UTPyUG Meeting Location is in Draper

[dave]

I've heard from several people that an email from someone went out to
the group announcing the meeting location as the U of U. THIS IS
INCORRECT. I never saw the email so I'm not sure how best to correct
that misinformation.

Victor has kindly offered the Bill Good Marketing location in Draper
as a permanent home for the Utah Python User Group meeting. Everyone
in attendance at the September 2009 meeting voted in favor of this
offer.

Please spread the word and correct any misinformation you find.

Dave

[tonedevf]

All,

The next Utah Python User Group meeting is tomorrow, March 11 at 7:00 PM in
our lovely Draper location (see utahpython.org for directions).

Ben Coverston will present a 30k foot view on MapReduce, the class of
problems it is designed to solve, and lead a high level discussion on some
of the implementation challenges that implementers face when using a highly
distributed system that stores and processes large sets of data. Steve
Olson will give an introduction on NoSql databases and then describe and
demonstrate how to link to couchdb, and interesting Key/Value document
database that uses map/reduce technology to retrieve information. Hopefully
others with experience in NoSql, MapReduce and the like will attend and
participate in an open discussion at the end.

Free pizza and beverage as always! See you then.

Dave

[Shawn Willden]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:21 AM, tonedevf <tone...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ben Coverston will present a 30k foot view on MapReduce, the class of
problems it is designed to solve, and lead a high level discussion on some
of the implementation challenges that implementers face when using a highly
distributed system that stores and processes large sets of data.

Dang!  I'd love to see that talk.  Unfortunately, I have a standing conflict every Thursday night. :(

Will there be an audio recording?

--
Shawn

[Clint Savage]

Shawn,

I believe there will be an audio and video recording of it. This has
been happening for a while with UtahPython since they moved to Draper.
I'm not sure when it will be posted, but I know Victor has been
recording them. He's been pretty busy with work, so I'm sure the
other recordings will be up.

I'll doublecheck with Victor tonight and if he's unable to record it,
I'll bring my equipment with me and record it. I have a new set of
tools I want to try out anyway.

Cheers,

Clint

[Seth House]

Speaking of CouchDB, "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" is today's
O'Reilly ebook deal of the day.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155902/

(for some reason you have to hit the front page to actually see the
deal)

[Sean Upton]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Seth House <whit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of CouchDB, "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" is today's
> O'Reilly ebook deal of the day.

Related: this ebook, like many O'Reilly books, even cheaper if you
want it just for iPhone ($4.99 from the iTunes app store, the same
price as many OSS and Python books; I am currently reading Natural
Language Processing with Python this way). This one also appears to
be the same $4.99 price on the Android market. So if you are not
averse to reading on a smartphone or similarly capable device, this
may be the least expensive way (other than Safari books online) to
read some high-quality commercial tech books.

Sean

[Blaine LaFreniere]

How does Free 99 sound? http://rs245.rapidshare.com/files/346650427/OR-CouchDBTheDefinitiveGuide.rar

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Uhhhh..... Me likey! :)

[Seth House]

On Mar 15, 3:04 pm, Blaine LaFreniere <brlafreni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How does Free 99 sound?

From RapidShare? Sounds like copyright infringement. If you want to
read the full book without supporting the authors, try the official
site <http://books.couchdb.org/relax/>.

Please keep illegal material off this list.

[Christian Horne]

unless it's from [cough]microsoft[cough].

i do agree that it's not cool to download a pirated copy of an
o'reilly book, though.

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[thin]

I copy left :)

[AlWyble]

For offline reading - you can always ...

wget --mirror –p --convert-links http://books.couchdb.org/relax/

[Rob Bailey]

Dave, Python group,

I am not going to be able to present this next month, and neither can the cloud project guys at Verio.  I hope this is not too late of notice to plan a backup presentation.  Is there anyone interested in the available slot?

--Rob

[Victor Villa]

while i can't present, I do want to nominate a beginners look at python, or maybe a best practices presentation

something for those of us who aren't as strong in the use of the Force.

v

[Alec Henriksen]

I think a best practices session would be awesome!

[tonedevf]

Bear and DexterTheDragon suggested and (I think) volunteered to do some intro to python presentations.

 

Bear, DexterTheDragon, could you possibly present this month?

 

Rob, will you/Verio be able to present in May?

 

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

Verio Cloud Computing

   Suggested by: Rob Bailey, Verio

   Presenter: Rob Bailey

   When:  May?

 

 

Python basics (possibly several presentations, from different perspectives, covering different aspects)

   Suggested by: Bear & DexterTheDragon

   Presenter(s): Bear & DexterTheDragon

   When: ? ?

 

 

Distributed processing of Bezier curves and surfaces

   Suggested by: Stephen McQuay

   Presenter: Stephen McQuay

   When: ? ?

 

 

Gstreamer

   Suggested by: Clint

   Presenter: Clint

   When: May/June

 

 

Webcrawling

   Suggested by: ? ?

   Presenter: ? ?

   When: ? ?

 

 

Nifty (or stupid) Python Tricks

   Suggested by: many people

   Presenters: hopefully lots of people

   When: ? ?

 

 

Twisted

   Suggested by: ? ?

   Presenter: ? ?

   When: ? ?

 

 

Other ideas:

 

Code sprints - What projects are people interested in working on?  Would this make sense for our usual 2 hour meeting time or should a larger chunk of time be scheduled?

 

Others ? ? ?

[tonedevf]

UTPyUG,

Our April presenters can’t make it.

Will *you* step up to the plate and present on some python-related topic?
You don’t need to be an expert nor do you need 90 minutes worth of content.
Any topic big or small would be appreciated.

Again, the meeting is this coming Thursday so let us know ASAP.

Dave

Dave

Other ideas:

Others ? ? ?

[Shawn Willden]

I would if it weren't Thursday!  Virtually any other day of the week I can do, but Thursdays are all taken.

Shawn

[tonedevf]

We're lacking presenters for the April meeting. I won't have much time this
week to wrangle any content before our scheduled meeting time of Thursday,
April 8. So unless someone wants to organize something else, this month's
meeting is *CANCELLED*.

See you in May!

And by the way, we still need presenters for May ; )

Dave

[tonedevf]

Hi all,

We're still stuck with no presenters for the May meeting.

Any volunteers?

Dave





Verio Cloud Computing
   Suggested by: Rob Bailey, Verio
   Presenter: Rob Bailey

   When:  ?

???

[Alec Henriksen]

I'd be glad to do a presentation with someone else... Like the Python
basics thing. I think I could make a good presentation on "Pythonic"
thinking, and I think it would be a good discussion topic for the
meetup. I'll try not to be as boring as well.

Can't wait to come, finally!

[Stephen McQuay]

I don't really know that my thing would be distributed ...

I wouldn't mind cleaning up the scripts I made for class, talking
briefly about the mathematics, and then showing how i pieced together
classes and such to solve a real world problem.

Stephen Mardson McQuay
stephen.mcquay.me

[Christian Horne]

stephen! dude, why aren't you answering our emails? we were expecting you at the last meeting ...
the blendmaster

[tonedevf]

Oh, sorry Stephen. That's just the quick notes I took a few meetings ago
and I must have confused it with some of the other uber things you do.

Thanks Alec, that would be great!

Can anyone volunteer to share the presentation time with Alec and his
"Pythonic Thinking" presentation? Possible topics could be Python basics,
Python tips 'n tricks, entertaining Python distractions, my favorite things
about Python, etc... any topic really. The pressure is low because you
don't have to fill the entire time.


Dave

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[tonedevf]

All,

For the May meeting we have Alec presenting on Pythonic thinking. Will
anyone else volunteer to do a half-length presentation on an introductory
topic, sharing the total time with Alec?

Thanks!

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:01 PM


Thanks Alec, that would be great!

Can anyone volunteer to share the presentation time with Alec and his
"Pythonic Thinking" presentation? Possible topics could be Python basics,
Python tips 'n tricks, entertaining Python distractions, my favorite things
about Python, etc... any topic really. The pressure is low because you
don't have to fill the entire time.


Dave





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Subject: Re: Presenters need for May meeting

[Jeremy Hanna]

Perhaps someone could present on one of the cassandra python client libraries:

Just thought it might be fun with the recent presentations on
map/reduce and couch. Cassandra is a distributed/nosql database whose
project chair is jbellis, a ghost of utahpython past :).

cassandra - http://cassandra.apache.org

python clients:
pycassa - http://github.com/vomjom/pycassa - a good intro client
telephus - http://github.com/driftx/Telephus - a twisted based client
lazyboy - http://github.com/digg/lazyboy - another good intro client
tragedy - http://github.com/enki/tragedy

Jeremy

[Roberto Mello]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, tonedevf <tone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> For the May meeting we have Alec presenting on Pythonic thinking.  Will
> anyone else volunteer to do a half-length presentation on an introductory
> topic, sharing the total time with Alec?

Will the presentation be recorded and made available anywhere, for
those of us that no longer live in Utah?

Roberto

[tonedevf]

Maybe there's a way we can get YOU to present, Jeremy : ) maybe a
go2meeting or equivalent solution would allow us to tap more possible
presenters who don't live nearby.

Suggestions?

[tonedevf]

That's a question for herlo. Sometimes it does get recorded, sometimes not.
It takes a lot of time/energy to do the recording.

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[Coverston, Ben]

If Jonathan can present in Europe over Skype...

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[Victor Villa]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Coverston, Ben <Ben.Co...@navitaire.com> wrote:

If Jonathan can present in Europe over Skype...

 

i forget if utahPython top or bottom posts, so don't get angry if i picked the wrong one.  That said, UPHPU just did their first "Presenter presenting over gotomeeting" and it worked out really well.  Please note, however, the gotomeeting client is mac / winders only.

just my .02

mj/v

[Jeremy Hanna]

Ben - true, though from what it sounds like you'd be a good presenter
on it having done the intro to map/reduce :). Cassandra has actually
added map/reduce integration in the 0.6.x release.

[tonedevf]

Again, Alec has graciously offered to present on "Pythonic Thinking" but his
presentation won't utilize the full meeting time. Will someone else
volunteer to give a complementary presentation, preferably
basic/intro-level? Any topics large or small will probably work (10-45
minutes). Some ideas that have been suggested in the past include: my
favorite Python things, stupid/nifty Python tricks, and approaching Python
from a (fill in name of other programming language here) background.

Ask not what your user group can do for you, but what *you* can do for your
user group.

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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:57 AM

All,

For the May meeting we have Alec presenting on Pythonic thinking. Will
anyone else volunteer to do a half-length presentation on an introductory
topic, sharing the total time with Alec?

Thanks!

Dave




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From: tonedevf [mailto:tone...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:01 PM


Thanks Alec, that would be great!

Can anyone volunteer to share the presentation time with Alec and his
"Pythonic Thinking" presentation? Possible topics could be Python basics,
Python tips 'n tricks, entertaining Python distractions, my favorite things
about Python, etc... any topic really. The pressure is low because you
don't have to fill the entire time.


Dave





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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:09 PM
To: utahp...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: Presenters need for May meeting

[Seth House]

On May 9, 11:03 am, "tonedevf" <toned...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any topics large or small will probably work (10-45 minutes)

I can do a quick present on my favorite Python things.

I don't have a ton a material though -- one of the things I enjoyed at
the last UTOSC was the Zsh BOF where anyone who had a nifty trick
spoke up and gave it a quick mention. How about we all bring one or
two things we dig about Python and make it a bit more casual? (If no
one else brings tips, you all can watch me ignore you while I play
Galcon on the big-screen...)