From cbc at unc.edu Mon Jul 2 14:09:42 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 18:09:42 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Reminder: Raleigh Project Night Message-ID: <4AFBC241-18FC-4FDA-881E-C8B539F2BDD2@unc.edu> We?ve got Raleigh project night Tuesday to kick off your next day off. http://tripython.org/Members/kahowell/july-18-rpn/ When: Tuesday, July 3, 6-9pm Where: Red Hat Annex, 190 E Davie St, Raleigh What: 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. Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- We've got Raleigh project night Tuesday to kick off your next day off. http://tripython.org/Members/kahowell/july-18-rpn/ When: Tuesday, July 3, 6-9pm Where: Red Hat Annex, 190 E Davie St, Raleigh What: 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. Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From philip at semanchuk.com Sun Jul 8 16:34:06 2018 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:34:06 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] PyOhio lodging recommendation? Message-ID: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> Hi all, I?m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I?m wondering where to stay. In the past I?ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of my driver?s license in order to use the service and I?m not keen on the identity theft risk. Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they?d like to recommend? THanks Philip From ggoddard at gmail.com Sun Jul 8 20:06:13 2018 From: ggoddard at gmail.com (Greg Goddard) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 17:06:13 -0700 Subject: [TriPython] PyOhio lodging recommendation? In-Reply-To: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> References: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> Message-ID: <265D6CAC-8BBB-4236-8868-1F3E31E70367@gmail.com> Hi Philip, VRBO has worked well for us in the past. Cheers, -g > On Jul 8, 2018, at 13:34, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > Hi all, > I?m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I?m wondering where to stay. In the past I?ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of my driver?s license in order to use the service and I?m not keen on the identity theft risk. > > Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they?d like to recommend? > > THanks > Philip > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group From bryan.fogleman at gmail.com Sun Jul 8 22:14:35 2018 From: bryan.fogleman at gmail.com (Bryan Fogleman) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 22:14:35 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] PyOhio lodging recommendation? In-Reply-To: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> References: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> Message-ID: We just used AirBnB in Chatledton, SC and I saw that requirement for the first time that I recall. Thought it was the property owner requesting it. My wife booked the rental and never provided any license copy on the app or to the owner. Think her account has been active for 5 years or more. So, may want to try without submitting license... FYI: I heard from some OBX beach property owners that people are listing properties they don't own for rent on Craigslist. Collect payment. The renters show up for vacation only to find out it is all fake and the property is already rented by real owner via VRBO or AirBnB. Cheers, Bryan Please excuse any typographical errors. For intended recipient. Copyright & confidential. On Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 4:57 PM Philip Semanchuk wrote: > Hi all, > I?m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I?m wondering where to > stay. In the past I?ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of > my driver?s license in order to use the service and I?m not keen on the > identity theft risk. > > Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they?d like to recommend? > > THanks > Philip > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group > -------------- next part -------------- We just used AirBnB in Chatledton, SC and I saw that requirement for the first time that I recall.** Thought it was the property owner requesting it.** My wife booked the rental and never provided any license copy on the app or to the owner.** Think her account has been active for 5 years or more. So, may want to try without submitting license... FYI:** I heard from some OBX beach property owners that people are listing properties they don't own for rent on Craigslist. Collect payment.** The** renters show up for vacation only to find out it is all fake and the property is already rented by real owner via VRBO or AirBnB.**** Cheers, Bryan** Please excuse any typographical errors.** For intended recipient.** Copyright & confidential. On Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 4:57 PM Philip Semanchuk <[1]philip at semanchuk.com> wrote: Hi all, I***m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I***m wondering where to stay. In the past I***ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of my driver***s license in order to use the service and I***m not keen on the identity theft risk. Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they***d like to recommend? THanks Philip _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list [2]TriZPUG at python.org [3]https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug [4]http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group References Visible links 1. mailto:philip at semanchuk.com 2. mailto:TriZPUG at python.org 3. https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug 4. http://tripython.org/ From cbc at unc.edu Thu Jul 12 14:10:27 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:10:27 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] PyOhio lodging recommendation? In-Reply-To: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> References: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> Message-ID: <31BA12F4-7D85-4973-B741-1197E9BCFD68@unc.edu> PyOhio says there is no official hotel. But the semi-official hotel for many years was The Blackwell on the OSU campus. It is the closest to the PyOhio venue, which is the OSU student union. I've stayed there many times and it was excellent. A couple of years I was in charge of negotiating a room block and rate from The Blackwell for PyOhio. I don't think anyone is doing that now, though. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 ?On 7/8/18, 4:34 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Philip Semanchuk" wrote: Hi all, I?m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I?m wondering where to stay. In the past I?ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of my driver?s license in order to use the service and I?m not keen on the identity theft risk. Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they?d like to recommend? THanks Philip _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list TriZPUG at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group From philip at semanchuk.com Fri Jul 13 08:34:32 2018 From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:34:32 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] PyOhio lodging recommendation? In-Reply-To: <31BA12F4-7D85-4973-B741-1197E9BCFD68@unc.edu> References: <4804DFF3-D6BE-42FF-A8F6-780487886FB9@semanchuk.com> <31BA12F4-7D85-4973-B741-1197E9BCFD68@unc.edu> Message-ID: <174806C2-E49D-458E-AF4B-157A3230D71B@semanchuk.com> > On Jul 12, 2018, at 2:10 PM, Calloway, Chris wrote: > > PyOhio says there is no official hotel. But the semi-official hotel for many years was The Blackwell on the OSU campus. It is the closest to the PyOhio venue, which is the OSU student union. I've stayed there many times and it was excellent. A couple of years I was in charge of negotiating a room block and rate from The Blackwell for PyOhio. I don't think anyone is doing that now, though. Thanks Chris and all who replied. You?re correct about no special rate for the Blackwell this year, but that?s probably where I?ll end up having struck out in the alternative market. Glad to hear it?s appealing. Cheers P > > > ?On 7/8/18, 4:34 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Philip Semanchuk" wrote: > > Hi all, > I?m giving a talk at PyOhio later this month and I?m wondering where to stay. In the past I?ve used AirBnB, but they now want a digitized copy of my driver?s license in order to use the service and I?m not keen on the identity theft risk. > > Does anyone have a non-AirBnB option they?d like to recommend? > > THanks > Philip > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group > > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group From charlotte.ann.mays at gmail.com Fri Jul 13 09:38:17 2018 From: charlotte.ann.mays at gmail.com (Charlotte Mays) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:38:17 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Guido stepping down! Message-ID: In case you missed it: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers at python.org/msg05628.html -------------- next part -------------- In case you missed it: [1]https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers at python.org/msg05628.html References Visible links 1. https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers at python.org/msg05628.html From cbc at unc.edu Sun Jul 15 17:29:06 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 21:29:06 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Reminder: Durham Project Night Message-ID: <11591DFB-436A-4754-80C1-A7008A09FE5A@unc.edu> http://tripython.org/Members/markdlavin/july-18-dpn When: Monday, July 16, 6-9pm Where: Caktus Group Tech Space, 108 Morris St., Durham What: 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! 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. Park in the municipal deck on the other side of the Arts Council across W. Morgan St. The entrance to the Caktus Tech Space is on Morris St. Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- [1]http://tripython.org/Members/markdlavin/july-18-dpn When: Monday, July 16, 6-9pm Where: Caktus Group Tech Space, 108 Morris St., Durham What: 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! 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. Park in the municipal deck on the other side of the Arts Council across W. Morgan St. The entrance to the Caktus Tech Space is on Morris St. Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. http://tripython.org/Members/markdlavin/july-18-dpn From cbc at unc.edu Tue Jul 17 12:09:52 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:09:52 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] TriPython July 2018 Meeting: Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython Message-ID: Stacy Morse will bring it again next week for our monthly featured speaker meeting. http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg When: Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: LED lighting rigs are expensive. Worse, they have little to no controls aside from on and off. Most are not dimmable and the only way to change color is to use gels (colored sheets of plastic). In this talk Stacy Morse will present how she used CircuitPython in conjunction with LEDs and microcontrollers to make a custom LED lighting rig. Macro photography is very small scale and the standard LED light arrays are too much for a given composition. LED arrays for photography are expensive and featureless. Use CircuitPython to control LEDs using microcontrollers to light macro photography. Our speaker, Stacy Morse, is a time traveling immortal who programs with Python and builds things that blink. She is a freelancer/contractor building web applications. This allows her to work on her personal Python project, a hand-held programmable LED array for lighting photographs. Stacy's talk will also be featured at PyCon Australia in late August. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- Stacy Morse will bring it again next week for our monthly featured speaker meeting. [1]http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg When: Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: LED lighting rigs are expensive. Worse, they have little to no controls aside from on and off. Most are not dimmable and the only way to change color is to use gels (colored sheets of plastic). In this talk Stacy Morse will present how she used CircuitPython in conjunction with LEDs and microcontrollers to make a custom LED lighting rig. Macro photography is very small scale and the standard LED light arrays are too much for a given composition. LED arrays for photography are expensive and featureless. Use CircuitPython to control LEDs using microcontrollers to light macro photography. Our speaker, Stacy Morse, is a time traveling immortal who programs with Python and builds things that blink. She is a freelancer/contractor building web applications. This allows her to work on her personal Python project, a hand-held programmable LED array for lighting photographs. Stacy's talk will also be featured at PyCon Australia in late August. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg From cbc at unc.edu Wed Jul 18 11:07:27 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:07:27 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Python Data Science Job at Advanced Auto Parts Raleigh Store Support Center Message-ID: Advance Auto Parts is looking for a Python engineer: https://www.advanceautoparts.jobs/en-US/job/merchandise-scientist/J3P5BJ6YFW1PSDXTCYS -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- Advance Auto Parts is looking for a Python engineer: [1]https://www.advanceautoparts.jobs/en-US/job/merchandise-scientist/J3P5BJ6YFW1PSDXTCYS -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. https://www.advanceautoparts.jobs/en-US/job/merchandise-scientist/J3P5BJ6YFW1PSDXTCYS From cbc at unc.edu Wed Jul 18 12:23:14 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:23:14 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] SciPy 2018 Tutorial Instructions and Videos: Message-ID: <8DD97751-721D-465E-9061-B159CEDA3988@unc.edu> Tutorial instructions: https://scipy2018.scipy.org/ehome/299527/648136/ Video (including tutorials and lightning talks): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scipy+2018 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- Tutorial instructions: [1]https://scipy2018.scipy.org/ehome/299527/648136/ Video (including tutorials and lightning talks): [2]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scipy+2018 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. https://scipy2018.scipy.org/ehome/299527/648136/ 2. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scipy+2018 From cbc at unc.edu Wed Jul 18 14:55:36 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:55:36 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) Message-ID: <3D44AAF6-3AA5-4644-8DC6-EA3B462CDE8F@unc.edu> The long-time Durham Project Night coordinator, Mark Lavin, is stepping down and we thank him for his many years of service. Caktus has suggested that we seek a replacement from among our ranks and they would coordinate with that person. This involves being responsible for a card access key to the Caktus Tech Space, showing up for the project night by 6pm on third Mondays, letting people in, ensuring awareness of the code of conduct, and finally closing up the space at 9pm. Hopefully, this coordinator would also conduct introductions between attendees when a critical mass of people have shown up as well as facilitating any announcements or discussions as the coordinator feels useful for making attendees feel welcome and oriented. Totally optional: finding a pizza sponsor. If being present for every third Monday sounds like more of a commitment than you would want to take on, possibly there could be a team of two or three coordinators who would back each other up. Multiple coordinators would probably need to coordinate the exchange of the access key with each other. I would imagine Caktus would want to limit the number of access keys but maybe they would provide one to each of multiple coordinators. We already have an access keys used for our monthly featured speaker meetings at Caktus each quarter. If you have an interest in continuing Durham Project Nights at Caktus, please speak up. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- The long-time Durham Project Night coordinator, Mark Lavin, is stepping down and we thank him for his many years of service. Caktus has suggested that we seek a replacement from among our ranks and they would coordinate with that person. This involves being responsible for a card access key to the Caktus Tech Space, showing up for the project night by 6pm on third Mondays, letting people in, ensuring awareness of the code of conduct, and finally closing up the space at 9pm. Hopefully, this coordinator would also conduct introductions between attendees when a critical mass of people have shown up as well as facilitating any announcements or discussions as the coordinator feels useful for making attendees feel welcome and oriented. Totally optional: finding a pizza sponsor. If being present for every third Monday sounds like more of a commitment than you would want to take on, possibly there could be a team of two or three coordinators who would back each other up. Multiple coordinators would probably need to coordinate the exchange of the access key with each other. I would imagine Caktus would want to limit the number of access keys but maybe they would provide one to each of multiple coordinators. We already have an access keys used for our monthly featured speaker meetings at Caktus each quarter. If you have an interest in continuing Durham Project Nights at Caktus, please speak up. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From thomson at neuro.duke.edu Wed Jul 18 16:12:49 2018 From: thomson at neuro.duke.edu (Eric Thomson) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:12:49 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) In-Reply-To: <3D44AAF6-3AA5-4644-8DC6-EA3B462CDE8F@unc.edu> References: <3D44AAF6-3AA5-4644-8DC6-EA3B462CDE8F@unc.edu> Message-ID: I'd be glad to take over for Mark. Best, Eric ________________________________________ From: TriZPUG [trizpug-bounces+thomson=neuro.duke.edu at python.org] on behalf of Calloway, Chris [cbc at unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:55 PM To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) The long-time Durham Project Night coordinator, Mark Lavin, is stepping down and we thank him for his many years of service. Caktus has suggested that we seek a replacement from among our ranks and they would coordinate with that person. This involves being responsible for a card access key to the Caktus Tech Space, showing up for the project night by 6pm on third Mondays, letting people in, ensuring awareness of the code of conduct, and finally closing up the space at 9pm. Hopefully, this coordinator would also conduct introductions between attendees when a critical mass of people have shown up as well as facilitating any announcements or discussions as the coordinator feels useful for making attendees feel welcome and oriented. Totally optional: finding a pizza sponsor. If being present for every third Monday sounds like more of a commitment than you would want to take on, possibly there could be a team of two or three coordinators who would back each other up. Multiple coordinators would probably need to coordinate the exchange of the access key with each other. I would imagine Caktus would want to limit the number of access keys but maybe they would provide one to each of multiple coordinators. We already have an access keys used for our monthly featured speaker meetings at Caktus each quarter. If you have an interest in continuing Durham Project Nights at Caktus, please speak up. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From cbc at unc.edu Thu Jul 19 15:53:59 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:53:59 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) Message-ID: <4389B92A-9E67-49B1-AF40-E9DB97736821@unc.edu> Wow, Eric. That's very generous of you. I'm going to put you in contract with the Caktus point person for our access to their Tech Space. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me off-list. I'll also send you more information off-list. What Python packages do you use at Duke Neurobiology? -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 ?On 7/18/18, 4:12 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Eric Thomson" wrote: I'd be glad to take over for Mark. Best, Eric ________________________________________ From: TriZPUG [trizpug-bounces+thomson=neuro.duke.edu at python.org] on behalf of Calloway, Chris [cbc at unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:55 PM To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) The long-time Durham Project Night coordinator, Mark Lavin, is stepping down and we thank him for his many years of service. Caktus has suggested that we seek a replacement from among our ranks and they would coordinate with that person. This involves being responsible for a card access key to the Caktus Tech Space, showing up for the project night by 6pm on third Mondays, letting people in, ensuring awareness of the code of conduct, and finally closing up the space at 9pm. Hopefully, this coordinator would also conduct introductions between attendees when a critical mass of people have shown up as well as facilitating any announcements or discussions as the coordinator feels useful for making attendees feel welcome and oriented. Totally optional: finding a pizza sponsor. If being present for every third Monday sounds like more of a commitment than you would want to take on, possibly there could be a team of two or three coordinators who would back each other up. Multiple coordinators would probably need to coordinate the exchange of the access key with each other. I would imagine Caktus would want to limit the number of access keys but maybe they would provide one to each of multiple coordinators. We already have an access keys used for our monthly featured speaker meetings at Caktus each quarter. If you have an interest in continuing Durham Project Nights at Caktus, please speak up. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list TriZPUG at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group From thomson at neuro.duke.edu Thu Jul 19 17:43:39 2018 From: thomson at neuro.duke.edu (Eric Thomson) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:43:39 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) In-Reply-To: <4389B92A-9E67-49B1-AF40-E9DB97736821@unc.edu> References: <4389B92A-9E67-49B1-AF40-E9DB97736821@unc.edu> Message-ID: Hi Chris: I have been using Django to do side projects, and at work am just starting to build a Python-heavy virtual-reality setup for fish, which at some point I will probably present at one of these meetups (basically, do real-time 3d tracking of a fish, and feed this info to a rendering engine that projects a scene to the fish's environment, to trick the fish). I have gotten a lot of help from the various Python meetups over the years, I'd hate to see the Caktus-based Project Night die off. Best, Eric ________________________________________ From: TriZPUG [trizpug-bounces+thomson=neuro.duke.edu at python.org] on behalf of Calloway, Chris [cbc at unc.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 3:53 PM To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) Subject: Re: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) Wow, Eric. That's very generous of you. I'm going to put you in contract with the Caktus point person for our access to their Tech Space. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me off-list. I'll also send you more information off-list. What Python packages do you use at Duke Neurobiology? -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 ?On 7/18/18, 4:12 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Eric Thomson" wrote: I'd be glad to take over for Mark. Best, Eric ________________________________________ From: TriZPUG [trizpug-bounces+thomson=neuro.duke.edu at python.org] on behalf of Calloway, Chris [cbc at unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 2:55 PM To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) Subject: [TriPython] Need a Durham Project Night Coordinator(s) The long-time Durham Project Night coordinator, Mark Lavin, is stepping down and we thank him for his many years of service. Caktus has suggested that we seek a replacement from among our ranks and they would coordinate with that person. This involves being responsible for a card access key to the Caktus Tech Space, showing up for the project night by 6pm on third Mondays, letting people in, ensuring awareness of the code of conduct, and finally closing up the space at 9pm. Hopefully, this coordinator would also conduct introductions between attendees when a critical mass of people have shown up as well as facilitating any announcements or discussions as the coordinator feels useful for making attendees feel welcome and oriented. Totally optional: finding a pizza sponsor. If being present for every third Monday sounds like more of a commitment than you would want to take on, possibly there could be a team of two or three coordinators who would back each other up. Multiple coordinators would probably need to coordinate the exchange of the access key with each other. I would imagine Caktus would want to limit the number of access keys but maybe they would provide one to each of multiple coordinators. We already have an access keys used for our monthly featured speaker meetings at Caktus each quarter. If you have an interest in continuing Durham Project Nights at Caktus, please speak up. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list TriZPUG at python.org https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mail.python.org_mailman_listinfo_trizpug&d=DwIGaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=xLfTt4GWo52-xrBaYVQFv_rd751H30S-dxwZoh1Ocu8&m=hiXQMqEasBFwj8WXc6iuIRVwnwoC2ldofMalkR6nNSY&s=vQvUA2bq9nB8I26MTFrn3-U4x2j04Dy2BMVmgy21CL8&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tripython.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=xLfTt4GWo52-xrBaYVQFv_rd751H30S-dxwZoh1Ocu8&m=hiXQMqEasBFwj8WXc6iuIRVwnwoC2ldofMalkR6nNSY&s=D2c9uNnDFUhRhlbroGFY5wjr8TDVg4dvhtVrSdxSKfA&e= is the Triangle Python Users Group _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list TriZPUG at python.org https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mail.python.org_mailman_listinfo_trizpug&d=DwIGaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=xLfTt4GWo52-xrBaYVQFv_rd751H30S-dxwZoh1Ocu8&m=hiXQMqEasBFwj8WXc6iuIRVwnwoC2ldofMalkR6nNSY&s=vQvUA2bq9nB8I26MTFrn3-U4x2j04Dy2BMVmgy21CL8&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tripython.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=xLfTt4GWo52-xrBaYVQFv_rd751H30S-dxwZoh1Ocu8&m=hiXQMqEasBFwj8WXc6iuIRVwnwoC2ldofMalkR6nNSY&s=D2c9uNnDFUhRhlbroGFY5wjr8TDVg4dvhtVrSdxSKfA&e= is the Triangle Python Users Group From aikimark at aol.com Fri Jul 20 10:38:42 2018 From: aikimark at aol.com (Mark Hutchinson) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:38:42 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Python popularity (poll results) Message-ID: <164b820e7ba-c92-b52d@webjas-vae137.srv.aolmail.net> Not surprising, data scientists like Python: https://www.burtchworks.com/2018/07/16/2018-sas-r-or-python-survey-results-which-do-data-scientists-analytics-pros-prefer/ Other surveys cited in this article: https://www.datanami.com/2018/07/19/python-gains-traction-among-data-scientists/ Mark -------------- next part -------------- Not surprising, data scientists like Python: https://www.burtchworks.com/2018/07/16/2018-sas-r-or-python-survey-results-which-do-data-scientists-analytics-pros-prefer/ Other surveys cited in this article: https://www.datanami.com/2018/07/19/python-gains-traction-among-data-scientists/ Mark From aikimark at aol.com Sat Jul 21 08:02:06 2018 From: aikimark at aol.com (Mark Hutchinson) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 08:02:06 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] nice plotting intro Message-ID: <164bcb7e73a-c8f-f61c@webjas-vad231.srv.aolmail.net> Five plots, and some variants, using Matplotlib with Python. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/07/5-quick-easy-data-visualizations-python-code.html -------------- next part -------------- Five plots, and some variants, using Matplotlib with Python. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/07/5-quick-easy-data-visualizations-python-code.html From cbc at unc.edu Tue Jul 24 11:43:09 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:43:09 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] nice plotting intro In-Reply-To: <164bcb7e73a-c8f-f61c@webjas-vad231.srv.aolmail.net> References: <164bcb7e73a-c8f-f61c@webjas-vad231.srv.aolmail.net> Message-ID: A ridiculous number of simple examples: https://matplotlib.org/gallery/index.html -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 ?On 7/21/18, 8:02 AM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Mark Hutchinson via TriZPUG" wrote: Five plots, and some variants, using Matplotlib with Python. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/07/5-quick-easy-data-visualizations-python-code.html From cbc at unc.edu Wed Jul 25 10:49:53 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:49:53 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Reminder: TriPython July 2018 Meeting: Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython Message-ID: Hey, we're going to have a big time tomorrow (Thursday) evening with what promises to be a really interesting talk so come on out to RENCI. See you there. On 7/17/18, 12:09 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Calloway, Chris" wrote: Stacy Morse will bring it again next week for our monthly featured speaker meeting. http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg When: Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: LED lighting rigs are expensive. Worse, they have little to no controls aside from on and off. Most are not dimmable and the only way to change color is to use gels (colored sheets of plastic). In this talk Stacy Morse will present how she used CircuitPython in conjunction with LEDs and microcontrollers to make a custom LED lighting rig. Macro photography is very small scale and the standard LED light arrays are too much for a given composition. LED arrays for photography are expensive and featureless. Use CircuitPython to control LEDs using microcontrollers to light macro photography. Our speaker, Stacy Morse, is a time traveling immortal who programs with Python and builds things that blink. She is a freelancer/contractor building web applications. This allows her to work on her personal Python project, a hand-held programmable LED array for lighting photographs. Stacy's talk will also be featured at PyCon Australia in late August. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From artem.nesterenko at gmail.com Wed Jul 25 12:13:14 2018 From: artem.nesterenko at gmail.com (Art) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:13:14 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Fwd: Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning Engineer opportunity at AT&T In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And if you do contact Shelby please mention my name. Thanks! Art Nestsiarenka email: artem.nesterenko at gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Art Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:34 AM Subject: Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning Engineer opportunity at AT&T To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) < trizpug at python.org> Hi Guys, Our Predictive Analytics team at AT&T is looking for a Senior Data Analyst with the experience in Machine Learning. This is a long term contract opportunity through Apex Systems. Job location: RTP I don't have the job description, but this role requires to do data analysis from different internal AT&T clients and build prediction models for them. Here's the tech stack we use if someone is interested: - Python, JavaScript; - Pandas, numpy, matplotlib, etc.; - Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, PySpark; - ElasticSearch; - Flask, Tornado; - D3.js / c3.js If anybody is interested or you know someone who whould please share this info and reach out to this person: Shelby Kerr Engagement Delivery Coordinator smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com If you have any questions please let me know. Regards, Art Nestsiarenka email: artem.nesterenko at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- And if you do contact Shelby please mention my name. Thanks! Art Nestsiarenka email: [1]artem.nesterenko at gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Art <[2]artem.nesterenko at gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:34 AM Subject: Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning Engineer opportunity at AT&T To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG) <[3]trizpug at python.org> Hi Guys, Our Predictive Analytics team at AT&T is looking for a Senior Data Analyst with the experience in Machine Learning. This is a long term contract opportunity through Apex Systems. Job location: RTP I don't have the job description, but this role requires to do data analysis from different internal AT&T clients and build prediction models for them. Here's the tech stack we use if someone is interested: - Python, JavaScript; - Pandas, numpy, matplotlib, etc.; - Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, PySpark; - ElasticSearch; - Flask, Tornado; - D3.js / c3.js If anybody is interested or you know someone who whould please share this info and reach out to this person: Shelby Kerr Engagement Delivery Coordinator [4]smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com If you have any questions please let me know.** Regards, Art Nestsiarenka email: [5]artem.nesterenko at gmail.com References Visible links 1. mailto:artem.nesterenko at gmail.com 2. mailto:artem.nesterenko at gmail.com 3. mailto:trizpug at python.org 4. mailto:smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com 5. mailto:artem.nesterenko at gmail.com From artem.nesterenko at gmail.com Wed Jul 25 11:34:56 2018 From: artem.nesterenko at gmail.com (Art) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:34:56 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning Engineer opportunity at AT&T Message-ID: Hi Guys, Our Predictive Analytics team at AT&T is looking for a Senior Data Analyst with the experience in Machine Learning. This is a long term contract opportunity through Apex Systems. Job location: RTP I don't have the job description, but this role requires to do data analysis from different internal AT&T clients and build prediction models for them. Here's the tech stack we use if someone is interested: - Python, JavaScript; - Pandas, numpy, matplotlib, etc.; - Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, PySpark; - ElasticSearch; - Flask, Tornado; - D3.js / c3.js If anybody is interested or you know someone who whould please share this info and reach out to this person: Shelby Kerr Engagement Delivery Coordinator smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com If you have any questions please let me know. Regards, Art Nestsiarenka email: artem.nesterenko at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- Hi Guys, Our Predictive Analytics team at AT&T is looking for a Senior Data Analyst with the experience in Machine Learning. This is a long term contract opportunity through Apex Systems. Job location: RTP I don't have the job description, but this role requires to do data analysis from different internal AT&T clients and build prediction models for them. Here's the tech stack we use if someone is interested: - Python, JavaScript; - Pandas, numpy, matplotlib, etc.; - Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, PySpark; - ElasticSearch; - Flask, Tornado; - D3.js / c3.js If anybody is interested or you know someone who whould please share this info and reach out to this person: Shelby Kerr Engagement Delivery Coordinator [1]smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com If you have any questions please let me know.** Regards, Art Nestsiarenka email: [2]artem.nesterenko at gmail.com References Visible links 1. mailto:smkerr at apexsystemsinc.com 2. mailto:artem.nesterenko at gmail.com From cbc at unc.edu Fri Jul 27 19:00:50 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 23:00:50 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Pangeo demo Message-ID: <77F3BE0B-CB0D-433A-8FFF-510861971145@unc.edu> I found out why the Pangeo demo did not go so well in my lightning talk last night: ?We've been struggling to get autoscaling going for the cluster and have not yet succeeded. So currently the cluster is scaled way down to avoid excess charges unless we know we need it scaled up. So if you want to do a demo, let us know when, and we can scale it up for your demo, okay?? But you can watch Rich Signell of USGS give an updated demo of the same notebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqWHeUQHEQ The mind-blowing parts are at 10:00 and 13:10. There is also an interesting bit at the end about dask_jobqueue allows you to distribute Dask on a cluster job with queuing systems like PBS, Slurm, MOAB, and SGE, which used to be really hard to work around. Even without your own cluster, you can see the wonder of Datashader interactively by running this notebook on Binder yourself, no Dask needed for this demo: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/reproducible-notebooks/Tides_TriMesh_Datashader/master This is a Datashader display of a tidal dataset. If you zoom in around Puerto Rico, you can see the data being resampled. There are 3.7M triangles in the tidal dataset. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- I found out why the Pangeo demo did not go so well in my lightning talk last night: "We've been struggling to get autoscaling going for the cluster and have not yet succeeded. So currently the cluster is scaled way down to avoid excess charges unless we know we need it scaled up. So if you want to do a demo, let us know when, and we can scale it up for your demo, okay?" But you can watch Rich Signell of USGS give an updated demo of the same notebook: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqWHeUQHEQ The mind-blowing parts are at 10:00 and 13:10. There is also an interesting bit at the end about dask_jobqueue allows you to distribute Dask on a cluster job with queuing systems like PBS, Slurm, MOAB, and SGE, which used to be really hard to work around. Even without your own cluster, you can see the wonder of Datashader interactively by running this notebook on Binder yourself, no Dask needed for this demo: [2]https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/reproducible-notebooks/Tides_TriMesh_Datashader/master This is a Datashader display of a tidal dataset. If you zoom in around Puerto Rico, you can see the data being resampled. There are 3.7M triangles in the tidal dataset. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqWHeUQHEQ 2. https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/reproducible-notebooks/Tides_TriMesh_Datashader/master From cbc at unc.edu Tue Jul 31 17:02:00 2018 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:02:00 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Job Message-ID: I?m passing this along for longtime TriPythoneer Andy Leeb. You would be his coworker if you took this. Offices are out at the RTP Frontier. https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Onna/743999673711500-senior-python-developer -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- I'm passing this along for longtime TriPythoneer Andy Leeb. You would be his coworker if you took this. Offices are out at the RTP Frontier. https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Onna/743999673711500-senior-python-developer -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530