[Baypiggies] November talk?

[jim stockford]

    who decides? certainly not me--should be some kind
of group concensus or vote.
    that said, alex had agreed to speak in november, and
many thanks, by the way. Aahz can speak either in
november or december (as can alex). i cannot see any
particular dependency that would dictate order. my
notion of default is to keep alex for november and book
aahz for december.
    what say?
+1 alex november, aahz december
0 don't care
-1 aahz november, alex december


On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Getting a bit too close to the Nov meeting for such a "breadth-first 
> talk" to be prepared, though.  Jim asked me a week ago to present 
> essentially the same talk I'd given at ACCU on Nov 8, and I said I was 
> fine as long as I could subset it (basically down to "callbacks, 
> variations thereon and some of their ecosystem") because the amount of 
> material I had attempted to cover at ACCU had proven far too much for 
> 2 hours (and Baypiggies' talks are shorter than that).  And even the 
> full ACCU talk didn't touch on all the issues you want ( e.g., no 
> Erlang -- and only a part of async I/O, no mention of the gyrations 
> you need on Windows to do _general_ async I/O there).
>
> I'm quite happy to let Aahz talk instead (I can talk in Dec, Jan, or 
> whenever) if that's preferred, though I think my talk might be more 
> elementary (but also more generic/abstract/less task-oriented) than 
> Aahz's.  Who decides? Shall we toss a coin?-)
>
>
> Alex
>
> On 10/25/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> 
> wrote:aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> > I'm still willing to do a November talk about threads, but the 
>> window is
>> > closing before other commitments will swamp it -- someone please 
>> make a
>> > decision by mid-day Sunday if possible.  (December is still 
>> possible;
>> > Jan/Feb are still unavailable.)
>>
>> As much as I'd like to finally meet Aahz in person, I'd still really
>> like to see a breadth-first talk providing an overview of a bunch of
>> different topics such as:
>>
>> * Threads.
>> * Processes.
>> * Asynchronous IO.
>> * Stackless.
>> * Coroutines.
>> * Erlang's approach.
>>
>> Threads are cool, but they're a gigantic pain ;)
>>
>> -jj
>>
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