[portland] TODAY! What's New in 2.6 and 3.0 10/14 7pm

[kirby urner]

I blogged about the event live, polishing a bit later:

http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/10/ppug-20081014.html

Of course it's highly biased, would be interested in seeing other
accounts from different angles.

I cut out early as I wasn't sure how my sponsor was taking it, her
first exposure to CubeSpace culture.  As it happens, she took it quite
well so maybe we'll see her at future beer parties.

That was a *lot* of information last night, and being one of the
presenters, I was too pumped about my <rant></rant> and so on to get
it all down -- but at least I know where to look.

Thanks to all for another great PPUG event!

Kirby


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM, jason kirtland <jek at discorporate.us> wrote:
> Perfect, sounds great!!
>
> kirby urner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason --
>>
>> I have a an 8-10 minute lightning talk planned, sponsored by Fine
>> Grind Productions, re PY3K, includes:
>>
>> (a) an ad from our sponsor
>> (b) a short rant / intro to Kirby
>> (c) a short story
>> (d) a dance proposal ("The Writhe")
>> (e) a demo.
>>
>> The demo is about
>> (i) unicode and
>> (ii) next and print and their backward incompatibility with
>> prehistoric Pythons (yay).
>>
>> Hope there's time (8-10 minutes including some setup).
>>
>> Bringing slides on Ubuntu Dell laptop.
>>
>> Kirby Urner
>> 4dsolutions.net
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:58 AM, jason kirtland <jek at discorporate.us>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's the day: we're meeting tonight at 7pm at CubeSpace.
>>>
>>> Also, I'll have my laptop open with 2.6 and 3.0 interactive interpreters
>>> up
>>> and running.  Anyone's welcome to plug it in to the projector to show
>>> something.
>>>
>>> I also ran off a copy of the What's New 2.6 docs but if anyone else can
>>> it'd
>>> be great to have more copies circulating.  My printer's nearly out of
>>> toner
>>> and this copy is hard to read.  Tip: the whatsnew.pdf from the PDF docs
>>> download prints best.
>>>
>>> See you tonight!
>>>
>>> -j
>>>
>>>
>>> jason kirtland wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Python 2.6 has been released and 3.0 will be shortly.  We'll be
>>>> celebrating their releases this Tuesday with a D.I.Y. What's New party!
>>>>
>>>> The format is simple: pick a change or two from the What's New in Python
>>>> documentation from 2.6 or 3.0 and tell us about it!  You can use the
>>>> projector if you want, but < 5 minutes.  That's easy because most
>>>> changes
>>>> are small.
>>>>
>>>> Here's an example from 3.0:
>>>>
>>>>  "Removed <> (use != instead)."
>>>>
>>>> So easy!  Find some and bring 'em to us.  If you get inspired and want
>>>> to
>>>> share one of the few larger changes (< 10 min), check the wiki and put
>>>> your
>>>> name down.
>>>>
>>>> I'll be bringing *two growlers* of rare and wonderful beer from Bailey's
>>>> Taproom to get the party started.  Bring hardcopy of one or both What's
>>>> New
>>>> if you can.  And party hats.
>>>>
>>>>  http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
>>>>  http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
>>>>
>>>>  wiki: http://pdxpython.org/
>>>>  maps, rsvp, etc.: http://python.meetup.com/183/
>>>>
>>>> Tuesday 10/14 7pm at CubeSpace.  See you there!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jason
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