From protonicamit at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 07:59:50 2011 From: protonicamit at gmail.com (amit rane) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:59:50 -0500 Subject: [Texas] Texas Linux Fest Message-ID: Hello All, Here's a reminder for the Texas Linux Festhappening this Saturday in Austin. Here's the schedule & this is registration page. Thanks. Regards amit rane -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pwang at streamitive.com Wed Apr 6 18:39:57 2011 From: pwang at streamitive.com (Peter Wang) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:39:57 -0500 Subject: [Texas] Scipy 2011 Conference call for papers Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the SciPy 2011 conference. The conference will be held in Austin, TX again this year, at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center, and will consist of tutorials, talks, and sprints spanning July 11th - 16th. This year, there are two specialized tracks in additional to the main series of talks: a "Python in Data Science" track, focusing on the use of Python for analysis of large and social datasets, and a "Python and Core Technologies" track, which will include talks on tools that are useful for scientific computing but are not traditionally featured in the science & engineering-centric main program. Please see our website for more information: http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2011/papers.php I hope to see lots of fellow Texans there! Cheers, Peter From lconrad at hctc.coop Wed Apr 20 19:50:10 2011 From: lconrad at hctc.coop (Len Conrad) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:50:10 -0500 Subject: [Texas] python intro course in Texas Message-ID: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> I think I asked before, but anybody know of a good intro python course in TX? 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Please contact us at 830-367-5333 or 800-292-5457 for any questions. From pwang at streamitive.com Wed Apr 20 22:09:05 2011 From: pwang at streamitive.com (Peter Wang) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:09:05 -0500 Subject: [Texas] python intro course in Texas In-Reply-To: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> References: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> Message-ID: Enthought in Austin, TX offers open training courses a few times a year. It has more of a focus on scientific and engineering applications, so if you are looking for web development etc. then only the first few days (intro to python) will be really of interest to you. http://enthought.com/training/open-austin-sci.php If you need something sooner, then I would highly recommend Dave Beazley & Raymond Hettinger's course. They are both Python gurus and excellent instructors and presenters. -Peter On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > I think I asked before, but anybody know of a good intro python course in TX? > > These look great, but in state would be easier to justify > > http://cyberwebconsulting.com/pp1dsc.html > > http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/practical.html > From walker.hale.iv at gmail.com Wed Apr 20 23:57:30 2011 From: walker.hale.iv at gmail.com (Walker Hale IV) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:57:30 -0500 Subject: [Texas] python intro course in Texas In-Reply-To: References: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> Message-ID: I know of no formal classes in Python in Texas. In Houston, I offer a free, weekly tutorial series for Python beginners. It is held in the Texas Medical Center. We also have "Python Teach and Learn" sessions every few months where experienced Python developers work with beginners individually or in small groups. (The last one of those was last night, so you just missed it.) Most of the major cities have a Python community where you could find people to give you an informal introduction. Houston - http://www.meetup.com/python-14/ Austin - http://www.meetup.com/austinpython/ Dallas - http://www.dfwpython.org/ If anyone out there is aware of any courses in Texas, I'd love to hear about it. I agree that David Beazley & Raymond Hettinger are the big names in Python training. -Walker On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Peter Wang wrote: > Enthought in Austin, TX offers open training courses a few times a > year. ?It has more of a focus on scientific and engineering > applications, so if you are looking for web development etc. then only > the first few days (intro to python) will be really of interest to > you. > > http://enthought.com/training/open-austin-sci.php > > If you need something sooner, then I would highly recommend Dave > Beazley & Raymond Hettinger's course. ?They are both Python gurus and > excellent instructors and presenters. > > > -Peter > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Len Conrad wrote: >> I think I asked before, but anybody know of a good intro python course in TX? >> >> These look great, but in state would be easier to justify >> >> http://cyberwebconsulting.com/pp1dsc.html >> >> http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/practical.html From kevin.horn at gmail.com Thu Apr 21 02:14:04 2011 From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:14:04 -0500 Subject: [Texas] python intro course in Texas In-Reply-To: References: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> Message-ID: I've considered offering some courses in Dallas, but I haven't seen much demand until recently (the last year or so). What's the list's take on whether such an offering would be needed in state? (Obviously Len is looking for something, I'm wondering if anyone else hears this request on a regular basis.) If anyone has heard of a demand for this kind of thing, what sort of training is more desired? Python for non-programmers (business people)? Python for non-programmers (technical people)? Python for non-Python programmers (Java, C++, Ruby, whatever)? Specific topics (Win32, databases, web, etc.) with Python? something else? FYI, _if_ I do end up doing this, it'll probably be a while before I get things organized (sorry Len...what kind of time frame are you looking for?). Kevin Horn On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Walker Hale IV wrote: > I know of no formal classes in Python in Texas. > > In Houston, I offer a free, weekly tutorial series for Python > beginners. It is held in the Texas Medical Center. We also have > "Python Teach and Learn" sessions every few months where experienced > Python developers work with beginners individually or in small groups. > (The last one of those was last night, so you just missed it.) > > Most of the major cities have a Python community where you could find > people to give you an informal introduction. > > Houston - http://www.meetup.com/python-14/ > Austin - http://www.meetup.com/austinpython/ > Dallas - http://www.dfwpython.org/ > > If anyone out there is aware of any courses in Texas, I'd love to hear > about it. I agree that David Beazley & Raymond Hettinger are the big > names in Python training. > > -Walker > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Peter Wang wrote: > > Enthought in Austin, TX offers open training courses a few times a > > year. It has more of a focus on scientific and engineering > > applications, so if you are looking for web development etc. then only > > the first few days (intro to python) will be really of interest to > > you. > > > > http://enthought.com/training/open-austin-sci.php > > > > If you need something sooner, then I would highly recommend Dave > > Beazley & Raymond Hettinger's course. They are both Python gurus and > > excellent instructors and presenters. > > > > > > -Peter > > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > >> I think I asked before, but anybody know of a good intro python course > in TX? > >> > >> These look great, but in state would be easier to justify > >> > >> http://cyberwebconsulting.com/pp1dsc.html > >> > >> http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/practical.html > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy at 33ad.org Thu Apr 21 06:38:52 2011 From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:38:52 -0500 Subject: [Texas] python intro course in Texas In-Reply-To: References: <539A42887DDDEC4B872766776511353C43577506A6@exch1.hctc.coop> Message-ID: We've also talked about offering Python classes here in our offices in College Station. Unfortunately, we're at least 6 months away from doing so. Just too busy with other projects. In particular, we toyed with the idea of a web stack emphasis and coupling it with working with something like CouchDB or MongoDB from python. It'd be a crammed course but the few people we've mentioned it to have sounded very interested. -j On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Kevin Horn wrote: > I've considered offering some courses in Dallas, but I haven't seen much > demand until recently (the last year or so). > > What's the list's take on whether such an offering would be needed in state? > (Obviously Len is looking for something, I'm wondering if anyone else hears > this request on a regular basis.) > > If anyone has heard of a demand for this kind of thing, what sort of > training is more desired? > > Python for non-programmers (business people)? > Python for non-programmers (technical people)? > Python for non-Python programmers (Java, C++, Ruby, whatever)? > Specific topics (Win32, databases, web, etc.) with Python? > something else? > > FYI, _if_ I do end up doing this, it'll probably be a while before I get > things organized (sorry Len...what kind of time frame are you looking for?). > > Kevin Horn > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Walker Hale IV > wrote: >> >> I know of no formal classes in Python in Texas. >> >> In Houston, I offer a free, weekly tutorial series for Python >> beginners. It is held in the Texas Medical Center. We also have >> "Python Teach and Learn" sessions every few months where experienced >> Python developers work with beginners individually or in small groups. >> (The last one of those was last night, so you just missed it.) >> >> Most of the major cities have a Python community where you could find >> people to give you an informal introduction. >> >> Houston - http://www.meetup.com/python-14/ >> Austin - http://www.meetup.com/austinpython/ >> Dallas - http://www.dfwpython.org/ >> >> If anyone out there is aware of any courses in Texas, I'd love to hear >> about it. I agree that David Beazley & Raymond Hettinger are the big >> names in Python training. >> >> -Walker >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Peter Wang wrote: >> > Enthought in Austin, TX offers open training courses a few times a >> > year. ?It has more of a focus on scientific and engineering >> > applications, so if you are looking for web development etc. then only >> > the first few days (intro to python) will be really of interest to >> > you. >> > >> > http://enthought.com/training/open-austin-sci.php >> > >> > If you need something sooner, then I would highly recommend Dave >> > Beazley & Raymond Hettinger's course. ?They are both Python gurus and >> > excellent instructors and presenters. >> > >> > >> > -Peter >> > >> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Len Conrad wrote: >> >> I think I asked before, but anybody know of a good intro python course >> >> in TX? >> >> >> >> These look great, but in state would be easier to justify >> >> >> >> http://cyberwebconsulting.com/pp1dsc.html >> >> >> >> http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/practical.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Texas mailing list >> Texas at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > > > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > > -- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried ? G. K. Chesterton From bradallen137 at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 01:25:13 2011 From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:25:13 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept Message-ID: PyTexans, Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if anyone wants to lead sprints). So far I haven't spotted any conflicts with the Sept 10 date. At least, no competing events appear on . Please let me know if you run across any conflicts, local or otherwise (other Python or large open source conferences. BarCamps, etc.). While we still have an option to hold PyTexas in Waco, I feel strongly in favor of accepting the Texas A&M bid this year due to several factors: * Faculty interest and support for Python (included in curriculum) * Guaranteed availability of a large room (seating 144 people) * Food and drink allowed in rooms, opening possibilities of catering * Various eateries & pubs within two blocks of the Computer Science Building * Closer to Houston (which has had a longer commute to PyTexas in recent years) Please let me know if anyone has a contrary opinion and wants to hold PyTexas elsewhere. I believe we need to need to confirm this ASAP in order to have lead time to line up talks, sponsorship, etc. Btw, I volunteer to act as chairman of PyTexas for a second year. If anyone else wants to act as co-chair, or run me out of office, let me know :-). I've started a small collection of wiki pages for PyTexas 2011: http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011 Details about the venue are here; these are still preliminary and subject to correction: http://pytexas.org/VenueInfo2011 Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and surveys (thanks again to Jeremy Kelley and also Josh Marshall). We'll be looking for volunteers to review and test the new site; please let me know if you're interested. From sfreader at sbcglobal.net Tue Apr 26 01:37:52 2011 From: sfreader at sbcglobal.net (Ralph Green) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:37:52 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:25 -0500, Brad Allen wrote: > PyTexans, > > Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at > Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if > anyone wants to lead sprints). > I think that is a good location. +1 for me > So far I haven't spotted any conflicts with the Sept 10 date. At > least, no competing events appear on > . Please let me know if you run > across any conflicts, local or otherwise (other Python or large open > source conferences. BarCamps, etc.). > That conflicts with the DFW Pythoneer meeting for September. Somehow, I suspect you will not find that to be a problem. > While we still have an option to hold PyTexas in Waco, I feel strongly > in favor of accepting the Texas A&M bid this year due to several > factors: > I thought Waco did a fine job, and we should go back there. But, I think it is a good idea to move it each year. College Station is well located for people from the large cities. They have never done a PyTexas either, and that is a plus for them. > Btw, I volunteer to act as chairman of PyTexas for a second year. If > anyone else wants to act as co-chair, or run me out of office, let me > know :-). > +1 > Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a > documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate > site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and Is this the royal we? I don't remember that discussion. Good day, Ralph From bradallen137 at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 02:29:50 2011 From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:29:50 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> References: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> Message-ID: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ralph Green wrote: >> Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a >> documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate >> site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and > ?Is this the royal we? ?I don't remember that discussion. This came about during the PyCon sprints. Jeremy Kelley and Josh Marshall decided to create a registration app for PyTexas, and were able to very quickly build a working prototype using the Tornado web framework. I gave them a list of features and registration questions, which they took and ran with. I liked the look of the test site they had up and running, and mentioned that I'd like a nicer looking site for publicizing PyTexas. The wiki is useful, but not particularly helpful as an advertisement to impress potential attendees and sponsors. A "normal" web page would give us more freedom to design the public face in an attention grabbing style. We still need to do more work on the design but the basic page framework is now in place. The code is here: https://github.com/nod/controll You'll see the docs mention pytx.org, which isn't really ready to announce yet. Feel free to take a look at the site, but bear in mind that some content updates and testing are required...also, we need more login methods; not everyone has Twitter and Facebook accounts. From sfreader at sbcglobal.net Tue Apr 26 02:50:21 2011 From: sfreader at sbcglobal.net (Ralph Green) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:50:21 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> Message-ID: <1303779021.28345.76.camel@belinda> Brad, On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:29 -0500, Brad Allen wrote: > You'll see the docs mention pytx.org, which isn't really ready to > announce yet. Feel free to take a look at the site, but bear in mind OK. I'll look at it. Thanks. > that some content updates and testing are required...also, we need > more login methods; not everyone has Twitter and Facebook accounts. If we must have awful stuff like Facebook, then we should at least have something reasonable like identi.ca or status.net. I'll certainly help code those, if needed. Is there a proper pace for discussion about the website, or is the PyTexas list it? On a related note, I have not had any success in burning Blue-Ray disks. I have a friend in Arlington who I think has burned a Blue-Ray disk successfully. He is out of town until Thursday. If he has a good setup, I am pretty sure he will let me borrow his machine to burn the disks. I only have 4 blank Blue-Ray disks left. Good day, Ralph From kevin.horn at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 03:14:47 2011 From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:14:47 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Brad Allen wrote: > PyTexans, > > Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at > Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if > anyone wants to lead sprints). > > WHOOP! > So far I haven't spotted any conflicts with the Sept 10 date. At > least, no competing events appear on > . Please let me know if you run > across any conflicts, local or otherwise (other Python or large open > source conferences. BarCamps, etc.). > > While we still have an option to hold PyTexas in Waco, I feel strongly > in favor of accepting the Texas A&M bid this year due to several > factors: > > * Faculty interest and support for Python (included in curriculum) > * Guaranteed availability of a large room (seating 144 people) > * Food and drink allowed in rooms, opening possibilities of catering > * Various eateries & pubs within two blocks of the Computer Science > Building > * Closer to Houston (which has had a longer commute to PyTexas in recent > years) > > Please let me know if anyone has a contrary opinion and wants to hold > PyTexas elsewhere. I believe we need to need to confirm this ASAP in > order to have lead time to line up talks, sponsorship, etc. > > Btw, I volunteer to act as chairman of PyTexas for a second year. If > anyone else wants to act as co-chair, or run me out of office, let me > know :-). > > I've started a small collection of wiki pages for PyTexas 2011: > > http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011 > > Details about the venue are here; these are still preliminary and > subject to correction: > > http://pytexas.org/VenueInfo2011 > > Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a > documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate > site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and > surveys (thanks again to Jeremy Kelley and also Josh Marshall). We'll > be looking for volunteers to review and test the new site; please let > me know if you're interested. > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Michaud) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:02:50 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110426010250.GA5637@pmichaud.com> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 06:25:13PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote: > PyTexans, > > Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at > Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if > anyone wants to lead sprints). +1 from me, it's on my calendar. (Feel free to weight the Perl heretic's vote appropriately. :-) Pm From kojo.idrissa at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 06:16:53 2011 From: kojo.idrissa at gmail.com (Kojo Idrissa) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:16:53 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This all sounds good to me. I haven't had an excuse/reason to get back to College Station other than driving THROUGH to Waco for last year's PyTexas. I always wondered: Does dropping out of grad school at A&M make me an Aggie? It's confusing! Otherwise, I'm planning to be there! On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Brad Allen wrote: > PyTexans, > > Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at > Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if > anyone wants to lead sprints). > > So far I haven't spotted any conflicts with the Sept 10 date. At > least, no competing events appear on > . Please let me know if you run > across any conflicts, local or otherwise (other Python or large open > source conferences. BarCamps, etc.). > > While we still have an option to hold PyTexas in Waco, I feel strongly > in favor of accepting the Texas A&M bid this year due to several > factors: > > * Faculty interest and support for Python (included in curriculum) > * Guaranteed availability of a large room (seating 144 people) > * Food and drink allowed in rooms, opening possibilities of catering > * Various eateries & pubs within two blocks of the Computer Science > Building > * Closer to Houston (which has had a longer commute to PyTexas in recent > years) > > Please let me know if anyone has a contrary opinion and wants to hold > PyTexas elsewhere. I believe we need to need to confirm this ASAP in > order to have lead time to line up talks, sponsorship, etc. > > Btw, I volunteer to act as chairman of PyTexas for a second year. If > anyone else wants to act as co-chair, or run me out of office, let me > know :-). > > I've started a small collection of wiki pages for PyTexas 2011: > > http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011 > > Details about the venue are here; these are still preliminary and > subject to correction: > > http://pytexas.org/VenueInfo2011 > > Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a > documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate > site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and > surveys (thanks again to Jeremy Kelley and also Josh Marshall). We'll > be looking for volunteers to review and test the new site; please let > me know if you're interested. > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jtgalyon at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 14:01:13 2011 From: jtgalyon at gmail.com (Jason Galyon) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:01:13 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Kevin Horn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Brad Allen wrote: > >> PyTexans, >> >> Thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Kelley, we have a confirmed venue at >> Texas A&M University this coming September 10 (11th also possible if >> anyone wants to lead sprints). >> >> > WHOOP! > Concur! Whoop! > > >> So far I haven't spotted any conflicts with the Sept 10 date. At >> least, no competing events appear on >> . Please let me know if you run >> across any conflicts, local or otherwise (other Python or large open >> source conferences. BarCamps, etc.). >> >> While we still have an option to hold PyTexas in Waco, I feel strongly >> in favor of accepting the Texas A&M bid this year due to several >> factors: >> >> * Faculty interest and support for Python (included in curriculum) >> * Guaranteed availability of a large room (seating 144 people) >> * Food and drink allowed in rooms, opening possibilities of catering >> * Various eateries & pubs within two blocks of the Computer Science >> Building >> * Closer to Houston (which has had a longer commute to PyTexas in recent >> years) >> >> Please let me know if anyone has a contrary opinion and wants to hold >> PyTexas elsewhere. I believe we need to need to confirm this ASAP in >> order to have lead time to line up talks, sponsorship, etc. >> >> Btw, I volunteer to act as chairman of PyTexas for a second year. If >> anyone else wants to act as co-chair, or run me out of office, let me >> know :-). >> >> I've started a small collection of wiki pages for PyTexas 2011: >> >> http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011 >> >> Details about the venue are here; these are still preliminary and >> subject to correction: >> >> http://pytexas.org/VenueInfo2011 >> >> Btw, this year we decided the wiki would be primarily used as a >> documentation application for organizers. We are planning a separate >> site to publicize the event, as well as handle registration and >> surveys (thanks again to Jeremy Kelley and also Josh Marshall). 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URL: From jtgalyon at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 14:05:11 2011 From: jtgalyon at gmail.com (Jason Galyon) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:05:11 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: <1303779021.28345.76.camel@belinda> References: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> <1303779021.28345.76.camel@belinda> Message-ID: Brad and Ralph, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Ralph Green wrote: > Brad, > > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:29 -0500, Brad Allen wrote: > > You'll see the docs mention pytx.org, which isn't really ready to > > announce yet. Feel free to take a look at the site, but bear in mind > OK. I'll look at it. Thanks. > > > that some content updates and testing are required...also, we need > > more login methods; not everyone has Twitter and Facebook accounts. > If we must have awful stuff like Facebook, then we should at least have > something reasonable like identi.ca or status.net. I'll certainly help > code those, if needed. Is there a proper pace for discussion about the > website, or is the PyTexas list it? > > I started coding some of the various social network and other external auth like oauth, then came across Velruse ( http://packages.python.org/velruse/index.html) which I want to have an excuse to worth with and on :) This could really help the PyTexas system out as well as provide an ability to both avoid NIH and contribute back to the community on an existing (and quite popular by the looks of forks) community. > On a related note, I have not had any success in burning Blue-Ray > disks. I have a friend in Arlington who I think has burned a Blue-Ray > disk successfully. He is out of town until Thursday. If he has a good > setup, I am pretty sure he will let me borrow his machine to burn the > disks. I only have 4 blank Blue-Ray disks left. > > Good day, > Ralph > > > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy at 33ad.org Tue Apr 26 18:14:23 2011 From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:14:23 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> <1303779021.28345.76.camel@belinda> Message-ID: Howdy All! I'm really excited by the feedback from everyone and I'm glad to hear that TAMU seems well received. I've spoken with the faculty there and they are pretty excited also. Just to give an idea of the Python involvement, Dr James Caverlee is the head of the infolab at TAMU focusing on Web-scale information management, distributed data-intensive systems, and social computing. The lab's work is done almost exclusively in Python. He also teaches an Information Retrieval course every semester and for the last couple of years that course has been exclusively taught in Python for all assignments. So that's about 60 students (grad and undergrad) that have spent the semester writing and learning Python while working on high level problems. The response has been incredible and it's one of the more popular classes in the department. Josh Marshall and I wrote conTroll with the intent to make it an easy to use platform for handling registration for smaller cons like ours. One nice thing about Tornado is the large selection of built in auth providers (https://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/auth.py). We'd definitely like to add at least an email provider as well, but we've just been quite busy since PyCon. If anyone wishes to contribute to conTroll, patches are always gleefully accepted! Josh and I are planning to do more work on the site, so please open up feature requests and other comments on the github issue tracker. https://github.com/nod/controll/issues -jeremy ps - Whoop! -- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried ? G. K. Chesterton From bradallen137 at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 16:10:07 2011 From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:10:07 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept In-Reply-To: References: <1303774672.28345.8.camel@belinda> <1303779021.28345.76.camel@belinda> Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Kelley wrote: > Howdy All! > > I'm really excited by the feedback from everyone and I'm glad to hear > that TAMU seems well received. ?I've spoken with the faculty there and > they are pretty excited also. So far feedback on this venue & date have been only positive, with no naysayers, and only one individual's schedule conflict has been reported to me. Let's take one more day to double-check possible conflicts, and if no significant concerns are raised, then we can let TAMU know that we want to confirm reservation of those dates. From bradallen137 at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 16:41:45 2011 From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:41:45 -0500 Subject: [Texas] tools for volunteer conferences Message-ID: For PyTexas last year, we relied on a MoinMoin wiki for nearly everything which worked well for many things we needed to do. This year for PyTexas, I plan to continue to use the wiki, but find more suitable alternatives for particular use cases. * Registration: that was awkward for registration and didn't join easily to survey data. Jeremy Kelley and Josh Marshall built the conTroll web app during the PyCon 2011 sprints to create a more useful registration system. * To-do lists: I've found the GTD system to be useful for my own to-do lists, but haven't yet evaluated tools that support GTD for groups. Any suggestions? I'm planning to dig through some GTD resource lists (such as http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/getting-things-done/). * Event scheduling software: the wiki was somewhat tedious. PyCon scheduling used a custom web app, as well as a mobile conference scheduling app called The Conventionist (now renamed to GuideBook). Since GuideBook is now free (thanks to Jeremy Kelley for discovering that), I plan to use that. * Publicity: We'll continue with blogging, email, and twitter. However I suspect I'll need to explore creating some kind of advertisement on Facebook; several people have told me we can expand the audience that way. We'll also want to post our event date on http://techvenue.com/. * Attendee live discussion/note-taking: IRC is the old standby, and Convore was fun to use during the last PyCon. I imagine we'll do both for PyTexas this year. * Tracking sponsor relationships: This list is semi-private and shared in a Google docs spreadsheet, accessible only to our sponsor coordinators. Any thoughts on these ideas? From bradallen137 at gmail.com Sat Apr 30 17:15:43 2011 From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:15:43 -0500 Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 Message-ID: >From Wikipedia: "Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by amassing a list of ideas spontaneously contributed its members." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming) Let's use this thread to generate a list of ideas for what might be interesting or fun to do at PyTexas 2011, both on and off schedule. Who wants to go first? From jcz2001 at hotmail.com Sat Apr 30 17:55:39 2011 From: jcz2001 at hotmail.com (John Zurawski) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:55:39 -0500 Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would like to propose a game programming competition similar to Corewars. Competitors would write Python scripts that would compete against the scripts written by other players in a virtual arena. Participants would write against a high-level API that we provide. It will contain some low-level operations and enough high-level behaviors that even people with little Python experience should be able to participate. At the competition deadline their scripts would be submitted and a tournament would be held where the scripts written by two players are matched up against each other until a winner is determined. I have such a game idea already in mind. However, I don?t think the details should be shared outside a group of volunteers. This is to ensure fairness and build up anticipation for the event. If someone knew too many details ahead of time that might give them a slight advantage (or at least the perception of). I think it would also be fun to announce it to everyone at the same time. If I understand correctly, we may have the venue at A&M for Saturday and Sunday. I think this would be best held on Sunday in parallel with any tutorials. This is so that it does not serve as a distraction from the talks. I think this is a fairly big project, so I would like to gauge sufficient interest before starting to implement something and organize a group of volunteers. I participated in a similar competition in the early 90?s held by ACM/IEEE at UT and have been interested in holding a similar competition of my own since. > Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:15:43 -0500 > From: bradallen137 at gmail.com > To: texas at python.org > Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 > > >From Wikipedia: "Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by > which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by > amassing a list of ideas spontaneously contributed its members." (See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming) > > Let's use this thread to generate a list of ideas for what might be > interesting or fun to do at PyTexas 2011, both on and off schedule. > > Who wants to go first? > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at personnelware.com Sat Apr 30 19:27:27 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:27:27 -0500 Subject: [Texas] [Conferences] tools for volunteer conferences In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Brad Allen wrote: > For PyTexas last year, we relied on a MoinMoin wiki for nearly > everything which worked well for many things we needed to do. This > year for PyTexas, I plan to continue to use the wiki, but find more > suitable alternatives for particular use cases. > > * Registration: that was awkward for registration and didn't join > easily to survey data. Jeremy Kelley and Josh Marshall built the > conTroll web app during the PyCon 2011 sprints to create a more useful > registration system. > > * To-do lists: I've found the GTD system to be useful for my own to-do > lists, but haven't yet evaluated tools that support GTD for groups. > Any suggestions? I'm planning to dig through some GTD resource lists > (such as http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/getting-things-done/). > > * Event scheduling software: the wiki was somewhat tedious. PyCon > scheduling used a custom web app, as well as a mobile conference > scheduling app called The Conventionist (now renamed to GuideBook). > Since GuideBook is now free (thanks to Jeremy Kelley for discovering > that), I plan to use that. > > * Publicity: We'll continue with blogging, email, and twitter. However > I suspect I'll need to explore creating some kind of advertisement on > Facebook; several people have told me we can expand the audience that > way. We'll also want to post our event date on http://techvenue.com/. > > * Attendee live discussion/note-taking: IRC is the old standby, and > Convore was fun to use during the last PyCon. I imagine we'll do both > for PyTexas this year. > > * Tracking sponsor relationships: This list is semi-private and shared > in a Google docs spreadsheet, accessible only to our sponsor > coordinators. > > > Any thoughts on these ideas? > I am taking a really close look at http://zookeepr.org - PyOhio is going to use it for proposals and scheduling and maybe attendee registration if I can figure out how to make that work. I am going to use it for a few user group meetings (way overkill, just doing it to get some hands on experience.) It has the schedule export I need to do videos, one of the main reasons I have taken interest in it. It has a pretty active development group, and I know 2 of them personally and would vouch for their skills. I would look it over. -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy at 33ad.org Sat Apr 30 23:13:04 2011 From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:13:04 -0500 Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I love the corewars idea, ++ for that. Concerning tutorials, (and I don't recall if last year this was done this way or not) but what if we came up with a list of 4-10 topics that needed teachers and solicited people to do them? This is a little backwards but might help kickstart the topics along with guide the offerings. I don't want to encourage others teaching on what they're passionate about, but perhaps if people see a demand for the basics more people would step up in an organized fashion to teach? I'd propose the following list to kickstart: - newbies hour! - core stdlib review - basic text processing - web framework - nosql (focus on the python driver, of course) - threaded / multiprocessing I'd volunteer to teach a session on just about any of these. -j On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, John Zurawski wrote: > I would like to propose a game programming competition similar to Corewars. > Competitors would write Python scripts that would compete against the > scripts written by other players in a virtual arena. Participants would > write against a high-level API that we provide. It will contain some > low-level operations and enough high-level behaviors that even people with > little Python experience should be able to participate. At the competition > deadline their scripts would be submitted and a tournament would be held > where the scripts written by two players are matched up against each other > until a winner is determined. > > I have such a game idea already in mind. However, I don?t think the details > should be shared outside a group of volunteers. This is to ensure fairness > and build up anticipation for the event. If someone knew too many details > ahead of time that might give them a slight advantage (or at least the > perception of). I think it would also be fun to announce it to everyone at > the same time. > > If I understand correctly, we may have the venue at A&M for Saturday and > Sunday. I think this would be best held on Sunday in parallel with any > tutorials. This is so that it does not serve as a distraction from the > talks.?I think this is a fairly big project, so I would like to gauge > sufficient interest before starting to implement something and organize a > group of volunteers. I participated in a similar competition in the early > 90?s held by ACM/IEEE at UT and have been interested in holding a similar > competition of my own since. > >> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:15:43 -0500 >> From: bradallen137 at gmail.com >> To: texas at python.org >> Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 >> >> >From Wikipedia: "Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by >> which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by >> amassing a list of ideas spontaneously contributed its members." (See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming) >> >> Let's use this thread to generate a list of ideas for what might be >> interesting or fun to do at PyTexas 2011, both on and off schedule. >> >> Who wants to go first? >> _______________________________________________ >> Texas mailing list >> Texas at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > > _______________________________________________ > Texas mailing list > Texas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas > > -- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried ? G. K. Chesterton From jeremy at 33ad.org Sat Apr 30 23:14:46 2011 From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:14:46 -0500 Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Whoops! minor edit and correction below. My 2yo was crawling in my lap at the time I typed it. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jeremy Kelley wrote: > I love the corewars idea, ++ for that. > > Concerning tutorials, (and I don't recall if last year this was done > this way or not) but what if we came up with a list of 4-10 topics > that needed teachers and solicited people to do them? ?This is a > little backwards but might help kickstart the topics along with guide > the offerings. ?I don't want to encourage others teaching on what > they're passionate about, but perhaps if people see a demand for the > basics more people would step up in an organized fashion to teach? This should say "I don't want to discourage others from teaching on what they're passionate about" :) -j -- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried ? G. K. Chesterton From sfreader at sbcglobal.net Sat Apr 30 23:23:41 2011 From: sfreader at sbcglobal.net (Ralph Green) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:23:41 -0500 Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1304198621.18847.7.camel@belinda> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 16:14 -0500, Jeremy Kelley wrote: > Whoops! minor edit and correction below. My 2yo was crawling in my > lap at the time I typed it. > ... > This should say "I don't want to discourage others from teaching on > what they're passionate about" :) Jeremy, That is a pretty good catch by your 2 year old. Do they often edit your work? Ralph From marcello at linux.com.uy Sat Apr 30 17:15:51 2011 From: marcello at linux.com.uy (Marcello Farias) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:15:51 -0300 Subject: [Texas] [Conferences] tools for volunteer conferences In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Please check the following Django CMS www.django-cms.org -- Marcello Farias... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: