More Python news: For those knowing Steve Holden, oft amongst us, but from the UK originally, is now back there, and no longer rents quarters in Asylum District (i.e. Hawthorne / Chavez area -- not sure of exact boundaries).
Michelle, if you're on this listserv: I have an additional part for a small assembly you may now possess. He does plan to return for OSCON, which many of you likely already know will be testing the waters in Austin next year. As an OST guy, ORM a parent class, I'll say I do think Portland should share and don't see why OSCON shouldn't bounce around a bit, keep the juices flowing. We don't need Austin to become paralyzed (better to keep it weird) and Portland already has OS Bridge. Some people I met on-line as students (OST stands for O'Reilly School of Tech[nology]) have since moved to Portland, shout out to William Brown, army war vet, fluent in Russian, and now full time writing SQL. He's looking forward to more Python and as he's still in his 20s he has a lot to look forward to. Me, I've been writing a simple RESTful API using Django in Heroku on the side, for my "church" (actually goes by the name of "meeting" which sounds more business-like as our sect is business sector). I'm what's known as the Technology Clerk of our "Yearly Meeting" (coming right up in Spokane). Given Steve will be flying in from the UK for OSCON, and being less in the conference business with the local Hilton, the sky lounge post OSCON breakfast he's staged might not happen this year, but other things will. By the way, check out the redone Washington High School for a possibly useful event space for Geek Events (many taps, summer roof access). Steve is a former chairman of the Python Software Foundation (501(c)(3) Delaware) and helped get stateside Pycons going (EuroPython predates). Those have snowballed and Steve feels complete about his experience here, having acquired a "Blazer knee" (state of the art, implanted by docs who work on Blazers!) and seen Pycon plant its flag here (2016 / 2017). Finally, I'll mention the US Distance Learning Association conference I attended c/o work, and end with a link to more of a write-up on edu-sig, for those with an interest in such matters. Python is playing a role in distance education. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-May/011242.html I do plan to show up at a meetup one time soon, missing being around. I'm a guy with white hair (still some) who lives near the Bagdad, used to write Visual Foxpro and dBase before that. Mostly specialized in the needs of NGOs, county and state government, including lots of trainings (as in classroom). Saturday Academy also on my resume. Kirby Urner "local yokel" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20150510/dba8c908/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list Portland@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
