Save the date! You are invited to what will undoubtably be the best meeting ever... no threads attached! When: Thursday May 12th 2011 7 p.m. Where: Threadless 1260 W. Madison, ample parking, close to Ashland & Lake Green/Pink "L" stop Special Thanks to Threadless and Chris McAvoy http://www.threadless.com/ for hosting! Please RSVP  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVLOTNTU3oxTzJKYjB3RmV4eVZ... Topics: Eventlet/Greenlet - Coroutines and the Future of Concurrency (:50 Fifty Minutes) By: Brantley Harris Description: Concurrent network programming using coroutines; Why threads suck; How coroutines work; and how they can replace threads for simplicity, fun, and speed. Pizza and Socialize (:20 Twenty Minutes) Special thanks to our food sponsor Leon Chis and Analyte Health http://www.analytehealth.com/, Online clinic built with Python, "Leveraging the internet to deliver convenient and high quality healthcare" Lightening and Thunder (:45 Forty Five Minutes) We will break out into 4 groups based on interest for round tables and lightening talks. The groups will be:  * Web Dev and Hacker Journalism  * Database, Hosting, and Systems  * Mobile, Embedded Hacking  * Scientific Also the new Chipy Mentoring Program has just conducted their first release of the http://chipy.org site.  Stay tuned for some new features and to meet the 7 contributors in next month's meeting. ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs. Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago. Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info. ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org> ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago> ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chipy-announce> Python website: <http://python.org>