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

[Daniel Greenfeld]

This sounds really great! Can't wait to see everyone there. I might
begging to ask the question of "Teach me how to use X".

Danny

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Arthur Bahr <sumofreakk11 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm down to attend the meeting on the 21st. I'm new to python and think I can learn a lot from it. I like the idea of presenting script on projector n getting advice as well as working in small groups although the whole list looks entertaining.
>
> Arthur G Bahr
> Skype : Killuminati11
>
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>
> Jathan McCollum <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Aww I will be at San Diego Comic Con for this month's meeting, bummer.
>> Great comments, Grig. See you all in August!
>>
>>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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>>
>>
>>
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>>Jathan.
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