[Python Edinburgh] (no subject)

[Douglas Houston]

I'd be no use as a mentor right now, but I have couple of programs I need
to write and would be very interested in participating in a regular
workshop ... even if it meant paying some actual real money!



On 28 November 2014 at 12:47, Bald, Glenn <Glenn.Bald at forestry.gsi.gov.uk>
wrote:

>  Hi Xavier/All,
>
> For me personally any form of practice and motivation would be good. I
> have my own area of interest but happy to learn anything. Also happy to
> share anything I know. My own preference would be to work together on a
> shared goal, perhaps based on some issue someone had. Either one big goal
> or several small ones, ideally starting on the easier ones.
>
> I would be interested in:
> Creating a mobile application to work with a fitness band
> Automating the processing of aerial images  from unmanned area aircraft.
> Anything related to GIS
>
> As I said though happy to go with the flow
>
> I might be able to provide office space (EH12 7AT) depending on when and
> how many. Also happy to travel within Edinburgh(Sorry Falkirk a bit far for
> me to do regularly)
>
> Cheers
> Glenn
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Edinburgh [mailto:edinburgh-bounces+glenn.bald=
> forestry.gsi.gov.uk at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Xavier Oliver-Duocastella
> *Sent:* 28 November 2014 11:57
> *To:* Python Edinburgh
> *Subject:* Re: [Python Edinburgh] (no subject)
>
>  I'd be quite happy to run workshops of anything I know. Mentoring too,
> although it's more unclear to me how that could work.
>
> Xavier
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM, dgm <dgm at agamik.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am happy to do mentoring, depending on location as I am in Falkirk.
>>
>> On 28 November 2014 at 11:20, James Doig <jamesdoig at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Small regular workshops would be a great Idea and I'd be happy to help
>>> out. I know Becky got a *lot* of interest in her Django girls workshop
>>> that's running this weekend so I don't think there would be any shortage of
>>> other students either :)
>>>
>>> I imagine if the mentors took it in shifts to take workshops we could
>>> get fairly regular lessons without impacting anyones personal life too much?
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Anyone else up for mentoring?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> James.
>>>
>>>  On 28 November 2014 at 11:01, Bald, Glenn <
>>> Glenn.Bald at forestry.gsi.gov.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> I would find small regular tutorials/self help groups helpful. I mainly
>>>> use GIS software and C# with a little python. I would be interested in
>>>> learning more python.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Glenn
>>>>
>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Edinburgh [mailto:edinburgh-bounces+glenn.bald=
>>>> forestry.gsi.gov.uk at python.org] *On Behalf Of *paul colrain
>>>> *Sent:* 27 November 2014 18:11
>>>> *To:* edinburgh at python.org
>>>> *Subject:* [Python Edinburgh] (no subject)
>>>>
>>>>   Dear Pythonistas
>>>>
>>>> I’m looking for a Python mentor/tutor/adviser. Someone to help me in
>>>> the next few months to get to a stage where I can call myself a Pythonista.
>>>> I have a few bob.
>>>>
>>>> I wish to learn Python and OO program design. I’m pretty clueless but I
>>>> have some programming experience (12 years of Fortran and a year of C++,
>>>> but more than 25 years ago!).
>>>> I would like to learn by doing, by building a couple of simple Object
>>>> Oriented Monte Carlo programs to simulate simple economies or supply chains.
>>>>
>>>> In the future I hope to make simple desktop applications, web
>>>> applications, to use in my job (I do some data analysis and modelling for
>>>> the World Health Organisation in the area of immunization supply chain %
>>>> logistics).
>>>>
>>>> Any advice, suggestions, offers greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Paul
>>>>
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