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

[Christopher Mahan]

me too!

Christopher Mahan
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On Jul 7, 2011 9:44 AM, "John Matthew" <john at compunique.com> wrote:
> 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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