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One of the biggest problem is to find a place to m...
anatoly techtonik · 2015-01-06T14:20:13.280000
One of the biggest problem is to find a place to meet. Companies are eager to propose their hiring grounds, but it disrupts the atmosphere as their HR managers start to evaluate their hiring performance and start to "improve conversion".
An alternative trend is to charge money from companies indirectly to provide an space for "communities", but that again is a business that have nothing to do with the word "open" in it. People there are again HR managers, who put money first and are easy to piss off people who don't earn much and don't own a Lamborghini.
So, there is high demand for open source friendly spaces that are neutral and not business oriented, but I assume that it is a rarity even in developed world. Is the CHCC such a place? Is it expensive to rent it for open source sprint like this?
On bug - http://bugs.python.org/issue16333 - don&#...
anatoly techtonik · 2015-01-06T14:29:35.302000
On bug - http://bugs.python.org/issue16333 - don't you feel that backward compatibility is a flawed concept in regard to this bug?
I faced with the bug myself and really didn't like the community conclusion to threat trailing whitespace as a backward compatibility feature of Python 2.7.
It seems that it is some hard form of obsession - JSON specification don't care about trailing spaces at all, but people insist that it breaks compatibility. I think that's stupid - it could have been fixed 2 years ago.
Well, I bit the bullet and paid for this event out...
Steve · 2015-01-06T14:32:13.076000
Well, I bit the bullet and paid for this event out of my own pocket. I have to get back in touch with the UK Python communities, and this was one experimental way of doing it.
I agree venues aren't easy - Church House is in effect a commercial conference center, so its prices are relatively high. Some companies are better than others at lending space. In the UK both Google and Mozilla have been helpful and relatively non-intrusive for open source groups, but this wouldn't extend to commercial training activities.
Anatoly, sometimes when we work as part of a commu...
Steve · 2015-01-15T00:18:32.432000
Anatoly, sometimes when we work as part of a community the decisions don't go the way we think they should. My approach is generally to try and avoid striving for perfection, since this makes it possible to achieve much more progress.
Hi Steve! I was trying to find your "Intermed...
Javier Estraviz · 2016-03-22T07:17:44.067000
Hi Steve! I was trying to find your "Intermediate Python" course on O'Reilly but it appears as not for sale... Why is that? Can it be found somewhere else?
Thank you in advance!!
-Javier
I am sorry to say O'Reilly withdrew that video...
Steve · 2016-03-22T08:14:24.856000
I am sorry to say O'Reilly withdrew that video course after a year. I believe they now have another intermediate class presented by Jessica McKellar, who presented their introduction to Python? I have a full-time job now, so the only work I have time for besides is the third edition of "Python in a Nushell" with Alex Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft.
One of the biggest problem is to find a place to m...
anatoly techtonik · 2015-01-06T14:20:13.280000
One of the biggest problem is to find a place to meet. Companies are eager to propose their hiring grounds, but it disrupts the atmosphere as their HR managers start to evaluate their hiring performance and start to "improve conversion".An alternative trend is to charge money from companies indirectly to provide an space for "communities", but that again is a business that have nothing to do with the word "open" in it. People there are again HR managers, who put money first and are easy to piss off people who don't earn much and don't own a Lamborghini.
So, there is high demand for open source friendly spaces that are neutral and not business oriented, but I assume that it is a rarity even in developed world. Is the CHCC such a place? Is it expensive to rent it for open source sprint like this?
On bug - http://bugs.python.org/issue16333 - don&#...
anatoly techtonik · 2015-01-06T14:29:35.302000
On bug - http://bugs.python.org/issue16333 - don't you feel that backward compatibility is a flawed concept in regard to this bug?I faced with the bug myself and really didn't like the community conclusion to threat trailing whitespace as a backward compatibility feature of Python 2.7.
It seems that it is some hard form of obsession - JSON specification don't care about trailing spaces at all, but people insist that it breaks compatibility. I think that's stupid - it could have been fixed 2 years ago.
Well, I bit the bullet and paid for this event out...
Steve · 2015-01-06T14:32:13.076000
Well, I bit the bullet and paid for this event out of my own pocket. I have to get back in touch with the UK Python communities, and this was one experimental way of doing it.I agree venues aren't easy - Church House is in effect a commercial conference center, so its prices are relatively high. Some companies are better than others at lending space. In the UK both Google and Mozilla have been helpful and relatively non-intrusive for open source groups, but this wouldn't extend to commercial training activities.
Anatoly, sometimes when we work as part of a commu...
Steve · 2015-01-15T00:18:32.432000
Anatoly, sometimes when we work as part of a community the decisions don't go the way we think they should. My approach is generally to try and avoid striving for perfection, since this makes it possible to achieve much more progress.Hi Steve! I was trying to find your "Intermed...
Javier Estraviz · 2016-03-22T07:17:44.067000
Hi Steve! I was trying to find your "Intermediate Python" course on O'Reilly but it appears as not for sale... Why is that? Can it be found somewhere else?Thank you in advance!!
-Javier
I am sorry to say O'Reilly withdrew that video...
Steve · 2016-03-22T08:14:24.856000
I am sorry to say O'Reilly withdrew that video course after a year. I believe they now have another intermediate class presented by Jessica McKellar, who presented their introduction to Python? I have a full-time job now, so the only work I have time for besides is the third edition of "Python in a Nushell" with Alex Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft.Thanks for the answer Steve. Sorry to hear that.
Javier Estraviz · 2016-03-22T22:35:44.119000
Thanks for the answer Steve. Sorry to hear that.Page 1 of 1
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