0 - No preference. (Noob looking to learn)<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nigel Stolting</b> <<a href="mailto:nigels@bluearc.com">nigels@bluearc.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-1: Aahz November; Alex December<br><br>Nigel Stolting<br>BlueArc Engineering<br><br>-----Original Message-----
<br>From: <a href="mailto:baypiggies-bounces@python.org">baypiggies-bounces@python.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:baypiggies-bounces@python.org">baypiggies-bounces@python.org</a>] On Behalf Of jim stockford<br>Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:05 PM
<br>To: Alex Martelli<br>Cc: Baypiggies<br>Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] November talk?<br><br><br> who decides? certainly not me--should be some kind<br>of group concensus or vote.<br> that said, alex had agreed to speak in november, and
<br>many thanks, by the way. Aahz can speak either in<br>november or december (as can alex). i cannot see any<br>particular dependency that would dictate order. my<br>notion of default is to keep alex for november and book
<br>aahz for december.<br> what say?<br>+1 alex november, aahz december<br>0 don't care<br>-1 aahz november, alex december<br><br><br>On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:<br><br>> Getting a bit too close to the Nov meeting for such a "breadth-first
<br>> talk" to be prepared, though. Jim asked me a week ago to present<br>> essentially the same talk I'd given at ACCU on Nov 8, and I said I was<br>> fine as long as I could subset it (basically down to "callbacks,
<br>> variations thereon and some of their ecosystem") because the amount of<br>> material I had attempted to cover at ACCU had proven far too much for<br>> 2 hours (and Baypiggies' talks are shorter than that). And even the
<br>> full ACCU talk didn't touch on all the issues you want ( e.g., no<br>> Erlang -- and only a part of async I/O, no mention of the gyrations<br>> you need on Windows to do _general_ async I/O there).<br>>
<br>> I'm quite happy to let Aahz talk instead (I can talk in Dec, Jan, or<br>> whenever) if that's preferred, though I think my talk might be more<br>> elementary (but also more generic/abstract/less task-oriented) than
<br>> Aahz's. Who decides? Shall we toss a coin?-)<br>><br>><br>> Alex<br>><br>> On 10/25/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <<a href="mailto:jjinux@gmail.com">jjinux@gmail.com</a>><br>> <a href="mailto:wrote:aahz@pythoncraft.com">
wrote:aahz@pythoncraft.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > I'm still willing to do a November talk about threads, but the<br>>> window is<br>>> > closing before other commitments will swamp it -- someone please
<br>>> make a<br>>> > decision by mid-day Sunday if possible.(December is still<br>>> possible;<br>>> > Jan/Feb are still unavailable.)<br>>><br>>> As much as I'd like to finally meet Aahz in person, I'd still really
<br>>> like to see a breadth-first talk providing an overview of a bunch of<br>>> different topics such as:<br>>><br>>> * Threads.<br>>> * Processes.<br>>> * Asynchronous IO.<br>>> * Stackless.
<br>>> * Coroutines.<br>>> * Erlang's approach.<br>>><br>>> Threads are cool, but they're a gigantic pain ;)<br>>><br>>> -jj<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> I, for one, welcome our new Facebook overlords!
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