From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Dec  1 17:42:52 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:42:52 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Python Rag
Message-ID: <4B15478C.8040500@unc.edu>

I recently became aware of this resource, which may be of interest to 
beginners:

http://www.pythonrag.org/

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Dec  1 19:31:15 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:15 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Head First Programming
Message-ID: <4B1560F3.3030707@unc.edu>

I first heard about this book from Joel Burton over two years ago. It 
was finally released today. Amazon has it for a dollar less than the 
O'Reilly user group discount price, and with free shipping:

http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Programming-Learners-Language/dp/0596802374

Head First Programming is a book for people who aren't just new to 
Python, but new to programming. And it's written in Python 3.

On the one hand, it seems to assume that you already have Python 3 
installed on your machine and that you know how to fire up IDLE.

On the other hand, it says in the intro that the book is *not* for you 
if 1) you already know how to program or 2) are looking for a quick 
Python introduction or reference book.

If you are trying to teach someone completely new to programming, this 
book might help. It seems to really assume the reader knows nothing 
about programming. However, be aware that it does carry some warts 
common to teaching Python, like the use of the word "variable."

It also uses the "you already know how to read Python" approach to 
explaining Python code, too, if you like that approach.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From tobias at caktusgroup.com  Tue Dec  1 19:57:35 2009
From: tobias at caktusgroup.com (Tobias McNulty)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:57:35 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Django development sprint in the Triangle, Dec 12-13
Message-ID: <8101bb810912011057g5b82389cnf71b6c9de5e8f7a2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that we'll be hosting a local Django Development
sprint in the Triangle area of North Carolina next weekend (Dec 12 and 13).
A development sprint is an excuse to get together, write some code, and have
a good time doing it.  The purpose of this sprint will be to help finish
features and push out bug fixes in preparation for the Django 1.2 release.
If you're interested in coming to work on other open source Django-based
projects, that's welcome too.

We'll be meeting in Carrboro Creative Coworking (205 Lloyd St, Carrboro, NC
27510) and we'll be there to open the doors at 9am both days.

For more information, please check out the corresponding wiki page and RSVP
via Eventbrite if you're interested:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC

http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/

We have a couple sponsors so far, but there's still room for more, so check
out the sponsors section of the wiki and add yourself (or your company) if
you'd like to bring something.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Tobias



-- 
Tobias McNulty
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
P.O. Box 1454
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 951-0052
http://www.caktusgroup.com
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From mrevoir at gmail.com  Wed Dec  2 18:08:02 2009
From: mrevoir at gmail.com (Mike Revoir)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:08:02 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] December Meeting
Message-ID: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Revoir <mrevoir at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
>
>>

> I still want to talk to Robert about this coming Dec 17th, because we might
>> be able to have some, uh, holiday "punch" at the Franklin Center. We have
>> in the past at Nicholas School, too.
>>
>
> Yeah, there's no punch allowed in the North Pavilion, so that'd be great if
> it was the case else where. I don't need to have the lock on Duke locations
> if Ben or Robert would like to host, but I'd like to keep Duke in the
> rotation.
>

Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could
meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on
tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the
after-meeting meeting in Durham :)

I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week
prior.

Have a nice day,

Mike
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From bendonnelly at gmail.com  Wed Dec  2 18:32:34 2009
From: bendonnelly at gmail.com (Ben Donnelly)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:32:34 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] December Meeting
In-Reply-To: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f43e5d7b0912020932u44191330wbc77481c61098f4f@mail.gmail.com>

I'd been talking to CC about hosting the Holiday meeting at the
Nicholas School at Duke again- tho' just yesterday, my group scheduled
a last minute meeting at Rutgers, so there's a good chance I'll be out
of town now. If there's another location, it might be better to go
with that.

Bendy

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mike Revoir <mrevoir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Revoir <mrevoir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>> I still want to talk to Robert about this coming Dec 17th, because we
>>> might
>>> be able to have some, uh, holiday "punch" at the Franklin Center. We have
>>> in the past at Nicholas School, too.
>>
>> Yeah, there's no punch allowed in the North Pavilion, so that'd be great
>> if it was the case else where. I don't need to have the lock on Duke
>> locations if Ben or Robert would like to host, but I'd like to keep Duke in
>> the rotation.
>
> Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could
> meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on
> tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the
> after-meeting meeting in Durham :)
> I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week
> prior.
> Have a nice day,
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>

From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Dec  2 18:29:29 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:29:29 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] December Meeting
In-Reply-To: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4B16A3F9.1020500@unc.edu>

On 12/2/2009 12:08 PM, Mike Revoir wrote:
> Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could
> meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on
> tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the
> after-meeting meeting in Durham :)

Yeah, I put a placeholder announcement up here a couple of weeks ago:

http://trizpug.org/

Bendy said he could host at Nicholas school in a conference room.

Still waiting to hear the room number from Bendy.

> I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week
> prior.

I'd think that would be a good possibility. :)

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Dec  2 20:41:18 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:41:18 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] December Meeting
In-Reply-To: <f43e5d7b0912020932u44191330wbc77481c61098f4f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f4cf1c730912020908i1db53e63kc94a6fae128863ea@mail.gmail.com>
	<f43e5d7b0912020932u44191330wbc77481c61098f4f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4B16C2DE.9060605@unc.edu>

On 12/2/2009 12:32 PM, Ben Donnelly wrote:
> I'd been talking to CC about hosting the Holiday meeting at the
> Nicholas School at Duke again- tho' just yesterday, my group scheduled
> a last minute meeting at Rutgers, so there's a good chance I'll be out
> of town now. If there's another location, it might be better to go
> with that.

Ouch.

OK. I'm checking on some alternate locations now.

Thanks for the heads up.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From tobias at caktusgroup.com  Thu Dec 10 18:44:47 2009
From: tobias at caktusgroup.com (Tobias McNulty)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:44:47 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Django development sprint in the Triangle, Dec 12-13
In-Reply-To: <8101bb810912011057g5b82389cnf71b6c9de5e8f7a2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8101bb810912011057g5b82389cnf71b6c9de5e8f7a2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8101bb810912100944h285b7ad6o549eae5007417256@mail.gmail.com>

Just a friendly reminder about the Django sprint this weekend in the
Triangle.  If you haven't already, don't forget to RSVP so we can plan
food, drinks, etc. accordingly:

http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Tobias


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tobias McNulty <tobias at caktusgroup.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that we'll be hosting a local Django Development
> sprint in the Triangle area of North Carolina next weekend (Dec 12 and 13).
> A development sprint is an excuse to get together, write some code, and have
> a good time doing it.? The purpose of this sprint will be to help finish
> features and push out bug fixes in preparation for the Django 1.2 release.
> If you're interested in coming to work on other open source Django-based
> projects, that's welcome too.
>
> We'll be meeting in Carrboro Creative Coworking (205 Lloyd St, Carrboro, NC
> 27510) and we'll be there to open the doors at 9am both days.
>
> For more information, please check out the corresponding wiki page and RSVP
> via Eventbrite if you're interested:
>
> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC
>
> http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/
>
> We have a couple sponsors so far, but there's still room for more, so check
> out the sponsors section of the wiki and add yourself (or your company) if
> you'd like to bring something.
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Cheers,
> Tobias


-- 
Tobias McNulty
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
P.O. Box 1454
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 951-0052
http://www.caktusgroup.com

From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Dec 11 22:11:00 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:11:00 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG December 2009 Holiday Party: Lightning Talks and
	You!
Message-ID: <E37F13B9-13E9-41FA-B957-43BE709728E3@unc.edu>

It turns out that Bendy can host our meeting at Duke after all.

So here's the announcement:

http://trizpug.org/Members/bendy/dec-09-mtg/

We will have a lot of food and beverage, plus at least six  
*substantial* door prizes.

Unless someone steps forward with a feature presentation, this holiday  
party/meeting will be all about your lightning talks. Please think of  
something you learned about Python recently that you can show and tell  
about in five minutes or less. Some of the door prizes are going to be  
linked to best lightning talks. Or maybe you might need to give a  
lightning talk to get in on the door prize action. Either way, I'm  
sure there is *something*  you learned in the month or so that is  
worth sharing.

You might plan to arrive a little early to deal with the parking  
situation and the confusing hallways of the meeting location.

Map: http://map.duke.edu/?x=355.06&y=-360.22&z=5&w=835&h=600&new.x=474&new.y=271

If you arrive late and can't get in the door, call 358-2662 or  
613-8021x7.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Dec 16 18:14:52 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:14:52 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG December 2009 Holiday Party: Lightning Talks
 and	You!
In-Reply-To: <E37F13B9-13E9-41FA-B957-43BE709728E3@unc.edu>
References: <E37F13B9-13E9-41FA-B957-43BE709728E3@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <4B29158C.5090201@unc.edu>

Reminder... Holiday party is tomorrow... details below...

This holiday party is about sharing. Bring your lightning talk to share. 
There will be plenty of comestibles for sharing.

Among the giveaways for people who share are the following brand new books:

Natural Language Processing With Python
Dive Into Python 3 (Completely revised)
Beginning Python Visualization
Programming Collective Intelligence (all example code in Python)
Foundations of Agile Python Development
Expert Python Programming

On 12/11/2009 4:11 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:
> It turns out that Bendy can host our meeting at Duke after all.
> 
> So here's the announcement:
> 
> http://trizpug.org/Members/bendy/dec-09-mtg/
> 
> We will have a lot of food and beverage, plus at least six *substantial* 
> door prizes.
> 
> Unless someone steps forward with a feature presentation, this holiday 
> party/meeting will be all about your lightning talks. Please think of 
> something you learned about Python recently that you can show and tell 
> about in five minutes or less. Some of the door prizes are going to be 
> linked to best lightning talks. Or maybe you might need to give a 
> lightning talk to get in on the door prize action. Either way, I'm sure 
> there is *something*  you learned in the month or so that is worth sharing.
> 
> You might plan to arrive a little early to deal with the parking 
> situation and the confusing hallways of the meeting location.
> 
> Map: 
> http://map.duke.edu/?x=355.06&y=-360.22&z=5&w=835&h=600&new.x=474&new.y=271
> 
> If you arrive late and can't get in the door, call 358-2662 or 613-8021x7.
> 

From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Dec 18 18:22:49 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:22:49 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Django CMS
Message-ID: <4B2BBA69.6050502@unc.edu>

Some of us were hanging around after the meeting last night trying to 
remember of the name of the Django CMS. The one I was trying to think of 
was PyLucid. But it turns out there's a bunch of them:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison

Ben Donnelly, thanks for all the effort you made yesterday that made our 
meeting a success.

Kurt Grandis, thanks for calling shotgun on the presentation for our 
next meeting. The meeting notice is already up:

http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg/
http://twitter.com/trizpug

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

From randy at electronsweatshop.com  Fri Dec 18 18:27:30 2009
From: randy at electronsweatshop.com (Randy Barlow)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:30 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Django CMS
In-Reply-To: <4B2BBA69.6050502@unc.edu>
References: <4B2BBA69.6050502@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <4B2BBB82.7060608@electronsweatshop.com>

Chris Calloway wrote:
> Some of us were hanging around after the meeting last night trying to 
> remember of the name of the Django CMS. The one I was trying to think of 
> was PyLucid. But it turns out there's a bunch of them:
> 
> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison
> 
> Ben Donnelly, thanks for all the effort you made yesterday that made our 
> meeting a success.
> 
> Kurt Grandis, thanks for calling shotgun on the presentation for our 
> next meeting. The meeting notice is already up:
> 
> http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg/
> http://twitter.com/trizpug
> 

Is the date correct on that page? The 22nd is a Friday - aren't the 
meetings usually on Thursdays?

From josh_johnson at unc.edu  Tue Dec 29 15:01:05 2009
From: josh_johnson at unc.edu (Josh Johnson)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:01:05 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Python-based Linux Init Scripts
Message-ID: <1D471DA3-D510-4990-95FA-BFC294679D90@unc.edu>

Hey everybody,
I just made a blog post about writing init scripts for controlling  
unix services in Python. It includes a code template and a working  
example that controls ATA-Over-Ethernet storage.

Check it out: http://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/python-init-scripts/

Comments, etc are very welcome. This is new territory for me. :)

Thanks,
JJ

From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Dec 31 08:55:45 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:55:45 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
Message-ID: <8F22BC97-96E7-4418-96A9-FD185A9C5512@unc.edu>

Joseph Tate asked at the last meeting if TriZPUG has a Planet site.

I replied, when someone in the do-acracy gets around to making one, we  
will.

I had an evening on my hands. I'd been frustrated by the huge pile of  
projects hounding me which all require a month or more of isolation to  
finish well. I needed something quick and fun to do while on holiday  
vacation.

I found this crazy bundle of Python scripts called Venus slapped  
together by Sam Ruby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby). It makes  
making a Planet site an easy evening's worth of tinkering around.

So, I got around to making http://planet.trizpug.org in one evening  
and then maybe another evening of tinkering around with tuning it.

I populated it with a few blogs I knew about. If your blog is listed  
there and you don't want it on Planet TriZPUG, just let me know and I  
will delist it.

If you participate in TriZPUG, have a blog that is at least sometimes  
about Python, and don't see it listed there, please accept my  
apologies. I wasn't trying to intentionally overlook anyone. Just send  
me your blog feed's URL and I will get it listed right away. The more  
the merrier. If you have a feed that's limited to just your Pythonic  
or IT-related posts, even better.

Planet TriZPUG requests  feeds every hour on the half hour. I think  
that's probably an acceptable number of requests.

Thanks to Mitch Amiano who caught an error in next month's meeting  
announcement. It's been fixed. The meeting will be on Thursday,  
January 28 at 7pm in the conference room of Carrboro Creative  
Coworking: http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg . Kurt Grandis  
will talk about Fabric: http://wiki.fabfile.org/ .

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From kgrandis at gmail.com  Thu Dec 31 16:49:01 2009
From: kgrandis at gmail.com (Kurt Grandis)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:49:01 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
Message-ID: <18b4e09c0912310749p32f6141am8f8313c44a84045a@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Chris! This is nice resource to have especially for (and to keep tabs
on) folks who are using Python in the area but don't necessarily make it to
TriZPUG meetings.
Load 'er up...

-Kurt


>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:55:45 -0500
> From: Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu>
> To: "Triangle (North Carolina) Zope and Python Users Group"
>        <trizpug at python.org>
> Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
> Message-ID: <8F22BC97-96E7-4418-96A9-FD185A9C5512 at unc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> Joseph Tate asked at the last meeting if TriZPUG has a Planet site.
>
> I replied, when someone in the do-acracy gets around to making one, we
> will.
>
> I had an evening on my hands. I'd been frustrated by the huge pile of
> projects hounding me which all require a month or more of isolation to
> finish well. I needed something quick and fun to do while on holiday
> vacation.
>
> I found this crazy bundle of Python scripts called Venus slapped
> together by Sam Ruby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby). It makes
> making a Planet site an easy evening's worth of tinkering around.
>
> So, I got around to making http://planet.trizpug.org in one evening
> and then maybe another evening of tinkering around with tuning it.
>
> I populated it with a few blogs I knew about. If your blog is listed
> there and you don't want it on Planet TriZPUG, just let me know and I
> will delist it.
>
> If you participate in TriZPUG, have a blog that is at least sometimes
> about Python, and don't see it listed there, please accept my
> apologies. I wasn't trying to intentionally overlook anyone. Just send
> me your blog feed's URL and I will get it listed right away. The more
> the merrier. If you have a feed that's limited to just your Pythonic
> or IT-related posts, even better.
>
> Planet TriZPUG requests  feeds every hour on the half hour. I think
> that's probably an acceptable number of requests.
>
> Thanks to Mitch Amiano who caught an error in next month's meeting
> announcement. It's been fixed. The meeting will be on Thursday,
> January 28 at 7pm in the conference room of Carrboro Creative
> Coworking: http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg . Kurt Grandis
> will talk about Fabric: http://wiki.fabfile.org/ .
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway
> http://www.secoora.org
> office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>
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From dragonstrider at gmail.com  Thu Dec 31 19:35:55 2009
From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph Tate)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:35:55 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
In-Reply-To: <8F22BC97-96E7-4418-96A9-FD185A9C5512@unc.edu>
References: <8F22BC97-96E7-4418-96A9-FD185A9C5512@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <d3f621b70912311035s59740ee6xe67f43cec9872ab8@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Chris!  That's great!

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> Joseph Tate asked at the last meeting if TriZPUG has a Planet site.
>
> I replied, when someone in the do-acracy gets around to making one, we will.
>
> I had an evening on my hands. I'd been frustrated by the huge pile of
> projects hounding me which all require a month or more of isolation to
> finish well. I needed something quick and fun to do while on holiday
> vacation.
>
> I found this crazy bundle of Python scripts called Venus slapped together by
> Sam Ruby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby). It makes making a Planet
> site an easy evening's worth of tinkering around.
>
> So, I got around to making http://planet.trizpug.org in one evening and then
> maybe another evening of tinkering around with tuning it.
>
> I populated it with a few blogs I knew about. If your blog is listed there
> and you don't want it on Planet TriZPUG, just let me know and I will delist
> it.
>
> If you participate in TriZPUG, have a blog that is at least sometimes about
> Python, and don't see it listed there, please accept my apologies. I wasn't
> trying to intentionally overlook anyone. Just send me your blog feed's URL
> and I will get it listed right away. The more the merrier. If you have a
> feed that's limited to just your Pythonic or IT-related posts, even better.
>
> Planet TriZPUG requests ?feeds every hour on the half hour. I think that's
> probably an acceptable number of requests.
>
> Thanks to Mitch Amiano who caught an error in next month's meeting
> announcement. It's been fixed. The meeting will be on Thursday, January 28
> at 7pm in the conference room of Carrboro Creative Coworking:
> http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg . Kurt Grandis will talk about
> Fabric: http://wiki.fabfile.org/ .
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway
> http://www.secoora.org
> office: 332 Chapman Hall ? phone: (919) 599-3530
> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>



-- 
Joseph Tate
Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com
Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com

From dragonstrider at gmail.com  Thu Dec 31 19:41:00 2009
From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph Tate)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:41:00 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Ride Share to PyCon '10
Message-ID: <d3f621b70912311041r59c2b31bn4a1e19da9d9c94b2@mail.gmail.com>

Having just completed my PyCon registration, I'm thinking about how to
get down there, and think I would drive to avoid the hassles of
airplane travel.  Anyone else interested?

I'm planning on skipping the tutorials, but would like to stay for a
couple of days of sprints.


-- 
Joseph Tate
Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com
Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com

From tobias at caktusgroup.com  Thu Dec 31 19:42:50 2009
From: tobias at caktusgroup.com (Tobias McNulty)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:42:50 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
In-Reply-To: <18b4e09c0912310749p32f6141am8f8313c44a84045a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <18b4e09c0912310749p32f6141am8f8313c44a84045a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8101bb810912311042j65bd7dcse2a510a57bbfdcc8@mail.gmail.com>

Indeed!  I didn't wasn't even aware of some of these blogs so this is a
great resource.  Thanks for setting it up and happy new year to all!

Tobias

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Kurt Grandis <kgrandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Chris! This is nice resource to have especially for (and to keep
> tabs on) folks who are using Python in the area but don't necessarily make
> it to TriZPUG meetings.
> Load 'er up...
>
> -Kurt
>
>
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:55:45 -0500
>> From: Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu>
>> To: "Triangle (North Carolina) Zope and Python Users Group"
>>        <trizpug at python.org>
>> Subject: [TriZPUG] Happy New Year Gift for TriZPUG
>> Message-ID: <8F22BC97-96E7-4418-96A9-FD185A9C5512 at unc.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>>
>>
>> Joseph Tate asked at the last meeting if TriZPUG has a Planet site.
>>
>> I replied, when someone in the do-acracy gets around to making one, we
>> will.
>>
>> I had an evening on my hands. I'd been frustrated by the huge pile of
>> projects hounding me which all require a month or more of isolation to
>> finish well. I needed something quick and fun to do while on holiday
>> vacation.
>>
>> I found this crazy bundle of Python scripts called Venus slapped
>> together by Sam Ruby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby). It makes
>> making a Planet site an easy evening's worth of tinkering around.
>>
>> So, I got around to making http://planet.trizpug.org in one evening
>> and then maybe another evening of tinkering around with tuning it.
>>
>> I populated it with a few blogs I knew about. If your blog is listed
>> there and you don't want it on Planet TriZPUG, just let me know and I
>> will delist it.
>>
>> If you participate in TriZPUG, have a blog that is at least sometimes
>> about Python, and don't see it listed there, please accept my
>> apologies. I wasn't trying to intentionally overlook anyone. Just send
>> me your blog feed's URL and I will get it listed right away. The more
>> the merrier. If you have a feed that's limited to just your Pythonic
>> or IT-related posts, even better.
>>
>> Planet TriZPUG requests  feeds every hour on the half hour. I think
>> that's probably an acceptable number of requests.
>>
>> Thanks to Mitch Amiano who caught an error in next month's meeting
>> announcement. It's been fixed. The meeting will be on Thursday,
>> January 28 at 7pm in the conference room of Carrboro Creative
>> Coworking: http://trizpug.org/Members/bac/jan-10-mtg . Kurt Grandis
>> will talk about Fabric: http://wiki.fabfile.org/ .
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Chris Calloway
>> http://www.secoora.org
>> office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
>> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>>
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>



-- 
Tobias McNulty
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
P.O. Box 1454
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 951-0052
http://www.caktusgroup.com
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From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Dec 31 21:00:41 2009
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:00:41 -0500
Subject: [TriZPUG] Ride Share to PyCon '10
In-Reply-To: <d3f621b70912311041r59c2b31bn4a1e19da9d9c94b2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d3f621b70912311041r59c2b31bn4a1e19da9d9c94b2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9687A0E2-B926-4203-8BFA-F83EC0E839DC@unc.edu>

On Dec 31, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Having just completed my PyCon registration, I'm thinking about how to
> get down there, and think I would drive to avoid the hassles of
> airplane travel.  Anyone else interested?
>
> I'm planning on skipping the tutorials, but would like to stay for a
> couple of days of sprints.


Catherine Devlin, the PR person for PyCon, has been encouraging user  
groups to carpool to PyCon.

I was planning on flying. But with recent events and too many hours  
and too much aggravation spent in airports in the last year, I've just  
had it with security theater that is not making us safer.

So I'm renting a car (in order to have a nice new trouble-free ride)  
and driving to PyCon this year.

I would be glad to have any passengers who can stand my taste in indie  
rock.

The only hang-ups are that:

1) I am driving down the day before the conference proper (Thursday).  
So I'm not going to any pre-conference stuff like tutorials or summits

2) I am driving back on the day after the conference proper (Monday).  
So I'm not going to any post-conference sprints. (Sorry, this is all  
on my dime and I'm a poor state employee, not a high roller  
consultant. I spent all my conference sprint Forints in Budapest at  
PloneCon this year.)

3) I'm staying at the conference Hyatt and intend to park my behind at  
the hotel once there and not go roving all over town.

So, if that fits anyone's needs, I'm your safe driver.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599