From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Tue Apr 9 08:56:05 2019 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 07:56:05 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChiPy Apirl 2019 Main Meeting Message-ID: Hi ChiPy, Our April ChiPy Main meeting is just around the corner. We have some great talks planned for this meeting. Make sure that that you've registered for what is sure to be a great meeting! Thank you to Numerator for hosting us this month! *When:*Thus April 11, 2019, 6 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org by noon the day of the event. *Where:* Numerator 233 S Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606 Please check-in at security and proceed to the elevators for the 33rd floor. The event will be held up on the 34th floor which can be accessed via stairs or a separate elevator. *What:* - - *Plug-n-Stream Player Piano: Signal Processing With Python* By: JP Bader Digital Signal Processing and Player Piano don't normally come together in the same sentence. Player Pianos that are 100+ years old are awesome artisan artifacts, but they don't play digital formats very well. This talk will show how we take a 100+ year old technology and marry it to the digital age via Python libraries and precision lasers! In this discussion we will cover how we are creating our own "Plug-n-Stream Player Piano". We will take a look at the different digital signal processing Python libraries, their functionality, and requirements for converting audio streams to piano playable audio files. After a brief walk through of our prototyped hardware, we will dissect the digital signal processing, converting streaming music to data for the Player Piano. With a real Player Piano in the room we will demo streaming music from our devices onto the piano. LIVE(ish) Piano Playing! - *Throw away your shell scripts* By: Nick Timkovich One of the most common languages used by Python developers is some shell script (sh, bash, cmd.exe, or PowerShell), but why torture yourself with poor design decisions from the 70s when you know Python? - *Starting Your Data Science Journey* By: Aaron Yang There have been great talks in Chipy showcasing the amazing new technologies people are using with python, but we often forget where we first started. Some of you all are coming to Chipy for the first time and hoping to take your first steps into the world of tech. This talk will be targeted towards people looking to transition their career or the rest of us looking to find community in the continual gauntlet of developing our skills in the tech industry. I'll be showcasing my process and my thoughts on developing your skills. - *Empowering Early-Career Developers* By: Mercedes Bernard How can teams invest in and grow their less experienced developers into team-leading senior devs? I believe the first step is empowering them. On my team, we?ve created a process for each team member to lead and own one of our core features. Our early-career developers are learning client management and team leadership skills that they wouldn?t usually get to practice until they stepped into a senior role. In this talk, I?ll share what we?ve learned and a framework for you to create a process tailored to your team so you can provide your early-career developers the opportunities they need to become successful, senior team members. *Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors: Metis and TelnyxAlso thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit.Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ * -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: