<div dir="ltr">Despite Popular rumor, BayPIGgies is very much alive.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organizer</div><div>========</div><div>Glen Jarvis has agreed to be temporary organizer and will continue to do so until things have stabilized. Jeff Fischer has volunteered to co-organize and will be co-organizing the February MeetUp. Seven additional volunteers have stepped up to the plate to help keep BayPIGgies running.</div><div><br></div><div>Location</div><div>=======</div><div>We are in communication with LinkedIn for continuing our meetings there. We have two other companies volunteer to give us space if they can and if the LinkedIn arrangement can't be met: SAP and Intel.</div><div><br></div><div>Calendar</div><div>=======</div><div>We have the following dates scheduled. We still have five slots to fill:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class=""><span class="">28-Jan Glen Jarvis - Explore Git internals using Python</span></p><p class=""><span class="">25-Feb </span><waiting for confirmation> </p><p class=""><span class="">24-Mar Matt Savage () / Python<->VR </span> (If agreed to do it for BayPIGgies instead of Silicon Valley Python)</p><p class=""><span class="">28-Apr</span></p><p class=""><span class="">26-May PyCon Practice Talks</span></p><p class=""><span class="">23-June</span></p><p class=""><span class="">28-July Glen Jarvis - Join Forces: Python meet Ruby; Ruby meet Python</span></p><p class=""><span class="">25-Aug</span></p><p class=""><span class="">22-Sep</span></p><p class=""><span class="">
</span></p><p class=""><span class="">27-Oct</span></p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">MeetUp</p><p class="">======</p><p class="">Although there has been drama around the recently used MeetUp site, we still have access to and are being hosted by the Silicon Valley Python Meetup (<a href="http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-python/">http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-python/</a>). There is access to over 3,773 Pythonistas -- Over three times the size of the site that is in contention. The Silicon Valley Python MeetUp has agreed to cross-post for us until the MeetUp problems that we have encountered have been fixed.</p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">Membership Refunds</p><p class="">=================</p><p class="">We have corporate sponsorship of refunds for those who have mistakenly paid membership dues to the now sequestered MeetUp site. This was given by the RockIt Recruiting firm (<span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.rockitrecruiting.com/">http://www.rockitrecruiting.com/</a>), the firm that I always used because they completely understand the Open Source community. Please send an email to <a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a> to start the claim.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">RockIT gave this statement:</span></p><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br class="">As a proponent of networking, technology, transparency, and the Silicon Valley startup community, </span><a href="http://www.rockitrecruiting.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="">RockIT</span> Recruiting</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> would like to do our part to support the Bay PIGgies community.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We heard that some members mistakenly joined the now-named Bay PRIGgies meetup group and were charged a membership fee. <span class="">RockIT</span> is offering $500* to reimburse those who mistakenly joined the group but were trying to join the original BayPIGgies community.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">*If the full amount isn't claimed for reimbursement, we will donate the remainder for beer/food at the next Bay PIGgies Meetup event.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
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