From elliott at trinket.io Sat May 3 00:35:48 2014 From: elliott at trinket.io (Elliott Hauser) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:35:48 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] New member; embeddable interactive Python Message-ID: Hey all! I'm an (outgoing) Python instructor at UNC Chapel Hill and CEO of Trinket. Nice to meet you! Now that my class is almost over I look forward to making some TriPython meetings :) Today we released a free service that lets you embed runnable Python (non-os built-ins only) into any webpage. This uses the same technology as interactivepython.org and is intended as a teaching tool. Those of you who've seen skulpt before will recognize some of the core tech. I'd love any feedback from this group and examples of how you think it's most useful. Blog post here: http://blog.trinket.io/interactive-python/ Tool itself here: http://trinket.io/python Many thanks! Comments and suggestions appreciated. E Elliott Hauser CEO, trinket @hauspoor (919) 308-6681 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Mon May 5 15:12:17 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:12:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] New member; embeddable interactive Python In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53678E31.2060304@unc.edu> On 5/2/2014 6:35 PM, Elliott Hauser wrote: > http://blog.trinket.io/interactive-python/ > > Tool itself here: > http://trinket.io/python Elliot, No good deed goes unpunished. Wouldn't you like to present this to TriPython at our July 24th meeting at Caktus? -- 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 elliott at trinket.io Mon May 5 15:22:41 2014 From: elliott at trinket.io (Elliott Hauser) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 09:22:41 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Trinket's new embeddable runnable Python using Skulpt Message-ID: Hey all! I wanted to ask for feedback on a new free resource we made for the Python community. It's embeddable widget that lets you put runnable Python anywhere on the Web. This uses the open source Skulpt project and includes support for most of Python's built-ins - notably turtle, which is great for teaching. https://trinket.io/python See it in action on our Wordpress blog here. I'd love to hear feedback, use cases, or compatibility reports with various blogging and teaching platforms. I hope you'll find it useful for talking about and teaching Python. We'd like it to be a permanent resource for the community. E Elliott Hauser CEO, trinket @hauspoor (919) 308-6681 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Tue May 6 22:01:27 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 16:01:27 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: Raleigh Project Night for May 2014 In-Reply-To: <535FBD81.9030005@unc.edu> References: <535FBD81.9030005@unc.edu> Message-ID: <53693F97.8050304@unc.edu> Raleigh Project Night is in a couple of hours. I'll be bringing the pizza. But make sure you voted in today's primary before you come. See you 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 On 4/29/2014 10:56 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > When: Tuesday, May 6 at 6pm > Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, > Raleigh > > http://tripython.org/Members/sgambino/may-14-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 by 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 free after hours parking is available in the upper level > of the deck behind WebAssign (turn through the median just before the > intersection of Varsity and Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, > call the number posted on the door. > """ From elliott at trinket.io Wed May 7 13:35:12 2014 From: elliott at trinket.io (Elliott Hauser) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 07:35:12 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] New member; embeddable interactive Python In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51EDF13E-20B4-4EC6-B4F4-6D79AD297268@trinket.io> Sure! It's on the calendar. Elliott Hauser CEO, trinket (919) 308-6681 > On May 6, 2014, at 6:00 AM, trizpug-request at python.org wrote: > > Send TriZPUG mailing list submissions to > trizpug at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > trizpug-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > trizpug-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TriZPUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: New member; embeddable interactive Python (Chris Calloway) > 2. Trinket's new embeddable runnable Python using Skulpt > (Elliott Hauser) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:12:17 -0400 > From: Chris Calloway > To: trizpug at python.org > Subject: Re: [TriZPUG] New member; embeddable interactive Python > Message-ID: <53678E31.2060304 at unc.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> On 5/2/2014 6:35 PM, Elliott Hauser wrote: >> http://blog.trinket.io/interactive-python/ >> >> Tool itself here: >> http://trinket.io/python > > Elliot, > > No good deed goes unpunished. Wouldn't you like to present this to > TriPython at our July 24th meeting at Caktus? > > -- > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 09:22:41 -0400 > From: Elliott Hauser > To: trizpug at python.org > Subject: [TriZPUG] Trinket's new embeddable runnable Python using > Skulpt > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey all! > > I wanted to ask for feedback on a new free resource we made for the Python > community. It's embeddable widget that lets you put runnable Python > anywhere on the Web. This uses the open source Skulpt project and includes > support for most of Python's built-ins - notably turtle, which is great for > teaching. > > https://trinket.io/python > > See it in action on our Wordpress blog > here. > I'd love to hear feedback, use cases, or compatibility reports with various > blogging and teaching platforms. I hope you'll find it useful for talking > about and teaching Python. We'd like it to be a permanent resource for the > community. > > E > > Elliott Hauser > CEO, trinket > @hauspoor > (919) 308-6681 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > > > ------------------------------ > > End of TriZPUG Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2 > ************************************** From cbc at unc.edu Wed May 7 19:59:29 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 13:59:29 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] New member; embeddable interactive Python In-Reply-To: <51EDF13E-20B4-4EC6-B4F4-6D79AD297268@trinket.io> References: <51EDF13E-20B4-4EC6-B4F4-6D79AD297268@trinket.io> Message-ID: <536A7481.5060108@unc.edu> On 5/7/2014 7:35 AM, Elliott Hauser wrote: > Sure! It's on the calendar. It is now: http://tripython.org/Members/tobias/jul-14-mtg http://www.meetup.com/tripython/events/181724842/ -- 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 May 12 16:50:04 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:50:04 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Chapel Hill Project Night for May 2014 (CHANGE OF VENUE) In-Reply-To: <535FBE4B.2060600@unc.edu> References: <535FBE4B.2060600@unc.edu> Message-ID: <5370DF9C.7020403@unc.edu> Reminder, the second Wednesday project night is this week, with a permanent change of venue to RENCI in Chapel Hill. We now have a conference room that can accommodate 50 people with room to spare. So come out and enjoy the new space. Plenty of free parking in the deck next to the building. If you've never been to RENCI, here's directions. It's easy enough to find. But if you are coming from I-40, do pay attention for making a U-turn on the 15-501 boulevard onto Europa Drive. It's a fairly crazy intersection the first time through. If you are coming Carrboro and Chapel Hill, it's easier to come up Fordham Blvd than Franklin Street. Coming from Franklin Street causes you to have to make a kamikaze dive across several lanes of traffic where Franklin merges with Fordham in order to make the right turn onto Europa Drive. (If you do come by way of Franklin Street, it might be safer to stay in the left hand lane and make a double U-turn around the crazy intersection). http://www.renci.org/about/locations/ -- 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 On 4/29/2014 10:59 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > When: Wednesday, May 14 at 6pm > Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference > Room, 5th Floor, Europa Center, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill > > http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/may-14-chpn > > """ > Project Night in the western Triangle transitions from Carrboro to > Chapel Hill with larger facilities at RENCI. Chapel Hill Project Night > meets on second Wednesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, > seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by 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 > free after hours parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. > """ > From laffra at gmail.com Mon May 12 17:40:27 2014 From: laffra at gmail.com (Chris Laffra) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 08:40:27 -0700 Subject: [TriZPUG] Chapel Hill Project Night for May 2014 (CHANGE OF VENUE) In-Reply-To: <5370DF9C.7020403@unc.edu> References: <535FBE4B.2060600@unc.edu> <5370DF9C.7020403@unc.edu> Message-ID: TIL : Renci == crazy double U-turns. On Monday, May 12, 2014, Chris Calloway wrote: > Reminder, the second Wednesday project night is this week, with a > permanent change of venue to RENCI in Chapel Hill. We now have a conference > room that can accommodate 50 people with room to spare. So come out and > enjoy the new space. Plenty of free parking in the deck next to the > building. > > If you've never been to RENCI, here's directions. It's easy enough to > find. But if you are coming from I-40, do pay attention for making a U-turn > on the 15-501 boulevard onto Europa Drive. It's a fairly crazy intersection > the first time through. If you are coming Carrboro and Chapel Hill, it's > easier to come up Fordham Blvd than Franklin Street. Coming from Franklin > Street causes you to have to make a kamikaze dive across several lanes of > traffic where Franklin merges with Fordham in order to make the right turn > onto Europa Drive. (If you do come by way of Franklin Street, it might be > safer to stay in the left hand lane and make a double U-turn around the > crazy intersection). > > http://www.renci.org/about/locations/ > > -- > 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 > > On 4/29/2014 10:59 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > >> When: Wednesday, May 14 at 6pm >> Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference >> Room, 5th Floor, Europa Center, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill >> >> http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/may-14-chpn >> >> """ >> Project Night in the western Triangle transitions from Carrboro to >> Chapel Hill with larger facilities at RENCI. Chapel Hill Project Night >> meets on second Wednesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, >> seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by 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 >> free after hours parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. >> """ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> If any of you educators among us (you know who you are) are facing push back, disbelief, or indifference, you need to be rehearsed in our talking points. Here many of them are in condensed form: http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/ -- 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 leslie.sox at gmail.com Tue May 13 19:30:26 2014 From: leslie.sox at gmail.com (Leslie Sox) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:30:26 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Why Push for Python? In-Reply-To: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> References: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> Message-ID: Thanks Chris. This is a great post. I enjoyed seeing the hundreds of other articles on Lorena's site as well. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > If any of you educators among us (you know who you are) are facing push > back, disbelief, or indifference, you need to be rehearsed in our talking > points. Here many of them are in condensed form: > > http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/ > > -- > 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 > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -- Regards, Leslie John Sox Garner, NC 919-931-5644 leslie.sox at gmail.com [image: Google Plus] [image: Linkedin] [image: NC State University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim at ibang.com Tue May 13 20:18:17 2014 From: jim at ibang.com (Jim Allman) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:18:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Why Push for Python? In-Reply-To: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> References: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> Message-ID: <853C7D13-AC5F-46F9-9171-7E7CA86869F3@ibang.com> On May 13, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > If any of you educators among us (you know who you are) are facing push back, disbelief, or indifference, you need to be rehearsed in our talking points. Here many of them are in condensed form: > > http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/ I agree with her conclusion, but I dislike some of her arguments. It just comes across as partisan, I guess, with lots of room to bicker about industry demand, simpler ways of writing ?hello world? in C, etc. I did like the ones that focused on simplicity, low syntactic (thus cognitive) overhead, etc. For what it?s worth, I took a slightly different tack in a discussion on ACH?s Digital Humanities website, focusing on *collaborative* benefits: code sharing and re-use, the value of ?one obvious (idiomatic) way?, and the ability to shape Python to fit a problem domain: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/whats-wrong-with-python#post-534 Sadly, I was late to the party and didn?t make much of an impact. But I think this is a useful line of argument. =jimA= Jim Allman Interrobang Digital Media http://www.ibang.com/ (919) 649-5760 From cbc at unc.edu Wed May 14 01:49:41 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:49:41 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Why Push for Python? In-Reply-To: <853C7D13-AC5F-46F9-9171-7E7CA86869F3@ibang.com> References: <537244FA.8070505@unc.edu> <853C7D13-AC5F-46F9-9171-7E7CA86869F3@ibang.com> Message-ID: <5372AF95.6040801@unc.edu> On 5/13/2014 2:18 PM, Jim Allman wrote: > http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/whats-wrong-with-python#post-534 Oh my, that thread is so awful it makes me want to explode. It's like listening to Wordpress people. Ruby is more object oriented than Python my bottom. We just have the good taste not to do every task via monkey patching. So, the lack of the "private" and "protected" keywords came up at project night last week and apparently needs to be addressed. Python has the same functionality, with even more granularity than C++ or Java, through __getattribute__, __setaattr__, and __delattr__. We have the "property" built-in when we want to make that explicit on an attribute by attribute basis and can use it as a decorator. In Java it's a keyword because Java was designed to download "applets" into browsers to execute protected, sandboxed, and compiled code, making the whole Java "security model" necessary. It's not that you can't do privacy in Python. It's that we don't use a keyword to do it because we're not flinging applets back and forth between untrusted hosts and untrusted clients. It's also related to the thing that Plone newbies find so confusing. You think you set the state or the owner "attribute" on some Plone object when you really needed to call a property manager to usher you through security. That's way more sophisticated than what simple "private" and "protected" bludgeons do. In Python we have better security granularity through many domains, not just on the get, set, and delete per attribute axis, but also on the who, and when, and how axes. And we don't have to register keys to do it unless we need to. -- 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 jeremyhwllc at gmail.com Wed May 14 04:20:08 2014 From: jeremyhwllc at gmail.com (Jeremy Davis) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 22:20:08 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] BarCampRDU 2014 Postponed - CityCamp NC 2014 open source unconference May 29-31 registration is open Message-ID: Hey folks, just sending a BarcampRDU update and sharing CityCamp NC 2014 info BarCampRDU 2014 has been postponed and will be hosted by Andrew Oliver and Tara Fusco of OSIntegrators at a later date. Another awesome open source unconference event, CityCamp NC, will take place this month, details below: CityCamp NC 2014 registration is now open. The event will be held May 29-31, 2014. CityCamp NC is three days of open sourced talks, workshops, and hands-on problem solving, to re-imagine the way the web, applications, technology, and participation will shape the future of NC cities. For more information on CityCamp NC, please visit CityCampNC.org, follow us on Twitter at @CityCampNC , or ?Like? our Facebook page at Facebook.com/CityCampNC. *ScheduleDetails for CityCampNC 2014* Thursday, May 29th Starting at 6:00pm, Evening Speakers Friday, May 30th, All Day Unconference, Pitches begin at 9:00am Saturday, May 31st, Build Day starts at 9:00 am, Team Presentations will be from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. As in years past, CityCamp NC will award a cash prize and venture consulting to the team that emerges based on votes cast by panel of judges formed of CityCamp NC organizers. The winning team will be awarded $3,000, 2-months of co-working membership at HQ Raleigh, plus a consulting session with Jason Caplain of Bull City Venture Partners. Registration is now open at http://citycampnc.org/register/ We are still looking for sponsors . Cheers! Jeremy Davis @jeremydavis0_0 www.trianglecareerdevelopment.com www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydavisprofile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Wed May 14 22:27:03 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:27:03 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy and PyQtGraph In-Reply-To: <535FB33D.3040402@unc.edu> References: <535FB33D.3040402@unc.edu> Message-ID: <5373D197.4060300@unc.edu> Joseph Tate has asked to postpone his Ansible presentation due to an unavoidable family conflict. But do not despair. I have found for you a meeting presentation that will blow your socks off. You must see this. A couple of weeks ago, thanks to an introduction from Cristobal Palmer, I met Dr. Luke Campagnola, a neuroscientist at the UNC Department of Otolaryngology. Luke conducts auditory electrophysiology research that is helping the profoundly deaf to hear through man/machine interfaces. I'll let him tell you about it because it's beyond amazing. It's shockingly miraculous. But in the course of this research, Luke needed some software to perform real time data acquisition, analysis, and visualization. Because he has been programming since the age of ten, Luke wrote that software himself in Python: http://luke.campagnola.me/code/acq4/ Yeah, I know. Freakishly talented. But then, because matplotlib wasn't fast enough for the refresh rate he needed for real time display, Luke extracted his graphics code from the project, refactored it within the PyQt4 namespace, and released that as a reusable package that now has a whole community of hundreds around it: http://pyqtgraph.org/ As if that wasn't enough, Luke realized a couple of things. One was that there are other similar projects (galry, glumpy, vizviz, pyqwt). The other was that there are better and more high performance ways of handling real time graphics by letting the GPU do all the coordinate transformation work. So he brought all the leaders of these projects together and convinced them they should unite to create such a library. And the vispy project was born with the ambitious aim of replacing matplotlib with high performance graphics, has been undergoing regular sprinting at scientific labs in Europe, and has one hundred percent test coverage: http://vispy.org/ Luke is also mentoring Google Summer of Code students this summer on work with these projects. I'm just overwhelmed that all of this has been going on in our backyard for years without our (well, at least my) knowing about it. Luke is excited also, because he didn't know about TriPython until we met a couple of weeks ago. So, we are ever so lucky to have Luke come talk to us next week at WebAssign. I want to specifically encourage you to come out to this talk because there are some very intriguing and strategic opportunities for TriPython associated with this work. When: Thursday, May 22 at 7pm Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh http://tripython.org/Members/sgambino/may-14-mtg """ Dr. Luke Campagnola will demonstrate his high performance Python scientific visualization projects, VisPy and PyQtGraph, related to his auditory electrophysiology research. This is a must see presentation. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Plenty of free after hours parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number posted on the door. An after-meeting location for food and beverage will be decided at the meeting (usually BaDa Wings for the Thursday night draught specials). """ -- 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 philip at semanchuk.com Tue May 20 14:26:25 2014 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:26:25 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job postings on the list? Message-ID: Hi all, I forget whether there?s a policy about posting jobs on the list. I occasionally get contacts from recruiters about Python contracts in the area. Do people want me to forward them here? I promise to only post the good ones, not the crummy ones (?Sharepoint administrator in Dubuque!? Huh...?) Bye all Philip From lionface.lemonface at gmail.com Tue May 20 16:24:29 2014 From: lionface.lemonface at gmail.com (Josh Johnson) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:24:29 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job postings on the list? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <90DAE546-EBFF-4167-BEA4-73B593667213@gmail.com> Hey, I was born in Dubuque! :) JJ -- Brought to you by a grant from the "I'm finally one of the cool kids" foundation for the advancement of geek chic in the mainstream vernacular. > On May 20, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > Hi all, > I forget whether there?s a policy about posting jobs on the list. I occasionally get contacts from recruiters about Python contracts in the area. Do people want me to forward them here? I promise to only post the good ones, not the crummy ones (?Sharepoint administrator in Dubuque!? Huh...?) > > > Bye all > Philip > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From rob.ladd at gmail.com Tue May 20 16:25:47 2014 From: rob.ladd at gmail.com (Rob Ladd) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:25:47 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job postings on the list? In-Reply-To: <90DAE546-EBFF-4167-BEA4-73B593667213@gmail.com> References: <90DAE546-EBFF-4167-BEA4-73B593667213@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hey, my sister is a SharePoint developer! On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Josh Johnson wrote: > Hey, I was born in Dubuque! :) > > JJ > > -- > Brought to you by a grant from the "I'm finally one of the cool kids" > foundation for the advancement of geek chic in the mainstream vernacular. > > > On May 20, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Philip Semanchuk > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I forget whether there?s a policy about posting jobs on the list. I > occasionally get contacts from recruiters about Python contracts in the > area. Do people want me to forward them here? I promise to only post the > good ones, not the crummy ones (?Sharepoint administrator in Dubuque!? > Huh...?) > > > > > > Bye all > > Philip > > _______________________________________________ > > TriZPUG mailing list > > TriZPUG at python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://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 Wed May 21 05:01:56 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 23:01:56 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job postings on the list? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <537C1724.60306@unc.edu> On 5/20/2014 8:26 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > Hi all, > I forget whether there?s a policy about posting jobs on the list. I occasionally get contacts from recruiters about Python contracts in the area. Do people want me to forward them here? I promise to only post the good ones, not the crummy ones (?Sharepoint administrator in Dubuque!? Huh...?) The job posting policy is shown at: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug/ Post jobs available in your own workplace. Please don't post for recruiters. -- 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 philip at semanchuk.com Wed May 21 05:09:52 2014 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 23:09:52 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job postings on the list? In-Reply-To: <537C1724.60306@unc.edu> References: <537C1724.60306@unc.edu> Message-ID: <9F186BF6-6EFC-4747-85D3-6C5711253276@semanchuk.com> On May 20, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 5/20/2014 8:26 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> Hi all, >> I forget whether there?s a policy about posting jobs on the list. I occasionally get contacts from recruiters about Python contracts in the area. Do people want me to forward them here? I promise to only post the good ones, not the crummy ones (?Sharepoint administrator in Dubuque!? Huh...?) > > The job posting policy is shown at: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug/ > > Post jobs available in your own workplace. Please don't post for recruiters. Good to know. Thanks, Chris! Cheers Philip PS - I apologize to Sharepoint admins and Dubuque! =) From leafstormrush at gmail.com Thu May 22 04:16:17 2014 From: leafstormrush at gmail.com (Matthew Frazier) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:16:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy and PyQtGraph In-Reply-To: <5373D197.4060300@unc.edu> References: <535FB33D.3040402@unc.edu> <5373D197.4060300@unc.edu> Message-ID: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning talk at the meeting tomorrow. The subject is, "Traversing the Montr?al M?tro with Python." (It's the talk I was trying to develop at Project Night last March/April, despite being interrupted by many kernel panics.) Here's the abstract from PyCon: """ Many cities have a "subway challenge," where transit enthusiasts compete to find the fastest path through all the stations of a subway network. In honor of PyCon 2014's host city, I will explain how you can use Python to find the fastest path through Montreal's M?tro, and recount the tale of how it worked out in practice. """ Thanks, Matthew Frazier On 05/14/2014 04:27 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > Joseph Tate has asked to postpone his Ansible presentation due to an > unavoidable family conflict. But do not despair. I have found for you a > meeting presentation that will blow your socks off. You must see this. > > A couple of weeks ago, thanks to an introduction from Cristobal Palmer, > I met Dr. Luke Campagnola, a neuroscientist at the UNC Department of > Otolaryngology. Luke conducts auditory electrophysiology research that > is helping the profoundly deaf to hear through man/machine interfaces. > I'll let him tell you about it because it's beyond amazing. It's > shockingly miraculous. But in the course of this research, Luke needed > some software to perform real time data acquisition, analysis, and > visualization. Because he has been programming since the age of ten, > Luke wrote that software himself in Python: > > http://luke.campagnola.me/code/acq4/ > > Yeah, I know. Freakishly talented. But then, because matplotlib wasn't > fast enough for the refresh rate he needed for real time display, Luke > extracted his graphics code from the project, refactored it within the > PyQt4 namespace, and released that as a reusable package that now has a > whole community of hundreds around it: > > http://pyqtgraph.org/ > > As if that wasn't enough, Luke realized a couple of things. One was that > there are other similar projects (galry, glumpy, vizviz, pyqwt). The > other was that there are better and more high performance ways of > handling real time graphics by letting the GPU do all the coordinate > transformation work. So he brought all the leaders of these projects > together and convinced them they should unite to create such a library. > And the vispy project was born with the ambitious aim of replacing > matplotlib with high performance graphics, has been undergoing regular > sprinting at scientific labs in Europe, and has one hundred percent test > coverage: > > http://vispy.org/ > > Luke is also mentoring Google Summer of Code students this summer on > work with these projects. I'm just overwhelmed that all of this has been > going on in our backyard for years without our (well, at least my) > knowing about it. Luke is excited also, because he didn't know about > TriPython until we met a couple of weeks ago. > > So, we are ever so lucky to have Luke come talk to us next week at > WebAssign. I want to specifically encourage you to come out to this talk > because there are some very intriguing and strategic opportunities for > TriPython associated with this work. > > When: Thursday, May 22 at 7pm > Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, > Raleigh > > http://tripython.org/Members/sgambino/may-14-mtg > > """ > Dr. Luke Campagnola will demonstrate his high performance Python > scientific visualization projects, VisPy and PyQtGraph, related to his > auditory electrophysiology research. This is a must see presentation. > Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also > welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Plenty of free after hours > parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign > (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and > Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number posted on > the door. An after-meeting location for food and beverage will be > decided at the meeting (usually BaDa Wings for the Thursday night > draught specials). > """ > From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 22 19:48:17 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:48:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy and PyQtGraph In-Reply-To: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> References: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> Message-ID: <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> On 5/21/2014 10:16 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote: > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning talk > at the meeting tomorrow. Just be aware that this will have to be a lightning talk if there is time available after the scheduled talk. The scheduled speaker has asked about how much time he will have and has been given carte blanche to take as much time as he needs. And I for one hope he covers his topic well because there's an associated project with it that will be talked about in a lightning talk right after the scheduled talk ends. If you would rather present this as a featured talk, you can see here that the next available month is August: http://tripython.org/meetings and you can claim shotgun on that month or after. Or work it out with one of the already scheduled featured speakers to share their time and let us know. Your topic sounds interesting and you deserve the time to talk completely about it. -- 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 22 19:54:35 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:54:35 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy and PyQtGraph In-Reply-To: <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> References: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> Message-ID: <537E39DB.5060403@unc.edu> On 5/22/2014 1:48 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 5/21/2014 10:16 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote: > > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning talk > > at the meeting tomorrow. > > Just be aware that this will have to be a lightning talk if there is > time available after the scheduled talk. And apparently, I can't read. Because you said "lightning talk" right in your first sentence. Sorry. We will make sure there it time for your lightning talk tonight, Matthew. -- 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 elliott at trinket.io Thu May 22 20:46:01 2014 From: elliott at trinket.io (Elliott Hauser) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:46:01 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Experimental Pygal in the browser for teaching Message-ID: Hey all. We just developed an experimental feature and I'd love to grab some feedback on from this group before we publicize more broadly. We extended skulpt (Python in the browser) to support the basics of the Python SVG charting library Pygal: https://trinket.io/charts This lets you put interactive, simple pygal charts into any page. They have their own interactive version online that's OK for testing out library features but not so great for teaching: http://cabaret.pygal.org/ We intend this library to open using data visualization in Python basics courses and Python in Data visualization basics courses. Please let me know if you're interested in incorporating it into a class or website- I'd love to help out Bug reports and suggestions of other libraries to work on next appreciated! Pygal was ideal because it was small and simple and mapped pretty well to some existing Javascript libraries. I'd love to do numpy or pandas one day but we don't have the firepower for them right now. E Elliott Hauser CEO, trinket @hauspoor (919) 308-6681 On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:00 AM, wrote: > Send TriZPUG mailing list submissions to > trizpug at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > trizpug-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > trizpug-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TriZPUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy and > PyQtGraph (Matthew Frazier) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:16:17 -0400 > From: Matthew Frazier > To: trizpug at python.org > Subject: Re: [TriZPUG] Re-announcing TriPython May 2014 Meeting: VisPy > and PyQtGraph > Message-ID: <537D5DF1.2040504 at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning talk at > the meeting tomorrow. The subject is, "Traversing the Montr?al M?tro > with Python." (It's the talk I was trying to develop at Project Night > last March/April, despite being interrupted by many kernel panics.) > Here's the abstract from PyCon: > > """ > Many cities have a "subway challenge," where transit enthusiasts compete > to find the fastest path through all the stations of a subway network. > In honor of PyCon 2014's host city, I will explain how you can use > Python to find the fastest path through Montreal's M?tro, and recount > the tale of how it worked out in practice. > """ > > Thanks, > Matthew Frazier > > On 05/14/2014 04:27 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > > Joseph Tate has asked to postpone his Ansible presentation due to an > > unavoidable family conflict. But do not despair. I have found for you a > > meeting presentation that will blow your socks off. You must see this. > > > > A couple of weeks ago, thanks to an introduction from Cristobal Palmer, > > I met Dr. Luke Campagnola, a neuroscientist at the UNC Department of > > Otolaryngology. Luke conducts auditory electrophysiology research that > > is helping the profoundly deaf to hear through man/machine interfaces. > > I'll let him tell you about it because it's beyond amazing. It's > > shockingly miraculous. But in the course of this research, Luke needed > > some software to perform real time data acquisition, analysis, and > > visualization. Because he has been programming since the age of ten, > > Luke wrote that software himself in Python: > > > > http://luke.campagnola.me/code/acq4/ > > > > Yeah, I know. Freakishly talented. But then, because matplotlib wasn't > > fast enough for the refresh rate he needed for real time display, Luke > > extracted his graphics code from the project, refactored it within the > > PyQt4 namespace, and released that as a reusable package that now has a > > whole community of hundreds around it: > > > > http://pyqtgraph.org/ > > > > As if that wasn't enough, Luke realized a couple of things. One was that > > there are other similar projects (galry, glumpy, vizviz, pyqwt). The > > other was that there are better and more high performance ways of > > handling real time graphics by letting the GPU do all the coordinate > > transformation work. So he brought all the leaders of these projects > > together and convinced them they should unite to create such a library. > > And the vispy project was born with the ambitious aim of replacing > > matplotlib with high performance graphics, has been undergoing regular > > sprinting at scientific labs in Europe, and has one hundred percent test > > coverage: > > > > http://vispy.org/ > > > > Luke is also mentoring Google Summer of Code students this summer on > > work with these projects. I'm just overwhelmed that all of this has been > > going on in our backyard for years without our (well, at least my) > > knowing about it. Luke is excited also, because he didn't know about > > TriPython until we met a couple of weeks ago. > > > > So, we are ever so lucky to have Luke come talk to us next week at > > WebAssign. I want to specifically encourage you to come out to this talk > > because there are some very intriguing and strategic opportunities for > > TriPython associated with this work. > > > > When: Thursday, May 22 at 7pm > > Where: WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, > > Raleigh > > > > http://tripython.org/Members/sgambino/may-14-mtg > > > > """ > > Dr. Luke Campagnola will demonstrate his high performance Python > > scientific visualization projects, VisPy and PyQtGraph, related to his > > auditory electrophysiology research. This is a must see presentation. > > Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also > > welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Plenty of free after hours > > parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign > > (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and > > Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number posted on > > the door. An after-meeting location for food and beverage will be > > decided at the meeting (usually BaDa Wings for the Thursday night > > draught specials). > > """ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > > > ------------------------------ > > End of TriZPUG Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 > ************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 22 21:54:39 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:54:39 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Experimental Pygal in the browser for teaching In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <537E55FF.7030708@unc.edu> On 5/22/2014 2:46 PM, Elliott Hauser wrote: > https://trinket.io/charts Elliot will also be giving the TriPython featured talk in July at Caktus: http://tripython.org/Members/tobias/jul-14-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 lgtateos at ncsu.edu Thu May 22 19:51:53 2014 From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:51:53 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Tonight's meeting (logistics) In-Reply-To: <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> References: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> Message-ID: <537E3939.4050104@ncsu.edu> Hi, can someone remind me what phone number to call if we can't get in the WebAssign building tonight? Thanks, Laura On 5/22/2014 1:48 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 5/21/2014 10:16 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote: > > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning > talk > at the meeting tomorrow. > > Just be aware that this will have to be a lightning talk if there is > time available after the scheduled talk. The scheduled speaker has > asked about how much time he will have and has been given carte > blanche to take as much time as he needs. And I for one hope he covers > his topic well because there's an associated project with it that will > be talked about in a lightning talk right after the scheduled talk ends. > > If you would rather present this as a featured talk, you can see here > that the next available month is August: > > http://tripython.org/meetings > > and you can claim shotgun on that month or after. Or work it out with > one of the already scheduled featured speakers to share their time and > let us know. Your topic sounds interesting and you deserve the time to > talk completely about it. > From lgtateos at ncsu.edu Thu May 22 22:25:20 2014 From: lgtateos at ncsu.edu (Laura Tateosian) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:25:20 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Tonight's meeting (logistics) In-Reply-To: <537E3939.4050104@ncsu.edu> References: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> <537E3939.4050104@ncsu.edu> Message-ID: <537E5D30.20900@ncsu.edu> re-sending this. I don't think it got through last time... > Hi, > > can someone remind me what phone number to call if we can't get in the > WebAssign building tonight? > > Thanks, > Laura > > > On 5/22/2014 1:48 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: >> On 5/21/2014 10:16 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote: >> > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning >> talk > at the meeting tomorrow. >> >> Just be aware that this will have to be a lightning talk if there is >> time available after the scheduled talk. The scheduled speaker has >> asked about how much time he will have and has been given carte >> blanche to take as much time as he needs. And I for one hope he >> covers his topic well because there's an associated project with it >> that will be talked about in a lightning talk right after the >> scheduled talk ends. >> >> If you would rather present this as a featured talk, you can see here >> that the next available month is August: >> >> http://tripython.org/meetings >> >> and you can claim shotgun on that month or after. Or work it out with >> one of the already scheduled featured speakers to share their time >> and let us know. Your topic sounds interesting and you deserve the >> time to talk completely about it. >> > From trawick at gmail.com Thu May 22 23:47:17 2014 From: trawick at gmail.com (Jeff Trawick) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 17:47:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Tonight's meeting (logistics) In-Reply-To: <537E5D30.20900@ncsu.edu> References: <537D5DF1.2040504@gmail.com> <537E3861.4050804@unc.edu> <537E3939.4050104@ncsu.edu> <537E5D30.20900@ncsu.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Laura Tateosian wrote: > re-sending this. I don't think it got through last time... It did. Usually Steve has a sheet on the door with the number to call. > > > Hi, >> >> can someone remind me what phone number to call if we can't get in the >> WebAssign building tonight? >> >> Thanks, >> Laura >> >> >> On 5/22/2014 1:48 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: >> >>> On 5/21/2014 10:16 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote: >>> > As a bonus feature, I plan to re-present my PyCon 2014 lightning talk >>> > at the meeting tomorrow. >>> >>> Just be aware that this will have to be a lightning talk if there is >>> time available after the scheduled talk. The scheduled speaker has asked >>> about how much time he will have and has been given carte blanche to take >>> as much time as he needs. And I for one hope he covers his topic well >>> because there's an associated project with it that will be talked about in >>> a lightning talk right after the scheduled talk ends. >>> >>> If you would rather present this as a featured talk, you can see here >>> that the next available month is August: >>> >>> http://tripython.org/meetings >>> >>> and you can claim shotgun on that month or after. Or work it out with >>> one of the already scheduled featured speakers to share their time and let >>> us know. Your topic sounds interesting and you deserve the time to talk >>> completely about it. >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/ http://edjective.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this role, you will design, build, and support customer-facing web applications in a fun, collaborative, open-source development environment. You will work as part of a SCRUM team, transforming business and system goals into functional software applications and web services. The ideal candidate will have the following: - A deep appreciation for Python and a desire to master it - Strong object-oriented development background - Solid experience with Python, Java, C or C++ - Multiple years of experience developing web applications, preferably utilizing Python and the Django framework - Strong web applications skill set: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS - Professional experience designing web-based applications utilizing a combination of client and server-side technologies - Good breadth of database skills - A love of collaboration and real-time teamwork - Agile team experience - Experience using version control and bug tracking systems Additional Desired Knowledge & Experience: - Experience with Linux development environments - Experience contributing to open source projects - Web based user interface design experience would be a bonus - An understanding of basic web application security techniques - Good analytical, troubleshooting and interpersonal skills - Self-motivated Please reply off list. -- This message was sent to: Christopher Ashley Cline To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that address. TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug Unsubscribe or edit options on the web : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/grumpusbumpus%40gmail.com Welcome to TriLUG: http://trilug.org/welcome -- Christopher Cline Graduate Student UNC SILS c acline at email.unc.edu (919) 619-7899 3010 Hawk Ridge Rd Chapel Hill, 27516 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rleathers at lexile.com Thu May 29 20:09:02 2014 From: rleathers at lexile.com (Ryan Leathers) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:09:02 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job Open in Durham for Python / Django Developer Message-ID: Python / Django Developer MetaMetrics has an immediate direct hire opportunity for a Python / Django Developer to join the Software Engineering Team. In this role, you will design, build, and support customer-facing web applications in a fun, collaborative, open-source development environment. You will work as part of a SCRUM team, transforming business and system goals into functional software applications and web services. The ideal candidate will have the following: - A deep appreciation for Python and a desire to master it - Strong object-oriented development background - Solid experience with Python, Java, C or C++ - Multiple years of experience developing web applications, preferably utilizing Python and the Django framework - Strong web applications skill set: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS - Professional experience designing web-based applications utilizing a combination of client and server-side technologies - Good breadth of database skills - A love of collaboration and real-time teamwork - Agile team experience - Experience using version control and bug tracking systems Additional Desired Knowledge & Experience: - Experience with Linux development environments - Experience contributing to open source projects - Web based user interface design experience would be a bonus - An understanding of basic web application security techniques - Good analytical, troubleshooting and interpersonal skills - Self-motivated -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri May 30 04:51:55 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 22:51:55 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG] Have a Job in Durham for a Python / Django Developer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5387F24B.7030206@unc.edu> On 5/29/2014 3:07 PM, Christopher Cline wrote: > Hopefully this isn't a duplicate post, Thanks, Chris. Ryan did post this to our list. But he posted from an unsubscribed email address. So his post was sitting in a moderation queue until I saw it just now. Thanks for reposting it. We want to make sure Metametrics job postings get special notice here. So it's not a problem if it gets posted twice. I even forwarded it onto some people I know are looking to move here for Django jobs. -- 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 patrickbeeson at gmail.com Fri May 30 12:42:00 2014 From: patrickbeeson at gmail.com (Patrick Beeson) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 03:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [TriLUG] Have a Job in Durham for a Python / Django Developer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1401446520314.575c2af3@Nodemailer> ? Sent from my mobile device On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Christopher Cline wrote: > Hi everyone, > Hopefully this isn't a duplicate post, and I'm sure many of you are also on > the Triangle Linux User Group list, but in case you're not, this job > announcement just went out. > Regards, > -Chris Cline > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ryan Leathers > Date: Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:11 PM > Subject: [TriLUG] Have a Job in Durham for a Python / Django Developer > To: trilug > Python / Django Developer > MetaMetrics has an immediate direct hire opportunity for a Python / Django > Developer to join the Software Engineering Team. In this role, you will > design, build, and support customer-facing web applications in a fun, > collaborative, open-source development environment. You will work as part > of a SCRUM team, transforming business and system goals into functional > software applications and web services. > The ideal candidate will have the following: > - > A deep appreciation for Python and a desire to master it > - > Strong object-oriented development background > - > Solid experience with Python, Java, C or C++ > - > Multiple years of experience developing web applications, preferably > utilizing Python and the Django framework > - > Strong web applications skill set: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS > - > Professional experience designing web-based applications utilizing a > combination of client and server-side technologies > - > Good breadth of database skills > - > A love of collaboration and real-time teamwork > - > Agile team experience > - > Experience using version control and bug tracking systems > Additional Desired Knowledge & Experience: > - > Experience with Linux development environments > - > Experience contributing to open source projects > - > Web based user interface design experience would be a bonus > - > An understanding of basic web application security techniques > - > Good analytical, troubleshooting and interpersonal skills > - > Self-motivated > Please reply off list. > -- > This message was sent to: Christopher Ashley Cline > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that > address. > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > Unsubscribe or edit options on the web : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/grumpusbumpus%40gmail.com > Welcome to TriLUG: http://trilug.org/welcome > -- > Christopher Cline > Graduate Student > UNC SILS > c acline at email.unc.edu > (919) 619-7899 > 3010 Hawk Ridge Rd > Chapel Hill, 27516 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Sat May 31 00:45:02 2014 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:45:02 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Job Open in Durham for Python / Django Developer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <538909EE.7030806@unc.edu> On 5/29/2014 2:09 PM, Ryan Leathers wrote: > Python / Django Developer Hey, Ryan, you might want to join the TriPython/TriZPUG email list if you are going to post to it: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug/ I approved your post to flow through after it was flagged into a moderation queue for being from an unsubscribed address. Chris Cline also forwarded it from the TriLUG list. So it got posted twice to TriPython/TriZPUG. I hope all is well for you. I know of at least one person who is going to apply for your job posting. Peter King is from Atlanta and wants to move here. He has an MBA and has a GIS background. But he wants to move into Django. He considers himself entry level and I don't know if that's a fit for you. But he's trying to retool. He's trying so hard he drove up here from Atlanta just to go to a TriPython meeting to meet people and network for Django jobs. -- 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