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

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Sure, I think that's a great idea. Reminds me of the 'Teach me XYZ'
sessions that Steve Holden holds at PyCon, where he's in front of the
audience and the audience teaches him about Twisted, or Web Testing,
or other tools/projects/topics.

What is you code/project about?

Grig

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:45 AM, John Schofield <jms at schof.org> wrote:
> Given the proclivity people seem to have for commenting on others'
> code -- I'm wondering if a "Pimp my Code" section would be a good use
> of all that energy -- the presenter would bring in a program or module
> (or snippet) and show it on the projector, and then people could make
> suggestions to improve it.
>
> I'd be willing to be a guinea pig on this. Thoughts?
>
> Schof
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> 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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