October 2019

[romunov]

Schedule the meetup

• [x] Talk with Poligon and choose a date/time when their venue is available. Standard time is Thursday at 7pm to 9pm, 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 LjPyMeetup <Month> <Year> for Meetup title
  • [x] Select the booked date and time for the meetup.
  • [x] Select Poligon for Where.

  • [x] Enter Description. Template:

    Hello, fellow Pythonistas!
    
    The next Python Meetup will take place on Thursday 15th November, at 7 pm in Poligon.
    
    Speakers: post a comment to https://github.com/ljpy/meetups/issues/19 or send an email to ljpy-organizers@googlegroups.com. The 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/19 or send an email to ljpy-organizers@googlegroups.com. The first one to do so gets to be the sponsor!
    
    See you soon!

  • [x] When done click Publish and then Announce it now 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 <DAY> <DATE HERE>, at <TIME HERE> in Poligon!
  
  Talks:
  
  <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.
• [ ] Submit the event to https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_event
• [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] "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] Cross out when you take a beer!
  • [x] Introduce speaker 1.
  • [x] Take a photo during talk 1.
  • [x] Record number of attendees, number of RSVPs on meetup.com and weather to github issue for respective month (see #25 for example).
  • [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.

[romunov]

Provisional date for the meetup is 2019-10-15. If you feel like you could contribute a regular or lightning talk, drop us a line below.

[itsadrake]

Regular talk: Haskell for Python programmers

[zupo]

Just got confirmation for the second talk: @ra1u will share some tips about testing (language agnostic).

[JanLikar]

Hey guys, could we get a spot at the meetup in October for @johnbaldwin? He's a good public speaker from Boston and an all-round great guy whom I met at the PyCon Balkan conference and is kind enough to offer to come to Slovenia in October to give a talk. @zupo @romunov

[JanLikar]

Also, I'd like to give a lightning talk, if possible.

[zupo]

I'm +1. We can have a longer event again, no problem. :) 6PM to 9PM should be enough for 3x 20 minute talks (+questions) and a few lightnings.

[JozeHladnik]

As already sheared with Nejc, I would present my challenges with machine vision in Smart farming. 20 min talk. Accepted?

[johnbaldwin]

I can give a talk as short or as long as you want/will fit. For topic ideas:

1. Simplify your API with Django REST Framework viewsets
2. Testing strategies with a focus on Django
3. Django Ask Me Anything, "Stump the new guy" ;)
4. Multi-tenancy with Django
5. Preparing for and giving talks (public speaking strategies to make your audience happy)
6. Other ideas?

[zupo]

We can probably squeeze 4 talks in, but 3 is going to be more comfortable. Does anyone wish to rather do it in November? Again, perfectly doable to do 4, asking purely for the slight chance of someone preferring a later date.

@johnbaldwin, @JozeHladnik, @AlexeiDrake, @ra1u ^^

[zupo]

@ra1u volunteered to skip this meetup and do his talk at the next. So we have three talks and room for a couple of lightnings!

[zupo]

@johnbaldwin: I asked in our Slack group and there is slight preference towards Simplify your API with Django REST Framework viewsets, but the sample set if quite tiny so take that with a grain of salt.

UPDATE: more people chipped in now, the API title is definitely getting the most votes

[romunov]

@JanLikar what will your lightning talk be about?

[johnbaldwin]

@zupo Thanks! I will plan to talk about API development if that stays the most popular topic.

There is another topic I forgot about when I put together the list above.

Analyzing the viability (health) of open source projects

One of my friends created this project: https://github.com/okrahealth/okra/blob/master/README.md

• It came out of his Masters in Data Science work at Northeaster University in Boston.
• We worked on the project at PyCon US 2019 in Cleveland, but haven't made much progress since (note the irony)
• I want to talk briefly about open source project viability and risks
• I think this topic impacts everyone

Curious what you think @zupo

cc @JanLikar

[zupo]

Personally, I'd love to learn more about okra, I battle with such questions a lot. That said, the majority of people will probably relate more to Django + APIs.

[romunov]

@johnbaldwin You can give this talk over some beers and sticky fingers. :)

[johnbaldwin]

Will do! APIs for the event. Open source health for beers!

[JanLikar]

@romunov, sorry for a late reply, I didn't get the notification.

My talk is going to be about DB transactions and a specific anti-pattern that can hinder DB performance.

The title I used at PyCon Balkan was "Transactions considered harmful".

[JanLikar]

@romunov, sorry, I'll have to cancel my lightning talk. I have a majestic headache and am unable to do it.

[JozeHladnik]

Hi there, this is my presentation shorturl.at/OU378 Any question or comment welcome at joze.hladnik@kis.si. Happy growing! Jože

[itsadrake]

Here are my Haskell slides as well. Thanks for attending! http://bit.ly/HaskellPy

[johnbaldwin]

Here is the link to my slides: http://bit.ly/ljubljana-drf-viewsets

Here is a direct link to my demo project: https://github.com/DjangoBoston/mulsite-demo

Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I hope it was helpful. If you have questions or follow up comments, please feel free to email me at jlbaldwin@gmail.com and include "Ljubljana Python" in the subject.

Lep pozdrav, -John