From brian at python.org Mon Feb 3 17:01:00 2014 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:01:00 -0000 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2014 Call for Proposals, New Website Message-ID: Hi TrizPUG! PyCon 2014, taking place April 9-17 in Montreal, has just passed 1600 tickets sold, and we're seeing sales ramp up very quickly. Late last week we were announcing the 1500 mark, and with a cap of 2000 tickets, we expect these last four hundred to move quickly. Head to https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/ to buy yours today! This year's talk schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/talks/, along with a keynote series including EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow; IPython creator, Fernando Perez; PSF director, Jessica McKellar; PSF chairman, Van Lindberg; and Python's creator, Guido van Rossum. The tutorial schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/tutorials/, and spaces are limited! You'd be hard pressed to find a better value than our tutorials. We've long thought PyCon to be family friendly, and last year's aYoung Codera tutorials were a hugely successful step towards showing it. The tutorials are back again this year, with registration opening shortly for children 12 and over: https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/letslearnpython/. For kids under 12, we're pleased to be offering childcare! See https://us.pycon.org/2014/childcare/ for details. The 5K Charity Fun Run is on its third year, with proceeds benefiting the EFF. It's a fun time and supports a good cause. For the 5K and many other events, check out the Events section on https://us.pycon.org/2014/ Make sure your passport is in order, as you need one to cross the border. More details available here: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2014/01/pycon-attendees-from-us-you-need.html For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pycon, and on our blog at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you in Montreal! Diana Clarke, Chair diana.joan.clarke at gmail.com Brian Curtin, Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org From brian at python.org Mon Feb 3 17:05:45 2014 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:05:45 -0000 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2014 - 400 tickets remain! Message-ID: Hi TrizPUG! [I apologize for a second email - this got sent with an old and out-of-date subject line.] PyCon 2014, taking place April 9-17 in Montreal, has just passed 1600 tickets sold, and we're seeing sales ramp up very quickly. Late last week we were announcing the 1500 mark, and with a cap of 2000 tickets, we expect these last four hundred to move quickly. Head to https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/ to buy yours today! This year's talk schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/talks/, along with a keynote series including EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow; IPython creator, Fernando Perez; PSF director, Jessica McKellar; PSF chairman, Van Lindberg; and Python's creator, Guido van Rossum. The tutorial schedule is available at https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/tutorials/, and spaces are limited! You'd be hard pressed to find a better value than our tutorials. We've long thought PyCon to be family friendly, and last year's aYoung Codera tutorials were a hugely successful step towards showing it. The tutorials are back again this year, with registration opening shortly for children 12 and over: https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/letslearnpython/. For kids under 12, we're pleased to be offering childcare! See https://us.pycon.org/2014/childcare/ for details. The 5K Charity Fun Run is on its third year, with proceeds benefiting the EFF. It's a fun time and supports a good cause. For the 5K and many other events, check out the Events section on https://us.pycon.org/2014/ Make sure your passport is in order, as you need one to cross the border. More details available here: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2014/01/pycon-attendees-from-us-you-need.html For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pycon, and on our blog at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ Hope to see you in Montreal! Diana Clarke, Chair diana.joan.clarke at gmail.com Brian Curtin, Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org From cbc at unc.edu Wed Feb 5 21:26:19 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:26:19 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Two Scoops of Django 1.6 Message-ID: <52F29E6B.30706@unc.edu> If the best documented project's documentation isn't enough for you, then the most detailed and up to date book about that project came out today: http://twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-1-6 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From dragonstrider at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 19:30:12 2014 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:30:12 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG-announce] REMINDER: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible In-Reply-To: <52FA39C7.3090609@ncsu.edu> References: <52FA39C7.3090609@ncsu.edu> Message-ID: For those interested in the Ansible talk I'm (hopefully) giving Thursday. The weather conditions don't look like they'll be very good, so keep an eye on your email for updated dates/venues. Joseph ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Peddycord III Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:55 AM Subject: [TriLUG-announce] REMINDER: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible To: TriLUG Announce Topic: Ansible Presenter: Joseph Tate When: Thursday, 13th February 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm) Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1021, Centennial Campus Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm Link: http://trilug.org/2014-02-13/ansible Ansible is a powerful remote system management tool like Puppet or Chef for configuration management and like Fabric and Capistrano for application deployment. Ansible can also do system provisioning through modules for various cloud providers. As a hybrid, Ansible is a little more step-wise than a pure configuration management system (which makes it better for deploying software and dealing with multiple system tiers) and more declarative than your typical remote automation framework (which makes it easier to manage dissimilar systems, even systems not originally deployed with Ansible). It has very minimal client requirements and no deployed client agent. Joseph will introduce Ansible for single tasks and highlight some of the built in modules and what you can do with them. Then he will jump into best practices for stringing multiple tasks together into Ansible Playbooks (especially how not to repeat yourself). Finally, he'll tie it all together with Amazon EC2 to show how to fire up spot instances using a base image, configure it with a set of software and configuration, do some work with it, and finally tear it all down. -- This message was sent to: dragonstrider at gmail.com To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-announce-leave at trilug.orgfrom that address. TriLUG-announce mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug-announce Unsubscribe or edit options on the web : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug-announce/dragonstrider%40gmail.com TriLUG is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: http://trilug.org/anti-harassment -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jstrick at mindspring.com Wed Feb 12 00:18:00 2014 From: jstrick at mindspring.com (John Strickler) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:18:00 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG-announce] REMINDER: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible In-Reply-To: References: <52FA39C7.3090609@ncsu.edu> Message-ID: Hello Joseph -- It was nice to meet you in Cary at the recent meeting. I'm the guy who does Python training and lives in Durham. I was really hoping to attend your Ansible presentation, but I have a conflict and won't be able to make it after all. --John Strickler On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Joseph S. Tate wrote: > For those interested in the Ansible talk I'm (hopefully) giving Thursday. > The weather conditions don't look like they'll be very good, so keep an eye > on your email for updated dates/venues. > > Joseph > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Barry Peddycord III > Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:55 AM > Subject: [TriLUG-announce] REMINDER: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible > To: TriLUG Announce > > > Topic: Ansible > Presenter: Joseph Tate > When: Thursday, 13th February 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm) > Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1021, Centennial Campus > Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free > after 5pm > Link: http://trilug.org/2014-02-13/ansible > > Ansible is a powerful remote system management tool like Puppet or Chef > for configuration management and like Fabric and Capistrano for > application deployment. Ansible can also do system provisioning through > modules for various cloud providers. As a hybrid, Ansible is a little > more step-wise than a pure configuration management system (which makes > it better for deploying software and dealing with multiple system tiers) > and more declarative than your typical remote automation framework > (which makes it easier to manage dissimilar systems, even systems not > originally deployed with Ansible). It has very minimal client > requirements and no deployed client agent. Joseph will introduce Ansible > for single tasks and highlight some of the built in modules and what you > can do with them. Then he will jump into best practices for stringing > multiple tasks together into Ansible Playbooks (especially how not to > repeat yourself). Finally, he'll tie it all together with Amazon EC2 to > show how to fire up spot instances using a base image, configure it with > a set of software and configuration, do some work with it, and finally > tear it all down. > > -- > This message was sent to: dragonstrider at gmail.com > > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-announce-leave at trilug.orgfrom that address. > TriLUG-announce mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug-announce > Unsubscribe or edit options on the web : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug-announce/dragonstrider%40gmail.com > TriLUG is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our > anti-harassment policy can be found at: http://trilug.org/anti-harassment > > > > -- > Joseph Tate > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ironfroggy at gmail.com Wed Feb 12 18:43:30 2014 From: ironfroggy at gmail.com (Calvin Spealman) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:43:30 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Project Night Cancelled Message-ID: NOTICE: Project Night is Cancelled due to weather reports. I don't know what the roads are actually going to be like, but needed to make any change early enough that everyone can get the notice. Stay safe if the ice is as bad as being called for, everyone! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dragonstrider at gmail.com Thu Feb 13 18:42:23 2014 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:42:23 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG] POSTPONED: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Meeting tonight is postponed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Farrow Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM Subject: [TriLUG] POSTPONED: Feb 13th Meeting: Ansible To: TriLUG General List , TriLUG Announce < trilug-announce at trilug.org> The Steering Committee has decided to postpone tonight's TriLUG meeting due to the weather. I have been informed that NCSU has canceled classes for today, making access to the room tonight highly unlikely. We are tentatively planning to hold the meeting next Thursday 20th Feb pending a room booking. http://trilug.org/2014-02-13/ansible Keep warm, Bill -- This message was sent to: Joseph Tate To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that address. TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug Unsubscribe or edit options on the web : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/dragonstrider%40gmail.com Welcome to TriLUG: http://trilug.org/welcome -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dragonstrider at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 16:56:12 2014 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:56:12 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Apparently PyTennessee is this weekend Message-ID: http://www.pytennessee.org/ Anyone going? I wish I'd known about it sooner. Looks like a pretty stand-out event. -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dragonstrider at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 16:57:13 2014 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:57:13 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Apparently PyTennessee is this weekend In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Heh. Looks like Chris sent out something about this way back in September. /sheepish Joseph On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Joseph S. Tate wrote: > http://www.pytennessee.org/ > > Anyone going? I wish I'd known about it sooner. Looks like a pretty > stand-out event. > > -- > Joseph Tate > -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katespeed at gmail.com Mon Feb 17 17:21:46 2014 From: katespeed at gmail.com (Kate Speed) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:21:46 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Apparently PyTennessee is this weekend In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm going! Pretty excited. Kate On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Joseph S. Tate wrote: > Heh. Looks like Chris sent out something about this way back in September. > > /sheepish > > Joseph > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Joseph S. Tate > wrote: >> >> http://www.pytennessee.org/ >> >> Anyone going? I wish I'd known about it sooner. Looks like a pretty >> stand-out event. >> >> -- >> Joseph Tate > > > > > -- > Joseph Tate > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From Tom_Roche at pobox.com Thu Feb 20 23:57:12 2014 From: Tom_Roche at pobox.com (Tom Roche) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:57:12 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] best joke yet about the birth of Python? Message-ID: <8761o9mlyv.fsf@pobox.com> http://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/james-irys-history-of-programming-languages-illustrated-with-pictures-and-large-fonts/ > 1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina > for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, > invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, > and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." > Poland becomes nervous. From dragonstrider at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 20:50:59 2014 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:50:59 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder meeting tonight Message-ID: I haven't seen an announcement, but since we're a do-ocracy, I thought I'd send a quick reminder. *Introduction to Scikit-learn*, Thursday, February 27, 7:00pm at WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh . Tim Hopper , data prediction analyst for startup parse.ly, will reprise his iPython Notebook presentation about the machine learning API for Python: scikit-learn. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Plenty of free after hours parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number listed here. An after-meeting location for food and beverage will be decided at the meeting (usually BaDa Wings for the Thursday night draught specials). -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri Feb 28 21:00:11 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:00:11 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriPython March 2014 Meeting: Brython Message-ID: <5310EACB.8010602@unc.edu> What: TriPython monthly meeting When: Thursday, March 27, 7pm Where: Bull City Coworking, 112 S. Duke St., Suite 6, Durham Francois Dion, founder of the Piedmont Triad Python Users Group, will present Brython, the Python interpreter for HTML5 browsers. Lightning talks, 5 to 10 minutes extemporaneous expositions on a topic of interest to you, something you recently learned, kind of like a show and tell, are always welcome as well. Please see the parking instructions on the BCC website. A wide variety of possibilities for the after-meeting are within steps of BCC. http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/mar-14-mtg http://bullcitycoworking.com/location/ -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Fri Feb 28 21:06:22 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:06:22 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Raleigh Project Night for March 2014 Message-ID: <5310EC3E.9010909@unc.edu> What: Raleigh Project Night When: Tuesday, March 4, 6pm Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh Raleigh Project Night meets on first Tuesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of free after hours parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number posted on the door. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599