[Chicago] Fwd: Brian Ray -- Founding Organizer ChiPy

[Ross Heflin]

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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Don Sheu <don at sheu.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:18 AM
> Subject: Brian Ray -- Founding Organizer ChiPy
> To: psf-fellow at python.org
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> Dear Members of PSF Fellow WG,
>
> On the occasion of Brian Ray's resignation as an organizer of ChiPy after
> 14 years of service, I'd like to put forth his nomination as a PSF Fellow.
>
> Brian over 14 years ago founded ChiPy with Chris McAvoy
> <https://medium.com/@brianray_7981/brian-ray-chipy-resignation-ff6f77d6637c>
> sitting at a table at Goose Island Brewery. During that 14 years, ChiPy has
> grown to include over 8000 members. Out of the alumni there's been
> significant Pythonistas like John Hunter, Aaron Swartz, Harper Reed, and
> Adrian Holovaty.
>
> Early Matplotlib was demonstrated at ChiPy. Adrian Holovaty first shared
> Django at a ChiPy meeting. Brian helped Harper Reed at Threadless to move
> the entire company to prioritize Python in its technology. Harper would go
> on to join the Obama for America campaign as CTO in 2012. Atlantic
> Magazine's article by Alexis Madrigal credited Harper with winning the 2012
> election against Romney.
>
> Brian's produced a lot of Python over the years. He built the core product
> for Textura responsible for most of its revenue. Oracle purchased Textura
> for $663m. At Cerner, he advised on Python best practices. When Deloitte
> put Python professionals up for the assignment, Brian was the first
> professional Cerner accepted after over 30 interviews.
>
> Currently Brian's expanding and improving Deloitte's use of Python
> specifically in use for analytics and Machine Learning. He is influencing
> how this company of 84,890 professionals view Python.
>
> Think recognizing Brian Ray as a PSF fellow would be a nice retirement
> gift after 14 years of buying pizza for 8000 Pythonistas.
>
> Brian's email is brianhray at gmail.com
>
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> Don Sheu
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> My Python user group convenes every month 2nd Wednesdays
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