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

[Carl Groner]

I'd also like to attend if there is still space.

Thanks,
Carl.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Christopher Mahan <chris.mahan at gmail.com> wrote:
> me too!
>
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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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