From cbc at unc.edu Fri Mar 1 23:11:38 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:11:38 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] March 2013 Raleigh Project Night Message-ID: <5131279A.70603@unc.edu> When: this coming Tuesday, March 5 at 6pm Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/mar-13-rpn/ Raleigh Project Night meets on first Tuesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded my like minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of parking in the adjacent deck. Please note you can show up any time but this event starts at 6pm. If the door is locked, call 923-0894. -- 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 Fri Mar 1 23:14:40 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:14:40 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG March 2013 Meeting: Topic TBA Message-ID: <51312850.8010605@unc.edu> When: Thursday March 28, 7pm Where: SplatSpace, 331 W. Main St, Durham (The Snow Building, in the basement) Notice that the topic is open. That means you need to speak up and claim it. The earlier, the better, please. I know you won't disappoint me. Thanks. To have your half to one hour talk featured at this meeting, please post your topic to the TriZPUG email list. As always, unannounced lightning talks are always welcome. Lightning talks are 5 to 10 minutes extemporaneous expositions on a topic of interest to you, something you recently learned, kind of like a show and tell. We'll be meeting at Splatspace, a non-profit member-supported workshop and hacker meeting place. Splatspace is located in the basement of the Snow Building at 331 W. Main St. in Durham. Parking (free exit after 7pm) is in the back of the building in the lot off Ramseur St. on the downtown Durham loop (one way, approach Ramseur from W. Main St. or W. Chapel Hill St.. If you arrive after 7pm, please call 919-704-4225(HACK) to be let in the door. -- 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 Fri Mar 1 23:47:16 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:47:16 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] Venv Presentation Message-ID: <51312FF4.4090504@unc.edu> Thanks for coming out last night. I, for one, enjoyed your company. It was nice that 10 out of the 17 attendees came out for the after meeting. It turns out that Bada Wings has their premium drafts on deeply discounted special on Thursday nights, so we drank for cheap. I recommend the Foothills Porter. I heard a couple of nice proposals after the meeting. Barry and Matthew are working on a Python Unconference at NCSU in May, I believe (Matthew had to leave right after the meeting, so I didn't get to hear a lot about it yet). And Joseph says he's going to organize a TriZPUG night at a Durham Bulls game this season. That would be awesome. There was a lot of MOOC discussion at the after meeting. As promised, my presentation last night is available at: http://drunkenpython.com/pyvenv.pdf http://drunkenpython.com/python-33-virtual-environments-at-pyptug.html There were some questions last night that maybe I didn't understand fully when I answered them. There was one about the ability of one venv to make a virtual environment for different versions of Python (the way the -p option works for virtualenv), and another comment that venv is maybe not good for production work because of not staying up to date with updates to the base Python when the base Python is a system Python updated by system tools. There were a number of features of venv that I didn't go through in the interest of communicating the basics in an hour. And those features are easily enough seen with the use of the -h command line option to pyvenv.py. One of those features is the --upgrade command line option to pyvenv.py which is described as: """ Upgrade the environment directory to use this version of Python, assuming Python has been upgraded in-place. """ That sounds like something somewhere between the question and comment, at least. I have not tried it. I think it would be hard to try right now, as Python 3.3.0 is the only released version of Python with venv, so there's nothing with which to "upgrade in place". Anyway, there were a number of questions that warrant further investigation. I suggested we could try those investigations out at the Project Night on Tuesday. I'll be there for anyone who wants to collaborate on playing around with venv. See you there. It starts at 6pm, but show up any time you can get there. -- 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 Mon Mar 4 16:06:59 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:06:59 +0000 Subject: [TriZPUG] EFW Message-ID: I've been likening web design to the fashion industry for awhile. I think now that may have been an insult to the fashion industry. All my pants are jeans. http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/ Cheers, Chris From ironfroggy at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 18:39:44 2013 From: ironfroggy at gmail.com (Calvin Spealman) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:39:44 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2016/2017 Host City Bids Message-ID: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/looking-for-2016-2017-host-cities.html Something to think about. We've got a lot of great options around here... -- Read my blog! I depend on your acceptance of my opinion! 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Event info at these links: http://www.facebook.com/events/105127376327716/ https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nPpC7SJDpSVlhjYjRmbGphc00/edit?usp=sharing Internship info here: http://jobs.redhat.com/job-categories/internships/ This is a very good internship program with positions across all major areas of the business, including of course many technical positions, some involving python. The program has a strong emphasis on early career development, and in fact it has a good track record for turning interns into full-time employees. Positions are being filled now, so applications should be submitted ASAP. Michael From francois.dion at gmail.com Wed Mar 6 16:02:24 2013 From: francois.dion at gmail.com (Francois Dion) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:02:24 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2013 Message-ID: Anybody from PYPTUG or TRIZPUG going to PyCon 2013 and is available to give a lightning talk? I'm looking for someone to give a lightning talk on Brython. Contact me if you are interested in doing it. Francois -- www.pyptug.org - raspberry-python.blogspot.com - @f_dion From cbc at unc.edu Thu Mar 7 17:22:46 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:22:46 +0000 Subject: [TriZPUG] FW: May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! Message-ID: Space at this event tends to run out quickly. So if you are thinking about it, better to go ahead and sign up now. Cheers, Chris ________________________________________ From: durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com [durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com] on behalf of Jeremy Davis [jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:38 PM To: ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org; raleigh-rb-members-owner at rubyforge.org; biglee at haslups.com; raleigh-pm-owner at pm.org; info at trizpug.org; info.rdu at techshop.ws; durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com; mil-oss at googlegroups.com Subject: [Splat Space] May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! The venue date has been set for BarCampRDU 2013 and a sign up roster is now available. To sign up visit http://trilug.org/barcamp/ I believe this is going to be a great event in the awesome new venue. You certainly do not want to miss it! Jeremy Davis TriLUG PR BarCampRDU Organizer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Splat Space " group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to durham-makerspace+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From tdsimpson at gmail.com Thu Mar 7 17:28:41 2013 From: tdsimpson at gmail.com (Troy S) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:28:41 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] FW: May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What is BarCamp? Is that a class or training session? Is there a fee? Thanks, On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Calloway, Chris wrote: > Space at this event tends to run out quickly. So if you are thinking about > it, better to go ahead and sign up now. > > Cheers, Chris > ________________________________________ > From: durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com [ > durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com] on behalf of Jeremy Davis [ > jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:38 PM > To: ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org; raleigh-rb-members-owner at rubyforge.org; > biglee at haslups.com; raleigh-pm-owner at pm.org; info at trizpug.org; > info.rdu at techshop.ws; durham-makerspace at googlegroups.com; > mil-oss at googlegroups.com > Subject: [Splat Space] May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up > Before It Is Too Late! > > The venue date has been set for BarCampRDU 2013 and a sign up roster > is now available. > > To sign up visit http://trilug.org/barcamp/ > > I believe this is going to be a great event in the awesome new venue. > You certainly do not want to miss it! > > Jeremy Davis > TriLUG PR > BarCampRDU Organizer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Splat Space " group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to durham-makerspace+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Troy S -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bgailer at gmail.com Thu Mar 7 17:51:41 2013 From: bgailer at gmail.com (bob gailer) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:51:41 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] FW: May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5138C59D.9070003@gmail.com> On 3/7/2013 11:28 AM, Troy S wrote: > What is BarCamp? > Is that a class or training session? > Is there a fee? I second that. The website is remarkably bare of information! -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC From brad.crittenden at gmail.com Thu Mar 7 19:12:01 2013 From: brad.crittenden at gmail.com (Bradley A. Crittenden) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:12:01 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] FW: May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! In-Reply-To: <5138C59D.9070003@gmail.com> References: <5138C59D.9070003@gmail.com> Message-ID: <2C136EDF-F130-484A-A94F-A23804902D0F@gmail.com> On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:51 , bob gailer wrote: > On 3/7/2013 11:28 AM, Troy S wrote: >> What is BarCamp? >> Is that a class or training session? >> Is there a fee? > I second that. The website is remarkably bare of information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp The RDU BarCamps have been great fun! Go if you can. --Brad From cbc at unc.edu Fri Mar 8 17:05:16 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:05:16 -0500 Subject: [TriZPUG] defusedxml Message-ID: <513A0C3C.9010601@unc.edu> I brought this up at project night this week during a conversation about security holes. And in light of today's article on Hacker News about arbitrary execution of Java constructors in Clojure, it seems timely: https://bitbucket.org/tiran/defusedxml http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedexpat These fixes are courtesy of Plone core developer Christian Heimes (tiran). He has one of the best G+ feeds you can follow: https://plus.google.com/115820545964879527793/posts I just went and added him to my gittip.com jar for a job well done. -- 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 Mon Mar 11 15:14:46 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:14:46 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Partnership with BarCampRDU In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <513DE6D6.7080402@unc.edu> On 3/10/2013 6:21 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote: > I hope this email finds you doing well. I am contacting you to request > your organization's official partnership with BarCampRDU. This would > simply be an exchange where your partnership will be announced on the > BarCampRDU site with your logo and a backlink to your site, as well as > recognition in BarCampRDU announcements, in return for sharing > BarCampRDU event updates on your mailing lists. > > Event updates would consist of calls for speakers, volunteer support, > and list info such as proposed topics etc.. Unobtrusively, at the > bottom of BarCampRDU event updates, will be a text only, comma > separated, list of sponsors and partnership organizations. These event > updates would most likely be very well received by your members. The > end result would be more volunteer support, more sponsor support, and > more recognition/awareness for all participating partnership > organizations. Event updates will be sent out about once per week. > > To participate, and for more info, just visit this page and complete > the form on the BarCampRDU site: http://trilug.org/barcamp/partners/ > > Cheers! > Jeremy Davis > TriLUG PR > BarCampRDU Organizer > Jeremy, On behalf of Triangle Python (formerly TriZPUG), thank you for this invitation. I know from past experience that many TriPythoneers want to participate in BarCampRDU and I had already forwarded your BarCampRDU announcement to the TriPython email list. I filled out the requested partners form on behalf of TriZPUG. I sent you the requested TriPython logo in PNG format via that form. If you need it in another size or vector format, please don't hesitate to let me know. You may also continue to sending BarCampRDU announcements to info at trizpug.org and I will make sure they are posted to the TriPython email list. You may also subscribe to the TriPython email list at: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug/ and post them yourself directly if you prefer. TriPython looks forward to hearing more about BarCampRDU. -- 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 Mon Mar 11 15:51:30 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:51:30 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] FW: May 18th BarCampRDU 2013 at Hunt Library - Sign Up Before It Is Too Late! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <513DEF72.50100@unc.edu> On 3/7/2013 11:28 AM, Troy S wrote: > What is BarCamp? http://trilug.org/barcamp/what-is-barcamprdu/ -- 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 Mar 14 17:37:25 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:37:25 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon and Next TriPython Meeting Message-ID: <5141FCC5.6050506@unc.edu> Thanks to Caleb for sticking around for project night last night before heading off to PyCon. I had a good time. I learn something every time we meet. Last night I learned what "tada source" is. :) So, all you lucky peeps at PyCon, be on the lookout for things to share at the next TriPython meeting. 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 lgtateos at ncsu.edu Thu Mar 14 20:08:49 2013 From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:08:49 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon and Next TriPython Meeting In-Reply-To: <5141FCC5.6050506@unc.edu> References: <5141FCC5.6050506@unc.edu> Message-ID: <51422041.2050908@ncsu.edu> tada source?? Sounds intriguing. Sounds like magic! Too bad I missed the meeting. Laura Tateosian Research Assistant Professor Center for Earth Observation North Carolina State University http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lgtateos/ On 3/14/2013 12:37 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > Thanks to Caleb for sticking around for project night last night > before heading off to PyCon. I had a good time. I learn something > every time we meet. Last night I learned what "tada source" is. :) > > So, all you lucky peeps at PyCon, be on the lookout for things to > share at the next TriPython meeting. Thanks. > From stevegambino at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 22:19:29 2013 From: stevegambino at gmail.com (Steve Gambino) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:19:29 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon and Next TriPython Meeting In-Reply-To: <51422041.2050908@ncsu.edu> References: <5141FCC5.6050506@unc.edu> <51422041.2050908@ncsu.edu> Message-ID: Me too. Now you have aroused some serious curiosity. :) On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Laura Tateosian wrote: > tada source?? Sounds intriguing. Sounds like magic! Too bad I missed the > meeting. > > Laura Tateosian > Research Assistant Professor > Center for Earth Observation > North Carolina State University > http://www4.ncsu.edu/~**lgtateos/ > > > On 3/14/2013 12:37 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > >> Thanks to Caleb for sticking around for project night last night before >> heading off to PyCon. I had a good time. I learn something every time we >> meet. Last night I learned what "tada source" is. :) >> >> So, all you lucky peeps at PyCon, be on the lookout for things to share >> at the next TriPython meeting. Thanks. >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > 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 kgrandis at gmail.com Mon Mar 18 04:56:46 2013 From: kgrandis at gmail.com (Kurt Grandis) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:56:46 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Early Childhood Computing and Python Education Message-ID: I'll give a version of my PyCon talk at the next meeting. The talk covers some tools (Python and non-Python) that are often used in early childhood computing. 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It was even discussed somewhat at project night last week. -- 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 Mon Mar 18 16:57:02 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:57:02 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PJE Finally Capitulates, Sort Of Message-ID: <5147394E.4010609@unc.edu> I saw this by way of a tweet from that wild and crazy Finn, Mikko Ohtamaa. I thought I'd never see the day this would happen. I bet there was a lot of buzz about this at PyCon. A reason to resubscribe to the distutils SIG list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html More details here: https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/setuptools/wiki/Setuptools%20and%20Distribute%20Merge%20FAQ I'm loving that it's happening on Bitbucket. I wonder if this means I still need to keep this often used snippet around?: if hasattr(setuptools,_distribute): -- 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 Mar 20 15:55:20 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:55:20 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon US Slides and Video Message-ID: <5149CDD8.7000602@unc.edu> PyCon slides have been up for a few days: https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides PyCon video is starting to trickle in: http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013 -- 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 Mar 21 22:51:26 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:51:26 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Vietnamese Kids Learn to Program Message-ID: <514B80DE.4050103@unc.edu> Blog post which describes personal experience with some of the issues discussed at last Carrboro project night and the topic of the upcoming TriZPUG meeting: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ -- 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 jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz Fri Mar 22 03:36:27 2013 From: jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz (Jeremy Davis) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:36:27 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Call for Volunteers to support BarCampRDU 2013 - Please share this! Message-ID: Calling all BarCampers, your assistance is needed! It is up to ?YOU? to make this awesome event happen! We would like to keep the Hunt Library as the venue location because it is awesome and it holds more people than past venues; however, there is an additional cost associated with it. Please help us secure sponsors. Talk to the marketing department of your company or recommend BarCampRDU sponsorship to local startups and small businesses that need a positive boost with the local tech community. Cost of the event: Hunt Library Venue $2000 Tshirts $2500 Food $1500 We must reach our goal of $6000, to cover the costs, no later than 1 May 2013. Otherwise, compromises will need to be made. Make sure you let everyone know that this is an excellent event to sponsor. This year, there is an excellent opportunity for smaller local companies to sponsor the event and receive recognition online at an affordable rate. The sponsorship form is live and accepts credit cards. http://trilug.org/barcamp/sponsorship/ Spread the word! If you are a member of an open source group, invite your group and encourage them to sign up. The more people who know, the more ideas, speakers, topics, and potential sponsors we will have. The absolute best way you can help, right now, is to talk about BarCampRDU 2013 with everyone you can think of. If you have heard a great talk lately, reach out and invite that speaker to attend and present. If you can do a talk, plan on it! If you have a topic idea share it with us. Talk about BarCampRDU every chance you get. Talk to someone about BarCampRDU 2013 everyday!! Volunteer to take lead on one of our online resources: We need some volunteers to step up and help organize information on the wiki. http://barcamp.org/w/page/401431/BarCampRDU If you would like to take on one of these resources to help promote the event let us know. Twitter: https://twitter.com/barcamprdu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarCampRDU Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100257218285335524246 New this year: WordPress Authors ? We have the capability to have mulitple users on our new self-hosted WordPress site. Let me know if you would like to have an ?Author? account so you can post photos and content to the site. It would be really awesome for a number of folks to have the WordPress app on their phones, so pictures and content can be posted during the event. Content posted to the WP site will be automatically sent to Twitter. Google Hangout Operators ? It would be awesome to broadcast live and automatically record to Youtube, as many talks as possible via Google Hangouts (which is very easy). To achieve this, we need volunteers who are willing to operate a laptop with a web cam during a few talks. The more volunteers the better. All the Google Hangout volunteers should plan to do a hangout together, prior to the event, to practice and go over a few recording tips. Capturing this great event, for sharing online, will spark more interest for future events. Signup now to volunteer for this awesome event! http://trilug.org/barcamp/volunteer/ Cheers! Jeremy Davis BarCampRDU 2013 Organizer Hosted by TriLUG at the Hunt Library From cbc at unc.edu Fri Mar 22 15:54:47 2013 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:54:47 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] UNC Jumps on Another Bandwagon Message-ID: <514C70B7.4030800@unc.edu> This time, Couseara. I thought this would be of interest to you due to all the discussion we've had regarding MOOCs at TriPython meetings and project nights. http://college.unc.edu/2013/02/21/onlinecourses/ -- 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 mhrivnak at hrivnak.org Fri Mar 22 19:03:26 2013 From: mhrivnak at hrivnak.org (Michael Hrivnak) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:03:26 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Have a Job Message-ID: http://jobs.redhat.com/jobs/descriptions/senior-software-engineer-python-raleigh-north-carolina-job-1-3581025 This is a Senior Software Engineer spot on the Pulp team (http://www.pulpproject.org), primarily writing Python. Ping me before applying, as I can potentially get you a link to an "internal referral" application, which has certain advantages. And of course feel free to contact me directly with questions. I work on this team, I love my job, and I had no idea coming into this position how much I would love working at Red Hat. Michael From dragonstrider at gmail.com Fri Mar 22 19:18:55 2013 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph S. Tate) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:18:55 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] OT: Contract work Message-ID: My cousin, who works for MyVinny.com is looking for someone to help with some analytics and data scraping they're doing in Python. Anyone interested? Let me know and I'll put you in contact with him. "It's a general data role for now, has to be a real analytical programmer with python experience (and scraper experience in python is a big plus). Data and our pricer is the biggest problem we have right now, and our current contractor keeps missing deadlines and has been holding up the company for several weeks now. It's a contractor-to-hire role. If you or somebody you know fits the bill and might be interested, can you let me know? -- Joseph Tate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: