[socal-piggies] socal-piggies Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2

Mon Jul 11 11:45:03 PDT 2011

I plan to attend

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Proposed next meeting: Thu July 21st @ Evite (Patrick Terry)
   2. Meeting Improvement Survey (Warren Runk)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:17:11 -0700
From: Patrick Terry <dpatrickterry at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Proposed next meeting: Thu July 21st @
Evite
To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
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I would like to attend.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Carl Groner <c.groner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> > Christopher Mahan
> > 818.671.1709
> > chris.mahan at gmail.com
> > http://christophermahan.com
> >
> > 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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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:50:48 -0700
From: Warren Runk <warren.runk at gmail.com>
Subject: [socal-piggies] Meeting Improvement Survey
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Happy Friday Everyone,
Grig and I were discussing ideas for future meetings, and we thought an
anonymus survey might help motivate people to share their thoughts.

Please let us know if anything isn't clear. For the first section, please
choose 5 or less items :)

Thanks for your time.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFteno1dFo2VjMzRUxRRXJyUGE1UlE6MQ
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