[python-uk] saturday london python dojos?

[Ross Lawley]

Ed if you're feeling really adventurous you could throw a BarCamp! Its been
a while since one has been done there:
http://barcamp.org/w/page/401031/BarCampLondon4

Ross

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ed Stafford <
walter.stafford at carbonsixty.co.uk> wrote:

> I like the idea of a hackathon and the venue would lend itself well to
> this. I've been told that we won't have budget for food or drink but I have
> other contacts that I may able to convince to help sponsor the events. As I
> said, it's early days yet and I've only just started the formal process for
> sign-off and I'm hoping to have that sorted this week. I'll have a look
> around the theatre and meeting rooms to get a better idea of how many we
> can support.
>
> On 31 January 2012 11:28, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
>
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>> Choosing the day/time of a dojo is always going to inconvenience
>> someone. I have a young family and weekends are precious. Obviously I
>> could make a Saturday dojo but not every month.
>>
>> If Ed is willing to provide a location along with free pizza and beer
>> (which is the usual package provided by a "sponsor") then I think it's
>> a cracking good idea!
>>
>> Actually, rather than run a dojo (which is quite a focussed affair)
>> why not run a hackathon? Self selecting teams can coalesce around a
>> problem area rather than specific problem and have 6 hours to produce
>> something before a show-and-tell. For example, running a hackathon
>> around the subject of "Living in London" (I'm making this up as I go
>> along, can't you tell..?) might produce tools for grabbing data, quick
>> and lightweight websites, data-analysis tools, cloud based APIs to
>> aggregate information or single use applications such as something
>> that sends you a text message if it's going to rain in London in the
>> next 24 hours... and so on.
>>
>> Now, *that* would be awesome and play to the extended period of time
>> we'd have at our disposal.
>>
>> What's the upper limit on numbers..? How are people fixed in February?
>>
>> Just throwing ideas around... ;-)
>>
>> N.
>>
>> On 31/01/12 11:00, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
>> > On 30/01/2012 23:58, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> On Jan/30/2012, Tom Viner wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I personally would really enjoy having a longer session to
>> >>> create more ambitious solutions on a weekend dojo. Although I
>> >>> wouldn't be able to attend every time.
>> >> I estimate that I would go 50% of the Python Dojo's that would
>> >> happen on weekends.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Personally, I could probably only make it 10% of the time at
>> > weekends. I much prefer a weeknight slot.
>> >
>> > Good luck to those of you who prefer it though, that shouldn't stop
>> > you.
>> >
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