Re: [python-uk] New group?

On 02/12/2013 22:19, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I think I'm correct in saying that the nearest groups to me are London, > Brighton, Reading or Bristol, as I'm literally on the south coast on the > Dorset/Hampshire border. If I'm right would there be any interest in > forming a local group based around

Re: [python-uk] Posting about seeking work?

On 03/03/2014 12:41, chris.d...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is it considered appropriate to post about seeking work? The about > page for the list suggests it is I can't see why not: people certainly advertise UK-specific jobs here from time to time. TJG ___

Re: [python-uk] Python Dojo - Factoryboy talk: any feedback?

Some feedback sent off-list TJG On 07/03/2014 15:45, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > to the people who were yesterday at London Python Dojo, I have a > little favour to ask. > I'm Andrea, the guy who gave the lightning talk about "Factoryboy". > > I would really apreciate some constructive

Re: [python-uk] London Python related organiser contacts.

It's definitely worth both making sure you're listed here and checking for other groups when planning: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=3haig2m9msslkpf2tn1h56n...@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London We (the London Dojo) are wrongly listed as on Wednesdays; I've pinged them a cor

[python-uk] London Python Dojo May 1st

The London Python Dojo May 2014 edition is now open for business. Go here for details and sign-up: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-5-episode-7-2-2 (Yes, that URL is a little bizarre). Tickets are available now. Let the landrush begin! TJG _

Re: [python-uk] Interesting libraries

For those of you following in Black & White, Michael's referring to next Thursday's London Python Code Dojo following on from last month where we were invited to showcase modules we hadn't used before. On 24/04/2014 17:59, Michael Grazebrook wrote: Hi The modules you chose last meetup were in

[python-uk] Thursday's London Python Dojo

A few cancellations have freed up four tickets for this Thursday's London Python Dojo. Go and get them over there --> https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-5-episode-7-2-2 TJG ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org htt

[python-uk] London Python Dojo this evening

We still have a couple of spare places for this evening's Dojo if you fancied coming along. 6.30pm for pizzas & beer courtesy of our long-standing hosts, Fry IT. 7.30pm for a few lightning talks and then an hour and a half of frantic coding. Sign up here: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-pyt

[python-uk] Yesterday's Dojo -- team 3?

Do we have any code from team 3 at yesterday's London Python Dojo? All the other teams have their code up on the github: https://github.com/ldnpydojo/tamagotchi TJG ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [python-uk] Next London Python Code Dojo - 3rd June at Hogarth in Soho

On 26/06/2014 10:57, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 26/06/2014 10:46, Alistair Broomhead wrote: > > Any particular year? :) > No -- come any year you like. TJG ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

[python-uk] London Python Dojo February... coming soon

The London Python Dojo will be happening next Thursday, Feb 12th. We're just waiting for our hosts, BAML, to finalise a few details before we announce details and tickets. Watch the usual channels (here & @ldnpydojo on Twitter). TJG ___ python-uk mailing

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo February... coming soon

On 06/02/2015 08:40, Tim Golden wrote: The London Python Dojo will be happening next Thursday, Feb 12th. We're just waiting for our hosts, BAML, to finalise a few details before we announce details and tickets. Watch the usual channels (here & @ldnpydojo on Twitter). And ticket

Re: [python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

On 24/03/2015 17:04, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: The RaspberryPi Education team (i.e. Carrie Anne - cc'd) is having a problem getting a Python 3 version of smbus to work. Why not post as well to the much more widely-read python-list? TJG ___ python-u

Re: [python-uk] Library advice + anyone built a real time bidder?

On 27/03/2015 10:47, Hansel Dunlop wrote: > Happy Friday Python People! (yes, you're happy, because it's Friday) > > Two questions for you: > > 1. I'm releasing a library. That I wrote in 2.7. But I want it to make it > compatible with 2.7+. What's the best approach for this? Especially >

Re: [python-uk] London Dojo Thursday 7th May

On 30/04/2015 12:35, Gautier HAYOUN wrote: > If you want to give a lighting talk send us an email at t...@ldnpydojo.org.uk And if anyone's interested in giving a brief talk on a subject other than lighting, then feel free to send to the same address! :) TJG __

Re: [python-uk] Anyone needs a Python/Django backend developer in London?

You're fine. This has come up a few times before (including the occasion you refer to) and we always end up pointing to the info page: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk where it explicitly refers to "jobs wanted or sought". And there's a world of difference between an individu

Re: [python-uk] Hotel details and deal

The PDF form which the special rate requires has hard-crashed my machine twice now. Caveat Lector! As I write, the Ibis on their website is offering me the three nights of the conference (staying Fri 18th - Mon 21st) for £143.50 while the Premier Inn (Earlsdon Park) where I stayed last year is off

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] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

Excellent, excellent news. Couldn't be more deserved! TJG On 24/06/2015 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 been awarded the PSF's > Community Service Award for Q2, 2015 in recognition of

Re: [python-uk] Issue with unit tests in IntelliJ IDEA

On 14/07/2015 11:33, David Szervanszky wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve been working on contributing to an open source project and have > gotten to the stage where I’m writing my tests but I’ve run into a bit > of an issue around a unit test I’ve written. Namely that the unit test > won’t run and I receive t

Re: [python-uk] In Bilbao at the moment. Anyone else here?

Hope you and all the UK Pythonistas (and your families) enjoy yourselves; I'll be viewing things from across the Tweet. :) TJG On 18/07/2015 11:55, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: I've just arrived in Bilbao with my wife and daughter. It'll be easiest to ping me on Twitter @ntoll Apparently ther

Re: [python-uk] MicroPython / BBC micro:bit at Python user groups in the UK

On 25/09/2015 14:25, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > So the BBC have realised that MicroPython is really a thing that works. I'm speaking a little out of turn here but ... ... for those who haven't followed the plot so far, can I point out just how much work and diplomacy this repres

[python-uk] February's London Python Dojo

We're just finalising the details of February's Dojo which should take place next Thursday, 4th Feb. Stay tuned TJG ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] London Python Dojo Feb 2016

Tickets are now available for February's London Python Dojo: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-7-episode-6-tickets-21110464969 If you have in mind a lightning talk you'd like to give to start things off, please let us know. TJG ___

Re: [python-uk] URGENT: Volunteers for teacher collaboration please... :-)

On 17/02/2016 08:30, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > London: 25th February > Birmingham: 9th March > Nottingham: 15th March > Lancaster: 16th March > Newcastle: 17th March > Hertfordshire: 21st March > Manchester: 23rd March > Southampton: 23rd March I'm happy to help in London but I imagine that's

Re: [python-uk] URGENT: Volunteers for teacher collaboration please... :-)

On 17/02/2016 08:30, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Folks, [... forwarded to the main python-list ...] ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] Fwd: Re: URGENT: Volunteers for teacher collaboration please... :-)

guys all the best. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Tim Golden wrote: > [Forwarding an email from python-uk in the hope that UK-based > Pythonistas might see it here who don't hang out there...] > > From: Nicholas H.Tollervey > Reply-To: UK Python Users > To: UK Pytho

Re: [python-uk] URGENT: Volunteers for teacher collaboration please... :-)

On 17/02/2016 09:14, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > On 17/02/16 09:13, Tim Golden wrote: >> I could travel to somewhere vaguely accessible from London. Do you have >> specific locations? (Herts. is rather a big area, for example, and some >> bits of it are closer to me than ot

Re: [python-uk] URGENT: Volunteers for teacher collaboration please... :-)

On 17/02/2016 09:20, Tim Golden wrote: > On 17/02/2016 08:30, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: >> Hi Folks, > > [... forwarded to the main python-list ...] [Also added to planetpython.org (on the next refresh) via my blog] TJG ___ python-

Re: [python-uk] Calling Norwich-ish Pythonistas for Monday at 4:30

On 17/03/2016 08:54, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > I've just found out that the University of Herts (who told me their > workshops would be in St.Albans) have organised a workshop in Norwich, > on Monday at 4:30 pm. Norwich is obviously in Herts. Does this information supersede the reminder you ju

Re: [python-uk] Calling Norwich-ish Pythonistas for Monday at 4:30

On 17/03/2016 09:05, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > No... (that was sent off list). Sorry; of course it was. > They've apparently organised two. The > one on the original date is now in Norwich and the Hatfield date is now > Wednesday evening as per the instructions I sent off list. Ok. I'll con

Re: [python-uk] Anyone in Maidstone or Worthing tomorrow / Wednesday?

Roger -- did you contact Nicholas directly? I'm not seeing any response from you to the UK list. As things stand, I've offered to cover the Maidstone event instead of the Hatfield one on Wednesday. As far as I'm concerned, you're obviously welcome to help me if that was what you were offering.

[python-uk] Network Zero at the London Dojo

Thanks to everyone who took Network Zero for a spin at yesterday's Dojo. I've done a brief write-up here: http://ramblings.timgolden.me.uk/2016/05/06/networkzero-at-the-london-python-dojo/ If any of you are willing to share the examples you created, please ping me a repo or a tarball or whatever.

[python-uk] No London Dojo in September

You probably guessed by virtue of the radio silence, but we regret that we'll not be running a London Python Dojo in September. It's basically down to people being too busy and our not finding a venue. Which brings us to... does your London-based company [*] want to host the London Python Dojo on

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

On 02/09/2016 09:48, Tom Viner wrote: > Potential candidates as well as recruiters are reminded that hitting > reply will result in a mail aimed back to the list. > > You must then manually edit the To: field. > > Furthermore: Outlook's "recall this message" will not work, rather it > will send a

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

We have this discussion every 18 months or so. As others have said, focused and relevant job ads have been acceptable on this list. It's even in the list description: (from https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk) "to help UK Python users to form a community, arrange events, advertise

Re: [python-uk] No London Dojo in September

On 02/09/2016 11:54, Matt Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 at 13:20 Tim Golden <mailto:m...@timgolden.me.uk>> wrote: > > You probably guessed by virtue of the radio silence, but we regret that > we'll not be running a London Python Dojo in September. It

[python-uk] PyCon UK videos

For those who couldn't make it to the Conference, or (like me) were at the Conference but couldn't attend many talks, the videos are up already: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChA9XP_feY1-1oSy2L7acog/videos TJG ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@pyt

Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

("Forum" used below to mean any technical solution for people to ask & answer questions) Nicholas jumped in before I could ask him what the status of the pyedu.io initiative is. My own belief is that, for such a forum [using whatever technical solution] to be valuable or even viable, it should hav

[python-uk] No London Dojo this month (March)

Looks like we'll not manage a London Python Dojo this month, certainly not for this Thursday. We'll be back next month. ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] London Python Dojo April 6th

The next London Python Dojo is at 6:30pm on 6th April 2017. It will once again be held at Methods Digital, who are at 16 St Martin's Le Grand, near St Paul’s Tube Station. Arrive from 6:30pm for our usual mix of pizza and beer and socialising and hacking and silliness. For more details, and

[python-uk] London Python Dojo today -- tickets available

There are a couple of tickets available for tonight's Dojo. We need to send the venue a list of names by midday so please sign up soon if you want to come. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-8-episode-7-tickets-33328432238 TJG

[python-uk] No London Python Dojo in June

We won't be holding a London Python Dojo in June. Please watch this space and/or follow us on Twitter @ldnpydojo for the next Dojo. If you're interested in hosting a Dojo and/or helping us organise, please drop us a line: t...@ldnpydojo.org.uk or ping us on Twitter TJG ___

[python-uk] Twickenham Coding Evening: an advert

If you're an educator or know someone who is in the South/West London area and need help with teaching IT in schools, feel free to come along for help to the Twickenham Coding Evening. (It mostly doesn't involve coding and isn't currently in Twickenham, but still: just come.). Here's a blog po

[python-uk] London Python Dojo venues - planning ahead

The London Python Dojo team is trying to put together a plan for the coming year, starting from September. We'd like to line up, in advance, hosting venues and, in certain months, specific themes. If you've never come across the London Python Dojo, you can read a little about it here: http

Re: [python-uk] The UK Python Association

(*cough* https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6690/hear-hear-or-here-here) But I definitely echo the sentiment! TJG On 26/07/2017 14:06, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: Here here... N. On 26/07/17 13:48, Zeth wrote: Indeed thanks to both. On 26 Jul 2017 13:36, "Daniele Procida" mailto:

[python-uk] John Pinner awards -- a reminder

UK Python people: is there anyone you know (including yourself!) who has contributed time & effort into the UK Python community, in any way? Someone who volunteers at Raspberry Jams, someone who runs Python workshops, who helps with Django Girls, who does the Python stuff in the local library'

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

On 06/10/2017 12:58, Peter Inglesby wrote: Hi all, On behalf of the PyCon UK committee, I'm delighted to announce the full schedule for PyCon UK 2017 ! We're hosting a huge number of talks, workshops, and other sessions. Speakers are coming from all over t

[python-uk] London Python Dojo Thursday December 7th

Python People of the UK... or at least of London... We're at Forward Partners who are hosting our December London Python Dojo. We'll start at 6.30pm with pizza and drinks and a chance to mingle. Then we'll choose a challenge to meet, team up to do it, and meet again an hour or so later to comp

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo Thursday December 7th

And now with the correct link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-9-episode-4-tickets-40837005583 TJG On 30/11/2017 14:30, Tim Golden wrote: Python People of the UK... or at least of London... We're at Forward Partners who are hosting our December London P

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo Thursday December 7th

-4-tickets-40837005583 Thanks also to BAML for offering as well. We'll be back there in the future. TJG On 30/11/2017 14:36, Tim Golden wrote: And now with the correct link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-9-episode-4-tickets-40837005583 TJG On 30/11/

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