June 2017

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Schedule the meetup

• [x] Talk with Marko from Poligon and choose a date/time when their venue is available. Standard time is Thursday at 7pm, but we don't mind some variation. Book it.

• [x] Go to https://www.meetup.com/Ljubljana-Python-Group/ and use the Schedule a new Meetup link to schedule a new meetup.

  • [x] Enter <Month> <Year> as What should we do?
  • [x] Enter More details:. Template:

    
    Hi fellow Pythonistas!

  The next Python Meetup will take place on , at in Poligon.

  Speakers: post a comment to https://github.com/ljpy/meetups/issues/1 or send an email to ljpy-organizers@googlegroups.com. First two people to do so get to share their ideas/tips/hacks/rants!

  Sponsors: post a comment to https://github.com/ljpy/meetups/issues/2 or send an email to ljpy-organizers@googlegroups.com. First one to do so gets to be the sponsor!

  See you soon!

  
  * [x] Select the booked date and time for the meetup.
  * [x] Select `Poligon` as location.
  * [x] When done click `Announce` so members of the user group are notified by email about the upcoming meetup.

Announce the meetup

Wait a few days. If there are no sponsors and/or speakers that have stepped up, you will have to manually poke them to do so. Go through the list of potential talks and sponsors. For speakers and sponsors, the rule is First-Come-First-Served: whoever comments on #1 or #2 first, gets to be the speaker/sponsor. Once you have a sponsor and two talks, continue with:

• [x] Go to https://www.meetup.com/Ljubljana-Python-Group/, click on the upcoming meetup and post the following:

  Dear Python people of Ljubljana and beyond!
  
  We are glad to announce the speakers and sponsors for the upcoming Python meetup that will happen on <DATE HERE>, at <TIME HERE> in Poligon!
  
  <SPEAKER NAME AND TALK 1 TITLE HERE>
  
  <SPEAKER NAME AND TALK 2 TITLE HERE>
  
  After the talks you are welcome to stay around and participate in random discussions with fellow attendees. Free beer will be provided by <SPONSOR NAME HERE>!
  
  More info and RSVP on <LINK TO MEETUP.COM EVENT HERE>.
  
  See you there!

• [x] Post announcement to https://www.facebook.com/groups/242976319229784/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/522926241218467/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/slotechstud/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/158003467603274/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/6884481293/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/353060628229741, https://www.facebook.com/groups/165720846803088.
• [x] Submit the event to https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_event
• [x] Post a news item on slo-tech.com. (login, click pošlji novico)
• [x] Post an announcement to http://www.internetmojster.com/novice/.
• [x] Tweet with @python_lj account:

  Next #python #meetup in #ljubljana coming soon! <LINK TO MEETUP.COM EVENT HERE>

Narrate the meetup

• [x] Come to Poligon 20 minutes before the start of the meetup.
• [x] Open up the Meetup.com event page on the projector so that new people know they are in the right place.
• [x] Decide on a provisional date for next meetup.
• [x] Ask each speaker for a sentence or two about who they are and what they do. Tell them you need this so you can introduce them.
• [x] Coordinate with speakers who will go first.
• [x] If the sponsor is attending, ask them to prepare a 3 minute pitch about what they do and (potentially) who they are looking for.
• [x] The schedule is normally something along these lines. Feel free to improvise:
  • [x] "Any international guests"? If yes, ask speakers to present in English if possible.
  • [x] "Please use #ljpy hashtag on social networks for shoutouts, comments, photos, etc.".
  • [x] "Raise hand if you are new to this meetup".
  • [x] "Raise hand if you are new to Python".
  • [x] Introduce the sponsor and give them 3 minutes for their pitch.
  • [x] Introduce speaker 1.
  • [x] Take a photo during talk 1.
  • [x] Introduce speaker 2.
  • [x] Take a photo during talk 2.
  • [x] Thank speakers.
  • [x] Open http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events, "raise hands who is going".
  • [x] "We need talks: beginners welcome! web, mobile, desktop, embedded, big data, everything goes!"
  • [x] "We need sponsors: give back to the community!"
  • [x] "Provisional date for next meetup, raise hands".
  • [x] "Raise hands who is looking for work? Stand up who is hiring? Mingle!"

Follow up

• [x] Post photos to https://www.meetup.com/Ljubljana-Python-Group/
• [x] Tweet best photo with @python_lj account, something like:

  Good times yesterday at #ljubljana #python #meetup! <LINK TO MEETUP.COM EVENT HERE>

• [x] Verify that the sponsor received invoice from Poligon.

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@jmakov stepped up to do a "Technical debt - how to measure it and best practices" talk and arrange sponsorship from Bitstamp.

We need one more talk!

[jmakov]

Just for plan B I offer 2 or 3 more talks:

• Selenium acrobatics and Selenium components
• Writing trading bots for fun and profit
• Getting rich writing your ad clicking bot
• Bot detection systems and strategies to get around them
• SQLAlchemy acrobatics in a distributed system, XA transactions and concurrency issues
• Modern distributed architectures for real time processing/web
• Python logging - best practices
• Scaling horizontally and vertically with Python
• Real time ETL in Python
• Statistical analysis of time series for fun and profit
• Scraping Facebook (since not all data is exposed through public API)
• Using Selenium to win games, organized by your radio station
• PyCharm (or IntelliJ Ultimate) and why you should use it too
• Setting up continuous testing in your project and how it can benefit your team
• Advanced py.test - fixture and test parametrization, test parallelization and checking test isolation
• Demystifying mixins and MRO
• Metaclasses in daily life
• Processes and habits that will enable your team to deliver and grow professionally while dealing with daily fire(s)
• Building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins Blue Ocean and Jenkinsfiles
• Preventing security regressions with unit testing

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Marko Limbek stepped up to be the speaker!

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Marko said he cannot come, so his talk is being replaced by "Merging structured data with jsonmerge" by @avian2.

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Sorry, but there was a misunderstanding. The replacement talk will be by @andrejburja, about measuring vibrations.

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Photos: https://www.meetup.com/Ljubljana-Python-Group/photos/27952283/

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https://twitter.com/python_lj/status/877990559436070912

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All done, see you on the next meetup!