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

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Here are the 2 speakers from Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS):

Paul Hildebrandt - "Where we use Python at WDAS"
Todd Scopio - "How we use Python at WDAS"

Grig

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....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
>>>
>>
>