[TriZPUG] Thursday's Meeting Canceled

[Chris Calloway]

I spoke with Francois Dion, our scheduled speaker for this week, who was 
to travel from Winston-Salem to our meeting this week. There is a 90 
percent chance of two inches of snow in Raleigh on Wednesday night. On 
Thursday the high temperature will be 37 and then temperatures will 
plunge below freezing again. This means ice on the roads Thursday night. 
Raleigh is expected to have over 5 inches of accumulated snow for the 
week by Thursday evening. And area secondary schools are expected to be 
closed all week.

In light of the expected conditions, it is not reasonable for us to ask 
Francois to travel to speak with us this week. And it is not reasonable 
to ask you to be on the road either, or to keep you waiting until the 
last minute to inform you of whether or not the meeting is taking place. 
So I'm preemptively declaring the monthly meeting canceled, something I 
don't think has ever been done in TriPython history. I apologize for 
your disappointment and inconvenience, especially to our host Steve Gambino.

On the bright side,  Francois has agreed to deliver his talk on Python 3 
to us at our April 23 meeting.

Also on the bright side, Andrea Villanes will speak to us about her 
experiences organizing and delivering Peru Teen PyCamp at our March 26 
meeting. This will be a warm-up for Andrea's talk to the Python 
Education Summit at PyCon.

I hope to see you at project night at WebAssign next Tuesday.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
(919) 599-3530