[group-organizers] New PuPPy Efforts for October

[Don Sheu]

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 bánh mì from Saigon
Vietnam Deli. Some claim it's amongst the best bánh mì 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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