[TriZPUG] Caktus Moving To Durham

[Chris Rossi]

Yeah!!!


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Josh Johnson
<lionface.lemonface at gmail.com>wrote:

> <gushing>
>
> This is all tremendous news! It'll be nice having the Caktus folks in
> Durham - I work on the ATC right now, so the idea easy access to more
> awesome people doing great things with Python makes me extremely happy
> :)
>
> Speaking of which, I noticed that AnsibleWorks has also moved into the
> neighborhood...
>
> Anyway, I've worked out of the RENCI offices before, they're extremely
> nice :) I miss those days, it's great to hear that you're not SOL due
> to government shenanigans, and RENCI getting serious about Python is
> big news - this sounds like a great opportunity for you and I'm sure
> it'll work out really well.
>
> </gushing>
>
> Cheers,
> JJ
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> > On 3/26/2014 8:58 AM, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, I have been waiting for a public announcement to clear my way to
> >> discussing this and I did get a greenlight to doing so yesterday, so
> >> this is as good a thread as any. Thanks for the good wishes, Chris! It
> >> has been pretty great to watch this growth from the inside, too. I have
> >> been with Caktus for /most/ of its existence and certainly got to see it
> >> grow at an amazing pace.
> >>
> >> As the article says, we won't be ready to move until the end of the
> >> year. We have plenty of time to enjoy our existing Carrboro location,
> >> the fantastic atmosphere and lunch options of the Carrboro summer, and
> >> ongoing project nights and quarterly TriPython hosting.
> >>
> >> However... I'd like to start the search now for a replacement
> >> Carrboro/Chapel Hill location to host every third month in our place,
> >> after we finally move to Durham. I don't want to create a vacuum, so
> >> please if anyone knows a possible new location that could pick up in
> >> 2015, speak up.
> >
> >
> > Well, I have had a very recent serendipitous development just in the last
> > couple of days. I thought Monday was going to be my last day at UNC.
> After
> > ten years of good luck with soft funding, the government's create jobs by
> > eliminating jobs program called the sequester had finally caught up to me
> > and robbed me of all my funding from all sources all at once. And my
> > brightest job prospect was in Nags Head. I was kind of planning on
> moving to
> > the beach in a few months, which has been my lifelong dream.
> >
> > But as of Monday I will instead be a Marine Sciences employee on loan to
> > RENCI, UNC's supercomputing center (http://www.renci.org/). They are
> > starting to get more serious about Python, finally. They've been doing
> bits
> > and pieces with it here and there. But now they've seen the bright
> shining
> > light and want a lot more. They called up my boss and bada-bing, I
> suddenly
> > had to cancel my plans on how to spend my severance pay sprinting in
> Italy
> > (http://abstract-technology.com/plog-event-plone-italy).
> >
> > The thing about RENCI is, really nice meeting rooms. And a desire to be
> seen
> > doing community outreach.
> >
> > However, I have to keep a watch on this. There is still a possibility
> that I
> > may become a Marine Sciences employee on loan to RENCI in Nags Head
> because
> > of a possibly advantageous three-way funding model with the Coastal
> Studies
> > Institute which would require my work on CSI premises at the coast. I
> just
> > won't know for sure until a few more months go by. There are too many
> moving
> > pieces in play at the moment to predict. But for right now if nothing
> > changes, I think we could start meeting at RENCI soon. My involvement
> with
> > this group is one of the reasons I'm being hired, so I plan to bring it
> up
> > at my first meeting with them on Monday.
> >
> > I'm also really looking forward to project night in Durham. :)
> >
> > --
> > 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
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