From jim at well.com Thu Oct 7 00:03:53 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:03:53 -0700 Subject: Graham Dumpleton on mod_wsgi at Noisebridge Friday evening Message-ID: <1286402633.2289.79.camel@jim-laptop> Please join us this Friday evening to hear Graham Dumpleton speak on mod_wsgi at Noisebridge Graham Dumpleton is here on a family vacation but hopes to spend a few hours with the local python community at Noisebridge in San Francisco, located on the 3rd floor of 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1219, very near 18th Street (press the buzzer button to get in). """Getting to know mod_wsgi.""" """Graham will describe the architecture of mod_wsgi and how that compares to other Python hosting solutions. He will then discuss the pros and cons of the different modes mod_wsgi supports for running WSGI applications. Question time will follow, allowing for a more in-depth discussion of the material covered or anything else people want to know about mod_wsgi.""" http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ The link to the announcement on the noisebridge site is here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events#Upcoming_Events_edit ---------------------------------- Energy Solutions is taking Graham to dinner before the talk at Poc-Chuc on 16th near South Van Ness (nearby) at around 5:30 PM. http://www.pocchuc.com/ Poc-Chuc is big enough to absorb a bunch of drop-ins, so if you want to have dinner there before the talk, too, make your arrangements (and be ready to pay for your dinner, ES cannot host dinner for everyone. :) From mark at gidgetkitchen.org Fri Oct 22 18:12:52 2010 From: mark at gidgetkitchen.org (Mark Terranova) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:12:52 -0700 Subject: Bay Area FOSS events Message-ID: Ok a few things happening around town This weekend Friday- Sunday- OLPC SF Community Summit 2010. San Francisco. One laptop per child is having their International meeting in our area. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/ Sunday 24th is Makers Faire. Oakland will the center of the Geek universe Creativity in motion. Berkeley LUG has a booth setup. I'll be hard to miss, I'm wearing the Penguin suit. http://ebmakerfaire.wordpress.com/ Thursday 28th - Lighting the Maverick LAMP with Ubuntu 10.10, Yahoo campus, Sunnyvale. 5:30pm Networking, Pizza, Ubuntu badges & stickers courtesy Zareason. 6:30pm Presentations and Demonstrations by Ubuntu California. Official Ubuntu 10.10 CDs (32-bit Ubuntu) * Try the latest Ubuntu and LAMP stack on demo machines * Bring your machine to try and install Ubuntu on it * Bring your USB drive and make it bootable with Ubuntu http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/500/detail/ Saturday 6th Geeknic Heather Farms, Walnut Creek. Save the date; more details soon. Saturday 13th -Fedora 14 Release Party - Walnut Creek Saxbys Coffee shop Cake, refreshments, USB drives, and various other assorted SWAG. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F14_Bay_Area GidgetKitchen plans to start offering FOSS classes again. Saxbys in Walnut Creek at first, then the World. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim at well.com Wed Oct 27 22:00:31 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:00:31 -0700 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, October 28, 2010: Consulting As a Career Choice Message-ID: <1288209631.1875.196.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, October 28, 2010: Consulting As a Career Choice This meeting's talk is Consulting As a Career Choice by Glen Jarvis, Monte Davidoff, Emile Van Sebille, Annette Bourget Tonight's talk is a four-person mini-talk and Q&A Panel: * Business Resources Available to You -- Glen Jarvis * A topic from Marketing and Networking -- Annet Bourget * Issues of Business Entities/Legal Stuff -- Monte Davidoff * Consulting vs. Contracting - Emile van Sebille ......................................... Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ The talk: Consulting As a Career Choice ..... 8:40 PM to 9:10 PM ................ Questions and Answers ..... 9:10 PM to 9:30 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests.