[python-nl] Python Meetup Octobre 22nd

[Mallory van Achterberg]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:19:03AM +0200, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 20-08-14 13:13, Folkje wrote:
> > ...
> >If there's also still a Python-Perl thing going on somewhere we'd be
> >happy to join too. There can never be enough Python Meetups :)
> 
> Not entirely sure about that last comment. There *can* be too much
> fragmentation so that it isn't clear anymore when/where there are
> python meetings.

I go to both the AmsterdamX (Perl) "meetups" at Booking and also
the Byte Python Meetups in Amsterdam, and sometimes the talks
available would have excellent overlap, plus I could see benefits
to things like sharing meeting resources and getting people out
of their echo chambers regarding what's going on tech-wise in
different communities.

That said, I tend to see the general PUN meetings as pretty much
pure/mostly Python and scheduled to be *anywhere*, and the Byte
meetups as being fairly Python but also broader (talks on Ansible,
regexen, CMSes, that sort of thing) and based in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam isn't the easiest to get to for everyone, so I see it as
an advantage that the general PUN meetings change location while
the Byte meetups stay, well, at Byte (unless they did something
together with Booking/Perl people).

I also see the PUN meetings as being more Dutch-language, and the
talks feel often more detailed and technical in general (maybe also
because they can be longer) than the Byte talks. Again, I see them
as separate and complimentary.
In Perl there are "monger" groups, groups of people centered around
Perl and then generally a location, and there are two in Amsterdam:
the original Amsterdam.pm which meets in Diemen and in Dutch, and the
AmsterdamX.pm (Amsterdam eXpats) which tends to be in English and
at Booking. They compliment each other, but one didn't replace the
other.

I wouldn't want the Byte meetups to all-out replace the PUN meetups.

My 2 cents
_mallory