From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Sun May  1 01:14:22 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:14:22 -0500
Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jeremy Kelley <jeremy at 33ad.org> wrote:

> 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 agree this approach could be helpful, especially if we adapt the
idea toward creating ready-made tutorials for the Python Teach-In.
Last years's Teach-In was a somewhat chaotic, but it seemed to work
for a lot of people. It could be even better if we hand out ready-made
tutorial materials at the registration desk, like so:

Registration Interaction:
-------------------------------

Registrar: "Welcome to PyTexas! Please fill out your name next to the
wifi key, and tear off the login info. Here is your t-shirt & badge.
Perchance are you available to help out with the Python Teach-In this
morning?"

Attendee: "I would like nothing more than the opportunity to
experience the joy of helping others improve their Python skills.
Sadly, I have nothing prepared to teach, for I am a busy Python
professional and ever so distracted by my work."

Registrar: "Never fear, gentle attendee. We can put your skills to
good use with our ready-made tutorials. Please proceed to the Teach-In
Desk posthaste."

The attendee goes to the Teach-In desk in front of the plenary room.

Teach-In Coordinator: "Feast your eyes upon these small booklets with
their attached flash drives; each contains a modest guide suitable for
ad-hoc instruction on a particular topic of interest."

The following stacks of booklets appear on the table:

    * Python for Absolute Beginners
    * Python for Experienced Programmers New to Python
    * Python Koans
    * Automated Testing in Python
    * Practical Python Packaging and Installation
    * Object Oriented Concepts in Python
    * Iterators, Generators, and Comprehensions

Attendee: "My, my. Most of those those look easy enough to teach. I'll
take them all!"

Teach-In Coordinator: "Splendid! In that case, you qualify for the
Wizard's Hat, provided by one of our generous sponsors. Please don the
hat, proceed to the large Teach-In room, and look around for someone
wearing an Apprentice Hat whose light is blinking. Those are the ones
who need help. If you find anyone without a hat, send them to me. This
room is a hats-only room."

Attendee: "Very well, this game seems simple enough. But what are
those booklets I see stacked in the corner? Those look much more
interesting."

Teach-In Coordinator: "Those are the advanced tutorials. We are
setting those aside for later! After all, we don't want you to get
distracted away from helping the beginners!"

Attendee: "Oh..."

The attendee spied the spines of the advanced booklets :

    * Whiffing the Waft of Code Smells in Python
    * Plumbing the Forbidden Mysteries of Zope Toolkit
    * Coroutines for Concurrency
    * Own the Dot: Descriptors Demystified
    * Migrating to Python 3
    * Join the SQLAlchemy Project
    * Bite into PyPy
    * Proctoring Python Puzzles
    * Fun with itertools
    * Design Patterns in Python

There were a few others in the pile but that was all he could make out so far.

From jeremy at 33ad.org  Sun May  1 02:06:52 2011
From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:06:52 -0500
Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011
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On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Ralph Green <sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
> 

She's really gifted. We've been pair programming since she was 9mo. :)

Actually, now that I think about it, she's a lot like the Netflix chaos monkey so I suppose in a way, she does improve my code. :p

-jeremy

Sent from my iPhone

From catchjosh at gmail.com  Sun May  1 06:50:28 2011
From: catchjosh at gmail.com (Josh Marshall)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:50:28 -0500
Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jeremy Kelley <jeremy at 33ad.org> wrote:

> I love the corewars idea, ++ for that.
>
>
I also love the corewars idea, in fact I like it so much I really am
thinking it would be best if it were it's own event. I think doing it on top
of / at the same time as the Sunday sprints + tutorials would not do it
justice, but I do think PyTexas would be a great place to announce it, do a
lightning talk about it, etc. and then plan it for some time shortly after
PyTexas. Completely disregard if you guys think it won't be a problem to
manage it.


> 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
>

Wait, where's the asynchronous programming / coroutines tutorial? :)
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From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Tue May  3 01:37:44 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 18:37:44 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept
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It looks like DjangoCon is the same week (though on different days)

    http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/nov/22/djangocon-us-2011/

That may impact availability of national level speakers, but it's far
enough away that the impact might be low.

Is there anyone on this list who was thinking about attending
DjangoCon in Portland, Oregon?


On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Kelley <jeremy at 33ad.org> 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  Tue May  3 21:19:04 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:19:04 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 at Texas A&M in Sept
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Since there has been no response on this I'm going to assume this is
not an issue for the Texas area attendees.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like DjangoCon is the same week (though on different days)
>
> ? ?http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/nov/22/djangocon-us-2011/
>
> That may impact availability of national level speakers, but it's far
> enough away that the impact might be low.
>
> Is there anyone on this list who was thinking about attending
> DjangoCon in Portland, Oregon?
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Kelley <jeremy at 33ad.org> 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  Mon May 16 02:36:26 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:36:26 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
Message-ID: <BANLkTikWJR1CpiS5gb=X9TG-bo286208Ng@mail.gmail.com>

Today I put together the call for proposals and it's about ready to go
out. Before I announce on the general Python announce list, does
anyone want to critique?

http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011

Also, what do you think of the dates I proposed (due by July 16,
confirm by Aug 1.)

Last year people mostly just emailed their proposals to me, so this
year I went ahead and put my email address into the form (instead of
telling people to post to the public list).

Does anyone want to volunteer to be on the program committee? This
would involve an occasional conference call to review the proposals
and decide on a schedule.

From kevin.horn at gmail.com  Mon May 16 02:45:12 2011
From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:45:12 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I put together the call for proposals and it's about ready to go
> out. Before I announce on the general Python announce list, does
> anyone want to critique?
>
> http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011
>
> Also, what do you think of the dates I proposed (due by July 16,
> confirm by Aug 1.)
>
> Last year people mostly just emailed their proposals to me, so this
> year I went ahead and put my email address into the form (instead of
> telling people to post to the public list).
>
> Does anyone want to volunteer to be on the program committee? This
> would involve an occasional conference call to review the proposals
> and decide on a schedule.
> _______________________________________________
> Texas mailing list
> Texas at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas
>

Typo:

"If want to give a talk, and are looking for ideas..."

should be

"If _you_ want to give a talk, and are looking for ideas..."

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Kevin Horn
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From pmichaud at pobox.com  Mon May 16 02:59:13 2011
From: pmichaud at pobox.com (Patrick R. Michaud)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:59:13 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
> http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011
> Also, what do you think of the dates I proposed (due by July 16,
> confirm by Aug 1.)

I doubt it's an issue for a state conference, but you might switch 
"11:59pm" to be "23:59 CDT".  That reduces any ambiguity a bit further,
in case anyone from El Paso decides to submit at the "last hour".

Although, I suppose that someone from west Texas that submitted
in the early hours of the 17th and was committing to travel to central
Texas for the conference wouldn't have the lateness of the submission 
counted against them.  :-)

Pm
  - who tends to think about times/dates from a worldwide perspective

From pmichaud at pobox.com  Mon May 16 02:52:16 2011
From: pmichaud at pobox.com (Patrick R. Michaud)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:52:16 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
> Today I put together the call for proposals and it's about ready to go
> out. Before I announce on the general Python announce list, does
> anyone want to critique?
> 
> http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011

The page says the conference is in Waco?  Is that just a 
copy-pasto-error?

Pm

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Mon May 16 03:46:13 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:46:13 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.horn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Typo:
>
> "If want to give a talk, and are looking for ideas..."
>
> should be
>
> "If _you_ want to give a talk, and are looking for ideas..."

Thanks. That's now corrected.

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Mon May 16 03:46:48 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:46:48 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
>> Today I put together the call for proposals and it's about ready to go
>> out. Before I announce on the general Python announce list, does
>> anyone want to critique?
>>
>> http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011
>
> The page says the conference is in Waco? ?Is that just a
> copy-pasto-error?

Thanks for catching that. I've updated it to say Texas A&M in College Station.

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Mon May 16 03:47:50 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:47:50 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 call for proposals ready to go out
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	<20110516005913.GC26085@pmichaud.com>
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
>> http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011
>> Also, what do you think of the dates I proposed (due by July 16,
>> confirm by Aug 1.)
>
> I doubt it's an issue for a state conference, but you might switch
> "11:59pm" to be "23:59 CDT". ?That reduces any ambiguity a bit further,
> in case anyone from El Paso decides to submit at the "last hour".

Done.

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Sat May 28 01:38:09 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 18:38:09 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas sponsor prospectus needs putting together
Message-ID: <BANLkTinBNx8Ar5TCP5E-WwhPquH7nH5S8g@mail.gmail.com>

We're running short of time to line up sponsors for PyTexas 2011 (on
Sept 10-11 at Texas A&M).  When I spoke to a number of interested
potential sponsors in this year's PyCon expo hall, several of them
said they need several months lead time.  I've been so busy with work
& travel lately that I feel that it's almost too late, so now feel a
sense of urgency in creating the sponsor prospectus.

I'd like to send out general PyTexas announcements this weekend to the
larger Python community, along with the call for proposals, and it
would be good to have the sponsor options included with the main
announcement.

I'm looking for ideas about what we should be offering sponsors, as
well as a volunteer to create a nicely formatted prospectus document.

Here are the goals I have in mind for sponsorships at PyTexas:

* Increase attendee interest in the conference (last year we had a
"RackSpace effect" which drew in attendees as a result of their
OpenStack talks and evening party)
* Pay for t-shirts and conference supplies (badges, etc)
* Create a budget for speakers to travel to PyTexas
* Raise money for PSF
* Maybe pay for catering food/snacks/drinks
* Boost local Python employers in a way that fosters goodwill
* Help local Python developers and students know about Python
employment opportunities
* Help local Python employers expand their pool of potential employees
or consultants
* Distribute cool swag

Here are the incentives I can think of offering; most of these are
unoriginal.  Please help brainstorm additional ideas:

* Give away sponsor swag
* Company logo on PyTexas website
* Booths & tables (need to look at how much space we'll have)
* Banner display at PyTexas (not sure if Texas A&M can accomodate)
* I liked what SciPy is doing, namely creating a SciPy t-shirt with
sponsor logos on the back
* Have a verbal "thanks to our sponsor" along with some custom words
just before the keynote
* Promote sponsor parties
* Recruit developers to help on open source projects of interest to sponsors

Let me know if you think of any others ideas.

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Mon May 30 23:01:32 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:01:32 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 logistics for swag & supplies
Message-ID: <BANLkTindHmoqcCxRZOhjY8nFFu3ZkA3EnQ@mail.gmail.com>

For the time being, I'm telling sponsors they can send swag to my home
address. I still have some left over from last year, and can bring
quite a bit in my station wagon the Friday before PyTexas.

However, if anyone living closer to College Station wants to volunteer
to store swag, and is willing to deliver it the day before PyTexas,
please let me know.

I don't yet know where we'll put the swag & supplies the evening
before PyTexas. The best case would be storing it in the Computer
Science building somewhere the night before, to minimize hauling in
everything the day before. Jeremy, can you comment on this?

From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Mon May 30 23:24:38 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:24:38 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 needs volunteer site coordinator
Message-ID: <BANLkTimcxeBUaPkdvy63MwM4W8SV_KFiZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jeremy Kelley volunteered to act as the venue liason with the Texas
A&M folks, and has done a great job in negotiating the availability.

Now we need a another volunteer to step forward and take on
responsibilities as Site Coordinator. This will require a trip to
Texas A&M to meet with Jeremy to work on the following:

* Scope out the site to take pictures and determine the conference
needs (power outlets, where to put the schedule, etc)
* Draw up a rough diagram of available spots for registration, sponsor
tables, refreshments & snacks, etc.
* Test the projector in each room
* Document the features of each available room (whiteboards, projector
& connectivity info,
* Determine the placement of signage to point the way to the conference.
* Learn about and document any other circumstances relevant to the
event (such as campus policies which might affect attendee behavior)

I would prefer this volunteer to be someone who can act quickly and
can coordinate with myself and Jeremy to get this done sometime within
the month of June (the earlier the better). The main time pressure on
this is to determine what amount of booth space we can offer sponsors.
The other items are nice to get done sooner rather than later, but
sponsors need to know right away in order to start planning.

If you're willing to take on this critical responsibility, please
email me directly.

Thanks!

From jeremy at 33ad.org  Tue May 31 00:30:34 2011
From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:30:34 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 logistics for swag & supplies
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Let me reach out to my contacts at the school.

I'm sure we can get some space there.

-j

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the time being, I'm telling sponsors they can send swag to my home
> address. I still have some left over from last year, and can bring
> quite a bit in my station wagon the Friday before PyTexas.
>
> However, if anyone living closer to College Station wants to volunteer
> to store swag, and is willing to deliver it the day before PyTexas,
> please let me know.
>
> I don't yet know where we'll put the swag & supplies the evening
> before PyTexas. The best case would be storing it in the Computer
> Science building somewhere the night before, to minimize hauling in
> everything the day before. Jeremy, can you comment on this?
> _______________________________________________
> Texas mailing list
> Texas at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas
>



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From bradallen137 at gmail.com  Tue May 31 04:26:23 2011
From: bradallen137 at gmail.com (Brad Allen)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:26:23 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 Call for Proposals posted
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I just posted this on the PyCon blog; it should show up on Planet Python soon.

   http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/05/pytexas-2011-call-for-proposals.html

Please let me know if anyone spots errors or other problems in this
posting or any of the linked info.

From jeremy at 33ad.org  Tue May 31 04:51:57 2011
From: jeremy at 33ad.org (Jeremy Kelley)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:51:57 -0500
Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2011 logistics for swag & supplies
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the time being, I'm telling sponsors they can send swag to my home
> address. I still have some left over from last year, and can bring
> quite a bit in my station wagon the Friday before PyTexas.
>
> However, if anyone living closer to College Station wants to volunteer
> to store swag, and is willing to deliver it the day before PyTexas,
> please let me know.
>
> I don't yet know where we'll put the swag & supplies the evening
> before PyTexas. The best case would be storing it in the Computer
> Science building somewhere the night before, to minimize hauling in
> everything the day before. Jeremy, can you comment on this?
>
>

Brad et al,

- Mailing swag -

I've chatted with Dr James Caverlee of the TAMU CS Dept.  He says any swag
can be mailed to the department and address c/o him and he'll hold on to it
until the con.  I'll get the properly formatted mailing address tomorrow and
send it to the list.

- Logos -

One of my coworkers, Dave Birch, has put together a possible logo.

https://33ad.org/tmp/gzX/pytx11.png


that's all tonight,
Jeremy




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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting;
it has been found difficult and left untried ? G. K. Chesterton
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