7) Work with other user groups
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wimbou
Sep 20, 2012, 6:05:00 AM9/20/12
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Hi,
A little bit more about how the PUN works.
Group manager
===========
Basically you have one what you could call a PUN manager (Remco). He offered to be the "group bitch" and doesn't mind planning and communicating. What happens is that people can send location suggestions (most of the times these are pythonic companies), after choosing a location a date and time is set and people can submit talks and answer if they will attend on the wiki. This all sounds easy but it's quite a management task, but Remco is really doing a great job on this. This is also why with the PUN you have a bit of a roadshow feeling, but that was the idea from the beginning. The idea was to connect pythonistas from Holland, but also within the regions/cities. You would be surprised how people use python (artistic, web. security, ...). You also have sometimes surprises that "tha guy" in the street next to you also does python.
Which "problems" did we had/have?
==========================
- People wanting to go to a PUN for a specific talk, but the location was to far. This can easily be solved to the talk over again at a next location, by the same person or a different speaker
- Technology popularity. This one is a bit harder, the problem was that sometimes the python talks where to zope oriented, later most of the talks where all django oriented. The solution for this was to get a nice mix of talks (if possible) and move the for example most of the django talks to the django user group meetings
- Getting people to speak. This sounds stupid but as you have different python level programmers, people are scared that the audience won't understand the talk or that people will make comments about your code. Most people are very open and polite on this, and discussing your code can lead to new, better techniques.
Attendance
========
This is very different and became bigger with the popularity of Python. In the beginning we we're with about 5-10 later on getting +30 people was not an exception
Sponsoring
========
Most of the host pay for drinks, sometimes they also pay for food
Greetz
A little bit more about how the PUN works.
Group manager
===========
Basically you have one what you could call a PUN manager (Remco). He offered to be the "group bitch" and doesn't mind planning and communicating. What happens is that people can send location suggestions (most of the times these are pythonic companies), after choosing a location a date and time is set and people can submit talks and answer if they will attend on the wiki. This all sounds easy but it's quite a management task, but Remco is really doing a great job on this. This is also why with the PUN you have a bit of a roadshow feeling, but that was the idea from the beginning. The idea was to connect pythonistas from Holland, but also within the regions/cities. You would be surprised how people use python (artistic, web. security, ...). You also have sometimes surprises that "tha guy" in the street next to you also does python.
Which "problems" did we had/have?
==========================
- People wanting to go to a PUN for a specific talk, but the location was to far. This can easily be solved to the talk over again at a next location, by the same person or a different speaker
- Technology popularity. This one is a bit harder, the problem was that sometimes the python talks where to zope oriented, later most of the talks where all django oriented. The solution for this was to get a nice mix of talks (if possible) and move the for example most of the django talks to the django user group meetings
- Getting people to speak. This sounds stupid but as you have different python level programmers, people are scared that the audience won't understand the talk or that people will make comments about your code. Most people are very open and polite on this, and discussing your code can lead to new, better techniques.
Attendance
========
This is very different and became bigger with the popularity of Python. In the beginning we we're with about 5-10 later on getting +30 people was not an exception
Sponsoring
========
Most of the host pay for drinks, sometimes they also pay for food
Greetz
Jonas Geiregat
Sep 21, 2012, 2:38:25 PM9/21/12
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Thank you for sharing this information with us!
I've got a question about PUN, is PUN organized as a legal entity of any kind ?
Regards,
Jonas.
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Wim Boucquaert
Sep 26, 2012, 3:57:03 AM9/26/12
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Hi,
I will ask Remco about the legal entity.
Some good news from Remco as well. He found it fantastic that we started
something similar in Belgium, and asked us to inform him about
activities on the Dutch list (I can do that). He would also like to come
the first meeting, and other people might also be interested in coming
(of course this depends on the possibility to get in Belgium on time).
So I think Brussels might be the best location for a first time as it is
reachable fast by train and car.
So how did it all work last PUN?
The Organizer/host is a company with about ten people doing some Python,
most of it Django. Nele Schuurmans
They provided snacks (nuts, salami, cheese, chips, ...) and drinks
(beer, water, ...)
The PUN starts exactly at 19:30 and is split in 2 parts.
The first part and second part are split by a small 15min break, and
each part consists of:
- one 30 min presentation
- three five minute lightning talks
The schedule looked like this:
Part 1
======
30: Pyramid - Speaker name
05: Disco - Speaker name
05: Data mining - Speaker name
05: Requests + ijkdijk - Speaker name
-----
Break
-----
30: mongoengine + relational - Speaker name
05: Scripts
05: Accessing virtual machine from the (host) shell - Speaker name
05: Shell pearls - Speaker name
After this people socialize, and some leave to home as this live further
away from the host.
Regards
Wim
I will ask Remco about the legal entity.
Some good news from Remco as well. He found it fantastic that we started
something similar in Belgium, and asked us to inform him about
activities on the Dutch list (I can do that). He would also like to come
the first meeting, and other people might also be interested in coming
(of course this depends on the possibility to get in Belgium on time).
So I think Brussels might be the best location for a first time as it is
reachable fast by train and car.
So how did it all work last PUN?
The Organizer/host is a company with about ten people doing some Python,
most of it Django. Nele Schuurmans
They provided snacks (nuts, salami, cheese, chips, ...) and drinks
(beer, water, ...)
The PUN starts exactly at 19:30 and is split in 2 parts.
The first part and second part are split by a small 15min break, and
each part consists of:
- one 30 min presentation
- three five minute lightning talks
The schedule looked like this:
Part 1
======
30: Pyramid - Speaker name
05: Disco - Speaker name
05: Data mining - Speaker name
05: Requests + ijkdijk - Speaker name
-----
Break
-----
30: mongoengine + relational - Speaker name
05: Scripts
05: Accessing virtual machine from the (host) shell - Speaker name
05: Shell pearls - Speaker name
After this people socialize, and some leave to home as this live further
away from the host.
Regards
Wim
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