Apols about multiple posting On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:23 PM, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> [yes!, see below] > > On 25 October 2010 16:19, aidan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 25, 3:16 pm, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24 October 2010 22:35, [email protected] > >> > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Ladies and Gents, > >> > The plan for November's meeting is to get together for a Code Dojo! > This is > >> > an opportunity for Pythoneers and Pythonistas of all levels to flex > their > >> > fingers and do some group coding with the aim of improving our coding > >> > skills. In my limited experience, no matter what your level, everyone > gets > >> > to learn something new while having a bit of fun at the same time. > >> > >> Did you discuss _what_ you might do at a Dojo? > >> I'm totally open to other suggestions, but here is one I've been > >> thinking about a bit (and that i would like to try and turn into a > >> larger project, so a "starter" kit / trial would be most welcome): > >> > >> It's basically scraping weather data to make it useful for climate > analysis. > >> > >> Often the data is available from websites and such, the challenge is > >> to get it into a form suitable for ccc-gistemp to use. > > > > Don't know if this is useful but we have created a platform for > > scraping and then allowing open reuse for public data sets > > As this request compliments our basic idea then Scraperwiki.com would > > be intested to sponsor this idea with beer and pizza. > > We also have some example weather scrapers which could be added to if > > people are interested in this subject. > > http://scraperwiki.com/tags/weather > > Possibly Aidan forgets that he has met me. :) > > Yes, Aidan i have thought about using ScraperWiki for this project. A > few months ago I started the scraper > http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/can-mayo-t/ and should obviously > return to it. > Sorry David - I should have remembered.... > > Your offer of beer and pizza is most welcome. > > Would we have to move to Liverpool, or would you be open to extending > your ScraperWiki sponsorship to Manchester (which seems to be our city > of choice at the moment; but as you may remember, I live in > Sheffield). > I am fine with location one that suits most people so Manchester fine- of course if you come to Liverpool we promise a good pub > > drj > > -- > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
