pykc_coffee_20160709.markdown

PythonKC July 2016 Coffee & Code

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def greetings():
    print("Welcome to PythonKC Coffee & Code.")
    print("Today is Saturday 9 July 2016.")
    print("Thanks to Sprint Accelerator and Caleb Hyde.")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    greetings()

PythonKC News

PythonKC Organizer Search

• Python expertise is not a requirement
  • Organizer tasks have almost nothing to do with Python skills
  • Finding meeting space and lining up presentations don't require writing code
• Being an organizer is not a huge time commitment
  • Mostly it's just showing up
  • No current organizer is stepping down
• We'd like to represent differing points-of-view
  • Take a look at the current PythonKC organizers
  • We're more alike than different
  • We'd like to change that

PythonKC Summer 2016 Meetup

• Thursday 25 August 2016
• Location: C2FO (Thanks, Garry Polley!)
• Response to call for presentations has been overwhelming
  • Please read the update here
  • Please respond as a post to that discussion if you're interested in presenting in 2016

PythonKC August 2016 Coffee & Code

• Saturday 13 August 2016
• Looking for a location

PythonKC Bookclub

• Fluent Python
• #bookclub Slack channel
• Meetup.com Discussion Board

Python News and Resources

• Python Software Foundation. Python 2.7.12
• Python Software Foundation. Python 3.5.2
• Juan Pedro Fisanotti. Separate IO from algorithms
• Brett Cannon. Idiomatic Python: EAFP versus LBYL
• Mike Driscoll. Python 101: An Intro to urllib
• Kyle Hanson. Supercharging Django Productivity
• James Bennett. On Python 3, again
• Dasun Sucharith. An Introduction to Mocking in Python
• Michael Davies. Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
• Reddit. Reddit Survey of PyCon Talks