Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] PyCon UK 2017: schedule, and last chance to get tickets

Exactly... we should be very grateful to have such a hard working team of volunteers led by Peter. Well done to all of you for creating what looks to be the best PyCon UK ever. N. On 06/10/17 13:35, Tim Golden wrote: > On 06/10/2017 12:58, Peter Inglesby wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On behalf of the P

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Launching PyCon UK

Thank you Peter and everyone else involved in PyCon UK. You're doing an amazing job and I'm really looking forward to it! Best wishes, N. On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 09:04 +0100, Peter Inglesby wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm delighted to announce that tickets for PyCon UK 2017 are now on > sale from o

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit

Here's the Slashdot submission to upvote (please): http://slashdot.org/submission/5120051/micropython-on-the-bbc-microbit We've made the HN front page! Yay! :-) N. On 20/10/15 08:53, Cory Benfield (Lukasa) wrote: > Dear all, > > Please don’t click on Nick’s link directly and up vote from ther

Re: [python-uk] [PyConUK-adm] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

This is fabulous news, and very well deserved. As a teacher working in Computing education in the UK, I have found Nicholas’ support and encouragement to be exemplary. I really cannot think of a better recipient for this award. Alan O'Donohoe On 24 Jun 2015, at 14:50, Nicholas H.Tollervey

Re: [python-uk] [PyConUK-adm] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

Hi Nick, On Jun 24, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Many thanks..! I'm feeling rather chuffed and a little embarrassed. > Chuffed I can understand, but the embarrassment is completely inappropriate. Oh, wait, you're English. I've clearly spent too long in America

Re: [python-uk] [PyConUK-adm] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

Very well deserved. Good work, Nicholas :) On 24 June 2015 at 15:01, Michael wrote: > Congratulations Nick! > > Michael. > > On 24 June 2015 at 14:31, Naomi Ceder wrote: >> >> As a member of the PSF board of directors it gives me great pleasure to >> report that our own Nicholas Tollervey has b

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Hotel details and deal

On 24/06/2015 14:08, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Microsoft miserere mei :-P > > The PDF works for me (and others). Anyone else having problems with > Windows (apologies Tim if I'm being presumptuous here)..? Might be Windows in general or just my particular setup. Thought I'd warn

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] ATTENTION! Education track now open!

Send this to edu-...@python.org Laura ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] ATTENTION: PyCon UK returns! Book tickets and propose talks! Do all the things!!!

On 12/05/15 14:05, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > To apply for a Trans*Code or Django Girls place please register your > interest via this form: > > https://docs.google.com/form/d/1uoGFiJAlwg4r0WycpwdvuveaLq_fIdfU3Dq0SdBgdCQ/viewform > Did you spot the deliberate mistake..? The correct URL for t

Re: [python-uk] PyconUK website!

I have never seen sites built, managed and hosted this way before. It's brilliant! But where's the Python going to go? ;-) I have to teach a bunch of schoolkids some basic web design this Easter (front end only). We started off with concepts of version control, and I was going to have to bamboo

Re: [python-uk] PyconUK website!

The logo is very nice [?] erika On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > A quick FYI. > > The source code for the 2015 PyconUK website is now on GitHub (and > will be delivered via GitHub pages once DNS has been

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] John

] On Behalf Of Vicky Twomey-Lee - Python Ireland Sent: 27 February 2015 11:34 To: Mailing list for the PyCon UK conference Cc: Python Users Subject: Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] John Hear, hear. RIP, John. He will be missed. Cheers, /// Vicky On Friday, February 27, 2015, Krzysztof

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] John

Hear, hear. RIP, John. He will be missed. Cheers, /// Vicky On Friday, February 27, 2015, Krzysztof Wilczynski < krzysztof.wilczyn...@bcs.org.uk> wrote: > Thank you Michael. I am sure he would appreciate it. > > World lost a truly great and kind man, and someone I will never forget. > > Farewe

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] [EuroPython-Members] EuroPython Reboot

I don't have any videoconferencing software, and the links provided just crash my firefox. By the time I get things tracked down and understood, the meeting will be over. So I won't be able to make it. I just wanted people to know that it wasn't due to lack of interest. Good luck everybody, Lau

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] [EuroPython-Members] EuroPython Reboot

Well done John for raising the issue and being prepared to use PythonUk as a place where at least some can discuss the issue in person! On 18 Sep 2014 11:53, "Horst Gutmann" wrote: > To be fair there were a couple of hints that something like that would > most likely take place at PyCon UK for th

Re: [python-uk] [PyConUK-adm] Sponsor PyconUK

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 18/07/14 10:39, John Pinner wrote: > Hi, > > When are you moving out of development and into marketing ? ;-) > NEVER... they'd have to drag me kicking and screaming. > But, we're missing a trick here, there is a pyconuk mailing list > as we

Re: [python-uk] [PyConUK-adm] Sponsor PyconUK

Hi, When are you moving out of development and into marketing ? ;-) But, we're missing a trick here, there is a pyconuk mailing list as well, possibly our prime target. Best wishes, John -- On 18 July 2014 10:31, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: [python-uk] PyConUK tickets?

On 4 July 2013 15:00, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/07/13 14:38, Tim Golden wrote: > > Going by the PyConUK site (which I randomly glanced at just now) > > there appear to be early bird tickets for sale already, but I don't > > remember se

Re: [python-uk] PyConUK tickets?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/13 14:38, Tim Golden wrote: > Going by the PyConUK site (which I randomly glanced at just now) > there appear to be early bird tickets for sale already, but I don't > remember seeing any announcements. Can I go in and book? Or is it > just a p

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Jonathan Hartley wrote: [...] Nobody has proposed replacing the mailing list, or changing it in any way. I don't object (I don't approve either), but: It doesn't change the mailing list in the same sense that Tescos opening opposite your local corner shop doesn't change t

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On 10/12/12 14:32, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Hi All, I now that I have been absent for a number of years on this list, but now after changing jobs (well I am in the middle of it again), changing homes and being a daddy (still am) I have come to a point where I can get more actively involved again

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:48 +, Jonathan Hartley wrote: […] > Nobody has proposed replacing the mailing list, or changing it in any way. > > Somebody just started a G+ community as well, and thought you all might > like to know. The problem for me is that we now have two communities instead o

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On 11/12/2012 11:10, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > And that somebody being me :-) And thank you for taking the initiative. As I mentioned before, I have nothing against Google+ as such, except for the fact that I don't really go there very often. (Maybe this will be an incentive). The current showing

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On 11 December 2012 10:48, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > On 11/12/2012 09:02, Mike Sandford wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 21:08 +, Russel Winder wrote: >> >>> For me the problem is not Google, the problem is that it is a forum. A >>> forum is a place you have to go to to find out what is happ

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Python-UK Google Plus Community

On 11/12/2012 09:02, Mike Sandford wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 21:08 +, Russel Winder wrote: For me the problem is not Google, the problem is that it is a forum. A forum is a place you have to go to to find out what is happening. Some people like this. I want interaction to come to me. In p

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Interview with Alex Martelli on Python

He is an excellent, interesting speaker .. you may have to bribe him with Italian delicacies .. Tim John Pinner wrote: Hello All, I thought that you might be interested in this interview with Alex Martelli: http://www.oreillygmt.co.uk/alex_martelli_future_of_python.html (I helped Josette

Re: [python-uk] pyconuk

Hello! 2009/9/1 Carles Pina i Estany > > Hello, > > This Saturday is the Python Unconference: > http://pyconuk.org/ > > I'm not sure yet if I will go there. The only thing that I can see is: > http://wiki.pyconuk.org/ > > So I don't see any confirmed talk, schedule, etc. like I see from 2008: >

Re: [python-uk] pyconuk

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 22:56:42 Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Anything behind the scenes has been happening? An unconference is based on a concept called Open Space Technology. Essentially, if you can think of a traditional conference as top down, an open space event is generally bottom up.

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

Hi, 2009/8/12 Russel Winder > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:25 +0100, Sarah Mount wrote: > > 2009/8/6 John Pinner : > > > > Unless of course there is a sudden rush... > > Hopefully there are now enough people signed up for this to be a good > event. > We have enough signed up to ensure that the even

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

On Friday 07 August 2009 10:25:39 Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > As £2k is steep given the number of delegates (or lack thereof) how > about a different venue for smaller numbers? I could have offered a venue in Manchester which was essentially free at the weekend (and recently used by Drupal Camp) i

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

Hi, On Aug/08/2009, John Chandler wrote: >> As £2k is steep given the number of delegates (or lack thereof) how >> about a different venue for smaller numbers? >> >> Perhaps a venue that would attract geeks anyway, would be sympathetic >> to our needs and "we" (the Python community) already kn

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

I'm unable to attend that date, so won't be signing up. :-( René Dudfield wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Michael Foord mailto:fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>> wrote: In case anyone didn't spot it, the URL to book at is: http://pyconuk.org/booking.html Michael John P

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

As £2k is steep given the number of delegates (or lack thereof) how about a different venue for smaller numbers? Perhaps a venue that would attract geeks anyway, would be sympathetic to our needs and "we" (the Python community) already know of it? Bletchley Park..? I'm not going to be able

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Tim Head wrote: > Hello again, > > 2009/8/7 Tim Head : > > interested in talking about (Django is interesting but these days I > > care more about scipy and such scientific software, also ctypes) > > before committing. > > > > I guess what I should have said is: an

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

Hello again, 2009/8/7 Tim Head : > interested in talking about (Django is interesting but these days I > care more about scipy and such scientific software, also ctypes) > before committing. > I guess what I should have said is: anyone interested in talking about/hacking/teaching me some cool tri

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

Hello, I would be interested in coming, but as I am arriving from the US the day before and on the move to a summer school starting sunday evening I was being a lurker waiting to see what kind of things people are interested in talking about (Django is interesting but these days I care more about

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

True enough... but having a cut-down event in a smaller venue is better than having no event in a bigger one... Nicholas. On 7 Aug 2009, at 14:37, Zeth wrote: It is a too late now to make such a drastic change less than a month before, however I would certainly be interested in holding a fut

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

It is a too late now to make such a drastic change less than a month before, however I would certainly be interested in holding a future event there. 2009/8/7 Nicholas Tollervey : > Guys, > > I won't be able to attend on the 5th Sept as my brother is getting married > on that date. Nevertheless, I

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

Guys, I won't be able to attend on the 5th Sept as my brother is getting married on that date. Nevertheless, I still have some questions: How many attendees are needed for a viable event to take place..? As £2k is steep given the number of delegates (or lack thereof) how about a different

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Michael Foord wrote: > In case anyone didn't spot it, the URL to book at is: > > http://pyconuk.org/booking.html > > Michael > > John Pinner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We confirmed the Unconference - http:///pyconuk.org >> - a couple of weeks ago a

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Proposed PyCon UK UnConference, 5th September

In case anyone didn't spot it, the URL to book at is: http://pyconuk.org/booking.html Michael John Pinner wrote: Hi, We confirmed the Unconference - http:///pyconuk.org - a couple of weeks ago and announced it on the pyconuk and python-uk lists. Regrettably there h

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] PyCon UK 2009 UnConference

John Pinner wrote: Last year we said that there would be no PyCon UK in 2009, because we were going to run EuroPython 2009 instead. Boo.. hiss... However, talking to people it seems that there's room for a smaller more informal event so we're pleased to announce that PyCon UK 2009 lives, i

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Correction: London Python Meetup, Wednesday, October the 8th

On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:14:29 Simon Brunning wrote: > Sorry - that's *Wednesday* the 8th. I shouldn't be allowed out on my > own, I really shouldn't. That's the point of a meetup isn't it? *ducks and runs* :) Michael. ___ python-uk mailing li

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

On Thursday 20 December 2007 07:55:11 Richard Taylor wrote: > You won't find much on MASCOT unfortunately: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_Approach_to_Software_Construction_Oper >ation_and_Test This was indeed enough for me to find lots :-) Including: * The Official Handbook of Mascot :

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

On Thursday 20 December 2007 07:55:11 Richard Taylor wrote: > That is reasonable. There can be performance improvements from using > separate read/write locks under certain loads, but I doubt that is an issue > here. Indeed. I'm tempted to do value level locking at somepoint, but performance isn

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

Mike On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Michael Sparks wrote: > The thing here all of these functions have in common is they are all > read-write on the state (eg creating non-pre-existing vars). So rather than > having separate read & write locks, I've decided on a single lock for > read-write. That

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 08:43:14 Richard Taylor wrote: > I like to use explicit read locks for shared data structures, mainly > because it makes it much safer when someone comes along and adds > functionality to the methods later on. I've had a think about this - especially with regard to r

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

Mike On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Michael Sparks wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 13:36, Richard Taylor wrote: > > I don't think that you can rely on the threadsafety of these functions. > > Even if they are threadsafe in C Python (which I doubt that 'set' is), the > > lock

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

Hi Richard, On Tuesday 11 December 2007 13:36, Richard Taylor wrote: > I don't think that you can rely on the threadsafety of these functions. > Even if they are threadsafe in C Python (which I doubt that 'set' is), the > locking in Jython in more fine grained and would likely catch you out. It'

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

Mike I don't think that you can rely on the threadsafety of these functions. Even if they are threadsafe in C Python (which I doubt that 'set' is), the locking in Jython in more fine grained and would likely catch you out. I would suggest that you should routinely wrap shared datamodels like th

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

On 10/9/07, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since we're going to your office first rather than to the pub, > what's the protocol for getting in? (Or is that not really an > issue?) Just come on up to the office on the 9th floor. -- Cheers, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

On 09/10/2007, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a reminder - the London Python meetup is on for tomorrow evening. > I have Tim Golden down to tell us about WMI, Andy Robinson to talk > about "personalised publishing" using Django, plus quickies from Giles > Thomas on Resolver and Ch

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

Simon Brunning wrote: > On 9/18/07, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ThoughtWorks UK (my employer) have given us the use of a room this >> time, so I'm looking for volunteer speakers, too. >> >> Details here: >>