Hi y'all Last January SeaPIG sponsored Northwest Python Day. I think everyone involved felt it was a huge success. We organized it informally at one SeaPIG meeting and got it together in about a month by organizing it on our wiki. I'd like to suggest that we do another event but start planning earlier this time.
Some observations. We had a lovely venue in the Allen Comp Sci building on the U Dub campus which we filled to overflowing. Given more time we could find a larger space. Now that I think about it, maybe they'd let us us the atrium of the Allen building. I was the "program chairman" who didn't do much more than track who wanted to give a talk and what time slot they wanted. There could have been more talks than there were - I could have done one but condensed it into a lightning talk and there were others who could have done talks. A local Django community has sprouted up recently with monthly meetings and I'd like to think they'd be receptive. Hope the Django list doesn't think I'm spamming them. We had some people come from Portland and BC. With longer lead time maybe we'd get more. We did it with no money - the UW provided a room and a coffee machine and people brought donuts. We could probably do it that way again although there might be a possibility that the Python Software Foundation and perhaps some corp with a local presence could help out. My proposal: At the September SeaPIG meeting we devote some time to set up a committee to do a Northwest Python Day or Weekend in January 2010. If you read this far thanks, James -- No electrons were harmed in the creation of this email.
