<div dir="ltr"><div>Due to the weather tonight, and many employers asking people to work from home today, we've decided to cancel the meeting. We're looking into holding it on another day and will announce that soon.<br><br></div><div>Thanks everyone, and looking forward to the Best Meeting Ever on another night,<br></div>The ChiPy Organizers<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Greg Baugues <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@tablexi.com" target="_blank">greg@tablexi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just want to confirm that, despite the weather, you're still going to have the Best Ever Meeting tonight. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Brian Ray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brianhray@gmail.com" target="_blank">brianhray@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Overall, those who took the mentorship program surveys gave an average of 9/10 stars. There will be a Starbucks gift card for one of those who were picked presented during the meeting.<br></div><br></div>This month's topics are talks from those who participated in this program. There will be a prize for the best presentation. The line up is below. This will be a very great meeting. Perhaps... our best ever. Seriously folks, don't miss this one. RSVP now...<br><div><div><br>RSVP <a href="http://www.chipy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.chipy.org/</a><br><br></div>and/or <a href="http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/</a><br><br><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for Braintree for sponsoring the food at meeting. Thanks SPACE by Doejo for hosting. <br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div><h3>Next Meeting</h3>
<p><b>When:</b> Jan. 8, 2015, 7 p.m.</p>
<p><b>Where:</b> SPACE by Doejo</p><p>
444 N. Wabash, 5th Floor
Chicago IL
</p><br><h3>Talks from Mentorship Program<br></h3><ul><li>
<b>Python Mentors Lightning Talk – Chris & Rahul</b><br>
(0:07:00 Minutes)<br>
By:
Chris Foresman
<br>
Chris and Rahul would be talking about making RESTful
API with Python. Chris was an Associate Writer at Ars Technica and is
currently a Senior Systems Engineer at Vokal. Rahul is pursuing his MS
in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Chris is @foresmac on Twitter and Rahul can be reached at
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul013k" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul013k</a>
</li><li>
<b>Example app using Flask and pg8000 (Postgres) on Heroku</b><br>
(0:07:00 Minutes)<br>
By:
Tanya Schlusser
<br>
We walk through the architecture, development process,
and a few gotchas of deploying a web application on Heroku using their
free Postgresql instance, and the Python libraries 'flask' and 'pg8000'
</li><li>
<b>MM - Japhy/Sebastian - Mining and charting</b><br>
(0:07:00 Minutes)<br>
By:
Japhy Bartlett
<br>
We'll go over how to set up a daemon for mining public
data using tornado, then loading that data into some web based charts.
</li><li>
<b>ChiPy Mentorship 7-Minute Retrospective</b><br>
(0:07:00 Minutes)<br>
By:
Paul Ebreo
<br>
Tom Yarrish and Paul Ebreo will talk about their
experience of the 12 week mentorship program. They will talk about what
went well and what went not-so well. They will share what they learned
and give tips and tricks for a successful mentor/mentee relationship.
Paul is very passionate about programming, software testing, open
hardware and teaching and Tom is a Digital Forensic Analyst and teaches
at Loyola University.
</li><li>
<b>Python Data Science 101 - how mentoring helped me get from raw data to SKLearn by Ben Reid</b><br>
(0:07:00 Minutes)<br>
By:
Ben Reid
<br>
Ben will be talking about his experience getting
started with Python Data Science using pandas and sci-kit learn, with
Don's assistance, via the Chipy mentoring pilot program. Don is an
Independent Technology Consultant, iPhone Developer and Software
Architect and currently consulting with clients using Hadoop. Ben is a
Senior Business Development Manager at Orbitz Worldwide and is a self
taught programmer.
Don is @dondrake on Twitter and Ben can be reached at
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidbenj" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidbenj</a>
</li><li>
<b>Being A Mentee In The ChiPy Mentorship</b><br>
By:
Zachary Kerr
<br>
Mentors can be incredibly valuable in helping
understand software. I want to share some of the insights I have learned
from my mentorship. I believe there are important lessons to be learned
from mentors that can make programming a much better experience.
</li></ul><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Brian Ray <div>@brianray<div><a href="tel:%28773%29%20669-7717" value="+17736697717" target="_blank">(773) 669-7717</a></div></div></div>
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