[socal-piggies] Proposed next meeting: Thu July 21st @ Evite

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Our meeting is 2 weeks away, so we need some volunteers for one or
more of the topics below. Please contribute!

Grig

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> It's time to plan our next meeting. We can host it at Evite and we
> propose the date of Thu. July 21st at 7 PM.
>
> While we're always looking for presenters (so please volunteer!), my
> colleague Warren Runk came up with a really good list of activities we
> could do in the meeting:
>
> - ice breakers (not lame ones)
> - moderated discussions with small group break out sessions (maybe
> present ideas to the list before hand to vote on)
> - algorithm discussions/introductions
> - maybe some light programming exercises (laptops or whiteboard)
> - allocated time dedicated to beginners (they can ask questions, we
> can provide useful experiences and things to avoid)
>
> If you would like to vote on one of these topics, we could go ahead
> and do it at our next meeting.
>
> I would also like to stress a couple of things based on feedback from
> various Piggies:
>
> 1) Our meeting is *very* open to beginners and we do not aim for a
> super-high technical threshold; we encourage beginners to attend, ask
> questions and propose topics of interest to them. Danny Greenfeld had
> a really good idea related to this, in that more advanced users can do
> a real service to the community by presenting on their patterns of
> usage of basic Python modules such as sets, or exception handling,
> etc. So...please propose some of these topics!
>
> 2) While we try to have lots of fun during the meetings, I would like
> to ask everybody to try to keep the comments (and sometimes heckling)
> addressed to presenters to a polite minimum. We can (and indeed do)
> have lively discussions on the respective topic *after* the presenter
> has finished.
>
> Other comments and suggestions regarding the structure of our meeting
> are very welcome!
>
> If you do plan on going to the July 21st meeting, please let me know.
>
> Grig
>