I'm totally down with getting together and doing some interview style problems. I'm also flexible on time/place. Often library meeting rooms have whiteboards, and I think you just have to sign up for them.
~maria On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Skone, Matt (LNG-SEA) < matthew.sk...@lexisnexis.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- Maria Mckinley Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience www.mariakathryn.net www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley
