formal presentation tracks (this includes "extreme talks"). A request for proposals for poster sessions and tutorials will come separately. Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your choice? Have some hot button issue you think the community needs to address, or have some package, code or project you simply love talking about? Want to launch your master plan to take over the world with Python? PyCon is your platform for getting the word out and teaching something new to hundreds of people, face to face. In the past, PyCon has had a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects, tutorials on a broad range of subjects, and case studies. 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URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 14:41:05 2010 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:41:05 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2010 Update 9/25/2010 Message-ID: Good Morning, Everyone- We're 3 weeks out this morning and I apologize for being a little out of it last week; The company where I work, Novasys Health, converted their network to our new parent company, Centene Corporation, and the IT department spent most of the weekend and a good part of the week up to our ears in it. Things appear to be going well and I'm back on pyArkansas. The planning phase for PyCon (US) has started (I'm the national tutorial coordinator) as well, so things are a bit exciting right now. I received a box of swag from No Starch Press to give away. Along with the stuff from O'Reilly, Wingware, and ActiveState, I think we're ok here. We don't really have enough stuff to give away to have a swag bag; do you think it would work if we set the stuff out on a table for people to take as they wish? We have balsa-wood gliders and pens from WingWare, stickers from No Starch Press, and a couple of handouts. Our new web site will be up, soon. There is a snag getting something to work with the mod_wsgi (I really don't know that much about web stuff) but Kelly and her friends are working on it, I'm really grateful to have them on board. We have 21 people signed up which has me a little concerned, but there's 3 weeks to go. I will work on the schedule some more today. There are 4 hours "free" and, while I'd like to leave some open space, I would like to fill a couple more of these slots. I'm going to put a call out for a class on packages and another on how to distribute packages. Are there any topics that you would like me to pursue? There's a lot of "Razorback Red" in Chick-Fil-A this morning....is there a game today?? If you are presenting a talk and would like specific software installed on the machines at UCA please let me know and I'll have them take care of it. And make sure you thank Dr. Chenyi Hu for all that they do for us! That's it for this morning. I'll work on the schedule and registration material but, other than that, I think we're in good shape. Please keep promoting this to your friends and colleagues as it would be nice to have a larger turnout. Thanks, everyone! --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aagg at comcast.net Sat Sep 25 17:24:13 2010 From: aagg at comcast.net (Gloria W) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:24:13 -0400 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2010 Update 9/25/2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C9E141D.2020705@comcast.net> Hi Greg, > Good Morning, Everyone- > > We're 3 weeks out this morning and I apologize for being a little out > of it last week; The company where I work, Novasys Health, converted > their network to our new parent company, Centene Corporation, and the > IT department spent most of the weekend and a good part of the week up > to our ears in it. Things appear to be going well and I'm back on > pyArkansas. The planning phase for PyCon (US) has started (I'm the > national tutorial coordinator) as well, so things are a bit exciting > right now. > > I received a box of swag from No Starch Press to give away. Along > with the stuff from O'Reilly, Wingware, and ActiveState, I think we're > ok here. We don't really have enough stuff to give away to have a > swag bag; do you think it would work if we set the stuff out on a > table for people to take as they wish? We have balsa-wood gliders and > pens from WingWare, stickers from No Starch Press, and a couple of > handouts. That sounds like it works! I was offered swag by 10Gen, the mongodb people. If you give me your address, I'll ask them to send some your way. > > Our new web site will be up, soon. There is a snag getting something > to work with the mod_wsgi (I really don't know that much about web > stuff) but Kelly and her friends are working on it, I'm really > grateful to have them on board. We have 21 people signed up which has > me a little concerned, but there's 3 weeks to go. > > I will work on the schedule some more today. There are 4 hours "free" > and, while I'd like to leave some open space, I would like to fill a > couple more of these slots. I'm going to put a call out for a class > on packages and another on how to distribute packages. Are there any > topics that you would like me to pursue? If I am free during those four hours, I would not mind offering a code clinic/"ask any tech question" open table session (people come up to a table and present their code/ask their questions). This may draw more participants from outside of the university, if they know they can bring their own code, ideas, problems, etc. and get them resolved. let me know if this is something you want to consider. > > There's a lot of "Razorback Red" in Chick-Fil-A this morning....is > there a game today?? How is it working in there? isn't the noise unbearable? > > If you are presenting a talk and would like specific software > installed on the machines at UCA please let me know and I'll have them > take care of it. And make sure you thank Dr. Chenyi Hu for all that > they do for us! Dr. Hu, thank you once again! I'll be running software from my laptop, so as long as people can access an HTTP site, and possibly ssh onto my laptop on your network, I should be fine. > > That's it for this morning. I'll work on the schedule and > registration material but, other than that, I think we're in good > shape. Please keep promoting this to your friends and colleagues as > it would be nice to have a larger turnout. > Thanks again Greg! I look forward to this. Gloria From gslindstrom at gmail.com Thu Sep 30 04:26:07 2010 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:26:07 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] Python position in Little Rock, AR Message-ID: If interested, you may contact me for more details gslindstrom (gmail). We're using Django for our web apps and postgres (and some Oracle) for the database. --greg *Web Developer II* Position Purpose: Create and maintain websites and related services. Responsible for designing, programming, testing, debugging and maintenance of web sites. Produce optimized web pages and applications that adhere to standards. Knowledge/Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field or equivalent experience. 3-5 years of experience with PHP, Python, or JAVA related to web development. Experience with web standards, XML, HTML, CSS and Java Script. Position Responsibilities: ? Design and develop components of multi-tiered web application using XHTML, CSS, .NET, Java, PHP, JSP, ASP and JavaScript. ? Participate in different stages of development including requirements analysis, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. ? Interact regularly with others in the company to understand requirements and devise solutions. ? Produce well-planned, well-structured, high-quality code. ? Collect, review, analyze, evaluate and prioritize business, system and user requirements from business users. ? Document business requirements and process flows. ? Create test plans, test cases and do functional testing. ? 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