Closed kmader closed 6 years ago
kmader
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6 years ago Tuesday works for me too, but the night of the meetup, I'll have to leave early, so if possible I'd do more of the intro stuff, otherwise I am perfectly ok with just helping with the slides
jakeret
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6 years ago @kmader go ahead. It's fine with me if you do the intro
I just finished my few slides on the API
betatim
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6 years ago Two things from my side:
the hosts would prefer if we had an apero break earlier than 2h after starting. So we should design a nice natural break point into the work. ~60minutes in maybe? Maybe do the distributed part in the second half?
I am stuck in London because of bad weather, currently I am on a flight that should get me to Zurich in time for our meeting on Tuesday but they have been cancelling flights all day today, so they might cancel flights tomorrow as well. I'll keep you posted.
betatim
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6 years ago To get a decision back to the hosts as quickly as possible I will tell them that we will schedule a break after 60m unless someone speaks out here against it. I'll send the email this evening (after EOB)
betatim
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6 years ago I will spend some time now working on the slides and material. @kmader added some links and comments to the slides (not sure if all of you get the notifications?). Following up on them I think we should use the time of the tutorial to build up a version of blockchain.py on people's laptops that they can run, fiddle with, join the global blockchain. IMHO Binder and notebooks would be nice because low barrier to entry but harder to use for people because you need some "magic" to start a flask from a notebook and then have the right binder magic to forward the ports etc. So I would go with a low tech approach of text files and python REPL and link notebooks etc as extra material as "extra reading".
betatim
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6 years ago https://github.com/pydatazrh/christmas_special_2017 link to the repo for tonight.
I was about to add a few challenges to each notebook for people to have something to guide them during the "now you do something" parts. However I'm starting to think that it is better if we reach the apero after say 53minutes than if we overrun to 70 or 75minutes. So I'd vote no challenges. I think with the extra kaggle notebooks and links we have we give people enough to look at after the meetup if they want to.
betatim
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6 years ago Thank you everyone for making this happen!
Not sure how clickbait friendly this group is, but I really enjoyed this article and project (https://hackernoon.com/learn-blockchains-by-building-one-117428612f46?gi=22fca9a00cda) and accompanying repository (https://github.com/dvf/blockchain) and I think having a tutorial on it could be interesting / potentially attract quite a few new people. Plus actually writing a bit of code goes a long way to demystifying the endless hype.