From rand.bradley at gmail.com Mon Dec 13 18:26:01 2021 From: rand.bradley at gmail.com (Rand Bradley) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:26:01 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Attention: PyCon US 2022 and Call for Proposals! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am calling for a boycott of Pycon this year unless these health safety guidelines are thrown out in full. How are you going to see all the faces you've missed if masks are required? To my knowledge Utah does not have a mask mandate in place, so why require it? Masks are obedience symbols. We all know they don't work. If Utah or the venue is requiring masks, then move or cancel the conference. Also, the vaxx requirements are discriminatory and just plain ugly. This is segregation. Have we learned nothing from history? By requiring vaxxes for attendance, you're excluding almost half the US participants. It's time to stop playing pandemic. Is this the type of world you want to live in? If not then reject these rules, stop participating. Let the organizers know that you will not be attending due to the health and safety guidelines. https://us.pycon.org/2022/attend/health-safety-guidelines/ On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Olivia Sauls wrote: > Hey folks! > > After two years apart, we are so excited to be welcoming you back in > person for PyCon US 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah! Mark your calendars and > start planning to see all the faces you?ve missed. Head over to the PyCon > US 2022 website to read all the details and be > sure to opt-in to receive > PyCon US 2022 News for any future communications. > > Conference Dates: April 27, 2022 - May 3, 2022 > > We are even more excited to announce that the PyCon US 2022 Call for > Proposals is open for Talks, Tutorials, Posters, and Charlas! All speakers > will be presenting in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center. > Proposals will be open until December 20, 2021 AoE. > > Please help us spread the word about our CFP launch with your local user > groups. More information can be found in the CFP announcement blog post: > https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/10/pycon-us-2022-call-for-proposals-is-open.html > . > > Thank you in advance for your help, we can?t wait to see the community?s > great ideas for PyCon US 2022! > > -- > Olivia Sauls > Event Assistant & Administrative Support > Python Software Foundation > olivia at python.org > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deirdre at deirdre.net Tue Dec 14 00:19:09 2021 From: deirdre at deirdre.net (Deirdre Saoirse Moen) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:19:09 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Attention: PyCon US 2022 and Call for Proposals! In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <24252521-167d-430f-8a22-f2449bd2f8bc@www.fastmail.com> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Rand Bradley wrote: > It's time to stop playing pandemic. Seriously. That's where you're going with this. *side eye* * We have had 800,000 deaths from Covid in the US. That's still going on. It's not *just* a mass casualty event, it's also a mass disabling event. * We have a national shortage of doctors and nurses (and everything else in healthcare) because of the sheer horror of it all. https://morningconsult.com/2021/10/04/health-care-workers-series-part-2-workforce/ Much of that shortage is caused by misbehavior on the part of patients and their families. Especially the families. https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/rakxun/my_career_of_treating_patients_has_ended/ (Note: some very visceral descriptions from this doctor.) * Even morticians have been getting PTSD. https://news.yahoo.com/texas-embalmer-shares-nightmare-covid-130817817.html * Covid is the first endothelial pandemic we've had (so far as we know). The endothelium lines the blood vessels: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/32/3038/5901158 * The endothelium forms the blood/brain barrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood?brain_barrier That's why you can get things that cross the blood/brain barrier from Covid like autoimmune encephalitis. Fun times. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160770v1 (preprint, full text) https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20081236 (peer reviewed, excerpt) * The endothelium also performs kidney (glomerular) filtration: https://www.osmosis.org/learn/Glomerular_filtration That's why there have been cases of new onset Diabetes type 1 and type 2 as a side effect of Covid, as well as kidney failure. (I can't find my papers on that at the moment, and I don't feel like digging for it.) * The endothelium also controls things like hemostasis, whether you've got enough blood everywhere or not. Coagulation, or letting the mast cells know to release some of that sweet heparin for anti-coagulation, etc. Then you've got fibrin that's resistant to fibrinolysis and thus leads to the microclots that are known in many aspects of covid (e.g., "covid toes"), etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380922/ And so on. Nothing like having a lifelong (possibly) endothelial disease, e.g., atherosclerosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelial_dysfunction So, dude, you do you, but I'd be happy to be at a conference of the vaccinated. Deirdre PS - reminder to anyone reading that vaccines and booster shots are available if you haven't gotten yours yet. From jeffrey.fischer at gmail.com Tue Dec 14 12:08:17 2021 From: jeffrey.fischer at gmail.com (Jeff Fischer) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:08:17 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Please keep your mails to this list on topic Message-ID: Hi everyone, Please keep your mails to this list on Python-related topics. Anything COVID-related or political is off topic for this list (unless it really is a technical data science discussion). This is a neutral space for announcements and questions about Python and its ecosystem. There are plenty of other venues available for you to discuss other topics. 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I will explain how graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as buttons, text input/output boxes, radio buttons, etc. are built using OOP, and how they work in an "event-driven" program. We'll go into detail about the three main tenets of OOP: encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance. While my approach is to use games, the techniques being taught are applicable to a wide range of software fields. This is an intermediate-level course that is designed for people who have a basic understanding of the Python language, and want to go on to the next level of programming. It assumes that you have taken an introductory course at UCSC-Extension or elsewhere (or have learned Python on your own), and can write small to medium sized programs in Python. The course is very hands-on, with lots of sample programs. Starts Thursday Jan 6, 2022 and will meet on eight Thursday nights (through Feb 24) from 6:30 to 9:30. Sign ups are open to the general public and there is still time to register. 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Students will have access to videos, other online materials, and the instructor until Apr 15, 2022. https://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=5591127&SectionID=7450907 ---- And, we have a "Python For Data Analysis" coming up Jan 6 - Mar 10: 10 Thursdays 6:30 - 9:30 PM PDT. In this zoom class students learn and practice the Python needed to work with Pandas and related libraries to find the truth using data analysis. https://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=6240437&SectionID=7448665 With the miracle tools: Python, pandas, numpy, matplotlib, and Jupyter notebooks, we go from zero to analyzing data in this short class. It is helpful, but not required to know a programming language, and a little about statistics. --- All courses are hands-on with short lectures, and lots of relevant exercises, and, we study the solutions after some lab time. Questions are always welcome. Please come, and send students! 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Message-ID: Sent from my phone On Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 15:27 Rand Bradley wrote: > I am calling for a boycott of Pycon this year unless these health safety > guidelines are thrown out in full. How are you going to see all the faces > you've missed if masks are required? To my knowledge Utah does not have a > mask mandate in place, so why require it? Masks are obedience symbols. We > all know they don't work. If Utah or the venue is requiring masks, then > move or cancel the conference. Also, the vaxx requirements are > discriminatory and just plain ugly. This is segregation. Have we learned > nothing from history? By requiring vaxxes for attendance, you're excluding > almost half the US participants. > > It's time to stop playing pandemic. Is this the type of world you want to > live in? If not then reject these rules, stop participating. Let the > organizers know that you will not be attending due to the health and safety > guidelines. > I might choose to attend BECAUSE they are taking the health and safety of attendees seriously. Glad you won't be there, given your attitude towards avoiding spreading this disease to the community. > https://us.pycon.org/2022/attend/health-safety-guidelines/ > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Olivia Sauls wrote: > >> Hey folks! >> >> After two years apart, we are so excited to be welcoming you back in >> person for PyCon US 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah! Mark your calendars and >> start planning to see all the faces you?ve missed. Head over to the PyCon >> US 2022 website to read all the details and be >> sure to opt-in to receive >> PyCon US 2022 News for any future communications. >> >> Conference Dates: April 27, 2022 - May 3, 2022 >> >> We are even more excited to announce that the PyCon US 2022 Call for >> Proposals is open for Talks, Tutorials, Posters, and Charlas! All speakers >> will be presenting in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center. >> Proposals will be open until December 20, 2021 AoE. >> >> Please help us spread the word about our CFP launch with your local user >> groups. More information can be found in the CFP announcement blog post: >> https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/10/pycon-us-2022-call-for-proposals-is-open.html >> . >> >> Thank you in advance for your help, we can?t wait to see the community?s >> great ideas for PyCon US 2022! >> >> -- >> Olivia Sauls >> Event Assistant & Administrative Support >> Python Software Foundation >> olivia at python.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Baypiggies mailing list >> Baypiggies at python.org >> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies >> > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am calling for a boycott of Pycon this year unless these health safety guidelines are thrown out in full. How are you going to see all the faces you've missed if masks are required? To my knowledge Utah does not have a mask mandate in place, so why require it???Masks are obedience symbols. We all know they don't work.?If Utah or the venue is requiring masks, then move or cancel the conference. Also, the vaxx requirements are discriminatory and just plain ugly.?This is segregation. Have we learned nothing from history? By requiring vaxxes for attendance, you're excluding almost half the US participants.It's time to stop playing pandemic. Is this the type of world you want to live in? If not then reject these rules, stop participating. Let the organizers know that you will not be attending due to the health and safety guidelines.https://us.pycon.org/2022/attend/health-safety-guidelines/On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Olivia Sauls wrote:Hey folks!?After two years apart, we are so excited to be welcoming you back in person for PyCon US 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah! Mark your calendars and start planning to see all the faces you?ve missed. Head over to the PyCon US 2022 website to read all the details and be sure to opt-in to receive PyCon US 2022 News for any future communications.Conference Dates: April 27, 2022 - May 3, 2022We are even more excited to announce that the PyCon US 2022 Call for Proposals is open for Talks, Tutorials, Posters, and Charlas! All speakers will be presenting in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Proposals will be open until December 20, 2021 AoE.?Please help us spread the word about our CFP launch with your local user groups. More information can be found in the CFP announcement blog post: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/10/pycon-us-2022-call-for-proposals-is-open.html.?Thank you in advance for your help, we can?t wait to see the community?s great ideas for PyCon US 2022! -- Olivia SaulsEvent Assistant & Administrative SupportPython Software Foundationolivia at python.org _______________________________________________ Baypiggies mailing list Baypiggies at python.org To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Jeff On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 6:49 PM ken wrote: > Rand, > > Thank you for your opinion. I am very much in favor of this event being > boycotted by antivaxxers and pandemic deniers. > > I'm vaccinated, and I don't mind wearing a mask to protect others, so I > won't be boycotting this event. > > I support event leaders in choosing policies beyond mandates at their > discretion, if supported by current research and WHO and CDC guidelines. > > If you don't like the policy, please feel free to host your own event. > > Ken > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Rand Bradley > Date: 12/13/21 3:27 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: Olivia Sauls > Cc: baypiggies at python.org, pyconteam at python.org, djangosf-list at meetup.com > Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Attention: PyCon US 2022 and Call for Proposals! > > I am calling for a boycott of Pycon this year unless these health safety > guidelines are thrown out in full. How are you going to see all the faces > you've missed if masks are required? To my knowledge Utah does not have a > mask mandate in place, so why require it? Masks are obedience symbols. We > all know they don't work. If Utah or the venue is requiring masks, then > move or cancel the conference. Also, the vaxx requirements are > discriminatory and just plain ugly. This is segregation. Have we learned > nothing from history? By requiring vaxxes for attendance, you're excluding > almost half the US participants. > > It's time to stop playing pandemic. Is this the type of world you want to > live in? If not then reject these rules, stop participating. Let the > organizers know that you will not be attending due to the health and safety > guidelines. > > https://us.pycon.org/2022/attend/health-safety-guidelines/ > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Olivia Sauls wrote: > >> Hey folks! >> >> After two years apart, we are so excited to be welcoming you back in >> person for PyCon US 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah! Mark your calendars and >> start planning to see all the faces you?ve missed. Head over to the PyCon >> US 2022 website to read all the details and be >> sure to opt-in to receive >> PyCon US 2022 News for any future communications. >> >> Conference Dates: April 27, 2022 - May 3, 2022 >> >> We are even more excited to announce that the PyCon US 2022 Call for >> Proposals is open for Talks, Tutorials, Posters, and Charlas! All speakers >> will be presenting in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center. >> Proposals will be open until December 20, 2021 AoE. >> >> Please help us spread the word about our CFP launch with your local user >> groups. 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