[Chicago] Topics for October Meeting at Market Bar

[Yarko Tymciurak]

Adam - I for one would enjoy that (whenever you can do it)

Regards,
- Yarko


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net> wrote:

> I'd be happy to do a lightning talk on Braintree as part of a meeting on
> tech entrepreneurship,  but I'm on vacation next week and may be out of
> town next month as well.
> On Oct 3, 2013 1:54 PM, "Jason Wirth" <wirth.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I mentioned this before:
>>
>> Googling for BrainTree's offices for last meeting I came across this
>> article about how BrainTree came to be as a business<http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-braintree>.
>> It got me thinking about how to (profitably?) run a software development
>> business--you know, the thing that generates money to pay developer
>> salaries, stock the fridge with beer, rent office space, sponsor PyCon,
>> Chipy, and other community activities.
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in giving a talk on this?
>>
>>
>> Given EBay's recent acquisition of Braintree someone talking about this
>> is even more relevant and would make it the BEST MEETING EVER!
>>
>> +1e6 for anyone who wants to talk about this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Since D3 is a possibility I'll shoot out Rob Story's github, he's working
>> with Wes and Chang (the Pandas guys) on their new startup DataPad and has
>> stuff linking Python to visualization. For example, one project is
>> Bearcart, which is a pandas dataframe in, rickshaw time series out.
>> (Rickshaw is a timeseries plotting library built on D3.)
>>
>> https://github.com/wrobstory
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Joseph Curtin <jbcurtinnews at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> +1 to the latter. D3 beauty + python is always neat.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Two ideas I'd be willing to put together:
>>>>
>>>> I've got a demo project that auths a user with Facebook and does some
>>>> asynchronous scraping that might be interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Alternately (reading this graphing thread), d3 is javascript but pretty
>>>> great, maybe a quick demo of how to set up browser-based visualizations
>>>> with a python backend?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Who's got something they want to present?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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