[Madison] March Meeting Planning

[Benet Devereux]

Yeah, I did mean the 27th, good catch.

Matt, thanks for all these ideas - but unless we're going to demand 3 talks from you, it seems like this whole month has been pretty bad for people, and we should start planning for an April meeting, at a time when we can get a better turnout.

A couple of follow-on administrative type questions for everyone:

- right now we're trying to make sure that, before having a meeting, we have at least 3 people lined up to give short talks, and a reasonable expectation of good turnout. Do people like this, provided we can keep everyone in the loop via this list/Web608/Facebook, or would it suit people's needs better if, like before, we set a regular meeting schedule, and met come rain come shine - if no talks get lined up, it can be a social meeting.
- speaking of Web608, as a third alternative, how would people feel about splitting social meetings from technical meetings?


--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Matt Feifarek <matt.feifarek at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Matt Feifarek <matt.feifarek at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Madison] March Meeting Planning
To: "Madison Python Users' Group" <madison at python.org>
Received: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:48 PM

So, turns out I'll be in town. (though, the 26th is a Friday, so I'm assuming we're talking the 27th?)
I could give a quick talk on one of these things:
1. SQLAlchemy's "Expression language" layer (closer to SQL than ORM)


2. Overview of Pylons web development framework
3. Using WingIDE to code python (seems that most people are just using text editors... I like Wing, and can show why)


4. Using Mako to make "static" websites and why. (This should probably come after I show off Pylons)
5. Virtualenv. (if you're not using it, you probably should be. This might be more like 5m than 10m)


So, you guys can vote; otherwise, I'll just pick one as the week wraps up.
Has anyone been to PyCon this year? I'd love to see a "Best of Show" talk about what you saw there.


— Matt



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