On 2 Aug 2010, at 09:16, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > Folks, > > During Europython a group of us who organise various Python related user > groups within the UK went for a drink. Here's what we talked about: > > * We should organise an IRC chat sometime in August to coordinate ourselves. > * Since we're spread rather thin on the ground it'd be good to coordinate a > central "Python-UK" page for user groups / events that could contain a > google-calendar, tweet-stream and links etc... (KISS) > * We might be able to support the costs of running the site by having a very > simple job-board for UK related Python jobs (er... 37signals ask for $400 for > 30 days of advert for Ruby jobs - someone asked me to find out the figures) > * It'd be great if there were more coordination between groups so they might > be able to swap speakers, cooperate at events or organise activities together. > * Some sort of python-hacker-barn-weekend event sounds cool. > * The PSF might be persuaded to contribute some money for stuff. > * We should try to make better use of the python-uk mailing list (hence this > message) :-)
Sounds like a cracking idea. I've just moved from London to Leeds and although there are plenty of geekery-related events and meet ups, there isn't a python users group. I refuse to believe I'm the only one here so I'm going to try to make something happen. A place for UK-centric discussion, advertising of meetings etc. would be very useful. Rob Cowie > > We all handed over our email addresses and a Doodle (http://www.doodle.com/) > for the first IRC meeting was created. > > Just to keep momentum going, I personally think it'd be interesting to hear > what the wider UK-Python community thinks about this and it also gives us an > opportunity to make sure we haven't missed anyone who might be interested in > joining in. > > Also, this email nudges things along so we don't end up as a beery conference > plan rather than something we actually act upon! :-) > > All the best, > > Nicholas. > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
