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PyData Workshop Video

Chris Calloway — 2012-05-25T21:08:38

The video from the PyData workshop between OSCON and PyCon has been 
released:

http://marakana.com/s/2012_pydata_workshop,1090/index.html

I know some of you are interested in Pandas, the stats wrapper for numpy 
(for people who don't know/are frustrated with R and RPy). There is a 
Pandas talk by the ever remarkable Wes McKinney among the workshop videos.

Re: Meetup

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-25T19:55:18

Not-so-subtle note taken

Re: Meetup

Chris Calloway — 2012-05-25T19:51:40

Here's one metric: TriZPUG has 90 members on meetup.com and 192 through 
mail.python.org.

Those numbers also have a pretty big intersection. And within that 
intersection, most of them were already members through mail.python.org 
before signing up through meetup.com.

My perception is "many" == a few.

However, I think it is not a bad idea to reach out to even the few and I 
support Calvin's initiative to request people interested in promoting 
the group to RSVP.

I'd also like to see Calvin update the project night announcement on 
TriZPUG.org. :)

Re: Meetup

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-25T19:13:04

When it comes to missing out on people we could have in our community,
but dont, any to is too many.

Re: Meetup

J. Cliff Dyer — 2012-05-25T18:30:18

How many is many?

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:30 -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote:

Re: Meetup

Chris Calloway — 2012-05-25T17:52:24

BTW, I always update the number who attended on the past event pages of 
meetup.com when I rate the meeting. (Somebody beat me to it today, 
though, which is a good thing.) The number shows up as text above the 
past meeting title. However, only the RSVPs show up as avatars on the 
past meetings and those are much more prominent than the tiny text 
number above them. I think that might be part of the concern.

Re: Meetup

Troy S — 2012-05-25T17:53:22

I tried to do what Calvin Suggested.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Meetup

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-25T17:30:51

The issue is the people who don't see that, they see the meetup page. That is
primary interaction many people have with our event announcements and
schedule. For many, it is the only.

Thanks and Shout-outs

Chris Calloway — 2012-05-25T17:28:45

Thank you very much, Chris Fox, for hosting us in such a nice location, 
and special thanks for the reminder email. I look forward to hearing 
more about your computational linguistics with Python.

Shout-outs to Andrew Leeb, Ian Anderson, and Angela Wong, all who I 
reconnected with at Plone Symposium East this week. It's funny when I 
only see some TriZPUGers at far-away conferences but never back in the 
Triangle. :)

Re: Meetup

Christopher Fox — 2012-05-25T17:26:39

On the event page for last night's meeting, I see where it says 2 people
have rated the meeting 5 stars, but there's no button for me to rate it.
Perhaps it's not letting me because I just joined the group now.

On Friday, May 25, 2012, Chris Calloway <cbc-gpQNmkgQrW4< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:
fact?
meeting, does it not have some kind of button to click on for rating the
meeting or something like that? I can't tell because it already shows me as
having attended because it made the announcement on meetup.com. If you make
the announcement, you automatically get marked as a "yes" RSVP. If you RSVP
with a "yes," it also automatically assumes that you went to the meeting
and advertizes that as fact on the past event pages.

Re: Meetup

J. Cliff Dyer — 2012-05-25T17:17:27

Wouldn't it be easier to just mention how many people attended when we
send out an announcement about the meetings?  I doubt we'll get critical
mass on people reporting on meetup.

Cheers,
Cliff



On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:03 -0400, Christopher Fox wrote:

Re: Meetup

Chris Calloway — 2012-05-25T17:10:26

If you login to meetup.com and visit the event page for last night's 
meeting, does it not have some kind of button to click on for rating the 
meeting or something like that? I can't tell because it already shows me 
as having attended because it made the announcement on meetup.com. If 
you make the announcement, you automatically get marked as a "yes" RSVP. 
If you RSVP with a "yes," it also automatically assumes that you went to 
the meeting and advertizes that as fact on the past event pages.

Re: Meetup

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-25T17:13:45

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Christopher Fox
<chris.david.fox< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm... you should be able to review the meetup, which says you were there..

Re: Meetup

Christopher Fox — 2012-05-25T17:03:26

I'm not familiar with Meetup. How do I say that I attended after the fact?

Chris Fox

On Friday, May 25, 2012, Steve Gambino <stevegambino-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:
to promote and will make an effort to do so in the future.
wrote:
themselves.
interesting!
http://www.twitter.com/ironfroggy

Re: Meetup

Steve Gambino — 2012-05-25T10:44:28

Calvin,

Thanks for posting this reminder.  I wasn't aware of this "opportunity" to
promote and will make an effort to do so in the future.

Best,
Steve Gambino

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

Meetup

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-25T10:09:28

All,

I know many of you don't like Meetup.com, but the fact is that people
do use it and like it.

Most importantly, they look at it. The look at the event page for last
night, where we had
ten or so attendees, and they see only 3 RSVPs. They look and think
we're a tiny group
and no one shows up or participates, so they don't bother showing up themselves.

Do a small part to promote TriZPUG today and tell meetup that you did,
in fact, attend.

And RSVP in the future!

http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/events/64777142/

http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/

Re: confirmation on room on Centennial

Joseph S. Tate — 2012-05-24T16:45:51

Anyone from South Durham, or Chapel Hill want to carpool?

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Christopher Fox
<chris.david.fox-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

confirmation on room on Centennial

Christopher Fox — 2012-05-23T22:14:17

Hello everyone!

We definitely will access to the room I've reserved for tomorrow night. The
room is 1226 in Engineering Building II. You'll need me to get into the
building, so I will wait in the downstairs area with large windows near the
roundabout.

Chris Fox

Re: PyCarolinas 2012 Call For Proposals

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-21T15:02:13

CORRECTION

The proposal deadline is July 20, 2012

Not 2011, obviously.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy< at >gmail.com> wrote:

PyCarolinas 2012 Call For Proposals

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-21T14:51:33

PyCarolinas 2012 Call For Proposals

PyCarolinas 2012, the first Python conference held in the carolinas,
is now accepting proposals! We’re looking for proposals for talks you
can present to this great and growing Python community.

PyCarolinas will be held in October in Chapel Hill, NC. The exact
location and dates of the two-day conference will be announced
shortly.

The proposal deadline is July 20, 2011. Please submit your proposals
to talks< at >pycarolinas.org.
About PyCarolinas 2012

PyCarolinas 2012 is the first Python Conference held in the carolinas
and will be located in Chapel Hill, NC this October. The specific date
and location will be announced shortly. It is a two day conference,
with one day of talks and one day or sprinting.
Who should submit a proposal?

Anyone! We’re looking for as broad a cross-section of the Python
community as possible.

We’re looking for both experienced conference speakers and people new
to technical conferences; industry professionals and hobbyists;
entrepreneurs,

PyCarolinas Talk Submissions

Calvin Spealman — 2012-05-20T20:01:17

TrizPUG and CharPy,

Some of you may already know that plans are underway for PyCarolinas
2012, to be held in October.
As the two Python User Groups in those "carolinas" (and please let me
know if SC has any groups I
should be including as well) I'd like to invite anyone interested to
join the organizer list. This will also
be where talks will be submitted.

This is hosted on google groups and you can request membership here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pycarolinas-org

I am keeping this private, but not forbidding anyone from joining. I
just want to keep discussion about
talk submissions a little non-public.

Thank you to anyone who wants to lend a hand or just attend!
Calvin Spealman