From jim at well.com Sat Mar 1 19:06:33 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:06:33 -0800 Subject: [PyOP] what to do for our March meeting? New List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here's a summary of suggestions that have come in. Please vote with the usual +1 or -1 and indicate a topic tag the list shows votes in so far. you're welcome to vote for multiple tags. to reverse your previous vote, send in another with the alternate value to cancel. Note that we will have a meeting (we won't cancel), and in the absence of votes, the default will be MeetAndGreet. (+1) -- MeetAndGreet: have a meet and greet and with a focus on planning. (+1) -- DrewNextWeek: Drew Perttula reports on PyCon one week later (Thursday, March 20) (+1) -- HowToVirtANet: How to virtualize entire networks (About Untangle) 0 -- SecureMesh: Secure wireless Mesh Networks 0 -- CarComputer: Build an open source car computer In my view (self is jim), we don't have enough time to prepare properly for a newbies night or a recruiters night for March 13. * Newbies: newbies nite * recruiters nite -- hiring mgrs and recruiters allowed to take the stage for X minutes each, then collect resumes at the end On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:43 AM, jim stockford wrote: > > I've given up on getting a speaker for our March 13 meeting > for several reasons (noted below as a postscript as they > probably don't really matter much). > > so the question is what to do? > * have a meet and greet and perhaps talk out possible future > talks or other local python community issues. > * cancel the meeting. > * other.... > > Please reply > with thanks, > jim > > PS: > * i've been walking too close to the edge: i should have > several meetings definitely planned in advance but have > none--i'll address this is a separate post. > * pycon is taking people away during the meeting week. > * though my efforts are admittedly tepid, those i've made > have failed to yield someone able to speak on march 13 > (some will be at pycon, others have other reasons). > > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > From keith at dartworks.biz Wed Mar 5 11:08:57 2008 From: keith at dartworks.biz (Keith Dart) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:08:57 -0800 Subject: [PyOP] [Baypiggies] what to do for our March meeting? New List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47CE7139.2030007@dartworks.biz> jim stockford wrote: > Here's a summary of suggestions that have come in. > Please vote with the usual +1 or -1 and indicate a topic > tag the list shows votes in so far. you're welcome to vote > for multiple tags. to reverse your previous vote, send in > another with the alternate value to cancel. > Note that we will have a meeting (we won't cancel), > and in the absence of votes, the default will be > MeetAndGreet. > > Since it overlaps PyCon, how about a mini-PyCon for those that are not going? Could just meet and talk about scripts you wrote, tools, techniques.... like the old days when it was small. :-) I've been doing IEEE-488/GPIB instrument automation in Python. I could talk about that. From jim at well.com Wed Mar 5 19:40:11 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:40:11 -0800 Subject: [PyOP] meeting moved to march 20 Message-ID: <04ae11c692ee308282cb0b154d25ec99@well.com> By two-to-one popular demand, the March bayPIGgies meeting is moved to Thursday, March 20. Drew Perttula will speak on his adventures at PyCon. As a supplemental feature, we will have our own local mini-pycon if any of you contribute brief topics for discussion. We may have extended time for meet and greet and possibly planning for future meetings. No meeting on Thursday, March 13. Please email the list with your ideas for brief topics, hopefully with supporting snippets, for this coming bayPIGgies meeting, Thursday, March 20. From jim at well.com Wed Mar 5 19:51:49 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:51:49 -0800 Subject: [PyOP] Rescinding the meeting announcement Message-ID: <94f66f6d210a979c1a3655e0defcbef5@well.com> I did not think to check with leslie to see if it's possible for bayPIGgies to meet on Thursday, march 20. Please do send in your ideas for mini-topics and snippets. After Leslie responds with meeting room availability, I'll re-announce the day, either the 13th or the 20th. sorry for confusion. jim From jim at well.com Wed Mar 12 01:41:29 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:41:29 -0700 Subject: [PyOP] March meeting Thursday 3/20 Message-ID: <97aa5ac48a4327101cfe3722272650e4@well.com> This is a reminder that we will NOT have our March meeting on Thursday, March 13. We WILL have our March meeting on Thursday, March 20. Drew Perttula and Shannon -jj Behrens will report on their adventures at PyCon. If we have time afterward, it would be helpful to talk about PyCon 2010, so come with thoughts and questions. jim From marilyn at deliberate.com Wed Mar 12 21:47:36 2008 From: marilyn at deliberate.com (Marilyn Davis) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PyOP] March meeting Thursday 3/20 In-Reply-To: <97aa5ac48a4327101cfe3722272650e4@well.com> References: <97aa5ac48a4327101cfe3722272650e4@well.com> Message-ID: <22693.128.115.27.10.1205354856.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net> On Tue, March 11, 2008 5:41 pm, jim stockford wrote: > This is a reminder that we will NOT have our March > meeting on Thursday, March 13. We WILL have our March meeting on Thursday, > March 20. Drew Perttula and Shannon -jj Behrens I just have to mention that these two are GREAT speakers. They are cheerful, they explain so you can understand, and they know Everything. I'm really looking forward to this one. Marilyn > will report on their adventures at PyCon. If we have time afterward, it > would be helpful to talk about PyCon 2010, so come with thoughts and > questions. > > jim > > _______________________________________________ > pyop mailing list pyop at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyop From jim at well.com Thu Mar 13 05:24:16 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim stockford) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:24:16 -0700 Subject: [PyOP] bayPIGgies meets Thursday, 3/20: Early PyCon Reports Message-ID: <50d146ca7589e122d9924dee911655df@well.com> bayPIGgies meets Thursday, 3/20: Early PyCon Reports * SPECIAL NOTE: because many pythonistas are at PyCon on the second Thursday of March (3/13), bayPIGgies has moved our meeting to the third Thursday of the month, 3/20. bayPIGgies meeting Thursday 3/20: Drew Perttula and Shannon jj Behrens on PyCon 2008 Drew and jj will be back from PyCon 2008 and will share their experiences. If time permits, the group may discuss plans for Concurrent Python 2010 in the San Francisco bay area. Location: Google Campus Building 43, the Tunis room (first floor) bayPIGgies meeting information: http://baypiggies.net/new/plone * Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings (no later than close of business on Wednesday.) Agenda ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:45 PM ................ The Talk (may extend a bit late) ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. 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