[Baypiggies] call for speakers, especially re concurrency

[Charles Merriam]

Hmmm...

I could talk about programming the One-Laptop-Per-Child computer, the
XO.  This is a sweet little machine that is expected to ship with a
full Python environment.  Given rumors, there may some folks at Google
who have been deep in the guts and could give a better talk.   A short
talk could walk people through the API world for a couple short
programs, show the developer tools, and what not.

Off hand, I'm not sure what deep technical nuggets would be in the
talk.  It would be more along the lines of "Here's how to use
GStreamer for video", and "How the XO does internationalization", and
"How to work in mesh networking or 802.11s".

The XO will have shipped and be in people's hands in time for a
January meeting.  I think it should be done in either January or
February before the sexiness of the new toy fades.   I have no
investment that the talk should come from me, and would enjoy teaming
up with others that are hacking on XOs.  A format of several
informative show-and-tells could add the most signal per time.

Charles




On 10/22/07, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
> bayPIGgies needs speakers.
>
>     Recently our email list had a couple of great threads:
> * Guido's Blog: It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL
> * Concurrency Talk
>     controlling what code runs on which CPU is a hot topic
> in the industry these days. bayPIGgies members seem to
> have a lot of interest and various expertise. It would be a
> great topic for one of our meetings. Let me know your
> interest in the topic and even in speaking.
>
>     Let me know if you've got topics in mind, whether or not
> you would like to present them as a featured speaker.
>
>     What's going on in the Python mines of Google and
> Ironport and other Python shops?
>
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