From gslindstrom at gmail.com Sat May 26 16:26:58 2012 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:26:58 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2012 wants you! Message-ID: Greetings Pythonistas - Plans are underway for pyArkansas 2012 to be held on the campus of UCA this Fall (we are still working on the date). This is our 5th year and we want it to be a conference with things YOU want (except for that rascal last year asking for PERL classes :-). To that end we are asking for your ideas and for help in organizing things. Traditionally, we meet on a Saturday and have classes (2-1/2 hour sessions) in the morning and talks (30-60 minutes) in the afternoon. How do you feel about that? Do you want more classes? More talks? Something else? And what topics do you want see covered? We have had people begging us for GIS classes since the start and, this year, we hope to bring in a speaker or two. The problem is that GIS is a huge field; what, in particular, do you want to see covered? Last year we had a class on Blender; should we invite Gordon back (the class rocked!). Again, what do YOU want to see? Beginning Python? Intermediate? Advanced? You will have to let us know topics (web? database? games? scientific? robotics? mobile? modules?). We are currently considering web-casting some of the classes live to Colleges/High Schools around the state in order to get more people involved. At last count, we had over 60 people on this list. Please respond and tell us what you would like to see (nobody will get hurt!). Also, we are asking for help organizing and putting on the conference. pyArkansas quite literally started when Cooper emailed me and suggested that we put it together (5 years ago!). Neither one of us had much of a clue, but it didn't stop us from putting it on and having a lot of fun in the process. You don't need experience, you just need to want to help and we'll show you how to get it done. We need help with: - Program (speakers, topics, etc.) - Sponsorships (lots of people WANT to contribute $$ but are never asked) - Swag (everyone likes free stuff) - Tee Shirts - Promotion - Web (design and content) If you are interested, please join the organizers list ( http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2-organizers) and introduce yourself. Everyone else should respond to this list with topics you would like to see covered. Thanks for your time, --greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wayne at waynewerner.com Sun May 27 02:50:32 2012 From: wayne at waynewerner.com (Wayne Werner) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:50:32 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2012 wants you! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I, for one, would love to see the sessions recorded. There have continually been multiple talks I would have loved to have seen. It was pretty depressing to have to choose. With some videos at least I'd still be able to catch what I missed. I could bring a Kodak Zi8 and a tripod. It can shoot 1080p video at fairly decent quality. It also has an external mic jack. I might also be able to enlist the help of my dad and his equipment. As far as time, as long as it's not the first weekend of October, I think I'm pretty flexible. -Wayne From quasar at ja.rosz.org Mon May 28 04:30:01 2012 From: quasar at ja.rosz.org (Quasar Jarosz) Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:30:01 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2012 wants you! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey there Greg! (and everyone else). This will be my first time coming to pyArkansas, but I'm already looking forward to it! I found out about it about 2 weeks after last years, which was a bummer. I wanted to say that I'd love to see Blender covered again, and I second Wayne's proposal that all of the sessions be recorded. After watching all of the PyCon videos, I had hoped to find videos of pyArkansas 2011, but was disappointed. I like the idea of some web-related stuff, maybe something on Django? I'll sub to the organizers list too, maybe me or someone from my office could do something Django-related. Anyway, I'm happy to see we're getting closer! I look forward to meeting people there and hopefully learning something new! Quasar From mtranby at enthought.com Thu May 31 22:36:05 2012 From: mtranby at enthought.com (Majken Tranby) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:36:05 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] SciPy 2012 in Austin, TX Message-ID: All, As leaders of members of your local Python User groups I wanted to send you a message about SciPy 2012 in Austin Texas. >From July 16-21, this affordable conference will feature two days of *tutorials including *Introduction to Numpy, Ipython, HDF5, Parallel computing, scikits-learn, advanced Matplotlib, Pandas, and statsmodels. Then we have a two day conference followed by some sprints. For more information please visit http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2012/. If you are willing to share this information with your respective groups that would be lovely! Best, Majken -- ***Majken E. Tranby* *Enthought Inc* 515 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100 Austin, TX 78701 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gslindstrom at gmail.com Thu May 31 22:49:17 2012 From: gslindstrom at gmail.com (Greg Lindstrom) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:49:17 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] SciPy Conference Message-ID: This came my way; thought some of might like it. --greg All, As leaders of members of your local Python User groups I wanted to send you a message about SciPy 2012 in Austin Texas. >From July 16-21, this affordable conference will feature two days of *tutorials including *Introduction to Numpy, Ipython, HDF5, Parallel computing, scikits-learn, advanced Matplotlib, Pandas, and statsmodels. Then we have a two day conference followed by some sprints. For more information please visit http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2012/. If you are willing to share this information with your respective groups that would be lovely! Best, Majken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: