<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">After speaking briefly with Kevin Brolly in #python-glasgow on freenode we </div><div class="gmail_extra">
would like to suggest meeting on the fourth Thursday of each month. We chose</div><div class="gmail_extra">this after looking at glasgow2[1] and the fourth week looks to be the most </div><div class="gmail_extra">available.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The one downside that I can see is that its two days after Python Edinburgh,</div><div class="gmail_extra">however I don't think many people made the trip through anyway and this could</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fit in well if there are ever to be joint events.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Since the next 4th Thursday is close and then the next clashes with Christmas</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">we are looking to kick off the first meeting in January. This gives us plenty </div><div class="gmail_extra">of time to arrange a venue and promote it to people.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">However, before we start shouting the date around too quickly... If anybody </div><div class="gmail_extra">can think of an issue with the date it would be good to hear. We are also </div><div class="gmail_extra">
looking for suggestions of venue - for both casual pub meets or somewhere </div><div class="gmail_extra">that can host talks.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">
Dougal</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1]: <a href="http://glasgow2.com/">http://glasgow2.com/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2012 11:08, Dougal Matthews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dougal85@gmail.com" target="_blank">dougal85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hey all,</div><div><br></div><div>My name is Dougal and I'm a Pythonista that has recently moved to Glasgow. I </div>
<div>have previously moved around a bit but lived in Edinburgh for a while and </div><div>co-founded the successful Python group over there... but that train is just </div>
<div>too damn slow to go all the time!</div><div><br></div><div>I see a few people have found this list already which is great. I created it </div><div>a few weeks ago in an attempt to start something but have not yet made much</div>
<div>in the way of progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Is anybody willing to help me try and start a Python group in Glasgow? </div><div>Initially it would be a fairly informal afair and we'd probably arrange a </div>
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monthly pub meeting. After that, I think I would like to try and orgnainse</div><div>talks or other Python related events.</div><div><br></div><div>Initially however, I think we need to think about a couple of things;</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Group promotion</div><div>- When and where to organise the event.</div><div>- A simple website (the very very basic Python Edinburgh one I made years ago</div><div> has been useful : <a href="http://www.pythonedinburgh.org" target="_blank">http://www.pythonedinburgh.org</a> )</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you know any other people that would be interested in Python, please have</div><div>them sign up to the list. The best way is just to send them to;</div><div><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If anybody wants to join me on IRC, I'm in the #python-glasgow channel on</div><div>freenode. Using IRC really helped Python Edinburgh once we got a few people </div><div>in there regularly.</div>
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<br></div><div>I'll try and follow up shortly with a proposal of dates and venues. However,</div><div>if anybody wants to make suggestions that would be great. I don't know all </div><div>that many good pubs yet in Glasgow so that would be particularly useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm going to be at Refresh this week, so if you go to that - find me. I'll </div><div>try and spread the word there too if there are any Python people around. I'll</div><div>try to make it to TechMeetup this month too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dougal</div></div>
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