[Baypiggies] November talk?

[Max Slimmer]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: baypiggies-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:baypiggies-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of jim stockford
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:05 PM
> To: Alex Martelli
> Cc: Baypiggies
> Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] November talk?
> 
> 
>     who decides? certainly not me--should be some kind of 
> group concensus or vote.
>     that said, alex had agreed to speak in november, and many 
> thanks, by the way. Aahz can speak either in november or 
> december (as can alex). i cannot see any particular 
> dependency that would dictate order. my notion of default is 
> to keep alex for november and book aahz for december.
>     what say?
> +1 alex november, aahz december
> 0 don't care
> -1 aahz november, alex december
> 
> 
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> > Getting a bit too close to the Nov meeting for such a 
> "breadth-first 
> > talk" to be prepared, though.  Jim asked me a week ago to present 
> > essentially the same talk I'd given at ACCU on Nov 8, and I 
> said I was 
> > fine as long as I could subset it (basically down to "callbacks, 
> > variations thereon and some of their ecosystem") because 
> the amount of 
> > material I had attempted to cover at ACCU had proven far 
> too much for
> > 2 hours (and Baypiggies' talks are shorter than that).  And 
> even the 
> > full ACCU talk didn't touch on all the issues you want ( e.g., no 
> > Erlang -- and only a part of async I/O, no mention of the gyrations 
> > you need on Windows to do _general_ async I/O there).
> >
> > I'm quite happy to let Aahz talk instead (I can talk in Dec, Jan, or
> > whenever) if that's preferred, though I think my talk might be more 
> > elementary (but also more generic/abstract/less task-oriented) than 
> > Aahz's.  Who decides? Shall we toss a coin?-)
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> >> > I'm still willing to do a November talk about threads, but the
> >> window is
> >> > closing before other commitments will swamp it -- someone please
> >> make a
> >> > decision by mid-day Sunday if possible.  (December is still
> >> possible;
> >> > Jan/Feb are still unavailable.)
> >>
> >> As much as I'd like to finally meet Aahz in person, I'd 
> still really 
> >> like to see a breadth-first talk providing an overview of 
> a bunch of 
> >> different topics such as:
> >>
> >> * Threads.
> >> * Processes.
> >> * Asynchronous IO.
> >> * Stackless.
> >> * Coroutines.
> >> * Erlang's approach.
> >>
> >> Threads are cool, but they're a gigantic pain ;)
> >>
> >> -jj
> >>
> >> --
> >> I, for one, welcome our new Facebook overlords!
> >> http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
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