<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I created a Facebook event for this and sent out invitations to all the members of the ChiPy Facebook group. Of course I did it manually, but I plan to talk a little on Thursday about how we might use the Facebook API to automate this in the future.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 8/11/08, Carl Karsten <i><carl@personnelware.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com><br>Subject: Re: [Chicago] It's Monday. Is there going to be a great meeting?<br>To: "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago@python.org><br>Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 1:32 PM<br><br><pre>Christopher Allan Webber wrote:<br>> Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> writes:<br>> <br>>> Jason Rexilius wrote:<br>>>> FYI, our new office space
(the Old Electronic Arts building..<br>super pimp)<br>>>> will always be available for meetings. We are supposed to be<br>moving in<br>>>> middle of July.<br>>>><br>>> Jason - this offer good?<br>>><br>> <br>> Er, I did already offer to host at Imaginary Landscape, but we'll<br>> probably be lower on space than other places. If people would rather be<br>> hosted elsewhere that's fine. It doesn't really matter to me.<br>> <br>>> ----- Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@imagescape.com> wrote:<br>>>> Also, I was thinking of giving some stupid little topic on either<br>>>> PyGTK or Gstreamer. Maybe both? Maybe its too much to give a<br>talk on<br>>>> combining both. Anyone have an interest in one or both of those<br>>>> topics?<br>>> There was plenty of interest in these - up for talking?<br>>><br>> <br>> I am up for talking, since I
already volunteered, but it's on a<br>> different subject... see my previous email:<br>> <br>> I wrote:<br>>> If the group is at its usual size (~15 people) we can host here at<br>>> Imaginary Landscape. We'll just have to push aside the desks and<br>>> project against the wall. :)<br>>><br>>> Also, count us in for a talk too. We have a bunch of Django<br>pluggables<br>>> we've been planning on open open sourcing for Django for a while,<br>>> including:<br>>><br>>> - An extensible Captcha system (integrates nicely with newforms, can<br>>> even easily integrate your own captcha renderers, like an audio<br>>> renderer)<br>>> - an "assets" system<br>>> - a cron system (what it sounds like, schedule for certain tasks to<br>go<br>>> off at certain times (with recurrence support), easily pushed from<br>>> your python code)<br>>> - a
config system<br>>> - regex and python method template tags... yes, we're evil.<br>>><br>>> Address:<br>>> Imaginary Landscape<br>>> 5121 N Ravenswood Av<br>>> Chicago IL 60640<br>>><br>>> As long as we're close to our usual size (ie, not Google<br>megameeting<br>>> size), I think we'll be fine doing it here.<br>>><br>>> Sound okay?<br><br>Sounds good to me.<br><br>Any objections?<br><br>I think tonight we should feed this into the new meeting notice distribution <br>machine. which is currently vaporware, and like most things will be done using<br><br>various manual and error prone procedures. maybe next month we can create a <br>complete disaster using some sort of program.<br><br>Carl K<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago mailing
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