If this happened, I would be in a deep battle within myself about whether to spend all my time giving talks, or spending all my time going to talks. I would need 5 days to begin to reach an equilibrium with my desires...
Talks & Events I would love to give: * Improvisational Visionary Programming -- giving life to ideas with Python * Everyone Can Make a Programming Language in Python -- (Forth implementations in Python) * Tkinter is Easy if you Have a Cheat Sheet -- with cheat-sheets included -- brief lecture, and then obstacle course to try your chops * String Processing in Python -- strategies for working with strings * Creating Serialized Object Systems in Python * How to Debug Python Code -- pdb, emacs * Write Small Things -- an apology for globals, functions (not objects), short names, conventions, small modules, demonstrated with a live tear-down of a module, cutting it's code by 90% * ... * ... Honestly, if I were to spend a focused hour on this, I think I could create x60 different talks for this. Events that I want to see: * Mob Programming * WTF w/ Package Management Also: Maybe something like: Men and Women in Python and Programming -- With a single day's event, it's quite impossible to go deep, and the subject IS deep, but it is possible for people to give some time to one another to express something, in a personal albeit limited way, of their care and thoughts on the subject. I think it would be good for there to be a touchstone here, a hint and recognition of deeper things beneath the surface. I think that if people can feel some sense of togetherness and connection, that it might help prevent things like the Donglegate disaster. Perhaps a wall collage would be a good thing as well, where people can anonymously (or not) write something of their sentiment. It's a touchy subject, but I think an important one to give some address to it, too. If it works, it might become a model for future events in the software world. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Blibbet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> we aren't at the getting people to show level yet -- we're at > >> the getting someone to find the bandwidth to organize it. > > Given the region, perhaps getting MSFT to organize/host it might be an > option? > > 1) They have a fresh new Open Source division, looking for excuses to > issue PR about good deeds they've involved with. > > 2) They have both A) IronPython, B) Python Tools for Visual Studio, and C) > Python SDK for Azure, so it is now partially in their interests to showcase > their Pythonic goodness. > > 3) They have lots of hosting locations, usually with catering and other > amenenties. :-) > > Perhaps some lurking MSFTie could ask (the Open Source division, and/or > the teams that fund IronPython or PyTools@CodePlex) for some resource > help? ...Unless others here think that'd be a bad idea. >
