[Python Edinburgh] Talks!

Andre Engelbrecht litt.fire.sa at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 18:28:31 CEST 2014


I like option one, keep meetups as they are, and organise separate talks.
Worked nicely in the past :)

Andre Engelbrecht
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Tom Dalton <tom.dalton at fanduel.com> wrote:

> I like options 1 and 2 - Talks completely separate, or talks in a suitable
> venue followed by decamp to pub.
>
>
> On 2 September 2014 17:17, John Sutherland <john at sneeu.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 for option one: separate meet–up/talks.
>>
>> John.
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://sneeu.com/
>>
>> On 2 Sep 2014, at 17:13, Becky Smith <rebkwok at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I like the idea of talks, but the pub meet up is popular and less
>> formal than talks in a talk-suitable venue; I vote for the first option,
>> leave pub meet up as it is, have talks as a separate set of events.
>> >
>> > Becky
>> >
>> > On 2 Sep 2014 16:59, "Mark Smith" <mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > In the past when I've asked around, there's been a general feeling that
>> we'd like to keep the pub meetups as they are and run talks separately.
>> Before Toms unilaterally changes the format of our main function can
>> anybody who has an opinion reply to this thread stating their preference.
>> >
>> > I think the options are:
>> >
>> > * Keep pub meetups as they are and run talks separately on a different
>> day.
>> > * Start each meetup in a suitable venue (probably a local Python shop's
>> office) with a short talk, followed by a move to the pub
>> > * Hold each meetup in suitable venue (see above) with a short talk and
>> (possibly free) beer and pizza.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any other suggestions, please also feel free to post them.
>> >
>> > --Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2 September 2014 11:12, Toms <toms.baugis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello again, this is the third and final email from me today :)
>> >
>> > I ran a quick survey last time and was extremely happy to see that as
>> well as there are people who have been coding in python for 5+ years, there
>> were also plenty who had just started or even are considering learning
>> python as their first programming language!
>> > Apart from that, there was not a single person using the same stack -
>> there was so much diversity between 20 people, that there is enough fuel
>> for talks for a decade :)
>> >
>> > As such, I would like to tilt the format of the meetups by blending in
>> talks as the first part of the meetup.
>> > Not just every now and then, but rather *each* time we meet.
>> > Ideally we should be looking for 5-15 minute long talks, where no topic
>> is too big or too small. And they will be exciting as for the beginners, so
>> for the experts that might find a gap in their knowledge
>> >
>> > I'll give a few examples that i hope will spark your imagination as to
>> what kind of talk could you give:
>> >
>> > * lists, dicts, sets, tuples, namedtuples, frozensets - when to pick
>> tuple and when to pick list?
>> > * decorators - how to write one and how and when to use one
>> > * packing it up and shipping to PyPI with setuptools
>> > * virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, workon and other handy bits to make
>> managing python dependencies a breeze
>> > * flask and writing a web app in 30 lines
>> >
>> > These are talks anyone experienced a bit in python could give - and
>> there are tons of others. I'm quite certain that it would spark discussions
>> beyond what any of us could imagine.
>> >
>> > During the last meetup I also asked a few of you as to what talk could
>> you give if they would be given these 5-15 minutes, here are some of
>> results:
>> >
>> > * Thomas wrote a quizz web app in python and has open sourced it and it
>> has picked up - so it's most certainly worth checking it out
>> > * John - interprocess communication
>> > * Alistair - conda
>> > * The gentleman who's name is now escaping me (sorry!) - how the new
>> buzzy Go compares to python
>> > * Manuel - "plone" - turns out that despite the rumors, plone is still
>> very much alive
>> > * Ross - a full stack trace of a request - from browser down to where
>> it all began (some ruby might be involved)
>> >
>> > Here are few i can think myself from the top of the head, i could be
>> willing to present:
>> > * docopt - the awesome self-documenting CLI lib
>> > * adding autocomplete to your application in linux
>> > * writing a desktop application in 100 lines on linux with GTK3
>> > * automating deployment with fab
>> > * forget httplib/urrlib and embrace requests
>> >
>> >
>> > What's your stack like?
>> > What's your favourite or most often used feature, library or framework
>> is?
>> > What makes your head hurt and what excites you every time you get to
>> use it?
>> >
>> > Mail me privately with your talk ideas at toms.baugis at gmail.com!
>> >
>> > Toms
>> >
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