Hey ChiPy, We have a great meeting planned with a bunch of great talks to start out the new year. Hope to see you all there! Thank you to our host and food/drink sponsor TEKSystems! Please be sure to RSVP by noon the day of the event. *When:*Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, 6 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org <http://www.chipy.org/> by noon the day of the event. *Where:* TEKSystems 111 N. Canal Street *What:* - *Three Python Nuances I Wish I'd Known Earlier* By: Jess Unrein Experience Level: Novice I'll briefly go over three Python gotchas that have given me headaches in the past that I wish I had known about earlier. We'll talk about a good use case for deepcopy, why default mutable arguments are unexpectedly tricky, and the difference "is" and "==" comparators. - *What's the deal with Florida's news?* By: Jordan Nelson Experience Level: Novice When thinking about Florida News many have heard of the ubiquitous Florida man. This talk will look at news from around the country and attempt to quantify if Florida man truly exists. I used Python to build functions that scrape satirical, national, and local news sites and built a basic model to compare news across various states. Python libraries highlighted in this talk include: requests, Beautiful Soup, and sklearn. - *Busy-Beaver: Increasing Community Engagement with Python* By: Aly Sivji , Chris Luedtke Experience Level: Novice With over four thousand members, the Chicago Python Users Group is one of the largest Python communities in the world. Slack has become the primary method of communication amongst members in-between events. We developed an open-source Slack bot, codename: Busy Beaver, to increase member engagement. This talk will introduce Busy Beaver, provide a high-level walkthrough of its architecture and code, and discuss the future roadmap of the project. - *Advent of Code* By: Sree P Experience Level: Novice Breif overview of “Advent Of Code” and walkthrough of one of the challenges - *Staying alive with systemd* By: Siva Manivannan Experience Level: Intermediate Keep your Python applications alive and kicking with systemd. *Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors: Metis and TelnyxAlso thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit.Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ <http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/>* -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com