From strombrg at gmail.com  Wed Sep  2 06:17:00 2015
From: strombrg at gmail.com (Dan Stromberg)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:17:00 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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Hi folks.

What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?

I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.

Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
bring their slides on a USB flash drive?

Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?

Thanks.;

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From darjeeling at gmail.com  Wed Sep  2 10:17:36 2015
From: darjeeling at gmail.com (Kwon-Han Bae)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:17:36 +0900
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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AFAIK 5 minutes is common,
I heard PyCon SG allows only 2 minutes LT.


2015-09-02 13:17 GMT+09:00 Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com>:

> Hi folks.
>
> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
>
> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
>
> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
>
> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
>
> Thanks.;
>
> --
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From nelle.varoquaux at gmail.com  Wed Sep  2 10:30:08 2015
From: nelle.varoquaux at gmail.com (Nelle Varoquaux)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:30:08 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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>> Hi folks.
>>
>> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?

It's fun but requires a bit of organization.

>> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
>> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
>>
>> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
>> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
>>
>> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?

Scipy does 5 minutes. Either you provide the slides in pdf on a usb
stick, or you can use your own laptop. If you use your own laptop, the
setup time is included in your 5 minutes.
Euroscipy divides the allocated time by the number of people who
suggested a LT. This year, it was 2.5 minutes per person. The slides
were retrieved during the break just before and speakers did not use
their own computers.

I've also seen meetup consisting of only 5 minutes demo (no slides,
only live demo of the product or librairy). It was followed by 5
minutes of questions, during which the next speaker would set up.

Cheers,
N

>> Thanks.;
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From mal at egenix.com  Wed Sep  2 11:45:39 2015
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:45:39 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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On 02.09.2015 06:17, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?

For conferences, the standard 5 minute format works great. For the
Python Meeting D?sseldorf we originally started only having lightning
talks of 5 minutes each (even with timer :-)).

This was fun for while, but then we often found that a topic would benefit
a lot from receiving more attention, so we've since moved to a mix of
short and long talks (from 5-20 minutes, sometimes longer).

BTW: The main argument for initially using the shorter lightning talks
was to get more people participate in the meetings by giving a talk.
Preparing a short lightning talk simply doesn't require as much work
as a longer more in-depth one.

> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.

The compatibility is not much of a problem anymore nowadays. Projectors
and notebooks have gotten a lot better in this respect.

These days, you have more problems finding the right adapters
to connect to the projector (VGA, DVI, Mini DVI, DisplayLink,
HDMI, Mini HDMI, etc.) :-)

> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?

Only as fallback solution.

> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?

5 minutes is standard for lightning talks and having a timer
adds some extra fun, but then: see above.

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From pjf at maestropublishing.com  Wed Sep  2 08:43:32 2015
From: pjf at maestropublishing.com (Peter J. Farrell)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 06:38:32 -0005
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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We've done a couple of things at PyMNtos (http://python.mn) ...

1) A designated laptop with suggestion to use something like Google 
Slides or other online service. This has a couple pitfalls -- people 
either have to login to get slides or make them public in advance.  
And, no terminal / live examples.

2) A Google Chromecast.  The only prereq is to have Chrome and 
Chromecast plugin installed.  A Chromecast can cast an entire screen 
(not just a tab).  It works with Linux, Windows, and OSX.  Pitfall fall 
has been *one* laptop that due to security restrictions couldn't 
install Chrome / Chromecast plugin.  Also, bad wifi can cause issues, 
but that hasn't been a problem for us.

HTH,
Peter
Manager of PyMNtos

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
> 
> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
> 
> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters 
> to
> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
> 
> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
> 
> Thanks.;
> 
> -- 
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Wed Sep  2 14:50:30 2015
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:50:30 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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On 9/2/15 12:17 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
>
> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
>
> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
>
> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
>
> Thanks.;
>

For a local user group, I don't find much need to be strict about time.  
About using a shared laptop, there's a trade-off: I'm surprised at how 
many people are completely baffled by using a machine with a different 
operating system than they are used to. Sometimes it's just better to 
spend the 30 seconds up front to let them use their own machine, and 
then they can present smoothly from a laptop they are used to.

Also, as someone else mentioned, the laptop-switch time can be used for 
Q+A by the previous speaker.

--Ned.

From doug at doughellmann.com  Wed Sep  2 15:54:38 2015
From: doug at doughellmann.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:54:38 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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> On Sep 2, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/2/15 12:17 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> Hi folks.
>> 
>> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
>> 
>> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
>> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
>> 
>> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
>> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
>> 
>> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
>> 
>> Thanks.;
>> 
> 
> For a local user group, I don't find much need to be strict about time.  About using a shared laptop, there's a trade-off: I'm surprised at how many people are completely baffled by using a machine with a different operating system than they are used to. Sometimes it's just better to spend the 30 seconds up front to let them use their own machine, and then they can present smoothly from a laptop they are used to.

Yes, the only time I encourage the use of a shared laptop is if the presenter can?t make their system work with the projector. That?s unusual, but it does come up from time to time.

> 
> Also, as someone else mentioned, the laptop-switch time can be used for Q+A by the previous speaker.

In Atlanta, we use the time to let the wait-staff offer a round of refills. :-)

Doug


From adriennefriend at gmail.com  Wed Sep  2 15:54:42 2015
From: adriennefriend at gmail.com (Adrienne N. Lowe)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:54:42 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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I agree with Ned - for a local user group, you can be more flexible on the
length of the talks. For example, if you say 5 minutes, and they're still
not done at 7, you can give a cue to wrap up so they'll be done by 10.

The idea of a lightning talk is a great way to encourage someone who is
nervous about speaking, but is interested. A lot of time folks think that
speaking at a user group means signing up for some 20, 30, 40 minute
engagement with three hundred slides. If you let your members know that
they can talk on a shorter topic of their choosing, they may be more
inclined to try something they find intimidating.

As for setting up devices, I just check in with the event host ahead of
time, ask what kind of hookups they have available, and then communicate
that to my folks who are giving talks. It hasn't been an issue yet. I also
ask that anyone giving any talk of any duration spend a few minutes before
the user group starts making sure everything looks good and connects
properly.

FYI, I manage PyLadies in Atlanta :)

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
wrote:

> On 9/2/15 12:17 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
>>
>> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
>> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
>>
>> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
>> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
>>
>> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
>>
>> Thanks.;
>>
>>
> For a local user group, I don't find much need to be strict about time.
> About using a shared laptop, there's a trade-off: I'm surprised at how many
> people are completely baffled by using a machine with a different operating
> system than they are used to. Sometimes it's just better to spend the 30
> seconds up front to let them use their own machine, and then they can
> present smoothly from a laptop they are used to.
>
> Also, as someone else mentioned, the laptop-switch time can be used for
> Q+A by the previous speaker.
>
> --Ned.
>
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From chris.arndt at web.de  Wed Sep  2 16:59:30 2015
From: chris.arndt at web.de (Christopher Arndt)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:59:30 +0200
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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One thing I try to encourage potential speakers to consider is giving a
lightning talk not about one of your own projects or some code you've
written but also about projects from other people, that you find
interesting. This could be:

- Some cool (Python or coding-related) website you found.
- An interesting blog post you read.
- A new or not-so-well-known Python language feature.
- A new or not-so-well-known Python (third-party) library.
- An interesting algorithm or software engineering solution (e.g. design
patterns).
- Software development tools (editors, documentation systems, code
review and refactoring tools, ...).
- Interesting hardware (ergonomic keyboards, mobile computers or
microcontrollers running some flavour of Python).

Many people seem to (mistakingly, IMHO) think that you are only
"allowed" to give a lightning talk when you have "produced" something.
Offering up some of the above ideas might encourage some of them to try
their first lightning talk.


Chris


From trey at treyhunner.com  Fri Sep  4 00:18:30 2015
From: trey at treyhunner.com (Trey Hunner)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:18:30 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] Lightning talks?
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Sorry for the wall of text. I have been meaning to write a blog post on
my experiences hosting lightning talk-oriented meetups but I haven't
done so yet.

Here's my experience, which seems to parallel much of the other feedback
given.

For our meetups we have always allowed speakers to use their own
laptops, but we also make sure we have a loaner laptop ready for
speakers that show up with slides but no laptop.

For time limit, I prefer 5 minutes if possible.  This doesn't allow a
lot of in-depth talks requiring detailed introductions, but it does seem
to encourage more first-time speakers and new programmers to give talks.

We remind our audience multiple times that we want to encourage new
speakers and talks from new programmers and that we're here to help.  We
often say "if you have done even 1 hour of research on a topic, you are
probably more knowledgeable than at least some of your audience members."

We also have a spreadsheet we use to keep track of speaker information
so we can follow up with them and to make sure that our various
co-organizers don't overbook or underbook talks on any given night.

We started lightning talks at our meetup without a strict time limit or
a cue to speakers to wrap it up.  We found this was a big problem
because if we had 8 lightning talks scheduled they could range anywhere
from 40 to 120 minutes depending on how long each speaker took.

We have tried two different formats which have both worked well.

1. Hard 5 minute cut off

At our JS meetup we have a hard five minute cut off.  I signal the
speakers at 4 minutes using some audience participation (everyone golf
claps to signal 4 minutes).  Then at 5 minutes I signal the audience to
applaud which results in a somewhat abrupt cut off.  95% of speakers end
before 5 minutes, either because they realize they're going too slow and
wrap it up quickly after 4 or they wrap it up naturally with time to spare.

At 5 minutes, we ask speakers to unplug their laptop, move off the
podium, and answer questions for about 2 minutes.  The next speaker then
has plenty of time to setup as questions are being answered.  We usually
do about 8 speakers this way and call it a night because at this point
there is plenty of material to seed discussions with after the talks.
We like to end with socialization.

2. Speaker-imposed cut off

At our Python meetup we recently decided to counter the long lightning
talk problem by asking each speaker how long their talk will take.  I
ask them when they want me to signal them and when they want me to kick
them off the stage (which has not happened yet).  All of the speakers
have estimated their talk time appropriately so far, so this seems to
have worked well.

On 09/01/2015 09:17 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> What are people's experiences with doing lightning talks at a meetup?
> 
> I guess the thing that concerns me the most is setting up a half dozen
> laptops on a projector they've never been hooked up to before.
> 
> Do people do a "designated laptop" for the talks, and ask presenters to
> bring their slides on a USB flash drive?
> 
> Also, what's a good duration?  Maybe targeting 5-10 minutes?
> 
> Thanks.;
> 

-- 
Trey Hunner
http://treyhunner.com

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From dinaldo at gmail.com  Fri Sep 11 19:42:53 2015
From: dinaldo at gmail.com (Don Sheu)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:42:53 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] T-shirts
Message-ID: <CACvX9QAA-xxLRE+i4J8zTqhqnM0boGQgQFwj5pcXgdo44p1sNw@mail.gmail.com>

Saw a message Brian Ray shared with the ChiPy email list that prompted me
to share our t-shirt plans for PuPPy.

We plan to use the logo that Jen Pierce designed for us to use for
t-shirts. These t-shirts will be used to anchor our voluntary member
contribution drive. If we used Teespring, it looks like about $13 for cost
of the t-shirts. I think CustomInk can offer a per unit cost of less than
$10.

Here's a link to the design,
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x7hspexjmn0op91/AAA8RZsk24y-5dYa12YgSO2Ja?dl=0

Also, for purposes of fulfilling our commitment to our code of conduct,
we're going to make an Organizer t-shirt that will have shirts clearly
marked so anybody reporting an incident can find an organizer.

-- 
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From dinaldo at gmail.com  Wed Sep 23 23:50:03 2015
From: dinaldo at gmail.com (Don Sheu)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:50:03 -0700
Subject: [group-organizers] New PuPPy Efforts for October
Message-ID: <CACvX9QB4FMp+ENcJp2bLWP-=R2hFzv43X4aCVtpW22KerfapNA@mail.gmail.com>

Two new programs we're planning and will launch soon: 1) Career Coaching
Session; and 2) study sessions in conjunction with Coursera Machine
Learning Specialization.

On October 6th, we're running an engineer-to-engineer career coaching
session. Participants will meet with five coaches during a 30 minute slot.
I've asked that coaches not pitch a position or opportunity and instead
tune advice for the individual seeking coaching.

WeWork Holyoke is hosting us for free in their new Downtown Seattle
location. Anthology is sponsoring food and beverages. Seattle
nano-breweries have limited supply, but we were able to secure 1/6bbl from
Stoup Brewery of their Mosaic Pale. We're serving b?nh m? from Saigon
Vietnam Deli. Some claim it's amongst the best b?nh m? in the US.

Anybody interested in the results of this experiment, I'm happy to collect
your contact and share when we complete the event.

Here's a list of our coaches:

Alan Vezina, Founder and CTO Jydo
Avilay Parekh, Founder AvilayLabs LLC
Carter Rabasa, Product Manager Twilio
Colin Dietrich, Research Scientist NOAA
George Murray, Delivery Lead Indeed
Ian Shafer, Founder Anthology
Joel Grus, Engineer Google
John Helm, CTO OmniRetail
John Hunter, Founder Push Agency
Nick Denny, Founder and CTO APImetrics
Phil Kimmey, Founder Rover
Rahul Singh, Founder Distelli
Yannick Gingras, Engineering Manager Facebook
Dusty Phillips, Production Engineer Facebook
Andrew Chalfant, Production Engineer Facebook
Ben Reilly, Technology Lead Reup
Dan Simmonds, Engineer Amazon
Charlotte Tan, Engineer Extrahop
Brenden West, Founder Tech Mentors
Jason Foote, Lead Engineer Offerup
Robert Mao, Founder Pixotale
Cris Ewing, Owner of Cris Ewing, Developer, LLC, Instructor Code Fellows,
UW Python Certificate
Kody Kochaver, Founder and CEO of Jydo

Carlos Guestrin founder of Dato and Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at
the University of Washington in collaboration with a fellow Amazon
Profession of Machine Learning created a Coursera Machine Learning
specialization. About 30 PuPPy members have committed to taking the course,
attending a keynote delivered by Carlos, and participate in study sessions
hosted by General Assembly in Seattle.

Link to Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning

Seattle D/A/ML in Seattle organized by Jake Mannix of the Allen Institute
for AI, Alice Zheng Director of Data Science at Dato, and Trey Causey Data
Scientist at Dato, will recruit their members to join PuPPy in the study
sessions. Also, Alice is recruiting colleagues from Dato to help tutor our
PuPPy members joining the study sessions.

Also, anybody with interest in the results of this experiment, let me know
and I'm happy to update with a report.

Warmest wishes,

-- 
Don Sheu
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From brianhray at gmail.com  Mon Sep 28 18:04:41 2015
From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:04:41 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] core-dev and/or non-core-dev sprints cPython
Message-ID: <CANKg38tEwmj3Uzoj44Nrt+5zN3VeGpmgBNQqXQNC=JubaBae2g@mail.gmail.com>

I saw Barry Warsaw held a sprint in DC yesterday. I would like to do the
same thing in Chicago.

I am not really sure where to get started so starting this thread in hopes
someone can shed some light on what I need to do to make this happen.

Step 1: decide if there are enough core-dev contributors
Step 2: if not, what do we do as non-core-dev
Step 3: decide on location and sponsorship...
Step 4: ....



-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
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From brian at python.org  Mon Sep 28 18:11:40 2015
From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:11:40 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] core-dev and/or non-core-dev sprints cPython
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38tEwmj3Uzoj44Nrt+5zN3VeGpmgBNQqXQNC=JubaBae2g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38tEwmj3Uzoj44Nrt+5zN3VeGpmgBNQqXQNC=JubaBae2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAD+XWwqf+bwAMmRAD+wN_NgcxN2u8RPhp5ANjLUEz1fZ8fJ_Pg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw Barry Warsaw held a sprint in DC yesterday. I would like to do the
> same thing in Chicago.
>
> I am not really sure where to get started so starting this thread in hopes
> someone can shed some light on what I need to do to make this happen.
>
> Step 1: decide if there are enough core-dev contributors
> Step 2: if not, what do we do as non-core-dev
> Step 3: decide on location and sponsorship...
> Step 4: ....

Anyone who wants to sprint on improving Python, whether CPython or any
other Python-related project (frameworks, tools, etc): get a group of
people together, figure out what you want to work on, figure out what
you need to make it happen, and email the Sprints Committee at
sprints at python.org. We can reimburse* up to $250** per event,
typically used for food/drink but has sometimes been used to rent
meeting space.

* We require receipts after the event in order to process payment,
either by check or PayPal. We can wire but prefer not to due to higher
percentage of overhead, specifically for US-based reimbursements.
** We use $250 as a rough guideline, but if you need significantly
more than this we would probably help you to re-propose as an up-front
grant direct from the PSF rather than having you front something like
$500+.

From rdmurray at bitdance.com  Mon Sep 28 19:34:45 2015
From: rdmurray at bitdance.com (R. David Murray)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:34:45 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] core-dev and/or non-core-dev sprints cPython
In-Reply-To: <CANKg38tEwmj3Uzoj44Nrt+5zN3VeGpmgBNQqXQNC=JubaBae2g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANKg38tEwmj3Uzoj44Nrt+5zN3VeGpmgBNQqXQNC=JubaBae2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20150928173445.C6E27251047@webabinitio.net>

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:04:41 -0400, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw Barry Warsaw held a sprint in DC yesterday. I would like to do the
> same thing in Chicago.
> 
> I am not really sure where to get started so starting this thread in hopes
> someone can shed some light on what I need to do to make this happen.
> 
> Step 1: decide if there are enough core-dev contributors
> Step 2: if not, what do we do as non-core-dev
> Step 3: decide on location and sponsorship...
> Step 4: ....

If you don't have any local core devs, you can try to recruit a remote
one via core-mentorship and/or #python-dev on irc (we used hangout
successfully to include me in the DC sprint).  But you don't *need* even
that level of core dev participation to make progress on
reviewing/updating/fixing bugs, just to get the results committed, which
can happen later.

--David