Retiring from MichiPUG

[Kevin Dangoor]

The stress of sending out a message every month about the meeting is just too much for me...

:)

More seriously, after 4 years of semi-official leadership of MichiPUG my focus has shifted sufficiently that I think it's time for me to do something else. It's certainly not for lack of interesting things happening in Python... There's tons of activity between Python 3.x and 2.x, psyco and unladen swallow doing interesting things for performance, Jython reaching a genuinely useful level again, more libraries than ever being released, etc.

It should come as no surprise to people who know me that:

1. I'm into web stuff
2. I'm not religious about my tools

With my limited budget of time, I'm starting a new (as yet unnamed) group around those 2 thoughts. The new group will be meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (again at SRT), so folks who have more time than me can attend both that and MichiPUG if they wish :)    But, I will likely be attending MichiPUG much less frequently in the coming months.

So, thanks for everything you all have shared over the past 4 years!

...and what are we going to talk about on Thursday???

Kevin

p.s. I'm going to propose that Mark takes over my role as "guy who sends monthly message asking about topics" and whatever other official duties may be required by our rather loosely coupled group :)

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[Rick Harding]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Dangoor<dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The stress of sending out a message every month about the meeting is just
> too much for me...

Hah, that's how MiDevelopers just turned into a longer CHC. Coming up
with meetings every month is stressful.

> With my limited budget of time, I'm starting a new (as yet unnamed) group
> around those 2 thoughts. The new group will be meeting on the 3rd Wednesday
> of the month (again at SRT), so folks who have more time than me can attend
> both that and MichiPUG if they wish :)

This sounds cool. I was talking with some guys in the
#coffeehousecoders channel about something more web dev centric where
things like javascript practices, HTML5/local storage stuff could be
discussed more. Might this be along those veins?

Thanks for the running of the group. Had some awesome meetings. I
promise, this is the last month I choose woodworking meeting over a
python meeting. Hah!

Rick Harding

[Kevin Dangoor]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Rick Harding <deuc...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Dangoor<dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The stress of sending out a message every month about the meeting is just
> too much for me...

Hah, that's how MiDevelopers just turned into a longer CHC. Coming up
with meetings every month is stressful.

If *I* had to come up with a topic every month, that would indeed be a bit more stressful... but luckily there are lots of people in MichiPUG with great topic ideas.
 

> With my limited budget of time, I'm starting a new (as yet unnamed) group
> around those 2 thoughts. The new group will be meeting on the 3rd Wednesday
> of the month (again at SRT), so folks who have more time than me can attend
> both that and MichiPUG if they wish :)

This sounds cool. I was talking with some guys in the
#coffeehousecoders channel about something more web dev centric where
things like javascript practices, HTML5/local storage stuff could be
discussed more. Might this be along those veins?

Yes. But both client and server are fair game. Any cool tools and techniques for building webapps is what I'd like to see.

Kevin

[dugsong]

Kevin, be sure to rope in Jim Deakins (@tendrid, Dojo committer, PHP
hacker), and Majd Taby (@jtaby, Sproutcore committer, PHP/Ruby/Python
hacker), who were also organizing a cudiv.com-style meetup near campus
to discuss interesting web technologies (and services, like
crazyegg.com, mixpanel.com, etc.). There's supposedly a Flex/RIA
meetup at SPARK Central, but I've never met anybody that's been to it.

If you can, stop by CoffeeHouseCoders sometime. It ends up being more
social/technical conversation and demos than productive hacking (at
least for me), but is worth visiting every Wednesday night. Sadly,
we've lost both CHC organizers (Matt & Zach are closing a round of
funding for Olark.com now in Mountain View), but it keeps on truckin'.
I do miss Zach lugging around that ridiculous whiteboard every week,
though.

On Sep 1, 8:08 am, Kevin Dangoor <dang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Rick Harding <deuce...@gmail.com> wrote:

[cgse...@gmail.com]

Kevin. Thanks for all the hard work and energy.  I enjoyed the few times that I came and you guys help keep my interest in python going even though I'm not a programmer by trade. 

-=Sellers (Sent using iPhone)

[Mark Ramm]

> p.s. I'm going to propose that Mark takes over my role as "guy who sends
> monthly message asking about topics" and whatever other official duties may
> be required by our rather loosely coupled group :)

More than willing to help out in whatever way works.

[Kevin Dangoor]

Thanks!

[Jeff Quast]

man, i nearly dropped out of michipug entirely because the first day
was nothing but web talk

i've always been a background processing grid computing type, web is
just so... glorified 1995-era systems gui to me

[Kevin Dangoor]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Jeff Quast <af.d...@gmail.com> wrote:

man, i nearly dropped out of michipug entirely because the first day
was nothing but web talk

Feel free to propose something else!

MichiPUG is about Python, and there have certainly been non-web topics along the way (last meeting, for example).
 

i've always been a background processing grid computing type, web is
just so... glorified 1995-era systems gui to me

Some of the web is still stuck in 1995. There are quite a few of us who have gotten past that, though ;)

That said, "different strokes for different folks". There are many computing problems for which I have no interest as well...

Kevin