HackerNews meetup at PyCon 2010 Atlanta

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by nailer • 16 years ago

3 5 16 years ago

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Hi HN,

Who's going to PyCon this year?

What's your real name?

What do you do with Python?

What are you interested in at PyCon?

Looking forward to anything in particular in Atlanta?

Want to grab a beer? I'm arriving on the 16th and would be happy to meet with any and all of you.

nailer2• 16 years ago

Mike. Coming from London.

Infrastructure development - monitoring, reporting, creating config tools, glueware - for low latency trading environments (my background's in Linux).

During my time off, I work on Python Docx (the Word / OpenXML module), various django sites, and a project doing natural language analysis of a popular web forum.

At PyCon I'm looking forward to the NLTK talk - the OReilly book is very academic and I'm looking forward to a more human guide to some of the topics - and the Python payment talks.

I don't really know that much about Atlanta, would love to check out the local cuisine (whatever their specialty is - like deep pizza in Chicago).

I love American and Canadian microbrews too, so I'm hoping there's some good indie beer.

jackdied• 16 years ago

Jack Diederich (my nick is an old UNIX login, "jackdiederich"[:8]). I'm an invited speaker this year so I'll definitely be there.

At least two automated trading firms sent contingents to PyCon last year so you won't be alone (I think both were state-side). As for microbrews? Although it started with states that had odd blue laws for liquor licenses (limited regular licenses but unlimited for on-premises brewing) you can now find micro-breweries in every major city and most minor ones. PyCon always has a beer BoF group.

nailer2• 16 years ago

You're the guy that wrote decorators! Wouldn't mind checking out your 'I love graphs' lightening talk, there's a lot happening in that space and the lightening talks are often the best content/time value of the whole conference.

Must have missed the beer BoF last year, though managed to imbibe a fair bit anyway (The Map Room in Chicago was great). Will check it out this year & see you there.

bockris• 16 years ago

I'll be there. Jay Graves from Austin TX

I do a lot of glue-ing and some internal app development using Python.

There is tons of stuff I'm interested in at PyCon 2010. Many of my session slots are double and triple booked.

I don't know Atlanta, I've only flown through it on many occasions, so I know the airport but nothing else.

wensing• 16 years ago

Can we create a real meetup.com meetup or whatever it is the kids are using these days for this?

HackerNews meetup at PyCon 2010 Atlanta

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