[python-advocacy] contact, skills and geographic location of people who can give a talk

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- Stephan



On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Carl Trachte wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
>     I don't know if this is the place to post this (there isn't an entry form for it yet that I know of on the website).
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> Contact:  Carl Trachte, janencarl at aznex.net; CTrachte at phelpsdodge.com
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> skills:  basic Python programming, MSSQL (SQL 2000), basic COM (Microsoft - using win32com and Makepy to get at Window's applications' COM object models <yes, that is redundant>), Murta/Raedler's Polygon module (licensed - very helpful for GIS/mapping type stuff), Mintec's (commercial mine planning software) Python API.  These skills are a bit esoteric, but in rural Arizona/Nevada/New Mexico/Utah they actually have some land management and mining applications.
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> geographic location:  Morenci, Arizona - 3 hours from Tucson, 4 hours from Phoenix, 3 hours from Las Cruces (home of New Mexico State Univ.), 4 hours from El Paso (home of UTEP).  I go to Tucson fairly frequently.
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>     My location is population-density challenged, and hardly a programmer's Mecca like Silicon Valley, Seattle, or Boston.  Still, New Mexico Tech at Socorro and the nearby telescope array facility (about 5 hours from here) do a fair bit of work with Python (there's occasional talks on the language on campus).  You never know.
> 
> Carl Trachte