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

[John Schofield]

Not 100% sure I can make the Evite meeting, but I'll do it for sure at
the next Westside meeting (and about 75% likely at Evite).

Not sure which project I should pick, if that's what you're asking.
Probably a Mac/Windows/Linux software update engine, but...picking
something that's a manageable size will be critical. Don't want to
spend an hour giving people a tour through the code before people get
to jump in.

Any suggestions / guidelines from anyone? Anyone done this sort of
thing before? Do an entire program (so that we can make changes and
watch them run) or just focus on a particular function or small set of
functions (to keep it easy-to-digest)?


Schof


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John Mark Schofield
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jms at schof.org
(310) 751-0022




On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> John Mark Schofield
>> http://schof.org
>> jms at schof.org
>> (310) 751-0022
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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