Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Foord
Talks, tutorials, discussions and sprints all sound like interesting activities. Once a month sounds fine. How firm do proposals need to be ? When do 'we' propose starting (first event) ? How far in advance do we need to produce a definite schedule for ? How many people do we need on any 'offici

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Grazebrook
Andy Robinson wrote: > > Michael Foord wrote: > >> There are lots of banks, hedge funds and other companies that now >> develop with Python. It would be nice to find a way of reaching them >> (and finding out what they would like to learn about). Perhaps spamming >> all the London companies

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Grazebrook
I'm an IET member and attend their lectures occasionally. It's part of the the Institute of Engineering Technology's mission to put on the sort of presentations and lectures we'd like. So we're helping with their mission. If you don't know it, the IET is the engineer's equivalent of the institu

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Mamading Ceesay
On 15/03/07, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Andy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I cooked up this idea with Thoughtworks last April because they actually > > consult for a lot of these firms, and was hoping to do an initial one > > last summer but it never came

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Robinson
> I start there on Monday, so I'll see if I can make something happen. ;-) I didn't want to ask, but congratulations! - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Simon Brunning
On 3/15/07, Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a socialising point of view, the Python meetups that Simon > Brunning organises are fantastic. :-) Thanks, I'm glad you think so! But as has been said elsewhere, there's a desire for something a bit more formal, a bit more demo-friendly

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Simon Brunning
On 3/15/07, Andy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cooked up this idea with Thoughtworks last April because they actually > consult for a lot of these firms, and was hoping to do an initial one > last summer but it never came off. They are plugged into a lot of these > places. I'm pretty

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Pete Ryland
On 15/03/07, Andy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's definitely one of the target audiences. I have a talk in mind to > do with general "numeric plumbing" - getting numbers in and out of > Excel, from web services and so on - which I think would be appealing to > this sector. > > I cooke

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Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Foord
Tim Golden wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: > >> Mike Pentney wrote: >> >>> Hi, Andy. >>> >>> I've been using Python off and on for about 18 months or so. >>> I'd be very interested in attending. I don't (unfortunately) >>> have any cutting edge applications to talk about yet, but I'm >>> alwa

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Golden
Michael Foord wrote: > Mike Pentney wrote: >> Hi, Andy. >> >> I've been using Python off and on for about 18 months or so. >> I'd be very interested in attending. I don't (unfortunately) >> have any cutting edge applications to talk about yet, but I'm >> always interested in learning what other peo

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Foord
Mike Pentney wrote: > Hi, Andy. > > I've been using Python off and on for about 18 months or so. > I'd be very interested in attending. I don't (unfortunately) > have any cutting edge applications to talk about yet, but I'm > always interested in learning what other people are doing. > My particula

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Golden
Andy Robinson wrote: > I've been talking to a friend who is discovering the joys of Python, and > is a committee member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology > (www.theiet.org) He believes we could get rooms in their place, which > is next to the Savoy, to hold evening talks followed

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Robinson
Michael Foord wrote: > There are lots of banks, hedge funds and other companies that now > develop with Python. It would be nice to find a way of reaching them > (and finding out what they would like to learn about). Perhaps spamming > all the London companies that advertise on the Python job bo