[Chicago] Chicago Python User Group: Thurs. July 13, 2006 7pm.

[Jess Balint]

I'm totally in the same camp as you on the Barcamp thing. But why do you get
the impression that it's very business oriented?

I'm thinking about grabbing a timeslot for some exploratory
programming/systems talks. No big presentations or anything, just some
interactive (audience asking questions and provoking deeper explanation)
talks very similar to lighting talks. Nothing in particular has to be
planned and this would be a great time for you to talk more about Perl 6 if
you are going. :) (And we will talk about Python of course)

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From: chicago-bounces at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of Chris McAvoy
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:07 AM
To: The Chicago Python Users Group
Subject: Re: [Chicago] Chicago Python User Group: Thurs. July 13, 2006 7pm.

On 7/12/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> DemoCamp seems like an interesting idea (http://barcamp.org/DemoCamp).
> Or for something more programmery (and less startupy), a lightning talk
> format.

Yeah, that's my only real beef with the BarCamp Chicago concept.  I'm
not really into starting up my own business.  At least not in that
context.  My head is way more into programming for programming
sake...the joy of programming...that sort of thing.

DemoCamp seems fun.  BarCamp seems fun too, don't get me wrong.  I
just want to be a nerd this summer, not a hip young business man.

Lots of things to think about.

My Perl 6 plan is seriously less than seven minutes long.  If that.
Maybe I'll just talk it up anecdotally.  The sum total of what I want
to say is, "Perl 6 is actually happening, and you can add to the
language if you just ask nice.  It's kind of f'ing bonkers in a really
good way."

Chris
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