This is to announce the formation of a new Python User Group: the Baltimore/Annapolis/Columbia/and-Other-Northern-dc-suburbs Python Interest Group (BACON-PIG). Although there is a good and venerable group in Washington, DC (the ZPUG-DC or Zope/Python Users of DC, <http://www.zpugdc.org/>) some of us Maryland Pythonistas are too lazy (guilty! :) or unable for whatever reason to schlep down into DC or Northern Virginia for after-work meetings -- hence the motivation for a Python User Group that meets in Maryland!
In deference to ZPUG-DC, the BACON-PIG will make every effort to have its meetings on dates that are at least 2 weeks away from ZPUG-DC meetings, and the BACON-PIG will also focus on topics other than Zope and/or Plone, since those are more than adequately addressed by the ZPUG-DC group. Of course, attendance at both groups' meetings is encouraged! A new mailing list, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, has been created for announcements and discussion by participants in the BACON-PIG, so please join that list if you are interested! The kick-off meeting may be as early as Thursday, March 6 and will be announced on the bacon-pig list. There will definitely be a BACON-PIG meeting after PyCon, at which some who were privileged to attend PyCon (such as myself and Barry Warsaw) will report on all the fantastically cool stuff that we will have seen there. Cheers, Steve Waterbury -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
