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

[jason kirtland]

Last night was great- thanks everyone for coming out and making it a 
success!  Special thanks to Adam, Brett, Igal, Kirby, Matt, Michel & 
Reid for presenting!

kirby urner wrote:
> 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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