From jjhartley at gmail.com Mon Nov 3 04:38:16 2008 From: jjhartley at gmail.com (James Hartley) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:38:16 -0700 Subject: November meet Message-ID: A number of people have responded saying that they will be going to the polls after work precluding attendance at any Tuesday night meeting of the SFOBUG. So in support of responsible citizenship, everyone, make sure you take the time to vote. Whatever your politics, voice your opinion by casting a ballot. Jim From bg at capitalmarketsp.com Thu Nov 6 21:49:51 2008 From: bg at capitalmarketsp.com (Beau Gould) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:49:51 -0500 Subject: [JOB] Engineering Lead, San Francisco - 150-250k DOE Message-ID: <044501c94051$374ece90$a5ec6bb0$@com> My name is Beau Gould and I am a Senior Recruiter with Capital Markets Placement, LLC based out of New York City. I wanted to touch base with you and see if you were either actively seeking new opportunities or would be inclined to do so if it was to improve your situation financially, technologically or geographically. Please take a moment to advise me of your current situation should you be evaluating new opportunities and kindly reply with your resume. Kind regards, Beau Gould Executive Advisor Capital Markets Placement bg at capitalmarketsp.com We are currently recruiting for the following position: [JOB] Engineering Lead, San Francisco - 150-250k DOE Job Title: Engineering Lead Location: San Francisco - Relocation assistance provided Duration: Full Time/Permanent Salary: 150-250k DOE Our client is home to a new type of search that makes it easy to find subjective information. Starting in early 2008 the company raised seed financing from a number of premier angel investors and carefully grew a high-caliber engineering team. Today, the company includes founders from more than a half-dozen successful startups, including Google, four AI Ph.D.s, and engineers from Silicon Valley's major technology companies. The Engineering Lead is a careful implementer who is curious about how things work. S/he leans on large levers to get more done, faster, and enjoys applying new tools to the new opportunities afforded by today's web. S/he endeavors to solve real-world problems for real people (including the rest of the company), and isn't afraid to think big. They are looking for a strong engineering lead with impeccable technical chops and a willingness to manage a growing team. General requirements: * Graduate degree or PhD preferably in CS or closely related field, from a leading institution * 5+ years of solid individual contributions to significant, interesting, new, or important projects * 5+ years of leadership experience in leading both technical teams and managing engineering organizations. Their ideal candidate has both because on the software engineering side they will likely transition from individual contributor to team leader to organization manager * Startup experience: at least one (preferably more) significant startup company / project experiences building an organization and wearing the many planning, mentoring, nurturing, and envisioning hats that are necessary at the early stage * Proven experience related to what we're doing: search engines, information retrieval, web servers, distributed systems, social networking, consumer web properties, large-scale IM networks * Excited to come in as an individual contributor and grow into the leadership role as the company matures * Very technical, down-to-earth, and not title-hungry * Some web experience required (scripting, widgets, browsers, web servers, etc) * Affinity for rapid prototyping * Flexibility when faced with complex challenges To be considered, please submit your resume along with your salary requirements to bg @ capitalmarketsp.com Beau Gould Executive Advisor Capital Markets Placement www.cmp.jobs bg at capitalmarketsp.com From phessler at theapt.org Fri Nov 7 08:45:17 2008 From: phessler at theapt.org (Peter Hessler) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:45:17 +0100 Subject: [JOB] Engineering Lead, San Francisco - 150-250k DOE In-Reply-To: <044501c94051$374ece90$a5ec6bb0$@com> References: <044501c94051$374ece90$a5ec6bb0$@com> Message-ID: <20081107074517.GL9062@gir.theapt.org> Job ads are not allowed here. You have been unsubscribed. -- Parker's Law: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. From jim at well.com Thu Nov 13 02:26:13 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:26:13 -0800 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 13, 2008: NumPy and SciPy Message-ID: <1226539573.6358.781.camel@ubuntu> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 13, 2008: NumPy and SciPy By Fernando Perez NumPy and SciPy: how python is becoming the dominant high-level language for scientific work, who's using it, what we do with it, what the key projects are, where we're headed, what challenges we have, and where others can contribute. Tonight's Newbie Nugget is... DocTest by Wesley Chun Documentation and testing are traditionally two areas that programmers shy away from. With one simple change, namely doctest integration, you can get both in a simplistic manner and improve the usability of your code as well as get free testing. That is what makes doctest so cool! Location: Google Campus Building 40, the Seville room (check in at the lobby in bldg 43) bayPIGgies meeting information: http://baypiggies.net/new/plone * Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings (no later than close of business on Wednesday.) Agenda ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget: Doctest by Wesley Chun ..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................ Talk by Whom ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM -- After The Talk ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest.