me too.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Priyesh Jain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jain.priyesh@gmail.com">jain.priyesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>Please count me on as well</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 6, 2011 3:24 PM, "Francis Ridder" <<a href="mailto:francis.ridder@gmail.com" target="_blank">francis.ridder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Can you count me in as attending<br>
> <br>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <<a href="mailto:grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com" target="_blank">grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Our meeting is 2 weeks away, so we need some volunteers for one or<br>
>> more of the topics below. Please contribute!<br>>><br>>> Grig<br>>><br>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Grig Gheorghiu<br>>> <<a href="mailto:grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com" target="_blank">grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Hello everybody,<br>>>><br>>>> It's time to plan our next meeting. We can host it at Evite and we<br>>>> propose the date of Thu. July 21st at 7 PM.<br>>>><br>>>> While we're always looking for presenters (so please volunteer!), my<br>
>>> colleague Warren Runk came up with a really good list of activities we<br>>>> could do in the meeting:<br>>>><br>>>> - ice breakers (not lame ones)<br>>>> - moderated discussions with small group break out sessions (maybe<br>
>>> present ideas to the list before hand to vote on)<br>>>> - algorithm discussions/introductions<br>>>> - maybe some light programming exercises (laptops or whiteboard)<br>>>> - allocated time dedicated to beginners (they can ask questions, we<br>
>>> can provide useful experiences and things to avoid)<br>>>><br>>>> If you would like to vote on one of these topics, we could go ahead<br>>>> and do it at our next meeting.<br>>>><br>
>>> I would also like to stress a couple of things based on feedback from<br>>>> various Piggies:<br>>>><br>>>> 1) Our meeting is *very* open to beginners and we do not aim for a<br>>>> super-high technical threshold; we encourage beginners to attend, ask<br>
>>> questions and propose topics of interest to them. Danny Greenfeld had<br>>>> a really good idea related to this, in that more advanced users can do<br>>>> a real service to the community by presenting on their patterns of<br>
>>> usage of basic Python modules such as sets, or exception handling,<br>>>> etc. So...please propose some of these topics!<br>>>><br>>>> 2) While we try to have lots of fun during the meetings, I would like<br>
>>> to ask everybody to try to keep the comments (and sometimes heckling)<br>>>> addressed to presenters to a polite minimum. We can (and indeed do)<br>>>> have lively discussions on the respective topic *after* the presenter<br>
>>> has finished.<br>>>><br>>>> Other comments and suggestions regarding the structure of our meeting<br>>>> are very welcome!<br>>>><br>>>> If you do plan on going to the July 21st meeting, please let me know.<br>
>>><br>>>> Grig<br>>>><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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