I could run a mob programming session (I run the Seattle Mob Programming
meetup group).
We have a high % of women turning up... perhaps because I reached out
after learning how at PyCon.
Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack is a regular at the mobbing meetups.
I'd be happy to help with the men/women programming thing.
Toby
On 5/1/13 2:51 PM, Lion Kimbro wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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.
