Nooo, I really really wanted to go as my first year. Are people able to sell tickets if they aren't able to go?
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:55 PM, <[email protected]>wrote: > Send seattle-python mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.seapig.org/mailman/listinfo/seattle-python > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of seattle-python digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. PyCon registration closed (Mike Orr) > 2. Re: PyCon registration closed (David Glick) > 3. PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder (James Cooper) > 4. Re: PyCon registration closed (Mike Orr) > 5. Re: PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder > (Alec Koumjian) > 6. Re: PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder > (James Cooper) > 7. Re: PyCon registration closed (George V. Reilly) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:41:48 -0800 > From: Mike Orr <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SEAPY] PyCon registration closed > Message-ID: > <CAH9f=upujvbupwvrwrqipuqcnbbshay96bjz1o0dksalag0...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > PyCon registration closed this morning, so if you haven't registered > yet, it's too late. :( Don't worry if you've made a financial aid > request or other special registration and haven't heard back yet, > because they'll have space for those. Sorry for the lack of notice but > I only heard about it yesterday. > > This is the first time PyCon hasn't had registrations available at the > door. (Or at least, I don't know about last year because I wasn't > there, but it never happened before that.) Attendance has been > steadily growing year after year, and was just around 1100 a few years > ago. This year they capped it at 1500 because they felt that was the > maximum their volunteer resources can handle without cutting into > quality. Nobody expected it to fill up this soon. This gives all the > more impetus for more regional conferences to start happening (e.g., > west coast and east coast), and topic-specific conferences. > > I was stunned that the Plone/Pyramid conference last November was able > to round up four days of talks when PyCon has only three: you'd think > a more specialized topic would have a harder time finding talks.There > were, um, maybe 400 or 500 people at the Plone conference. Just to > give you an idea of what other Python-related events are happening > nowadays. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:51:20 -0800 > From: David Glick <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] PyCon registration closed > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 2/3/12 11:41 AM, Mike Orr wrote: > > PyCon registration closed this morning, so if you haven't registered > > yet, it's too late. :( Don't worry if you've made a financial aid > > request or other special registration and haven't heard back yet, > > because they'll have space for those. Sorry for the lack of notice but > > I only heard about it yesterday. > > > > This is the first time PyCon hasn't had registrations available at the > > door. (Or at least, I don't know about last year because I wasn't > > there, but it never happened before that.) Attendance has been > > steadily growing year after year, and was just around 1100 a few years > > ago. This year they capped it at 1500 because they felt that was the > > maximum their volunteer resources can handle without cutting into > > quality. Nobody expected it to fill up this soon. This gives all the > > more impetus for more regional conferences to start happening (e.g., > > west coast and east coast), and topic-specific conferences. > > > > I was stunned that the Plone/Pyramid conference last November was able > > to round up four days of talks when PyCon has only three: you'd think > > a more specialized topic would have a harder time finding talks.There > > were, um, maybe 400 or 500 people at the Plone conference. Just to > > give you an idea of what other Python-related events are happening > > nowadays. > > > Actually only about 270 at this year's Plone conference. Still a great > event. :) > > So when's the next Northwest Python Day? > > cheers, > David > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:56:41 -0800 > From: James Cooper <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [SEAPY] PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder > Message-ID: > <CAF=bun0iolzeytkvvuipejgp1ntlydsh8obmquq40hbqprd...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey guys, > > Two things on my mind today: > > (1) Next meeting is next week: Thurs, Feb 9 at Office Nomads. > > We'll be doing a coding problem. I'll present the problem and we'll split > up into groups of 2-3 to work together to solve it. Then we can do a show > and tell, talk about different implementations, etc. Should be fun! Bring > a laptop if possible. > > (2) Question about PyPi > > Anyone know if it's possible to setup a reverse proxy (e.g. Varnish) to > cache PyPi packages? I'm working on a project where we may have a strange > usage pattern where we'll be setting up virtualenvs frequently and > downloding similar packages over and over. I don't want to go to PyPi if I > can avoid it (for performance / bandwidth reasons). > > Varnish seems like it'd do the trick, but I'm not sure if PyPi does things > like set No-Cache headers, or if there's more complexity going on than just > simple GET downloads from the central repo. > > any thoughts? > > cheers > > -- James > > -- > > James Cooper > http://blog.bitmechanic.com/ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20120203/f6ad96df/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:58:22 -0800 > From: Mike Orr <[email protected]> > To: David Glick <[email protected]> > Cc: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] PyCon registration closed > Message-ID: > <CAH9f=upMZD9tVx363+AB2Q7f=gocsv+at0xf0q6jhwz9wyg...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, David Glick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/3/12 11:41 AM, Mike Orr wrote: > >> > >> PyCon registration closed this morning, so if you haven't registered > >> yet, it's too late. :( ?Don't worry if you've made a financial aid > >> request or other special registration and haven't heard back yet, > >> because they'll have space for those. Sorry for the lack of notice but > >> I only heard about it yesterday. > >> > >> This is the first time PyCon hasn't had registrations available at the > >> door. (Or at least, I don't know about last year because I wasn't > >> there, but it never happened before that.) Attendance has been > >> steadily growing year after year, and was just around 1100 a few years > >> ago. This year they capped it at 1500 because they felt that was the > >> maximum their volunteer resources can handle without cutting into > >> quality. Nobody expected it to fill up this soon. This gives all the > >> more impetus for more regional conferences to start happening (e.g., > >> west coast and east coast), and topic-specific conferences. > >> > >> I was stunned that the Plone/Pyramid conference last November was able > >> to round up four days of talks when PyCon has only three: you'd think > >> a more specialized topic would have a harder time finding talks.There > >> were, um, maybe 400 or 500 people at the Plone conference. Just to > >> give you an idea of what other Python-related events are happening > >> nowadays. > >> > > Actually only about 270 at this year's Plone conference. Still a great > > event. :) > > I was trying to visualize the number of people in the plenary. It was > held in a movie theater, by the way, which was an interesting idea and > worked out pretty well. The location was an urban university campus > (think: a floor of an office building) next to a mall (like Westlake) > whose fast-food places were the lunch and snacks, and a movie theater > in the mall (almost like Pacific Place). > > > So when's the next Northwest Python Day? > > We asked a couple months ago who would like to form a team to organize > it, and nobody has volunteered yet. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:06:15 -0800 > From: Alec Koumjian <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder > Message-ID: > <CAEtQDuRjPeazok35=jaxp8yom+5q_swymxtyu3pc25j-bjt...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > We were recently discussing this on the djangoseattle list. I hadn't > considered using Varnish to cache the packages. I'd be curious if you could > get it to work. > > Be aware that there is a new and improved pypi mirror in town: > http://crate.io/ > > Looks very interesting but haven't tested it. > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, James Cooper <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > Two things on my mind today: > > > > (1) Next meeting is next week: Thurs, Feb 9 at Office Nomads. > > > > We'll be doing a coding problem. I'll present the problem and we'll > split > > up into groups of 2-3 to work together to solve it. Then we can do a > show > > and tell, talk about different implementations, etc. Should be fun! > Bring > > a laptop if possible. > > > > (2) Question about PyPi > > > > Anyone know if it's possible to setup a reverse proxy (e.g. Varnish) to > > cache PyPi packages? I'm working on a project where we may have a > strange > > usage pattern where we'll be setting up virtualenvs frequently and > > downloding similar packages over and over. I don't want to go to PyPi > if I > > can avoid it (for performance / bandwidth reasons). > > > > Varnish seems like it'd do the trick, but I'm not sure if PyPi does > things > > like set No-Cache headers, or if there's more complexity going on than > just > > simple GET downloads from the central repo. > > > > any thoughts? > > > > cheers > > > > -- James > > > > -- > > > > James Cooper > > http://blog.bitmechanic.com/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20120203/37907714/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:42:49 -0800 > From: James Cooper <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] PyPi caching + Unrelated Feb 9 meeting reminder > Message-ID: > <CAF=bUn0m7g_AkKmbcPywtrGK+j5rFMD1-b-+mNv4Z=o5fmy...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Great, thanks. I just perused the varnish docs -- looks like you can't use > it for client proxying, so I'm looking at squid instead. > > pip now supports proxy servers, so in theory this should be totally > possible. I'll post something to the list if I get it working. > > cheers > > -- James > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Alec Koumjian <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We were recently discussing this on the djangoseattle list. I hadn't > > considered using Varnish to cache the packages. I'd be curious if you > could > > get it to work. > > > > Be aware that there is a new and improved pypi mirror in town: > > http://crate.io/ > > > > Looks very interesting but haven't tested it. > > > > > > -- > > James Cooper > http://blog.bitmechanic.com/ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20120203/404384e7/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:55:17 -0800 > From: "George V. Reilly" <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] PyCon registration closed > Message-ID: > <cal3j_b9qy8fqyavf-qv-hptwcm0u3lms1yc5u3s-+qkyhpn...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So when's the next Northwest Python Day? > > > > We asked a couple months ago who would like to form a team to organize > > it, and nobody has volunteered yet. > > > I'm willing to help, but I'm stretched too thin to take primary > responsibility. > -- > /George V. 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