Subscribe in a readerAnnouncing PyOhio - A Rockin’ Mini-Conference
The official jazz:
PyOhio, the first annual Python programming mini-conference for Ohio and surrounding areas, will take place Saturday, July 26, in Columbus, OH.
The conference is free of charge. It will include scheduled talks, Lightning Talks, and unconference-style Open Spaces.
To get more information or to volunteer, see http://pyohio.org.
Cleveland Bidding For PyCon 2010
Back when PyCon was taking bids for 2008-2009 I tried to get Cleveland a bid. I was only able to call/visit a half dozen places or so. It was only me at the time so I eventually gave up as I saw how much the other bidders were able to accomplish in the same time. All I have to show for it is a bunch of hotel brochures.
I think this attempt can be different. I am going to get this thing rolling again, but I really do need some help! If you are interested in helping please let me know. We need a strong team of at least 5 people to pull this off.
I have created a bid page over at the Python wiki. If your interested in helping out email me at [dstanek AT dstanek DOT com] and add your name to the staff section of the wiki page. Also please read about the bid requirements.
If you are not able to participate in creating a bid there are other ways to help out. Do you know of a good location? Do you know of any cool extracurricular activities? Let us know and we’ll follow up on the leads.
Lets bring PyCon home in 2010!
Google Tech Talk @ Clepy
The August 6th Clepy meeting will be a good one. We have Brian Fitzpatrick, the Engineering Manager of Google’s Chicago office, presenting. The meeting as at AG between 18:30 and 20:30.
Please let us know if you plan an attending. Posting a comment here would be fine. We just need to be sure that there will be enough food. There will be swag in limited quantities.
Possible presentation topics:
- “How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)”
- “Subversion for Perforce Users: Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan”
- “The Google OSPO, Google Code, and Packrat”
- “Apache Lightning Talks”
- “Version Control with Subversion and Tools Best Practices”
- “cvs2svn: Making Apples from Applesauce”
- “Apache: When the Code Isn’t Enough”
Hope to see you there!
Clepy Finally Sprints
We finally did it! This past Saturday we actually sprinted. Our goal is to build an open source equivalent of Meetup.com — affectionately known as Shindig. This software is a replacement for the overly complicated Plone instance I have running clepy.org.
Even though we didn’t a whole lot of progress we learned some useful lessons. We had some minor technical difficulties like not everyone having a working wireless connection. Those issues are easy to overcome. The lessons I took to heart were more about timeliness and preparation. I was guilty of being an hour late and many people didn’t have the necessary stuff installed. No big deal, we’ll get better.
All in all I had fun. Drinking beer and writing code with my peers. The miscellaneous conversations about technology didn’t hurt.
We’ll talk more about the sprint at the next meeting, but I think we’ll keep having them. It seems that the best time will be the first or second Saturday after each meeting. Also it seems that starting a little later may be a good idea.
IronPython At Clepy
Tonight Drew Robbins gave a excellent talk on IronPython to The Cleveland Area Python Interest Group (Clepy). As always Mike Pirnat’s meeting notes are comprehensive, but I wanted to share my take on the meeting.
The talk itself was based off of a talk he gives to .NET developers. That being said he did a fantastic job of adapting to an opinionated Python crowd. I enjoyed the way the group was able to participate in the demo. Someone would ask a “what happens if/when” question and he just tried it out. I thought this interactive style was very effective.
I am very motivated right now to really dive into IronPython and am downloading the source now so that I can begin playing. I’ll post follow ups if I do anything of interest.
Clepy February Meeting Recap
We had roughly 13 members brave the freezing cold Ohio weather for 2 talks. Mike Pirnat gave a test run of his upcoming PyCon talk on DateUtil. This module is really sweet when you have to deal with dates and recurrence rules. Mike Nugent gave a talk about regular expressions. The focus was about using them in Python, but he had some backgound information that got me thinking. I’ll post links if/when i get them.
The official meeting notes are here.
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