[Baypiggies] Baypiggies- background info needed

[wesley chun]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 04, 2011, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>>
>>> When was the group first formed?
>>> I remember going to the meetings at Stanford, I will assume those
>>> meetings were pretty close to the beginning. That was in 2005-2006.
>>
>> Why would you assume that?  You know what they say about "assume"?
>> BayPIGgies was already meeting when I first started with Python in 1999.
>
>
> aahz is correct. the beginning came from deirdre who started it in
> 1999 as Aahz suggested:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2005-December/000027.html
>
> i don't know how many people know this because there are only a few of
> us left from those days when we met at CoffeeNet off of Harrison in
> SF!!! (yes, the first set of BayPIGgies meetings was up in the city.)
> after all, it was the "BAY area Python Interest Group" hence where our
> name came from. my first meeting was also in 1999.
>
> here are details about the very *2nd* meeting at which Guido :-) spoke at:
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/DNC4aFZPuydu8Bj98g1W


one more link... this is deirdre's announcement for the first
BayPIGgies meeting *ever*:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/1999-May/000235.html

@jim: her email address from that post hasn't changed since. :-)

cheers,
-- wesley
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