[socal-piggies] Next meeting: Thu. May 26th 7 PM @ Disney Animation, Burbank

[Grig Gheorghiu]

....and we finally have a topic from Raymond Hettinger! Here's what he
told Paul:

"I would like to give a medley of talks starting with "Fun with the
Newer Tools in Python"
(http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/presentations/261/) and follow it
by brand new material on using super() and on the descriptor
protocol."

Can't wait!

Grig

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> If you signed up for the meeting, then consider yourself on the list,
> even if you were told initially that you were on a waiting list.
>
> Here is a custom Google map made by Paul, showing details about
> parking, which is in the structure under the ABC building and is free:
>
> http://goo.gl/maps/RmiJ
>
> We still don't have a topic from Raymond Hettinger, Paul is trying to
> get that info, but rest assured it will be a very interesting talk,
> knowing Raymond ;-)
>
> See everybody who signed up on Thursday at 7 PM!
>
> Grig
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paul Hildebrandt is graciously hosting our next meeting, on Thu. May
>> 26th at 7 PM at the headquarters of Disney Animation Studios in
>> Burbank. Not only that, but the meeting will feature one of the best
>> speakers in the Python world, Raymod Hettinger! And pizza!
>>
>> Note that space is limited to 50 people, so please reply as soon as
>> you can if you want to reserve a spot.
>>
>> We'll have 2 other speakers from Disney too. I don't have the exact
>> details of the presentations yet, but I'll post them as soon as I find
>> them out.
>>
>> I'll ask Paul to post details about how to get there and where to park.
>>
>> Here is a bio of Raymond Hettinger:
>>
>> =====================
>> Raymond Hettinger is a core developer for the Python language and
>> serves as a board member for the Python Software Foundation. He is
>> responsible for introducing generator expressions, creating the
>> itertools module, optimizing the implementation, and designing several
>> builtin functions including any(), all(), set(), frozenset(),
>> sorted(), reversed() and enumerate(). He is active in the developer
>> newsgroup and maintains several third-party Python tools including a
>> matrix/eigenvalue package and a generic puzzle solving framework. He
>> is the author of 40+ recipes in the ASPN Python cookbook and recently
>> published The Python Programming Language along side Guido Van Rossum
>> and others. He has also been featured as the keynote speaker at
>> Italian PyCon 2008, EuroPython 2011.
>>
>> He is currently the Director of Technology and Controller at Sauce Labs Inc
>> =====================
>>
>> Many thanks to Paul for putting this together, it should be a great
>> time for all who will be there!
>>
>> Grig
>>
>