From cbc at unc.edu Wed May 4 20:08:36 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 14:08:36 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting: Call For Talks Message-ID: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> The next TriZPUG meeting will be at RedHat: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg Call shotgun on the meeting topic now. Show us your stuff! -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From ironfroggy at gmail.com Wed May 4 21:42:03 2011 From: ironfroggy at gmail.com (Calvin Spealman) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:42:03 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting: Call For Talks In-Reply-To: References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> Message-ID: Re: meeting topic. What about allowing 4 to 6 smaller topics with ~10 minutes each rather than a single, longer talk? On May 4, 2011 2:11 PM, "Chris Calloway" wrote: The next TriZPUG meeting will be at RedHat: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg Call shotgun on the meeting topic now. Show us your stuff! -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 5 19:50:48 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 13:50:48 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting: Call For Talks In-Reply-To: References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DC2E378.2030901@unc.edu> On 5/4/2011 3:42 PM, Calvin Spealman wrote: > Re: meeting topic. What about allowing 4 to 6 smaller topics with ~10 > minutes each rather than a single, longer talk? As our meeting announcements including this one always say: "As always, spontaneous lightning talks of ten minutes or less on other topics are also welcome. Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk." Calvin, if you want to call shotgun on organizing the next (or any) TriZPUG meeting as a series of lightning talks from the get go, you are "allowed." The call for talks doesn't imply one talk, or a specific length, or even one topic. I'm just looking for *at least* one topic to advertize which might bring in people who want to know in advance what to expect. I don't know if declaring a meeting to be lightning talks from the get go discourages anyone from making major talks. Certainly, if there is a long form topic, then there's always room for additional lightning talks to fill in. Whereas, if we say ahead of time it's all lightning talks, that might say to someone looking to make a long talk that their topic is disallowed. I'm just looking to "allow" (i.e., facilitate) whatever anyone willing to show up wants to talk about, whatever the length. Myself, I've only called shotgun on a lightning talk meeting in the past when either a) the meeting announcement has come so late in the month that there wasn't time to call for talks, or b) some event that a lot of TriZPUGers went to like PyCon just occurred and I was interested in seeing if I could scare up some of those folks into sharing their experiences. Our best meetings are when there is no topic and we have an enthusiastic group of lightning talkers show up. Lightning talks are always the fall-back when no one calls shotgun with a major topic. As always, TriZPUG isn't about "allowing." Its about people stepping forward and doing. One of my "do" things is making meeting announcements whenever I can, because they remind people of when and where. I find that meetings are highly unlikely to occur unless there is announcement. There were some months last year when I had personal and family medical problems and didn't make meeting announcements as a result. Some of those months other people stepped forward in the spirit of do-acracy, made the announcements, and the meetings went on. But a few of those months there was no announcement and as you might expect, no meeting. After when and where, the most frequent question people have about meetings is what. If someone wants to call shotgun on a what, "we allow" it by default because no one is going to disallow or stop you. If no topic is called, it's all good. If there's no meeting topic claimed by the time a few days before the meeting rolls around, you'll likely see me change the title of the the meeting announcement to say "Lightning Talks." It happens from time to time: http://trizpug.org/meetings/ (Some of those meeting titles will show multiple topics. They were likely meetings with no formal topic announced ahead of time, which turned into lightning talk fests, and where I went back and changed the meeting announcement title and description after the fact so we'd have some institutional memory of what happened when. Sometimes I have not always succeeded in that record keeping. Anyone is free to try.) There seem to be some people who will only come to meetings if there is a topic and that topic appeals to them. Then there are other people who seem to take an extra interest in showing up when there isn't a topic and take an interest in giving lightning talks. TriZPUG, like any group, seems to be a mix of spectators and active participants which ebb and flow. We kind of go with that ebb and flow, because it certainly doesn't make sense to go against it. Anyway, I try to encourage anyone coming to a TriZPUG meeting to always have a lightning talk in their back pocket just in case. If you don't use it this month, there are always months to come. :) -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From chris at windsorcircle.com Thu May 5 22:12:35 2011 From: chris at windsorcircle.com (Chris H) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:12:35 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Anyone in the Triangle looking for a Python job? Message-ID: First, I apologize if this isn't the place for a job post (please let me know and I won't do it again). I'm fairly new to the group and trying to hire another python developer for a startup in Durham. I didn't see a specific TriZPUG job board. Here's a link to the job posting on python.org - http://www.python.org/community/jobs/#windsor-circle-inc-durham-nc-usa. I am primarily just looking for a strong python developer so if that description fits you and you like working on new stuff with other great developers, please contact me. Chris Humphres chris at windsorcircle.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jj at email.unc.edu Tue May 10 17:21:13 2011 From: jj at email.unc.edu (Josh Johnson) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:21:13 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] the presentation I was going to give... Message-ID: <4DC957E9.4060706@email.unc.edu> I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the last meeting, I hate to flake out like that but we had a family emergency and had to go out of state. I've posted my slides and notes as a PDF on our project management site, I'll post a copy to trizpug.org soon. http://crm-plonedev.med.unc.edu/about/The%20blitZEN%20Method.pdf coming soon: - demo site for the project planning tool Dave demoed (blitzen.management) - new blitzen.unc.edu, with lots of useful information for public consumption - publicly available source code - pypi releases of our software Also, Dave and I will be presenting our latest application, blitzen.services at Penn State next week. I'm sure if you aren't going to be there, you'll all be watching the live feeds with bated breath the whole time, but I'll be sure to post a link once it's up. Thanks, JJ From cbc at unc.edu Tue May 10 17:37:02 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:37:02 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] the presentation I was going to give... In-Reply-To: <4DC957E9.4060706@email.unc.edu> References: <4DC957E9.4060706@email.unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DC95B9E.3040701@unc.edu> On 5/10/2011 11:21 AM, Josh Johnson wrote: > I've posted my slides and notes as a PDF on our project management site, Thanks, glad you are back home, and good luck on your conference presentation. Thanks as well to David for filling in. He did a great job. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Wed May 25 23:44:25 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:44:25 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 26 16:39:26 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:39:26 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DDE661E.80301@unc.edu> On 5/25/2011 5:44 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening: > > http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg If you are going to the meeting tonight, I need to hear from you offline. Thanks. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From josh_johnson at unc.edu Thu May 26 16:44:35 2011 From: josh_johnson at unc.edu (Josh Johnson) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:44:35 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <4DDE661E.80301@unc.edu> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> <4DDE661E.80301@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DDE6753.5070408@unc.edu> On 5/26/2011 10:39 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 5/25/2011 5:44 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: >> Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening: >> >> http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg > > If you are going to the meeting tonight, I need to hear from you > offline. Thanks. > I'm planning to go, but I'm not 100% sure... I'm trying to get Stacy more involved in the IT communities around here (she's looking to get into computer forensics), but she's been killing herself at work (and it's 100+ degrees in her shop with all the dryers going and such), so I'm extremely motivated but dunno if she'll feel up to it. It sucks because she gets out at 6, so it'll be a last-minute decision. Anyway, what's up? Everything OK? JJ From josh_johnson at unc.edu Thu May 26 16:45:15 2011 From: josh_johnson at unc.edu (Josh Johnson) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:45:15 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <4DDE6753.5070408@unc.edu> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> <4DDE661E.80301@unc.edu> <4DDE6753.5070408@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4DDE677B.507@unc.edu> ARRRGH I never do this... AAAAAH Sorry all. JJ On 5/26/2011 10:44 AM, Josh Johnson wrote: > On 5/26/2011 10:39 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: >> On 5/25/2011 5:44 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: >>> Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening: >>> >>> http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg >> >> If you are going to the meeting tonight, I need to hear from you >> offline. Thanks. >> > I'm planning to go, but I'm not 100% sure... I'm trying to get Stacy > more involved in the IT communities around here (she's looking to get > into computer forensics), but she's been killing herself at work (and > it's 100+ degrees in her shop with all the dryers going and such), so > I'm extremely motivated but dunno if she'll feel up to it. It sucks > because she gets out at 6, so it'll be a last-minute decision. > > Anyway, what's up? Everything OK? > > JJ > _______________________________________________ > 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 KGrandis at lexile.com Fri May 27 18:38:34 2011 From: KGrandis at lexile.com (Kurt Grandis) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:38:34 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> Message-ID: <871DFE2C356B274A97F38A74C2426DFE0753535784@MM1> Thanks folks for coming out last night. Aside from some good technology discussions, Brian Jinwright presented his project Pooter. "Pooter is a WSGI Python Web Framework for Google App Engine" You can check it out and contribute at: http://bitbucket.org/brianjinwright/pooter Other (not necessarily Pythonic) topics and projects that came up: * http://mongodb.org http://mongoengine.org http://api.mongodb.org/python/current * http://openshift.redhat.com * http://scalathon.com/category/scale-a-thon Brian also took the first step towards recording our presenters. So in the future we should be able to post videos for those who were not able to make the meeting. -Kurt -----Original Message----- From: trizpug-bounces+kgrandis=lexile.com at python.org [mailto:trizpug-bounces+kgrandis=lexile.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Calloway Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:44 PM To: trizpug at python.org Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) evening: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-11-mtg -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable 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 From cbc at unc.edu Sat May 28 16:06:26 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 10:06:26 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG May 2011 Meeting In-Reply-To: <871DFE2C356B274A97F38A74C2426DFE0753535784@MM1> References: <4DC19624.3050101@unc.edu> <4DDD7839.2010402@unc.edu> <871DFE2C356B274A97F38A74C2426DFE0753535784@MM1> Message-ID: <4DE10162.9030100@unc.edu> On 5/27/2011 12:38 PM, Kurt Grandis wrote: > Thanks folks for coming out last night. > Aside from some good technology discussions, Brian Jinwright presented his project Pooter. > > "Pooter is a WSGI Python Web Framework for Google App Engine" Thanks to all who came out. Thanks to Kurt for making things work. And thanks to Brian for giving a talk. > Brian also took the first step towards recording our presenters. So in the future we should be able to post videos for those who were not able to make the meeting. Brian, HUGE thanks for walking the walk in addition to giving a talk! Let me know when you have video you'd like to post. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599