I'm new to this list, but what has been the group's experience with Meetup.com as a means of bringing current and would-be Pythonistas together? Too much overhead? Too much dilution? Haven't tried it yet?
The Seattle Py group has hundreds of registered members, but no activity in 12 months. The Seattle PyLadies group is smaller, but evidently much more active. End of list. Regards, Matt -----Original Message----- From: seattle-python-boun...@lists.seapig.org [mailto:seattle-python-boun...@lists.seapig.org] On Behalf Of Michael Frank Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:27 PM To: seattle-python@lists.seapig.org Subject: Re: [SEAPY] impromptu meetings nate, do you envision this being python-specific, or more general? i *love* the idea of meeting to discuss and work through concrete problems, but i'm knee-deep in scala nowadays. that said, functional programming concepts are useful for pythonistas as well... -Michael On 9/24/13 2:47 PM, Adam Garcia wrote: > Great idea! I'd love to get in on this, but not tonight. > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Nate Sanders <n...@natesanders.com > <mailto:n...@natesanders.com>> wrote: > > There was some mention of people getting together and working on > code, whiteboarding interview problems (could be code-related or > data structures/algorithms or system design), etc at the last meeting. > > I'm taking some time off from working for a bit (not sure how long) > and would be interested in getting together in smaller, more focused > groups if anybody is interested in that. Could be for working on a > small implementation of something or talking about problem solving, > etc. I'm not sure of a place where we could get a whiteboard, but > if the group is small enough, pen and paper could work, too. > > One requirement for me, for these particular things, though, is that > we have some sort of agenda -- again, I don't care if it's problems > or coding, but I think it should be more focused than our last > meeting was (this is not a general statement about our previous > meeting -- no connotation), by comparison. If people want to > chit-chat afterwards (whenever "afterwards" is) or go get drinks or > whatever, I think that would be great. > > I'm available most of the time these days. I could even do > today/tonight. > > -- Nate > >
