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

[John Matthew]

me too.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Priyesh Jain <jain.priyesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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