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[Michael Tobis]

> I also suggest that the more "newbie" stuff come at the
> beginning of the meeting, and the presentations get more advanced in
> content as the meeting goes on... That way people can drop out once
> they start getting confused.  It also makes it possible for
> presentations to build on each other:

I agree with Atul's suggestion. I made a similar suggestion at a
meeting once, but most people present thought the easy stuff should be
left for "dessert". Anyone else care to weigh in?

mt


On 2/10/06, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Brian Ray <bray at sent.com> wrote:
> > We should have a n00b intro section at each meeting. Maybe, cover a
> > simple module or just a language feature. It can be a flash talk but
> > we should make this effort for those  (like me) who may get lost in
> > some of the more complicated presentations or have short attention
> > spa--what was I typing, nevermind.
>
> I agree... I also suggest that the more "newbie" stuff come at the
> beginning of the meeting, and the presentations get more advanced in
> content as the meeting goes on... That way people can drop out once
> they start getting confused.  It also makes it possible for
> presentations to build on each other: for instance, Ian gave an
> interesting presentation on generics in November, but at one point he
> started using decorators, at which point I got lost.  So it would've
> been nice if someone gave a semi-newbie presentation on decorators
> that preceded Ian's talk.  Maybe that requires too much coordination
> between presenters, but it would be cool to see.  Perhaps people who
> are giving advanced talks could just send out an email to the list
> saying "hey, my presentation assumes the audience knows about X and Y,
> so if someone wants to give a presentation on those before mine, that
> would be great"?
>
> I'm particularly interested in seeing presentations on language
> features...  Ones that don't just explain what a language feature is,
> but also talk about how it can be made useful in a wide variety of
> situations.  That way even experienced Python people could at least
> learn a few new ways to use a language feature, even if they already
> knew what the language feature was.
>
> Anyhow, I'm pretty new to ChiPy and I wasn't able to attend
> yesterday's meeting, so maybe all this has been discussed before. :)
>
> - Atul
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