February 2020

[romunov]

Schedule the meetup

• [ ] 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.

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

  • [ ] Enter LjPyMeetup <Month> <Year> for Meetup title
  • [ ] Select the booked date and time for the meetup.
  • [ ] Select Poligon for Where.

  • [ ] 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!

  • [ ] 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:

• [ ] 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!

• [ ] 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
• [ ] Tweet with @python_lj account:

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

Narrate the meetup

• [ ] Come to Poligon 20 minutes before the start of the meetup.
• [ ] Open up the Meetup.com event page on the projector so that new people know they are in the right place.
• [ ] Decide on a provisional date for next meetup.
• [ ] 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.
• [ ] Coordinate with speakers who will go first.
• [ ] If the sponsor is attending, ask them to prepare a 3 minute pitch about what they do and (potentially) who they are looking for.
• [ ] The schedule is normally something along these lines. Feel free to improvise:
  • [ ] "Raise hand if you are new to this meetup".
  • [ ] "Raise hand if you are new to Python".
  • [ ] Introduce the sponsor and give them 3 minutes for their pitch.
  • [ ] Cross out when you take a beer!
  • [ ] Introduce speaker 1.
  • [ ] Take a photo during talk 1.
  • [ ] Record number of attendees, number of RSVPs on meetup.com and weather to github issue for respective month (see #25 for example).
  • [ ] Introduce speaker 2.
  • [ ] Take a photo during talk 2.
  • [ ] Thank speakers.
  • [ ] Open http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events, "raise hands who is going".
  • [ ] "We need talks: beginners welcome! web, mobile, desktop, embedded, big data, everything goes!"
  • [ ] "We need sponsors: give back to the community!"
  • [ ] "Provisional date for next meetup, raise hands".
  • [ ] "Raise hands who is looking for work? Stand up who is hiring? Mingle!"

Follow up

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

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

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

[romunov]

Next meetup will be on Wednesday, 2020-02-26. See this meetup.com page for more information. Sponsors and talks welcome!

[vykhand]

in 20 min, I can present, for instance, "A whirlwind tour into Python SDK for Azure Machine Learning". Or, "A quick intro into PySpark on Azure Databricks"

[romunov]

Sold, to the man in the first row! @vykhand

[romunov]

Sponsors for February meeting still wanted.

[vykhand]

Hi! @romunov, so it is up to me to choose the topic, I'll do "A whirlwind tour into Python SDK for Azure Machine Learning" this time. I can do 20 min to leave space if someone else volunteers to present, or more if there will be no other volunteers

[romunov]

@vykhand first come, first served. You can have the 20 minute spot.

[romunov]

@nguruprasanna would eSolve want to have a sponsor spot on this one?

[nguruprasanna]

Hi, This month wouldn't be possible rollout for one client. We could do for next probably. Thanks

[romunov]

@nguruprasanna sure, thanks!

[romunov]

In a lightning talk, I thought I'd show how to "commandlinize" (convert a script into a command line command) using clize package. With --help and all the pizazz.

[dougsillars]

I can do a longer talk (20-25 min): Using AI to Power Your Images Optimizing image raw content for the web is a time consuming step, but when shortcuts are taken, web performance can suffer. Random cropping of images can lead to losing context and features (sometimes as extreme as lopping off the heads of your subjects). In this talk it will be presented how AI can be used to identify the important content in each image, allowing for smart cropping of images. This allows to optimize images further than previously possible, shrinking page size, and speeding up page load times.

[romunov]

My slides of going commando with Clize.