Talk idea: Paul Barry, author of Head First Programming/Python

[Aaron Hastings]

Myself and Padraic were just chatting about how awesome the Head First Python book is, when Padraic had a brainwave - seeing as he's a lecturer in IT Carlow, why not ask the author to come speak? He's written both Head First Programming and Head First Python, as well as books on Perl and Bioinformatics. He seems like a pretty interesting guy all-round and I think it would be great to see if he'd come speak to us.

His website is here:
http://paulbarry.itcarlow.ie/

Thoughts? I can go ahead and email him to see when he's free after xmas.

Aaron

[Paul MacEoin]

That would be awesome, especially if it could be tied into the Intro to Python tutorials that someone was going to run.

Would be a very neat package to include this as an intro or midpoint talk during the series of classes. 

[Aaron Hastings]

I agree about promoting it, but I really don't want to make such a thing that formal. A simple advisory notice for people to arrive early to avoid disappointment, or maybe a Google Docs sign-up sheet to gauge interest.

On 14/12/12 18:14, Alan Keaveney wrote:

Hi, 

I strongly agree with Richard about promoting this event . We should work out how many participants we can comfortably accommodate and then work to attract full capacity. Maybe consider using event brite for registration or maybe if people think that is too formal just go old-school and provide an email sign-up sheet if people might like to be invited to future similar events. 

What do people think? 

Alan. 

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On 14 Dec 2012, at 17:47, Richard Conroy <richard...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you arrange this well enough in advance, this could be a *big* event.

You could draw a real crowd. You would want to think about how you can make the event work well for the labs (drawing attention to python programming group for one).

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Alanna Kelly <ameth...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good idea :) --
 
 
 

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