<div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">BayPiggies meeting this Thursday, August 27, 7pm to 9 pm</font></b><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">This month, we'll have two talks:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Kat Cosgrove -<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Snakes on a Car: Or, Over-engineering a Toy</em></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Aaron David Goldman -<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Eight Queens in python and rust</em></li></ul><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-snakes-on-a-car-or-over-engineering-a-toy" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px">Snakes on a car: or Over-engineering a Toy</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Like a lot of engineers, I like to tinker. I also like hardware hacking, video games, and over-engineering the hell out of something. When my team at work decided to build a proof of concept demonstrating the possibility of fast over-the-air updates for edge devices, we settled on using a car as the example of an edge device. It’s flashy, you know? This also presented me with an opportunity to do all of the things I love, and call it work: build a self-driving RC car, and then let people race it around a track using a repurposed USB racewheel, a handful of open source tools, and whole lotta Python. DevOps, but make it fun.</p><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-speaker-bio-kat-cosgrove" style="box-sizing:border-box"><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px">Speaker bio: Kat Cosgrove</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Kat Cosgrove is a chronic early-adopter of new technologies and a real-life cyborg. Her professional engineering background is in web development, IoT, and programming education, but today she's a Developer Advocate for JFrog. She loves finding creative solutions for hard problems, especially if they're a little hacky.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">When she's not building demos or at a conference, she spends her time gaming, watching e-sports, and working on useless but entertaining side-projects. She also volunteers with area non-profits geared towards getting more women and other underrepresented minorities into tech.</p></div></div><div id="m_-6606635060478630933eight-queens-in-python-and-rust" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px">Eight Queens in Python and Rust</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Porting a classic interview problem in two languages.</p><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-speaker-bio-aaron-david-goldman" style="box-sizing:border-box"><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px">Speaker bio: Aaron David Goldman</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Information security engineer, with a history of making tools in python for monitoring network systems and applications.</p></div></div><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-code-of-conduct" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px">Code of Conduct</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="https://baypiggies.net/pages/code_of_conduct.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">https://baypiggies.net/pages/code_of_conduct.html</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Interactions online have less nuance than in-person interactions. Please be Open, Considerate and Respectful. Also, please refrain from discussing topics unrelated to the Python community or the technical content of the meeting.</p></div><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-rsvp" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px">RSVP</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">We will conduct the meeting via Zoom webinar. Please register in advance. To do so, use this link: <a style="display:inline;font-family:"Graphik Meetup",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M6fIY9deT2Sq1KEphIpFfg. It would also be helpful if you RSVP "Yes" to the meeting on Meetup.com </a>To do so, go to :<span> </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/272093059/" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/272093059/</a>. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Please note that:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">You are expected to follow our code of conduct.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The meeting will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube Channel at a later date.</li></ul></div><div id="m_-6606635060478630933gmail-speak-at-baypiggies" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px">Speak at BayPiggies</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">We'd love to have more people sign up to speak at BayPiggies - just fill out this short application:<span> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp_tgQU3WmxoxSQvg5se8AIUswZr6wWkG45o6FrXrnTjLNRA/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp_tgQU3WmxoxSQvg5se8AIUswZr6wWkG45o6FrXrnTjLNRA/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></p></div></div></div>