July Meetup

[Walter Leibbrandt]

This will be our fourth monthly meetup. The talks will be short, and are meant to be conversation starters. Should you not be available for the entire meetup, you are welcome to come say hi and leave early.

Time: Saturday, 19 July 2014 13:30 - 16:00.

Place: JoziHub (thanks to them... again)

Talks:

• Using PL/Python in PostgreSQL (Corrie)
• Testing in Python (Iwan)

Please RSVP on our Meetup.com page.

Any questions or comments regarding the meetup are welcome in this thread.

See you there!

[lm.m...@gmail.com]

I assume its free since there is no fee mentioned :-)

can I bring my laptop? (my battery is kinda dead, so willl there be plug points?)

I'm new to this whole meet up thing >_<

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Yes, it's free, and yes, there will be power plugs. Let's hope there's no power outage like last time. :)

[mhc...@gmail.com]

Healthy number of attendees RSVPed "Yes".

Looking at a record of 17 :-)

[Liam J Thompson]

Unbelievably, I won't this one either, and I wanted to listen to the
testing talk !

Curses

On 15/07/2014 06:24, mhc...@gmail.com wrote:
> Healthy number of attendees RSVPed "Yes".
>
> Looking at a record of 17 :-)
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[Tiens van Zyl]

I'm very keen to go. Will need to check my wife's schedule first :)

[Ludolph Neethling]

Hi Walter,

Ludo here, is there still place for 2 at the meeting today?

Later,
Kind Regards,

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[Walter Leibbrandt]

Hi Ludo,

Sorry for not responding before the meetup, and thanks for pitching up anyway. :)

[mhc...@gmail.com]

Some feedback:

Great to see the numbers have increased significantly. 13 of us managed to attend.

Place was hard to find (for me!).

Screen at the venue was a bit small (had some difficulties viewing code/info), but not a big issue.

I think we had free food, so that is a plus :P

Somehow discussion (to all attendees) about PyCon slipped the minds of everyone (apologies Simon), but hopefully awareness exists among users.

Meta discussion (informally) mentioned things like:

• Differences between beginners and advanced users
• Commercial uses of python
• PyCon
• Venue rotations
• etc.

Anyone have any other feedback? (I was late, so maybe I missed some exciting stuff in the beginning)

Regards,

H

[Simon Cross]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, <mhc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somehow discussion (to all attendees) about PyCon slipped the minds of
> everyone (apologies Simon), but hopefully awareness exists among users.

I've learned not to rely on that. :P

Are there any other channels we should be making announcements on it
order to reach Gauteng Python developers?

Schiavo
Simon

[Hussain Cassim]

> Are there any other channels we should be making announcements on it
order to reach Gauteng Python developers?

Not really a suggestion just for Gauteng-based folk, but maybe here:

http://jobsburn.com/jobs/events/

Also, we can create a thread in this group and start a discussion on our meetup site too.

How many attendees are you looking to attract this year (using numpy, plotting a linear estimate from 2012 and 2013 attendee numbers :P ) ?

Regards,
H

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[Simon Cross]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Hussain Cassim <mhc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How many attendees are you looking to attract this year (using numpy,
> plotting a linear estimate from 2012 and 2013 attendee numbers :P ) ?

I'm hoping to reach 250 but it's a new city so there's a lot of
uncertainty in that.

[Walter Leibbrandt]

On Monday, 21 July 2014 16:42:24 UTC+2, Hodgestar wrote:

Are there any other channels we should be making announcements on it
order to reach Gauteng Python developers?

I will spread the word as far as I can to the local communities and Python using companies that I know of. Is there any kind of "standard" material I can refer them to?