[python-nl] Python Meetup Octobre 22nd

[Folkje]

Hi all,

The Amsterdam Python Meetup Group is doing a Python Meetup on Octobre
22nd. It would be nice if you would join us!
http://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Python-Meetup-Group/events/202046722/

If there's also still a Python-Perl thing going on somewhere we'd be
happy to join too. There can never be enough Python Meetups :)

Hope to see you all soon,
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[Reinout van Rees]

Post by Folkje
The Amsterdam Python Meetup Group is doing a Python Meetup on Octobre
22nd. It would be nice if you would join us!
http://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Python-Meetup-Group/events/202046722/
If there's also still a Python-Perl thing going on somewhere we'd be
happy to join too. There can never be enough Python Meetups :)

Not entirely sure about that last comment. There *can* be too much
fragmentation so that it isn't clear anymore when/where there are python
meetings.


There ought to be a PUN python meeting more or less every three months.
Is this Amsterdam meeting intended to be the PUN-in-Amsterdam meeting?
The one someone said he'd organize somewhere in sept/okt?

I'm asking as there was a possibility that the PUN one would be
organized in december instead of sept/okt... So I need to know if I need
to poke someone else to organize a meeting.

(I'm making a bit of a point about it as I don't want to default to
Amsterdam as the default meeting location for the 10-year-old PUN
meetings just because someone decided to start a python group in
Amsterdam a few months ago :-) ) Meetup.com makes it too easy to start
new groups IMHO :-)



Reinout

[Mallory van Achterberg]

Post by Reinout van Rees

Post by Folkje
...
If there's also still a Python-Perl thing going on somewhere we'd be
happy to join too. There can never be enough Python Meetups :)

Not entirely sure about that last comment. There *can* be too much
fragmentation so that it isn't clear anymore when/where there are
python meetings.

I go to both the AmsterdamX (Perl) "meetups" at Booking and also
the Byte Python Meetups in Amsterdam, and sometimes the talks
available would have excellent overlap, plus I could see benefits
to things like sharing meeting resources and getting people out
of their echo chambers regarding what's going on tech-wise in
different communities.

That said, I tend to see the general PUN meetings as pretty much
pure/mostly Python and scheduled to be *anywhere*, and the Byte
meetups as being fairly Python but also broader (talks on Ansible,
regexen, CMSes, that sort of thing) and based in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam isn't the easiest to get to for everyone, so I see it as
an advantage that the general PUN meetings change location while
the Byte meetups stay, well, at Byte (unless they did something
together with Booking/Perl people).

I also see the PUN meetings as being more Dutch-language, and the
talks feel often more detailed and technical in general (maybe also
because they can be longer) than the Byte talks. Again, I see them
as separate and complimentary.
In Perl there are "monger" groups, groups of people centered around
Perl and then generally a location, and there are two in Amsterdam:
the original Amsterdam.pm which meets in Diemen and in Dutch, and the
AmsterdamX.pm (Amsterdam eXpats) which tends to be in English and
at Booking. They compliment each other, but one didn't replace the
other.

I wouldn't want the Byte meetups to all-out replace the PUN meetups.

My 2 cents
_mallory

[Reinout van Rees]

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
That said, I tend to see the general PUN meetings as pretty much
pure/mostly Python and scheduled to be*anywhere*, and the Byte
meetups as being fairly Python but also broader (talks on Ansible,
regexen, CMSes, that sort of thing) and based in Amsterdam.

Pure python? Not really. We don't have talks on perl/node/whatever, but
we do have talks on django (web), plone (cms), GIS systems, etc.

There aren't many talks that are pure about something very
python-internal. There was one at the last PUN, though, a nice one about
"async, coroutines, event loops", which looks a bit like the "Python,
Parallelism and Concurrency" that you've planned :-)

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
I also see the PUN meetings as being more Dutch-language, and the
talks feel often more detailed and technical in general (maybe also
because they can be longer) than the Byte talks. Again, I see them
as separate and complimentary.

Dutch-language? All the talks are in English, unless everyone
understands Dutch.
Most of the talking during the breaks is in Dutch unless there's someone
standing next to you that talks English. Perhaps this is different at
the Byte meetings?

How long are the talks at Byte? I'm used to (2) talks of max 30 minutes.
Sounds like you do 15 minute talks or so?


Reinout

[Mallory van Achterberg]

Post by Reinout van Rees

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
That said, I tend to see the general PUN meetings as pretty much
pure/mostly Python and scheduled to be*anywhere*, and the Byte
meetups as being fairly Python but also broader (talks on Ansible,
regexen, CMSes, that sort of thing) and based in Amsterdam.

Pure python? Not really. We don't have talks on perl/node/whatever,
but we do have talks on django (web), plone (cms), GIS systems, etc.

The ones you list stick closer to Python, wereas the Ansible talk,
while from the point of view of someone working at a Python shop,
was focussed on pros and cons of Ansible.
Byte also doesn't go to other languages like Perl or node, that's
a different idea (that possibly at some point a purposely-mixed
meeting could be set up, separate from general Byte and PUN and
AmsterdamX meetings).
I didn't mean PUN talks are necessarily nitty-gritty l33t-haxx0r
stuff :)

Post by Reinout van Rees
There aren't many talks that are pure about something very
python-internal. There was one at the last PUN, though, a nice one
about "async, coroutines, event loops", which looks a bit like the
"Python, Parallelism and Concurrency" that you've planned :-)

I do wonder how similar it will be to Tikitu's talk, which btw was
very, very nice :)

Post by Reinout van Rees

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
I also see the PUN meetings as being more Dutch-language, and the
talks feel often more detailed and technical in general (maybe also
because they can be longer) than the Byte talks. Again, I see them
as separate and complimentary.

Dutch-language? All the talks are in English, unless everyone
understands Dutch.

I thought it was other way around: they'd be in Dutch, unless someone
in the audience didn't understand.
But so then in any case my view was wrong.

Post by Reinout van Rees
Most of the talking during the breaks is in Dutch unless there's
someone standing next to you that talks English. Perhaps this is
different at the Byte meetings?

People before/between talks do in whatever language works, so a group
of all-Dutch speakers may speak in Dutch. Talks so far seem to all be
in English, though I dunno if that was always the case.

Post by Reinout van Rees
How long are the talks at Byte? I'm used to (2) talks of max 30
minutes. Sounds like you do 15 minute talks or so?

Seems to also depend on how many there are? Last time Job did a talk
where he was told it had to fit in 20 minutes but a) someone canceled
and b) he went way over anyway because it's hard to really show
functional programming in just 20 minutes :P

But Folkje knows the schedule rules best!

_mallory

[Tikitu de Jager]

On 1 September 2014 17:11, Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes at stommepoes.nl>
wrote:
...

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
...

Post by Reinout van Rees
There aren't many talks that are pure about something very
python-internal. There was one at the last PUN, though, a nice one
about "async, coroutines, event loops", which looks a bit like the
"Python, Parallelism and Concurrency" that you've planned :-)

I do wonder how similar it will be to Tikitu's talk, which btw was
very, very nice :)

Not to derail the thread, but: thanks!
Tikitu
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Post by Mallory van Achterberg

Post by Reinout van Rees
There aren't many talks that are pure about something very
python-internal. There was one at the last PUN, though, a nice one
about "async, coroutines, event loops", which looks a bit like the
"Python, Parallelism and Concurrency" that you've planned:-)

I do wonder how similar it will be to Tikitu's talk, which btw was
very, very nice:)

My guess, based on the title, is at a higher level. Whether to use
threads or separate processes. One machine or more. We'll see :-)

Post by Mallory van Achterberg

Post by Reinout van Rees

Post by Mallory van Achterberg
I also see the PUN meetings as being more Dutch-language, and the
talks feel often more detailed and technical in general (maybe also
because they can be longer) than the Byte talks. Again, I see them
as separate and complimentary.

Dutch-language? All the talks are in English, unless everyone
understands Dutch.

I thought it was other way around: they'd be in Dutch, unless someone
in the audience didn't understand.

Well, it is asked every time whether there's someone who only speaks
English. So that might definitively sound like "we'd prefer Dutch".

My estimate: 80% of the meetings has been in English.



Reinout

[Folkje]

Post by Reinout van Rees
(I'm making a bit of a point about it as I don't want to default to
Amsterdam as the default meeting location for the 10-year-old PUN
meetings just because someone decided to start a python group in
Amsterdam a few months ago :-) )

I don't think our initiative to start up an Amsterdam-based Python group
needs to undermine your plans to organize PUNs elsewhere. We just liked
to get together more often :)

In this case, I tried very hard to hook up with the organizers of PUN,
because I too heard that there were plans to organize one in sept/okt in
Amsterdam. Since I failed at getting anything confirmed, I just decided
to go on with our own plans. If you still want, I'd be happy to give
this one a PUN label as well. But I'll be just as happy if you poke
someone else to organize a different Meetup.

Either way, everybody is welcome to join us
(http://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Python-Meetup-Group/events/202046722/)

Folkje
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Post by Folkje
In this case, I tried very hard to hook up with the organizers of PUN,
because I too heard that there were plans to organize one in sept/okt in
Amsterdam. Since I failed at getting anything confirmed, I just decided
to go on with our own plans. If you still want, I'd be happy to give
this one a PUN label as well. But I'll be just as happy if you poke
someone else to organize a different Meetup.

October in Amsterdam sounds fine, no problem. So I just added
http://www.meetup.com/dutch-django-assocation/events/204410982/
to point to the Amsterdam meetup (to make sure the ones looking at the
python/django page know the meetup is coming).

(No need to officially mention PUN on the Amsterdam page or something
paperwork-y like that :-) )

Post by Folkje
Either way, everybody is welcome to join us
(http://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Python-Meetup-Group/events/202046722/)

I'll be there!


Reinout

[Reinout van Rees]

Post by Reinout van Rees

Post by Folkje
In this case, I tried very hard to hook up with the organizers of PUN,
because I too heard that there were plans to organize one in sept/okt in
Amsterdam. Since I failed at getting anything confirmed, I just decided
to go on with our own plans. If you still want, I'd be happy to give
this one a PUN label as well. But I'll be just as happy if you poke
someone else to organize a different Meetup.

October in Amsterdam sounds fine, no problem. So I just added
http://www.meetup.com/dutch-django-assocation/events/204410982/
to point to the Amsterdam meetup (to make sure the ones looking at the
python/django page know the meetup is coming).

Sigh, just fouled up. The booking.com september PUN meeting [1] was
still actively being planned... So the organizer (understandably) just
sent me an "I'm not happy with this" email because I suggested the other
meeting to be the PUN one.

Sigh, I've tried steering the discussion on what meeting where and when
to the mailinglist and trusted on the three or four Amsterdam companies
and meetups to sort it out amongst themselves.

Apparently I was too hasty in seeing a solution (=finally a meeting
date) and spoke up before my turn. It was never my intention to de-rail
someone's efforts.

I'll keep my mouth shut for a while. Hope to see you sometimes somewhere
at some meeting in Amsterdam :-)



Reinout


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