Mailman 3 September 2018 - python-uk

London Dojo next Thursday
by Tom Viner March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

Hi all, For February's London code dojo, we'll be at Sohonet <https://www.sohonet.com/>. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome! There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. *6:30pm Thursday 1st Feb 2018* Get your tickets while they're hot: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-9-episode-6-t… If you need any more information, contact the team via Twitter: @ldnpydojo <https://twitter.com/ldnpydojo> or via e-mails to team(a)ldnpydojo.org.uk We're always looking for venues to host the Dojo and volunteers to be cat herders, i.e. writing an email like this and coordinating the voting etc. Look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Tom @tomviner <https://twitter.com/tomviner>

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Farewell, relocating to Italy and looking for a remote job
by a.grandi＠gmail.com Oct. 1, 2018

Oct. 1, 2018

from greetings import farewell Good morning folks! I don't want to bother you with many details, but for family reasons (I can't confirm nor deny it has anything to do with what may happen in March 2019), me and my wife will relocate to Italy (where she just got an amazing training job as Geriatric specialisation doctor). I'm planning to stay in London no later than March and I hope to be able to catch up with those of you that I know in person, before I definitely leave. I met a good number of amazing people during my time in UK. I can't probably mention everyone, but I will at least mention those I did learn a lot from (I hope I didn't forget anyone!). Nicholas, Ravi, Daniel Pope, Harry Percival, Tim Golden, Daniele Procida: it's been a pleasure to meet you at Python Dojo and PyCon UK! Work wise, I'm still enjoying my job at GDS (they are of course aware of my situation), but since I won't be able to bring this job with me in Italy, I really would like to find a remote job which I can start here and continue from there once I will have moved. If you are aware of any company hiring remote Python/Django (I'm also learning Go, just don't expect me to be fluent as much as I'm with Python) backend developers, I would be glad to know. I'm sure we will be able to stay in touch through the mailing list or on Twitter, I just won't be able to attend your local meetups. farewell("folks!") -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer Website: https://www.andreagrandi.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreagrandi GitHub: https://github.com/andreagrandi PGP: https://www.andreagrandi.it/2240402E.asc

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by Daniel Pope Sept. 29, 2018

Sept. 29, 2018

Hi all, Pyweek 26 is running from 21st to 27th October: https://pyweek.org/26/ Pyweek is an online Python-only game jam. You have a week to write a game "from scratch" in Python, using Pygame, Pyglet or any other technology you like. Theme voting starts on the 14th October with five themes to think about and rank in preference order. Your game must include the winning theme announced when the contest starts. For the first time, Pyweek 26 will have non-anonymous feedback on entries, which is hoped will produce much more useful and positive feedback. Hope to see you there! Dan

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London Python Code Dojo - October 4
by Matt Wheeler Sept. 28, 2018

Sept. 28, 2018

Next month's London Python Code Dojo will take place on the 4th of October at 6:30pm This time we are back at Thread, in their offices on Alie Street, E1 Join us for the usual mixture of socialising, lightning talks, hacking on silly problems. For those who wish, there will be post-Dojo socialising in a nearby pub. Full details & booking at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-10-episode-2-… See you there! -- -- Matt Wheeler http://funkyh.at

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DJUGL10 | Django User Group London | 10th Anniversary Event
by Jon Gould Sept. 25, 2018

Sept. 25, 2018

I'm delighted, excited and extremely proud to be announcing the 10th anniversary celebration for DJUGL (Django User Group London) to be held on the 25th October 2018 in London. There will be the usual mix of talks, networking, drinks and pizza along with some special extra surprises to mark this landmark occasion. A limited number of early bird tickets (along with a commemorative gift) are available now and can be booked here: https://djugl10.eventbrite.co.uk Further tickets will be released shortly. This promises to be our biggest and best event yet! Cheers to the next ten years! Jon *Jon Gould* *Tel* +44(0)1189520159 / austinfraser.com / <http://www.austinfraser.com> Twitter / <https://twitter.com/austinfraserAF> LinkedIn / <https://www.linkedin.com/company/austin-fraser> ©2018. Austin Fraser Ltd. Terms and Conditions. <http://www.austinfraser.com/uk/standard-terms> The protection of your personal data is important to Austin Fraser. For information about how we process your data please see our privacy notice. <https://www.austinfraser.com/en/privacy-notice/> Check out our blog! <https://www.austinfraser.com/en/blog/> Austin Fraser Ltd registered in England: 05684470. Floor 11, Thames Tower, Station Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1LX.

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Python Microservices with Nameko - London Meetup
by Jakub Borys Sept. 24, 2018

Sept. 24, 2018

Join us at the Student.com offices to see practical presentations around best practices in building microservices platforms with Nameko framework. Our space is limited so please RSVP by registering here if you’d like to attend the in-person event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/python-microservices-with-nameko-tickets-49591… The event will be live-streamed online for those who can’t be there physically. We'll have a great speaker line-up from Nameko Core Team members as well as set of lightning talks from contributors to Nameko ecosystem. Beer and Pizza will be served courtesy of Student.com Event will be held on Tuesday, September 25th at 6:30 pm. LOCATION Student.com 1st Floor Cutlers Court 115 Houndsditch London EC3A 7BR Schedule: 6:30 Pizza and Beer 7:00 Presentations and Lightning talks 8:30 Wrap-up and networking. Nameko Links: Website: https://www.nameko.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/nameko/nameko Docs: https://nameko.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Forum: https://discourse.nameko.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nameko_python Regards, Jakub Borys

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First anniversary of London Python Sprints
by Marc Garcia Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

Next week we're celebrating the first anniversary of the London Python Sprints group. In this year we organised more than 20 sprints, where we worked on different topics, from the pandas documentation, to migrating the python.org website to Django 2 and Python 3.7. In this case, we'll have Andreas Mueller, scikit-learn developer and release manager, and author of the book "Introduction to Machine Learning with Python". Visiting us from NYC. We'll also have maintainers of other projects like CPython, Grumpy, Mu or pandas. The sprint is next Tuesday (unfortunately conflicting with PyCon UK). This is the link: https://python-sprints.github.io/london/2018/09/18/first-anniversary.html If you're a maintainer or regular contributor to a package, and you want to join this sprint (or a future one), and help people get started in your project, please let me know. Also, if we have a waiting list, but you're a member of an underrepresented minority in IT, or a supporting member of the PSF or NumFOCUS, let us know and we'll get you in.

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PyGame "art" grant
by Nicholas H.Tollervey Sept. 1, 2018

Sept. 1, 2018

Hi Folks, Rene Dudfield (formerly of this parish) is the maintainer of PyGame. He's just announced a grant for Python people who do "art" / creative projects. Please share this news far and wide and/or (if you feel you qualify) apply for the grant yourself. Full details here: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/08/pygame-artist-in-residence-grant.html Thanks, N.

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