Content Idea: Learn Something in 5 Minutes

[dianaclarke]

Focus on exactly one python concept (like virtualenvs). Encourage the community at large to contribute the content, edit it, and publish one article every Sunday (to start).

Also, come up with a better name for this recurring content.

[wolever]

Can you think of any prior art in this area? One that comes to mind is PyMOTW.

[dianaclarke]

I wouldn't worry too much about prior art, but maybe that's just me being naive.

I think the spirit of encouraging people to put themselves out there, writing technical, peer-reviewed, bite-sized content will be viewed in the light of mentoring and growth rather than competition.

Hellmann was one of the first people to encourage us to run with the idea of pycon canada. He also actively encourages people to add their blogs to python planet, etc.

[nyap]

"bite sized content" --> We could call it "Python Bites". I was going to suggest pybites, until I discovered that's then name of a Python Bitorrent library and "Python Bytes" is a blog by a Canadian who went to PyCon 2012... http://pybites.blogspot.ca/

A name like that also makes it less formalized than PyMOTW.

[wolever]

@dianaclarke: I'd want to look at prior art to see what works well, what topics are most interesting, etc. But that's my more conservative bias :)

Also possibly related: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html

My +0 would be to find something without "byte"/"bite" as the two can be confused… Possibly "5 Minutes of Python"? "Practical Python"? Something to do with "300 seconds" and a 300 movie reference?

Anyway, I'll volunteer to write some of these. Some topics which I think would be interesting and useful:

• PDB (c, n, r, up, down, import pdb; pdb.set_trace())
• iPython (%timeit, notebook, ? and ??, embedded shell)

Do you have anything else in mind?

[ysim]

"Sunday Py Club". ;-)

[codersquid]

can we have a version of this but instead of a blog have it be an open space filled with 5 minute teach-me's? and at my hackerspace, after some of the general meetings, we have "300 seconds of fame".