From daniele.varrazzo at gmail.com  Mon Dec  7 10:05:32 2020
From: daniele.varrazzo at gmail.com (Daniele Varrazzo)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:05:32 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] psycopg3: the project, the sponsorship
Message-ID: <CA+mi_8Zki3-zavHc+6X_-08m+p_PjnuUZJEJCx8D7xpOWCdM3A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

my name is Daniele, Italian developer living in London, and I have
been the main psycopg2 maintainer for the past 10 years.

I have recently started working on its successor: psycopg3. The
project is based on the experience I have gathered in these years
about the technical matters of the Python/Postgres interoperation, as
well as about the use cases and pain points of the people using the
library. Psycopg tries to address the problems that are not easy to
solve in a codebase which has its root before 2000, and embraces the
state of the art of a Python library in 2020, from static typing to
asyncio support.

I started dabbling with the idea back in March
(https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/03/06/thinking-psycopg3/), when I
stopped working for the company I had been working for the previous 12
years, and I thought that the moment was mature to put my experience
into a new library. I worked on the project only part-time for a few
months, and recently I've decided to work on it full time.

I am looking for sponsors to help me to make the project sustainable
and allow me to finish its development in a short time. If you work
for a company using Python and PostgreSQL and would like to
contribute, and make use of, the most advanced Postgres driver for
Python, please consider to give your support.

More information about the project is available at
<https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/>. For any information please don't
hesitate to get in touch.

Wishing you a good day

-- Daniele

From jfine2358 at gmail.com  Thu Dec 10 05:48:31 2020
From: jfine2358 at gmail.com (Jonathan Fine)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:48:31 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)
Message-ID: <CALD=Yf8taxKDgEgCaJTsm3F=24yCjVKZna6b9bFBCmP80HAFVw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

The UK TeX Users Group is close to folding. This is sad. It is a closed
(paid membership only) organisation. I think it's time for an open to all
UK TeX grouping.  To help set this up, I'm holding a TeX Office Hour every
Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm, until the end of March.

https://jfine2358.github.io/post/2020/12/10/tex-office-hours/

To get back on topic, I'm also happy to discuss Python and other matters in
the office hour, but TeX (and MathJax) has priority.

I've a special interest in Python tools for TeX. I have a few such (not yet
on PyPi). If you're interested in such tools (yours, mine, someone else's
or yet to be developed), please do get in touch either on this list or by
email.

with best wishes

Jonathan
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From GadgetSteve at hotmail.com  Thu Dec 10 08:37:29 2020
From: GadgetSteve at hotmail.com (Steve - Gadget Barnes)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:37:29 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)
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Good for you Jonathan,

I personally do not currently make much use of TeX at the moment (always subject to change) but I am a strong advocate of open user groups for FOSS.
I hope that you are successful in setting up the new group.

Steve Barnes

From: python-uk <python-uk-bounces+gadgetsteve=hotmail.com at python.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Fine
Sent: 10 December 2020 10:49
To: UK Python Users <python-uk at python.org>
Subject: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)

Hi

The UK TeX Users Group is close to folding. This is sad. It is a closed (paid membership only) organisation. I think it's time for an open to all UK TeX grouping.  To help set this up, I'm holding a TeX Office Hour every Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm, until the end of March.

https://jfine2358.github.io/post/2020/12/10/tex-office-hours/

To get back on topic, I'm also happy to discuss Python and other matters in the office hour, but TeX (and MathJax) has priority.

I've a special interest in Python tools for TeX. I have a few such (not yet on PyPi). If you're interested in such tools (yours, mine, someone else's or yet to be developed), please do get in touch either on this list or by email.

with best wishes

Jonathan
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From phoenix1987 at gmail.com  Thu Dec 10 09:25:37 2020
From: phoenix1987 at gmail.com (Gabriele)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:25:37 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)
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Hi Jonathan

These days I don't use LaTeX as much as I've used to when I was in
Academia and I also never got involved directly with any TeX user
group. This sounds like a good way for me to "make amend" even though
my spare time is, in general, very limited. There's a TeX topic that I
wanted to explore, namely "virtual environments". As far as I know,
the closest thing to this is what is described in this answer on
TeX.SE

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/448263/is-there-a-way-to-create-tex-live-or-latex-virtual-environment

which hasn't worked for me on Ubuntu straight-away. As I said, my
spare time is limited at the moment, so I haven't looked into this any
further, but I'd love to contribute to a TeX venv project in the
future if that will become a thing.

Should I feel like I can join one of these office hours I'll get back
to you for the zoom link. For now, I hope the group can live on.

Cheers,
Gab

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 10:48, Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The UK TeX Users Group is close to folding. This is sad. It is a closed (paid membership only) organisation. I think it's time for an open to all UK TeX grouping.  To help set this up, I'm holding a TeX Office Hour every Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm, until the end of March.
>
> https://jfine2358.github.io/post/2020/12/10/tex-office-hours/
>
> To get back on topic, I'm also happy to discuss Python and other matters in the office hour, but TeX (and MathJax) has priority.
>
> I've a special interest in Python tools for TeX. I have a few such (not yet on PyPi). If you're interested in such tools (yours, mine, someone else's or yet to be developed), please do get in touch either on this list or by email.
>
> with best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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cerchi, ed altre figure
geometriche, senza i quali mezzi ? impossibile a intenderne umanamente parola;
senza questi ? un aggirarsi vanamente per un oscuro laberinto."

-- G. Galilei, Il saggiatore.

From jfine2358 at gmail.com  Thu Dec 10 10:47:18 2020
From: jfine2358 at gmail.com (Jonathan Fine)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:47:18 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)
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Hi Gab

Thank you for your interest. I had a look at the tex.sx link (which I think
I've seen before). The problem is dependency management - TeX Live is so
big. Related is running TeX in a serverless setting. For that see
https://github.com/samoconnor/lambdalatex

By the way, the tex-live list didn't respond to sam's announcement of
lambdatex. I've some unpublished ideas related to that problem.
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-March/041304.html

Also relevant is
https://tug.org/tug2020/program.html # Talk by Yoan Tournade

best wishes

Jonathan
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