Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I haven't attended a Seattle Python meeting in ages. Where and when are the meetings? Does the group have a home page? Is there a calendar of meetings? Thanks. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: We've got a lot of topics for the May meeting, so let's get

Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Orr
We've standardized on Office Nomads, which has a new meeting area that's better than the ones we were previously using there. It's normally the second Thursday at 7pm, but May's is rescheduled due to the host's absence. It may be the third Thursday but we're waiting for confirmation. The

Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-02 Thread James Thiele
I am not aware of a unit of electricity called latte. Could you provide more info? On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Jim Gray gr...@outlook.com wrote: Does anyone have specific questions about the RPi that we could address? It's effectively a low-power Debian box with easy GPIO access. (Low

Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-02 Thread Jim Gray
1 Latte = three to five bucks worth. The nominal power for the version with an ethernet port is 3.5W. Seattle City Light charges $0.11/kWH after a discounted block. There are 8766 hours in a year, so we can expect to use 30.681kW per year. This results in an annual cost of operation around $3.37

Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-02 Thread Jonathan Mark
On 05/01/2013 09:45 PM, Mike Orr wrote: We've got a lot of topics for the May meeting, so let's get it scheduled. Jon, confirm venue? hi... I am out of town for the 2nd Thursday 5/9. Maybe the 3rd Thursday 5/16? I will see if I can confirm the availability of Office Nomads on that date, and

Re: [SEAPY] May meeting

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Gray
Does anyone have specific questions about the RPi that we could address? It's effectively a low-power Debian box with easy GPIO access. (Low power, both in the sense that it's not the most powerful computer, and that its annual electricity usage is somewhere around 1-2 lattes.) Jim On Wed,