[omaha] Idea for Multi - meeting/person/topic presentations

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

Steve is it ok with you and your company if we meet Wed? Instead of Monday.

Best,
Jeff Hinrichs
On Mar 14, 2012 10:26 PM, "Joe Gulizia" <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Monday?  I thought we were going to do Wednesdays?  Better attendance or
> am I wrong?
> What location also?
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Kyle Korbel <kyle.s.korbel at gmail.com>
> To: Omaha Python Users Group <omaha at python.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [omaha] Idea for Multi - meeting/person/topic presentations
>
> I would agree.  That would a really fun project.  I'd be interested.
>
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I love the idea.  Sounds like a great way to learn Python and much
> more.  I
> > must say a ToDo app isn't very exciting - but I can't think of anything
> > better at the moment...
> >
> > Next meeting is this Monday.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T
> > <jeffh at dundeemt.com>wrote:
> >
> >> There have been requests for a beginning Python topic for each meeting
> in
> >> addition to the current type of topics.  From prior presentations on
> >> beginning topics, they are usually quite dry, running down a laundry
> list
> >> of topics from dictionaries, to PEP8 to iterators, etc.  The
> presentations
> >> are ok but I was thinking about a way to have a multi-focus project that
> >> would cover the spectrum.  Something completely different...
> >>
> >> As a thought experiment, pick a slightly more than trivial project --
> say
> >> Gina Trapani's Todo.txt  http://todotxt.com/  -- a nifty idea for a
> >> simplistic but workable todo list app.  But built on a hodge podge of
> bash,
> >> awk, sed with plugin's using programming langauges all over the
> universe.
> >> Say we agreed to re-implement the app in Python.  It's GPL we can do
> that.
> >> It is flat file based with lots of string processing and user
> interaction
> >> -- just the kind of stuff that make for a decent first program.  We can
> >> show off file handling, iterators, etc.    Pretty good topics for
> beginning
> >> pythonistas.
> >>
> >> Now we have also had requests for presentations on testing.   This would
> >> make a good vehicle for demonstrating unit tests, smoke tests,
> integration
> >> tests and acceptance testing.
> >>
> >> Every meeting we would have someone volunteer to give a talk on topic X
> and
> >> use this on-going project as the guinea pig for demonstrating.
> >>
> >>
> >>  - We would host the code up on a public repository, say bitbucket and
> >>  then people could demo using mercurial and git.
> >>  - It would be a candidate for using Tox
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/toxto
> >>  assist in making it 2/3 compatible
> >>  - Documenting your project with sphinx and/or read the docs
> >>  http://readthedocs.org/
> >>     - checking your documentation examples with doctests
> >>  - Packaging your app for Linux, Mac, Windows and putting it up on pypi
> >>  - Using nosetest   w/wo coverage.py
> >>  - The list goes on, webify it, make a gui, etc, etc.
> >>
> >> Now not every talk would be using this "group project" as the example
> -- a
> >> lot of times it just wouldn't make sense, but when it did make sense, we
> >> would have a common code base that all were familiar with or could get
> >> familiar with quickly.
> >>
> >> I look forward to your responses -- I hope you get my angle on this,
> but I
> >> think we could make this or something like this a real win for the
> group.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Jeff Hinrichs
> >> 402.218.1473
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