Plans for 2012

[Neil Muller]

First, we decided that CTPUG meetings will resume on the 21st of
January next year - topics and venue to hopefully be settled before
then.

Secondly, at the end of Saturday's meeting, there was some discussion
about what we want to do next year, and what sort of talks or other
activities we should be aiming for.

Suggestions that came up include:

* Focusing on introductory talks for the first half of the year
* Having a few "lightening talk" sessions - several speakers, each
talking for no more than 10 minutes about something they find
interesting
* Some sort of more problem-driven session - "I'm trying to write X -
what libraries should I use", etc. type thing
* Some talks on workflows - starting a project, unit testing, deploying
* Also cover some infrastructure things like virtualenv, chroot
tricks, simple packaging, etc.

And some other stuff that I don't recall right now (people who do,
please fill in the missing bits).

So, which of these are people interested in seeing happen? Are there
other suggestions?

Discuss.

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[Adrianna Pińska]

Hi, everyone

Some more context: we mostly see the same faces at CTPUG meetings, and
we would like to encourage more people to come -- especially beginner
and intermediate python users. We're thinking of having more talks
covering more accessible topics: how to set up and use virtualenv; how
to package a Python library for Debian / Ubuntu; how to use language
feature foo or library bar; individual people's demos of their
personal development environments. They don't have to be very long
talks -- we can have multiple shorter talks in one meeting.

We would like to hear requests and suggestions from everyone on this
list, especially people who don't come to CTPUG talks often. What
kind of stuff are you interested in? What kind of topics would you
like to see addressed in talks? What else would you like to do at a
CTPUG meeting?

We're also looking for more people to offer to give talks, obviously. ;)

Cheers,
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Adrianna Pińska
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[David Maclay]

I'd be interested in coming up with some sort of cohesive system (python + eclipse/pydev + virtualenv + git + django or flask + postgres + ubuntu)  for .Net / Java developers.

Not just fragmented talks, but something building up a complete commercial dev environment for non-ctpug types.

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