On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, David Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:31:27 -0700 >> >> From: Chris Barker <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Talk on NumPy: desired content? (Adam Feuer) >> To: A group of Python users in Seattle >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Mike Orr wrote: >> >> > BTW, the talk may be postponed till June to give more time to prepare >> > it. I'm just waiting for an official word from the speakers. >> >> OK -- I"m really not sure how my week will look next week, but it's not >> looking good now. >> >> So if anyone else has a talk topic: please offer it up! >> >> Otherwise, if time opens up for me before the meeting, I can do it, >> otherwise, June is out, and I don't know my summer schedule yet. >> >> -Chris > > The way I digress (I'm aware of it and not proud of it, but I'm too old to > change ;-) ) I could do a half-hour, more or less, on the "center" of NumPy > - the ndarray - which, along w/ some of the features it supports (e.g., > slicing, broadcasting, broad data-type support) is the basis of its usage > both in- and outside of mathematics; from there, I think it'll be more or > less obvious to individuals how they might use it in their own > applications. Then, if you really need/want me to fill an hour, I could > fill the rest exhibiting my fractal generating code (all written in Python, > NumPy, and Matplotlib) and the fractals it generates (ordinarily I'd bill it > the other way around, but for this audience, I assume the code - though > pretty elementary - might be of more interest). :-)
You don't need to fill any particular time. Most meeting talks tend to be mini talks -- half an hour to an hour. What matters is how much time you need to adequately address the content. I don't know which way to go with the talk now. You know most about the mathematical part, but I think you said you'd ideally prefer June. Chris knows most about the non-mathematical part (which is what i care most about), but he's not sure if he can do May but he definitely can't do June. Then there's the area of scientific programming, which has gotten strong interest from members. But you'd want time to put that together. July we may not have a meeting space, and August is iffy too. So, we don't have to meet on the second Thursday, we just do that to make it easier for people to remember. We can do the talk whenever works for the speakers and hosts. Is Chris busy all of June or just that particular day? We can do the three parts in any order, as two talks or three. Just let me know what works for you and Chris, and we'll see if we can fit it into whatever else SeaPIG may be doing. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
