Sounds like an interesting topic to me, I'll be there too On Sep 5, 2012, at 4:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Fwd: Open position (Nimret Sandhu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:13:22 -0700 > From: Peter Conerly <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Interest in a rough version of a metrics > gathering talk? > Message-ID: > <CAOpPWkiFOENS5R02mMpRU-0opYerydtEcOvDueruJ=m7zc1...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey everyone, > > We're confirmed for Tuesday September 11th, I reserved the office nomads > conference room for that evening. Brian, did you want to start at 6pm or 7? > > I'll send out an email on Monday reminding everyone of the location ( > http://officenomads.com/about/map/ ) and time. > > Peter > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Brian Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Excellent. It looks like it's going to happen! Just waiting to confirm the >> day. >> >> On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Frank <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> i'd be interested in this talk, that sounds like a good plan to me. >>> >>> -Michael >>> >>> On 9/3/12 3:52 PM, Jonathan Mark wrote: >>>> Maybe we should declare this to be the September SeaPIG meeting? And >>>> have time for discussion of other topics afterward? >>>> We don't have a topic for September anyway. >>>> >>>> I don't know if I can make it but that would be cool if Peter can host! >>>> >>>> best, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> On 09/03/2012 03:42 PM, Peter Conerly wrote: >>>>> Hey Brian, >>>>> >>>>> I'm interested in hearing that talk! I'm a resident at Office Nomads >> and >>>>> we could host it here in the conference room. The room can sit around >> 14 >>>>> people. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brian Dorsey<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone! >>>>>> >>>>>> tl;dr: Are you interested in a rough talk on metrics on the evening >>>>>> of the >>>>>> 10th or 11th? Could you host it? >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> I'm preparing for a talk about gathering application metrics at PyCon >>>>>> Japan in a few weeks: >>>>>> Gathering and visualizing metrics with ZeroMQ, Redis& Graphite >>>>>> >>>>>> "I built a small system to collect, summarize and graph detailed >>>>>> application metrics. The system is simple, reliable and easy to >>>>>> extend. In >>>>>> this talk, I'll walk through the configuration and Python code which >>>>>> glues >>>>>> everything together." >>>>>> >> http://2012.pycon.jp/program/sessions.html#session-15-1630-room351a-ja >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The talk will be about 30 minutes long - maybe shorter. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd love to give a rough version and get some feedback before the >>>>>> conference. If even a few people are interested, I'll set something >>>>>> up and >>>>>> do it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, do you have a space where 6-12 people could watch a talk? :) I >>>>>> leave for Japan on the 12th, so the only days I can do it are the >>>>>> evenings >>>>>> of the 10th and 11th this month. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for reading this far! >>>>>> >>>>>> Take care, >>>>>> -Brian >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20120905/7acfc94b/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:30:02 -0700 > From: Brian Dorsey <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Interest in a rough version of a metrics > gathering talk? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Let's start at 7pm. > > On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Peter Conerly <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> We're confirmed for Tuesday September 11th, I reserved the office nomads >> conference room for that evening. Brian, did you want to start at 6pm or 7? >> >> I'll send out an email on Monday reminding everyone of the location ( >> http://officenomads.com/about/map/ ) and time. >> >> Peter >> >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Brian Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Excellent. It looks like it's going to happen! Just waiting to confirm the >> day. >> >> On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Frank <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> i'd be interested in this talk, that sounds like a good plan to me. >>> >>> -Michael >>> >>> On 9/3/12 3:52 PM, Jonathan Mark wrote: >>>> Maybe we should declare this to be the September SeaPIG meeting? And >>>> have time for discussion of other topics afterward? >>>> We don't have a topic for September anyway. >>>> >>>> I don't know if I can make it but that would be cool if Peter can host! >>>> >>>> best, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> On 09/03/2012 03:42 PM, Peter Conerly wrote: >>>>> Hey Brian, >>>>> >>>>> I'm interested in hearing that talk! I'm a resident at Office Nomads and >>>>> we could host it here in the conference room. The room can sit around 14 >>>>> people. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brian Dorsey<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone! >>>>>> >>>>>> tl;dr: Are you interested in a rough talk on metrics on the evening >>>>>> of the >>>>>> 10th or 11th? Could you host it? >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> I'm preparing for a talk about gathering application metrics at PyCon >>>>>> Japan in a few weeks: >>>>>> Gathering and visualizing metrics with ZeroMQ, Redis& Graphite >>>>>> >>>>>> "I built a small system to collect, summarize and graph detailed >>>>>> application metrics. The system is simple, reliable and easy to >>>>>> extend. In >>>>>> this talk, I'll walk through the configuration and Python code which >>>>>> glues >>>>>> everything together." >>>>>> http://2012.pycon.jp/program/sessions.html#session-15-1630-room351a-ja >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The talk will be about 30 minutes long - maybe shorter. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd love to give a rough version and get some feedback before the >>>>>> conference. If even a few people are interested, I'll set something >>>>>> up and >>>>>> do it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, do you have a space where 6-12 people could watch a talk? :) I >>>>>> leave for Japan on the 12th, so the only days I can do it are the >>>>>> evenings >>>>>> of the 10th and 11th this month. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for reading this far! >>>>>> >>>>>> Take care, >>>>>> -Brian >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20120905/fbab5df6/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:18:59 -0700 > From: Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Kotti, Linux Gazette, and the Answer Gang > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > > -------Short version of my last message--------- > > > The better the tools we in the Python community create. > > To share our knowledge within the community. > > The stronger and smarter our community will continue on becoming. > > > This should make it easier to find a viable Python job and better > workers to fill those slots. > > > The simple place to start at might be is building an app that acts a > dashboard / GUI > > To harness some of the most popular tools like Github, Bit Bucket, > Stack Overflow, twitter, reddit, etc. > > Then toss in a good blog engine that is easy to use. > > Now feed all this focused thought into a good search engine like Google. > > And the Python community will explode with better knowledge and > smarter workers. > > And that is just the start with the doors blown wide open. > > -Kevin > > > > > > On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Kevin LaTona wrote: > >> >> In my view the only was a user supported community can sustain and >> move forward over the long haul is by "taking a little, and giving a >> lot more back" to that community and those that surround as well. >> >> Can we take some of the ideas from here and other past attempts and >> re-work them to make them better and easier to use? >> >> This way people can find the answers they need to solve their >> problems today . >> >> >> >> Quick example recently I've shifted over to using FreeBSD for our >> servers. >> >> Without a doubt FreeBSD is one the core servers that has paved the >> way for so many other servers to grow from given it's Unix core roots. >> >> Today the internet is chocked full of information about FreeBSD. >> >> Only problem is much if not all of the data out there is out date >> with FreeBSD 9 let along 9.1 >> >> Which in many ways is making a shift from the older versions ...... >> every so subtly. >> >> >> At this point all of this out dated information tends to point >> people in the wrong direction and waste your time. >> >> As with all things we need to move on and over to new idea and ways >> of doing the same old thing. >> >> >> >> Hmmmmm sounds just like Python to me, as we all stand in front of >> moving on and over to Python 3.x >> >> >> I think all of these ideas presented here so far are good. >> >> >> >> But can we find a way to allow individuals to share snippets of code >> and wisdom in such a way that can effectively harnesses the power of >> collective "crowd sourcing" model over the long haul? >> >> >> And also allows individuals to keep a personal view back on this >> effort? >> >> >> I think allowing an individual to keep a personal index of bookmarks >> makes it more powerful. >> >> And will give people a reason to want to share and be apart of the >> community. >> >> >> >> You know the "one of for all and all for one thing" ....... comes to >> mind making it a win-win case. >> >> >> >> So far all the solutions out there fall short of this. >> >> >> But there are many ideas from which we could look at to spring board >> forward on to the next level if we think about it a bit more. >> >> >> Stack exchange is an excellent idea that is far more effective than >> an email support list could be. >> >> Yet the problem is there still is no way to really organize this >> wisdom collectively and keep it up to date. >> >> >> >> Just the other day I was thinking what if all Python bloggers used >> the same core blogging engine. >> >> What if we take the idea of a "Wordpress platform" and focused it on >> to the "Python topic"? >> >> >> What I am driving at is can we define a "data model" that over time >> can be refreshed style wise, but everyone writes to. >> >> >> This way over time a "knowledge base standard" is being created that >> can live on vs being lost like a 8 Track tape or a Word 1.0 Document. >> >> >> >> >> Yes, Mike I would be interested in looking at ways of taking some of >> your ideas or those of others on the list to see where we could end >> up. >> >> As the collective power of a group focused on sharing surely will >> out weight what an individual can do alone. >> >> -Kevin >> >> >> Kevin LaTona >> STUDIO SOLA >> Web | Mobile Development >> Seattle WA USA >> >> http://kevinlatona.com/ >> http://studiosola.com/ >> http://linkedin.com/in/kevinlatona >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Andrew Beyer wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> So, I propose a web-based oracle which would do the equivalent. It >>>> would have multiple gangs: "Linux Answer Gang", "Python Answer >>>> Gang", >>>> and potentially others. The public would submit questions, answerers >>>> would answer them, and an editor would collect the monthly ones into >>>> an "issue", and make an index of topics (a knowledge base). >>>> Potentially the editor role could be automated, with "articles" on >>>> the >>>> side for human pontificating. The indexing role could also be >>>> automated using tags. If anyone is interested in this, we can form a >>>> group to explore it. >>>> >>> >>> Interesting idea. I wonder if you wouldn't be better off building >>> this >>> on top of one or more of the stackexchange sites...editing and >>> curating Q&A from there, rather than trying to build a new community >>> around this from scratch? >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:43:45 -0700 > From: Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Cc: "Sandhu, Jasmine" <[email protected]> > Subject: [SEAPY] Fwd: Open position > Message-ID: > <CAK_q8Ccs=nrl8en6mamtmfroidalg9pxqhxyr7yctff6nmm...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Hey Folks, > > just forwarding an open position in case anyone is interested. 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