From thomasmckay at yahoo.com Sun Nov 2 15:29:49 2008 From: thomasmckay at yahoo.com (Thomas McKay) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:29:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [TriZPUG] Google App Engine and Django Message-ID: <613587.53027.qm@web57702.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Greetings! Anyone out there using GAE and Django? Being new to python I'm looking for some local contacts to meet up with and bounce ideas off of. Kind regards, Tom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Mon Nov 3 20:57:55 2008 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:57:55 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Code Swarms Message-ID: <490F57C3.3090809@unc.edu> I made these in time for World Plone Day: http://plone.org/news/plone-code-swarms-demonstrate-community-vitality -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu Tue Nov 4 16:44:35 2008 From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:44:35 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Please RSVP and help promote World Plone Day In-Reply-To: <4900990A.8010704@unc.edu> References: <4900990A.8010704@unc.edu> Message-ID: <1225813475.6395.5.camel@phantasy-star> http://plonedev.unc.edu/world-plone-day/world-plone-day-at-unc ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I'm excited to invite you to World Plone Day this Friday, Nov 7. There are three reasons why you should attend: 1) If you want to learn more about the best open source content management system on planet Earth* and how it can solve your problems, you'll have the opportunity to talk with people who use Plone day in and day out. 2) If you are a developer, manager, or integrator at UNC and you want to tap into the rich development community on campus, we have a couple of announcements you will love. 3) If you are not part of UNC but want to collaborate with the Plone community here, this is the most effective way to meet many of us. If that sounds good to you, please do us three favors: 1) Promote! Print out the flyer, cut the little strips on the bottom, and post it on a prominent flyer-ish place near you: http://plonedev.unc.edu/world-plone-day/flyer2.pdf 2) RSVP! Let us know you're attending: http://plonedev.unc.edu/world-plone-day/world-plone-day-rsvp 3) Participate! Attend the event this Friday. We have a perfect room with a big screen and comfortable chairs (Room G202 MBRB, the conference room on the ground floor of UNC's Medical Biomolecular research Building). We'll be there at 10:00 sharp. Hope to see you there! * This statement has not been verified, but Plone is almost certainly the best open source content management system on planet Earth. ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ http://plonedev.unc.edu/world-plone-day/world-plone-day-at-unc From mrevoir at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 14:10:43 2008 From: mrevoir at gmail.com (Mike Revoir) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:10:43 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting Message-ID: Hello, fellow TriZPUGgers. I hope you're doing well and that things aren't too crazy for you as we approach the end of the year. Does anyone have a preference for when our Nov / Dec meeting will be held? Would Dec 4th suit everyone's needs? Thanks and have a nice weekend, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri Nov 7 22:55:40 2008 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:55:40 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> On 11/7/2008 8:10 AM, Mike Revoir wrote: > Hello, fellow TriZPUGgers. I hope you're doing well and that things aren't > too crazy for you as we approach the end of the year. > Does anyone have a preference for when our Nov / Dec meeting will be held? > Would Dec 4th suit everyone's needs? I thought you'd already announced Tuesday the 25th? http://trizpug.org/Members/mrevoir/nov-08-mtg I'm OK with Thursday Dec 4 as well. It was good to see DCRI at World Plone Day today. Announcements at World Plone Day: 1) All day Plone Jams at UNC every other Friday: http://plonedev.unc.edu/unc-plone-jams/unc-plone-jam-001 2) Content Rules Sprint at UNC January 16-19 (MLK weekend). -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From mrevoir at gmail.com Mon Nov 10 14:22:36 2008 From: mrevoir at gmail.com (Mike Revoir) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:22:36 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> Message-ID: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 11/7/2008 8:10 AM, Mike Revoir wrote: > >> Hello, fellow TriZPUGgers. I hope you're doing well and that things aren't >> too crazy for you as we approach the end of the year. >> Does anyone have a preference for when our Nov / Dec meeting will be held? >> Would Dec 4th suit everyone's needs? >> > > I thought you'd already announced Tuesday the 25th? > > http://trizpug.org/Members/mrevoir/nov-08-mtg > > I'm OK with Thursday Dec 4 as well. > Sorry, I put that up a while ago as a place holder -- I can see where that would cause a lot of confusion. Since we're now meeting on the fourth Thursday which would be Thanksgiving, I'd rather push it to Dec 4th if everyone's okay with that day. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll update the announcement later this week. Any volunteers for a lightning talk? I've been doing some with web services if anyone would find that interesting. Thanks, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From philip at semanchuk.com Mon Nov 10 15:54:36 2008 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:54:36 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> Message-ID: <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Mike Revoir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > >> On 11/7/2008 8:10 AM, Mike Revoir wrote: >> >>> Hello, fellow TriZPUGgers. I hope you're doing well and that >>> things aren't >>> too crazy for you as we approach the end of the year. >>> Does anyone have a preference for when our Nov / Dec meeting will >>> be held? >>> Would Dec 4th suit everyone's needs? >>> >> >> I thought you'd already announced Tuesday the 25th? >> >> http://trizpug.org/Members/mrevoir/nov-08-mtg >> >> I'm OK with Thursday Dec 4 as well. >> > > Sorry, I put that up a while ago as a place holder -- I can see > where that > would cause a lot of confusion. Since we're now meeting on the fourth > Thursday which would be Thanksgiving, I'd rather push it to Dec 4th if > everyone's okay with that day. > > Unless I hear otherwise, I'll update the announcement later this > week. Any > volunteers for a lightning talk? I've been doing some with web > services if > anyone would find that interesting. I'm not sure what a lightning talk is, but on Dec 4th I'll be available to talk about the IPC modules I support (posix_ipc and shm). Cheers Philip From cbc at unc.edu Mon Nov 10 17:08:46 2008 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:08:46 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> Message-ID: <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> On 11/10/2008 9:54 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > I'm not sure what a lightning talk is, but on Dec 4th I'll be available > to talk about the IPC modules I support (posix_ipc and shm). Please, yes. I'm all down with Dec 4th, then. A lightning talk is where someone spends five minutes sharing something they learned about Python in the last month. Normally at PyCon and other software conferences there will be a lightning talk sign-up sheet for each day so that the last hour of the day will have 12 lightning talk slots presented more or less extemporaneously. They don't generally require any preparation. Usually the best things about Python and other similar conferences are the lightning talks. We've been promoting lightning talks at TriZPUG meetings for awhile because they get more people involved in telling us about what they've been doing with Python. If there is no other program at a TriZPUG meeting, then the meeting could be all lightning talks. A meeting with ten lightning talks is a pretty interesting meeting. If there is a program at a TriZPUG meeting, there is still time for lightning talks because lightning talks are short. I think what you've done with IPC merits a bit more than a lightning talk. Your IPC modules qualify as a program presentation. Take as long as you'd like to talk about them. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From philip at semanchuk.com Tue Nov 11 16:31:58 2008 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:31:58 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> Message-ID: <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 11/10/2008 9:54 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> I'm not sure what a lightning talk is, but on Dec 4th I'll be >> available to talk about the IPC modules I support (posix_ipc and >> shm). > > Please, yes. I'm all down with Dec 4th, then. > > A lightning talk is where someone spends five minutes sharing > something they learned about Python in the last month. > > Normally at PyCon and other software conferences there will be a > lightning talk sign-up sheet for each day so that the last hour of > the day will have 12 lightning talk slots presented more or less > extemporaneously. They don't generally require any preparation. > Usually the best things about Python and other similar conferences > are the lightning talks. > > We've been promoting lightning talks at TriZPUG meetings for awhile > because they get more people involved in telling us about what > they've been doing with Python. If there is no other program at a > TriZPUG meeting, then the meeting could be all lightning talks. A > meeting with ten lightning talks is a pretty interesting meeting. If > there is a program at a TriZPUG meeting, there is still time for > lightning talks because lightning talks are short. > > I think what you've done with IPC merits a bit more than a lightning > talk. Your IPC modules qualify as a program presentation. Take as > long as you'd like to talk about them. OK, GREAT! I LOVE to talk! I'll spend the first hour talking about a history of computers, then a brief survey of modern programming languages (I should be able to keep this under two hours), and then a list of my favorite Monty Python sketches (four hours), and then... Seriously, would 30 minutes give or take 15 be an appropriate length for a presentation? Can I get the screen of my Macbook Pro projected onto a big screen, or...? Thanks Philip From jj at email.unc.edu Tue Nov 11 16:35:09 2008 From: jj at email.unc.edu (Josh Johnson) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:35:09 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> Message-ID: <4919A62D.6040400@email.unc.edu> yes, yes, YES! Dont' think, just show up and talk! ;) JJ Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > >> On 11/10/2008 9:54 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >>> I'm not sure what a lightning talk is, but on Dec 4th I'll be >>> available to talk about the IPC modules I support (posix_ipc and shm). >> >> Please, yes. I'm all down with Dec 4th, then. >> >> A lightning talk is where someone spends five minutes sharing >> something they learned about Python in the last month. >> >> Normally at PyCon and other software conferences there will be a >> lightning talk sign-up sheet for each day so that the last hour of >> the day will have 12 lightning talk slots presented more or less >> extemporaneously. They don't generally require any preparation. >> Usually the best things about Python and other similar conferences >> are the lightning talks. >> >> We've been promoting lightning talks at TriZPUG meetings for awhile >> because they get more people involved in telling us about what >> they've been doing with Python. If there is no other program at a >> TriZPUG meeting, then the meeting could be all lightning talks. A >> meeting with ten lightning talks is a pretty interesting meeting. If >> there is a program at a TriZPUG meeting, there is still time for >> lightning talks because lightning talks are short. >> >> I think what you've done with IPC merits a bit more than a lightning >> talk. Your IPC modules qualify as a program presentation. Take as >> long as you'd like to talk about them. > > OK, GREAT! I LOVE to talk! I'll spend the first hour talking about a > history of computers, then a brief survey of modern programming > languages (I should be able to keep this under two hours), and then a > list of my favorite Monty Python sketches (four hours), and then... > > Seriously, would 30 minutes give or take 15 be an appropriate length > for a presentation? Can I get the screen of my Macbook Pro projected > onto a big screen, or...? > > Thanks > Philip > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From cbc at unc.edu Tue Nov 11 20:23:11 2008 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:23:11 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <4919A62D.6040400@email.unc.edu> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> <4919A62D.6040400@email.unc.edu> Message-ID: <4919DB9F.1000200@unc.edu> > Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> OK, GREAT! I LOVE to talk! I'll spend the first hour talking about a >> history of computers, then a brief survey of modern programming >> languages (I should be able to keep this under two hours), and then a >> list of my favorite Monty Python sketches (four hours), and then... Did I mention we have a big gong for just such occasions? :) >> Seriously, would 30 minutes give or take 15 be an appropriate length >> for a presentation? Yeah, certainly. TriZPUG is a do-acracy. You are the presenter. So it's all about what you are going to do. Presentations have lasted anywhere from 10 minutes to the legendary Tom Bryan four hour presentation on Python IDEs: http://trizpug.org/Members/jimA/Sept_2004_mtg_notes/ http://www.zope.org/Members/tbryan/TriZPUG/FrontPage >> Can I get the screen of my Macbook Pro projected >> onto a big screen, or...? Yep. As long as you being your own DVI to VGA dongle. I have a plain old MacBook, so I only have the mini-DVI to VGA dongle. I think our host Mike has a MacBook Pro, so he may have the full size dongle. Yeah, there are three things we need for a meeting: a laptop projector, I'm glad JJ replied to your email. For some reason, it never showed up in my inbox, even though it shows up in the archives. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From philip at semanchuk.com Tue Nov 11 23:27:20 2008 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:27:20 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: <4919DB9F.1000200@unc.edu> References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> <4919A62D.6040400@email.unc.edu> <4919DB9F.1000200@unc.edu> Message-ID: On Nov 11, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: >> Philip Semanchuk wrote: >>> >>> Seriously, would 30 minutes give or take 15 be an appropriate >>> length for a presentation? > > Yeah, certainly. TriZPUG is a do-acracy. You are the presenter. So > it's all about what you are going to do. Presentations have lasted > anywhere from 10 minutes to the legendary Tom Bryan four hour > presentation on Python IDEs: OK, thanks. Sounds like expectations are loose, that's all I needed to know. >>> Can I get the screen of my Macbook Pro projected onto a big >>> screen, or...? > > Yep. As long as you being your own DVI to VGA dongle. I have a plain > old MacBook, so I only have the mini-DVI to VGA dongle. I think our > host Mike has a MacBook Pro, so he may have the full size dongle. I have a DVI to VGA dongle that came with my MBP. The VGA end is female. I hope that's appropriate? > Yeah, there are three things we need for a meeting: a laptop > projector, > There are three things we need: fear, surprise, a laptop projector, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope! From mrevoir at gmail.com Wed Nov 12 19:45:03 2008 From: mrevoir at gmail.com (Mike Revoir) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:45:03 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting In-Reply-To: References: <4914B95C.40305@unc.edu> <596B4E7E-07E5-4864-839C-36AA2D6E8110@semanchuk.com> <49185C8E.6040002@unc.edu> <0CDBC4E5-BA97-467D-BA19-20505741CCFF@semanchuk.com> <4919A62D.6040400@email.unc.edu> <4919DB9F.1000200@unc.edu> Message-ID: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > >> Can I get the screen of my Macbook Pro projected onto a big screen, or...? >>>> >>> >> Yep. As long as you being your own DVI to VGA dongle. I have a plain old >> MacBook, so I only have the mini-DVI to VGA dongle. I think our host Mike >> has a MacBook Pro, so he may have the full size dongle. >> > > I have a DVI to VGA dongle that came with my MBP. The VGA end is female. I > hope that's appropriate? > Yes, the adapter that came with your MBP should work. See you then, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu Thu Nov 20 18:08:40 2008 From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:08:40 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] UNC Plone Jam 001 is tomorrow Message-ID: <1227200920.6409.10.camel@phantasy-star> The first UNC Plone Jam is tomorrow (Fri 21) all day. Stephan has obtained a room and updated the listing on plonedev.unc.edu: http://plonedev.unc.edu/unc-plone-jams/unc-plone-jam-001 If you are interested in Plone LDAP authentication against the UNC Onyen, this gathering is for you. The jam lasts as long as the attendees wish to work. If you want to participate and can't be there early, let us know. Hope to see you there! From bradoaks at gmail.com Thu Nov 20 18:16:57 2008 From: bradoaks at gmail.com (Brad Oaks) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:16:57 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] "Selecting a JavaScript Framework" tonight, November 20 7:15pm at RedHat Headquarters Message-ID: Hello TriZPUG, I forgot to cross-post this to you earlier. But if you're available tonight and want to hear about selecting from among the many JavaScript frameworks, we'd be glad to have you stop by. Tonight's talk is not perl-specific. Details are below and at http://raleigh.pm.org/ Hope to see you out if the topic is useful to you, --bradoaks ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Oaks Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:17 PM Subject: Raleigh.pm meeting Thursday, November 20 7:15pm at RedHat Headquarters To: Raleigh Perl Mongers , Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Hello Perl Mongers and TriLUGgers, Raleigh.pm meeting Thursday, November 20 7:15pm at RedHat Headquarters * Note the new location * Jason Purdy will be presenting: Selecting a JavaScript Framework There are seven main AJAX frameworks with no clear ?ber-framework. There are several factors in choosing the right AJAX framework for your web application. In this session, we will discuss these factors and where each framework has its strengths and weaknesses, giving you the knowledge and comfort you need to make a clear decision for which framework to adopt for your projects. This talk is not Perl-specific and should be of interest to web programmers of many stripes. As always an RSVP email to me is appreciated but not required. mailtolink Jason Purdy is the IT Manager for Journalistic, Inc., a publishing company in Durham, NC. Jason oversees all technical aspects and operations, but loves the time best when focused on developing Web applications, something he has been involved with since 1994. Jason graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Mathematical Sciences degree (Computer Science track), written several technical articles for various publications (including Dr. Dobbs, Java Developers Journal, Visual J++ Journal) and has given similar technical presentations at conferences around the world (including OOP, Comdex, Java SIG, XML One and ApacheCon). Location: RedHat Headquarters ? 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27606 RedHat Headquarters is on the Centennial campus of NC State University. There is a parking deck next to the building where it is free to park after hours. http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html Thank you and hope to see you out, --bradoaks