<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I'm new to the group and to python. But I would like to attend if there is still space. Thanks!</span><div>
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<div><font color="#999999" face="Tahoma" size="2">Long Duong</font></div><div><font color="#999999" face="Tahoma" size="2">UC Irvine Biomedical Engineering</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Karim Nassar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karim.nassar@acm.org">karim.nassar@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Planning on attending.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com" target="_blank">grig.gheorghiu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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>
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