Re: [python-uk] London Python Pub Night

2009-07-24 Thread Bruce Durling
I'd be very interested in a London Python User Group. meetup.com does charge ($72 for 6 months), upcoming.yahoo.com doesn't seem to charge, but doesn't have the ongoing community list and discussion board stuff (which is less important given the python-uk list). I know Thoughtworks are willing t

Re: [python-uk] London Python Pub Night

2009-07-24 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/7/24 Michael : > On Friday 24 July 2009 16:46:42 Bruce Durling wrote: >> I know Thoughtworks are willing to host a meeting sometime in >> September towards the end of the month. I was thinking 3 lightning >> talks and an unconference, unless anyone has an idea for a long

[python-uk] London Python Dojo - 17 September 2009

2009-08-29 Thread Bruce Durling
Announcing the London Python Dojo: Sign up here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4391294/ The details: 6:30PM for a 7:30PM start of the Dojo The proposed project will be creating a social graph using the twitter API. Nearest Tubes: Waterloo Southwark Address: Fry-IT Limited 503 Enterprise Ho

[python-uk] DJUGL on 24 September 2009?

2009-08-29 Thread Bruce Durling
Does anyone know if this Django User group meeting is for real? Thursday 24 September 2009 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4240940 Capital Radio Building, Global Radio 30 Leicester Square London, England WC2H 7LA cheers, Bruce ___ py

Re: [python-uk] Next Codo Dojo organisation meetup

2009-09-22 Thread Bruce Durling
I don't think I'll be able to make it either, but let me know the details and I'll setup an eventwax page for it (this seems to be better than upcoming and still free). cheers, Bruce ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/

[python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-24 Thread Bruce Durling
We all enjoyed the last dojo so much we decided to have another one. Fry-IT are hosting again. There is a sign up and information page here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/2nd-london-python-dojo We're doing tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) with and AI opponent. 18:30 15 October 2009 Address: F

Re: [python-uk] ANN: Next October Pyssup: Wednesday 21st Oct.

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/15 Stephen Emslie : > Time: Wednesday 21st Oct, from 7pm > Venue: The Blackfriar near Blackfriars tube [1] > [1] http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/60/602/Blackfriar/Blackfriars Why the change of venue? (not that I'm fussed either way) cheers, Bruce ___

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Code Dojo Tomorrow

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Durling
1st Thursday of the month works for me. Let me know when we have enough consensus to post a new announcement. I still think after tic-tac-toe we should do a series of dojos to build a event management site so we don't have to use eventwax/upcoming/meetup/etc. :-) cheers, Bruce ___

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Code Dojo Tomorrow

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/16 Peter Bengtsson : > I wouldn't mind carrying on with the tic-tac-toe code. Perhaps the > next thing we could work on is a wrapper that uses raw_input and print > to make the game playableish on the console. Advantage is that we're > building something on something we have built as a team

[python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Durling
Any pythonistas here on Google Wave? I don't have invites, but it would be good to find other people. Not much use without collaborators. cheers, Bruce ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/18 Will McGugan : > I am. Not quite sure what to do with the thing. I'm having a play with documenting the various London Python meetups. Maps, voting, links and shared docs with comments seem to be OK for that. cheers, Bruce ___ python-uk maili

Re: [python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/18 Tim Head : > me too: betatim at googlewave dot com > > Assuming you get bored of adding new collaborators, can you just post > the link to the wave and we can just go there and add ourselves? At the moment I'm trying to figure out what a useful URL would look like. I'm a total n00b here

Re: [python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/18 Tim Head : > 2009/10/18 Bruce Durling : >> 2009/10/18 Tim Head : >>> me too: betatim at googlewave dot com >>> >>> Assuming you get bored of adding new collaborators, can you just post >>> the link to the wave and we can just go there and add

Re: [python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-19 Thread Bruce Durling
John, 2009/10/19 John Pinner : > Hi, > > 2009/10/19 Pablo Brasero Moreno : >>     This is pabl...@googlewave.com. May I join the discussion? I have found >> Wave not so useful so far for the same reason. > > Being a cynical old man I suspect that it's yet another piece of > technology looking for

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Code Dojo Tomorrow

2009-10-27 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/10/27 Nicholas Tollervey : > Well, we couldn't change the next dojo's date/time this late in the day - > but we can definitely look at other days for the December meeting. Are there > any preferred days..? Shall we just alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays? cheers, Bruce __

Re: [python-uk] ANN: Next London Pyssup: Wednesday 18th Nov

2009-11-12 Thread Bruce Durling
2009/11/12 Andy Kilner : > As usual, Python veterans, Py-curious, Perl rejects and Clojure > wannabes all welcome. I think I'm a python wannabe and clojure curious. ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

[python-uk] emacs and python and emacs-starter-kit

2010-03-07 Thread Bruce Durling
Hi, I know from a number of python dojos that most of you don't use emacs, but I thought there might be some people lurking out there who might have an opinion on this. I'm currently using emacs-starter-kit [1] for my emacs set up having had .emacs files for .emacs.d directories lovingly handcraf

Re: [python-uk] London Python? Brighton is active

2010-08-03 Thread Bruce Durling
Ian, On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 18:00, Ian Ozsvald wrote: > I'm less interested in the web-dev stuff (but it is good to know > there's a whole group for it!). Re. the Dojo could be cool, I haven't > done one of those before. Is there a twitter account/mailing list so I > can keep track of upcoming ev

Re: [python-uk] London Python? Brighton is active

2010-08-04 Thread Bruce Durling
Andy, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 13:17, Andy Kilner wrote: > The plan is for a Pyssup on the 18th, Pub TBD (and approved by Bruce). You know I'm always happy with a pub near a tube station and real ale. ;-) (cheeky man) cheers, Bruce ___ python-uk mailin

Re: [python-uk] London Python? Brighton is active

2010-08-05 Thread Bruce Durling
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:35, Andy Kilner wrote: > heh, actually I was more after a suggestion. We haven't been to the > porter house in a while, how about there? I'll give that a +1. :-D ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.pytho

Re: [python-uk] UK Python User Groups

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Durling
It doesn't have DJUGL or the London Python Dojo. cheers, Bruce On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 23:35, Richard Lewis wrote: > Hi UK Python users, > > Does anyone know if > http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups#UnitedKingdom is the most > definitive list of Python user groups? Or if there's a more d

[python-uk] london-dojos group

2011-01-14 Thread Bruce Durling
Fellow Pythonistas and Dojoans, As mentioned at the London Python Dojo last night another list has been set up to discuss inter-dojo events so that we don't spam this list with problems interfacing haskell to xmpp. The URL for the list is: http://groups.google.com/group/london-dojos cheers, Bruc

[python-uk] Ivan De Marino Python XMPP GAE talk at Skillsmatter in London

2011-05-17 Thread Bruce Durling
Fellow Pythonistas, I know we've done some work in the London Python Dojo on Python and XMPP. I thought some people might be interested in this talk at Skillsmatter in London. http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/blog-implementation-with-python-xmpp-and-channel-api-in-java (BTW, I'm not associ

Re: [python-uk] Dojo / workshop on "TDD Django with Selenium" - any interest?

2011-10-13 Thread Bruce Durling
Harry, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 17:26, Harry Percival wrote: > Hi-ho python peeps, > > Would anyone be interested in a dojo / worksop on the topic of test-driven > Django development, with Selenium? That sounds like a great idea. > So, trying to get an idea of numbers - would anyone be intereste

Re: [python-uk] Dojo / workshop on "TDD Django with Selenium" - any interest?

2011-10-13 Thread Bruce Durling
Harry, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 18:11, Harry Percival wrote: Skillsmatter would probably host this as a free evening talk. They have a number of rooms that would be suitable (holding 40ish, 75ish and 125ish), though you'd probably want to limit it to 60 (absolute max) if it was going to be a pra

[python-uk] ANN: 5 Jan London Python Dojo S3 E5

2011-12-30 Thread Bruce Durling
Come one! Come All! Roll up! Roll up! Episode 5 of the 3rd season of London Python Dojos has a date (Thursday 5 January) and a sign up page: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-3-episode-5 I hope to see you there for pizza, beer and python! cheers, Bruce (a person who

Re: [python-uk] ANN: 5 Jan London Python Dojo S3 E5

2012-01-03 Thread Bruce Durling
that evening ... > > I know I'll probably miss most of the Python fun, but it's been ages since > I've been along and I'm missing the Python chat! > > No problem if not, I don't want to crowd someone out who might stay for the > coding. > > Toby &g

Re: [python-uk] saturday london python dojos?

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Durling
Ross and Nick On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:20, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > When I think about what we do in the dojo I reckon the limitations of > size and frequency (we can only do it once a month in an office > that'll hold no more than 30 hackers) actually plays to our advantage. > People kno

Re: [python-uk] PyCon By Video?

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Durling
You can do stuff in the cafe or workshop spaces at Hub Westminster for free on Saturday's as a part of their Hub Twilight program. What day were you thinking of? cheers, Bruce On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:53, Ed Stafford wrote: > The Hub Kings Cross is another nice place to have things hosted at,

Re: [python-uk] PyCon By Video?

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Durling
Rami, On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 13:19, Rami Chowdhury wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Bruce Durling wrote: > >> You can do stuff in the cafe or workshop spaces at Hub Westminster for >> free on Saturday's as a part of their Hub Twilight program. >>

Re: [python-uk] PyCon By Video?

2012-03-21 Thread Bruce Durling
If it is hosted at hub westminster then Alice will need to run it on event brite. On Mar 21, 2012 4:31 PM, "Nicholas H.Tollervey" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > All understood... > > > P.S. Can you tell I'm new at this community-event-organizing? If > > I'm doing it