[socal-piggies] Next meeting: Thu. April 28th at Evite

Fri Apr 22 15:40:14 PDT 2011

Looking forward to it.

Hopefully there won't be any overlap between Danny's talk and mine :)

- Steve

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>wrote:

> The site is back, with an updated agenda for the next meeting:
>
> http://socal-piggies.org/scp/FrontPage
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://status.aws.amazon.com/
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On another note, http://socal-piggies.org/ is down.
> >>
> >> Danny
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Really? Well, then I guess we'll make it.
> >>>
> >>> :D
> >>>
> >>> Danny Greenfeld
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> >>> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> It's not tonight, it's on April 28.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Hey Grig,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Barack Obama is landing this afternoon and speaking around the same
> >>>>> general area as tonight's meeting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/obamas-la-visit-westside-residents-urged-to-stay-home-to-avoid-traffic-gridlock.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The secret service won't announce exact road closures and a lot of
> >>>>> possible detours will be closed as well. Also, it is not clear as to
> >>>>> when they will open roads back up. So we won't know when we'll be
> able
> >>>>> to make it and we won't know when we'll be able to get back home.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So unfortunately this means that myself and Audrey Roy won't be able
> >>>>> to make tonight's lightning talks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Danny Greenfeld
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> >>>>> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Audrey -- sure, I'll put your lightning talk on the agenda.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Grig
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Audrey Roy <
> audreyr at cartwheelweb.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> I would like to attend.  I know it's late to ask, but I'm working
> with
> >>>>>>> several women from LA Django to put together a series of local
> women's
> >>>>>>> Python advocacy events and would be very interested in giving a
> lightning
> >>>>>>> talk about it if there's time.
> >>>>>>> Audrey
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Adam Featherstone <
> adamfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>  I would like to attend, but I might not be able to make it until
> 8 or
> >>>>>>>> 8:30 pm.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <
> grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> 7 PM to 9:30 PM.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Adam Featherstone <
> adamfe at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> > What time would the meeting be?
> >>>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>>> > Regards,
> >>>>>>>>> > Adam
> >>>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>>> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Greenfeld <
> pydanny at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> I would love to attend and present a lightning talk on some
> Worst
> >>>>>>>>> >> Practices.
> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> Danny
> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Christopher Mahan
> >>>>>>>>> >> <chris.mahan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> >> > me too!
> >>>>>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>>>>> >> > (subtle AOL reference)
> >>>>>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>>>>> >> > Christopher Mahan
> >>>>>>>>> >> > 818.671.1709
> >>>>>>>>> >> > chris.mahan at gmail.com
> >>>>>>>>> >> > http://christophermahan.com
> >>>>>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>>>>> >> > On Apr 14, 2011 10:04 AM, "Jathan McCollum" <
> jathan at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>>> >> > wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> I plan to attend, for real this time. Seriously!!
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> Hello everybody,
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> The Evite devops team is hosting our next meeting on Thu.
> April
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> 28th.
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> If anybody wants to present, please let me know. We
> already have 1
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> presenter lined up, Steve Wedig from Lingospot. Here is
> his talk:
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> =================
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> Steve Wedig: "Python Tricks Used at Lingospot"
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> Lingospot is a startup (founded in 2007), that licenses
> technology
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> to
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> online publishers such as USAToday, Forbes, Bloomberg,
> etc. Over
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> the
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> years, we've built up a decent sized Python codebase.
> Within that
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> codebase, a few tricks stand out due to their simplicity
> (anyone
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> could
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> pick them up today), and their prevalence (they're used in
> almost
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> every Python module). In this talk, we'll be presenting a
> few of
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> these
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> tricks & practices, along with their motivation.
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> =================
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> An idea we've had floating around for a while is to also
> do a
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> series
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> of lightning talks, let's say at 10 minutes each, where
> you would
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> present a given Python tool/technique/trick/etc. If
> anybody wants
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> to
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> present something along these lines at the meeting, please
> let me
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> know.
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> Also please let me know if you are thinking of attending.
> We need
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> a
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> list to leave with the security guard downstairs. I'll
> send more
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> detailed venue and parking instructions soon.
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>> Grig
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>
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> >>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> --
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> Jathan.
> >>>>>>>>> >> >> --
> >>>>>>>>> >> >
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> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>> >> --
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> >>>>>>>>> >> Daniel Greenfeld
> >>>>>>>>> >> http://pydanny.com
> >>>>>>>>> >> http://cartwheelweb.com
> >>>>>>>>> >>
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> >>>>> --
> >>>>> 'Knowledge is Power'
> >>>>> Daniel Greenfeld
> >>>>> http://pydanny.com
> >>>>> http://cartwheelweb.com
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> >>> http://cartwheelweb.com
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> http://cartwheelweb.com
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