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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Steve Wedig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevewedig@gmail.com">stevewedig@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">And Shawn Grant.
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<div>Thanks!<br><br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com" target="_blank">grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Paul Hildebrandt is graciously hosting our next meeting, on Thu. May<br>26th at 7 PM at the headquarters of Disney Animation Studios in<br>
Burbank. Not only that, but the meeting will feature one of the best<br>speakers in the Python world, Raymod Hettinger! And pizza!<br><br>Note that space is limited to 50 people, so please reply as soon as<br>you can if you want to reserve a spot.<br>
<br>We'll have 2 other speakers from Disney too. I don't have the exact<br>details of the presentations yet, but I'll post them as soon as I find<br>them out.<br><br>I'll ask Paul to post details about how to get there and where to park.<br>
<br>Here is a bio of Raymond Hettinger:<br><br>=====================<br>Raymond Hettinger is a core developer for the Python language and<br>serves as a board member for the Python Software Foundation. He is<br>responsible for introducing generator expressions, creating the<br>
itertools module, optimizing the implementation, and designing several<br>builtin functions including any(), all(), set(), frozenset(),<br>sorted(), reversed() and enumerate(). He is active in the developer<br>newsgroup and maintains several third-party Python tools including a<br>
matrix/eigenvalue package and a generic puzzle solving framework. He<br>is the author of 40+ recipes in the ASPN Python cookbook and recently<br>published The Python Programming Language along side Guido Van Rossum<br>and others. He has also been featured as the keynote speaker at<br>
Italian PyCon 2008, EuroPython 2011.<br><br>He is currently the Director of Technology and Controller at Sauce Labs Inc<br>=====================<br><br>Many thanks to Paul for putting this together, it should be a great<br>
time for all who will be there!<br><br>Grig<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>socal-piggies mailing list<br><a href="mailto:socal-piggies@lists.idyll.org" target="_blank">socal-piggies@lists.idyll.org</a><br>
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