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

[Priyesh Jain]

Please count me on as well

Thanks
On Jul 6, 2011 3:24 PM, "Francis Ridder" <francis.ridder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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