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

[Francis Ridder]

Can you count me in as attending

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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