[socal-piggies] UCLA PyCamp

[Chris Calloway]

In June there will be a Python training called PyCamp at UCLA. I am the 
instructor for PyCamp. PyCamp is very much about expanding the Python 
community, particularly to academics who need some sort of handy dandy 
computational scripting environment.

Because PyCamp is very much about expanding the Python community, part 
of PyCamp is acculturating Pycamp participants to things like user 
groups. Pycamp was actually created by a Python user group in the first 
place and is being sponsored at UCLA in part by the LA Plone Users Group.

On Wednesday June 16 of PyCamp, there will be an after-class party 
(probably around 6pm) at a yet to be selected pub near the PyCamp 
classroom (Moore Hall 3027, Graduate School of Education, UCLA South 
Campus). There will be about 40 PyCampers there. I would like it very 
much if some (or many) SoCal Piggies would like to come to this party in 
order to recruit PyCampers to your meetings and thereby integrate new 
Python users into your local Python flavor. There will be free food and 
libation at this party to make it even more worth your while.

I'll be working with the UCLA organizers to pick a place to have this 
party and will let you know as soon as a place is agreed upon. (And if 
you have any suggestions, maybe send them to me offlist). We are looking 
for a place within walking distance of the classroom. So wherever we end 
up may not be the top tavern on your list. But if will be the right 
place for free food, booze, and excited new Pythonistas.

For your further information, the standard PyCamp blurb follows this 
paragraph. I look forward to seeing you in June.

For beginners, this ultra-low-cost Python Boot Camp makes you productive 
so you can get your work done quickly. PyCamp emphasizes the features 
which make Python a simpler and more efficient language. Following along 
with example Python PushUps™ speeds your learning process in a modern 
high-tech classroom. Become a self-sufficient Python developer in just 
five days at PyCamp! Conducted on the campus of UCLA, PyCamp comes with 
your own copy of Wing Professional Python IDE.

The UCLA Department of Psychology and the UCLA Graduate School of 
Education & Information Studies bring PyCamp to Los Angeles, June 14-18, 
2010.

Register today at http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/pycamp-la-2010/

A three-day condensed version of PyCamp is also offered as part of the 
Plone Symposium East 2010 at Pennsylvania State University, May 24-26, 2010:

http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/pycamp-psu-2010/

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599