Mailman 3 September 2015 - PSF-Community

Telegram
by Mehrdad Dadvand 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi Those who interested to having telegram group.inform me. I gonna create a group or someone else. To make easier communication

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Slack Channel
by Harsh Vakharia 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hello guys, I've created a Slack channel <https://python-community.slack.com/> for Python Community (open for everyone 🎉). Anyone can join this channel from https://python-community-slack.herokuapp.com (open for everyone 🎉) Channel URL: https://python-community.slack.com (open for everyone 🎉) Come let's introduce ourselves there! Harsh :)

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WhatsApp chat
by Mehrdad Dadvand 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi all Is there anyone in whatsApp to chat about python and more? If it's possible and you what please send me phone number of whatsApp Tnx all

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No more me
by Daniel Mattos 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

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Code Clubs in Rugby UK
by Craig Barneses 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi All, I'm starting a couple of code clubs at schools in Rugby UK this year, I'm also part of "Rugby Open Code Club aka ROCC" which is primarily for teens and grown up's. If there is anyone in my area on this list that that would like to help out at the schools, or would like more information about ROCC, please let me know. By the way. My name is Craig, I'm recovering from PyconUK which concluded with a bomb yesterday. I have been using Python for ~7 years, have contributed to Qtile, Tryton, and Saltstack to a small degree. Thank you for inviting me to this list.

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Intromeme
by Mahmoud Hashemi 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

If Alex Martelli is doing it <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/psf-community/2015-September/000081.html>, then brace yourselves because the floodgates are open. I first used Python as a junior in a South Dakota high school, off a Knoppix CD because "Live CDs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD>" were all the rage then. It was a good fad because I didn't have a computer, and the Windows machines at school weren't writable and didn't have Python (2.2 at the time). I read a bit of the tutorial and wrote a really bad prime number sieve <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_primes#Prime_sieves>. After a professional loop through Java, C++, C#, and finally PHP, I resumed Python development in 2009 as a full-stack web developer at PayPal. I wrote the tool that (still) manages all the pricing arrangements. >From there I hired my first teammate and we wrote a couple other business-critical components before standardizing out PayPal's first grassroots alternative stack. That was early 2011 and since then we've had a lot of fun <https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/12/10/10-myths-of-enterprise-python/> and come so far <https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2015/03/17/introducing-support/>. Now we're focusing on PayPal's security offerings: putting Python at the very heart of PayPal's availability model, handling *billions* of requests per day. And believe me when I say that's it's the best thing that's happened to PayPal's security in a long time! The details will have to wait for a future blog post (and upcoming O'Reilly project). Or, if you're remotely as excited as I am, you can email me directly. :) On the side, I really enjoy working on Wikipedia <http://listen.hatnote.com/#en>-based <http://weekly.hatnote.com/> projects <http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en,de,ru,ja,es,fr> under <http://seealso.hatnote.com/> the banner of <https://twitter.com/hatnotable> Hatnote <http://blog.hatnote.com/>, all Python. Most recently, we did the official Wikipedia IFTTT channel <http://blog.hatnote.com/post/124069724187/wikipedia-and-ifttt-a-technical-g…> (handling 1.3 million requests per day). And because I can't get enough, a bunch of open-source stuff <https://github.com/mahmoud>, most notably Boltons <http://boltons.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>, where I've been particularly busy lately. If you're in the Bay Area, do *not* hesitate to reach out to talk about Python, Wikipedia, security, federated and open systems (like BBS stuff), or even PayPal! Specifically, this is sort of odd, but October 14th at 1pm, I'm doing an overview of Python usage at PayPal, and would like to invite anyone senior and curious to be my guest and come to PayPal in San Jose to check it out. Guido came in 2012 and he loved it <https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahmoudhashemi/16860083512/in/album-721576510…>. And stuff now is waaaay cooler! Anyways, I just wanted to end by saying thanks to you all. If you hadn't been so numerous and *out there*, I probably would have gotten myself fired long before any of this bore fruit. ;) THANKS! Mahmoud https://github.com/mahmoud https://twitter.com/mhashemi mahmoud(a)paypal.com

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Introduction
by Satish Viswanathan 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi All, I am Satish Viswanathan from New Delhi india, I am the director of Temkey Consulting, a startup for consulting and training on Project Management, Logistics and IT. Have been using Python for about 12 years for my private projects, now using it as a powertool for SCM optimization. It is a pleasure to hear, see, read and be in the company of the greats giving their introductions. People whom we see and look up with awe and admiration - Wow. This is for all the opponents of Introductions. Hope to contribute something back to the community. And Python makes it possible. Regards and Best Wishes Satish Viswanathan + 91 9968121333

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Re: [PSF-Community] PSF-Community Digest, Vol 1, Issue 22
by Suraj Patil 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

My apologies to those who get yet another introduction email. Hello everyone, I am Suraj from Pune, India, I've been using python since four years now, at home and one year at work to automate business pocesses, I love the language and was surprised to be added to this DL! I love python so much that when I was in college they used to call me a marketing guy of PSF. I have written a small script to extract firefox & chrome browsing history and bookmarks, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/pyfox Regards, Suraj On 9/22/15, psf-community-request(a)python.org <psf-community-request(a)python.org> wrote: > Send PSF-Community mailing list submissions to > psf-community(a)python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > psf-community-request(a)python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > psf-community-owner(a)python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PSF-Community digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Introductions (Chew Chee Ming) > 2. Re: Introductions (Christopher Welborn) > 3. Re: STOP THE INTRODUCTIONS (joshua(a)tellander.net) > 4. Re: STOP THE INTRODUCTIONS (Justin Myles Holmes) > 5. Re: STOP THE INTRODUCTIONS (joshua(a)tellander.net) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:47:51 +0800 > From: Chew Chee Ming <cheeming(a)gmail.com> > To: psf-community(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [PSF-Community] Introductions > Message-ID: > <CAKiGeEpi8reygh4yqJHOkbE0+Ub5tXTv_1ggKjAByu=UbE8MDw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > I am Chee Ming and I hail from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Been using Python > for quite a few years, building web apps and APIs powering mobile apps. I > love how Python works, and never looked back. And vim for life! > > We have a small Python community in Malaysia, but enough to do a "mini" > PyCon recently (http://www.pycon.my/). > Great to read about others around the world. > > > Chee Ming > http://infinite-code.com/ >

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my own introduction
by Alex Martelli 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

I've been lurking and reading a while, trying to gauge what the consensus was -- it seems to me it's mostly in favor of introductions, so, here's mine. I met Python in the '90s, fell in love, immediately got active in the community (at the time mostly the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.python) -- soon got tagged (by Steve Holden) as "the Martellibot", the third 'bot after timbot (Tim Peters) and effbot (F. Lundh)... ended up soon writing Python books and contributing to the code base (then a PSF Member -- now, a Fellow) and winning awards such as the Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community, in 2006). Later, I became a top-rated contributor to stackoverflow, mostly on the Python tag. That background got me my job at Google (offer extended and accepted in 2004 -- I only started in 2005 due to visa issues) which I still happily hold to this day. I'm currently working on the third edition of "Python in a Nutshell" - with two awesome co-authors, the above-mentioned Steve Holden (who essentially made the PSF *happen*, and was President for many years) and my wife Anna Ravenscroft (also a PSF Fellow) -- both of my co-authors are also winners of the Frank Willison award (Anna was the first woman so honored). Don't hold your breath -- all three of us have demanding full-time jobs, it WILL be quite a while before the 3rd edition (covering Python 2.7 AND 3.5) is ready for even public preview, sorry. But, it IS happening... we're racing towards the second milestone, "half chapters complete"...!-) Today, my role at work is leading the "1:many" team for Google Cloud tech support -- not fully Python-centric (as were my previous roles in Infrastructure, then Business Intelligence software) though of course Python IS a core language in Google Cloud (esp. but not exclusively in Google App Engine)... Alex

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Re: [PSF-Community] Introductions
by Christopher Welborn 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

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