Yeah, this was my next question: Where are places that have whiteboards? SPL (various locations) has meeting rooms, but all branches close at 8PM at the latest I believe. Does anybody know of others?
-- Nate On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Maria McKinley <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm totally down with getting together and doing some interview style > problems. I'm also flexible on time/place. Often library meeting rooms have > whiteboards, and I think you just have to sign up for them. > > ~maria > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Skone, Matt (LNG-SEA) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm new to this list, but what has been the group's experience with >> Meetup.com as a means of bringing current and would-be Pythonistas >> together? Too much overhead? Too much dilution? Haven't tried it yet? >> >> The Seattle Py group has hundreds of registered members, but no activity >> in 12 months. The Seattle PyLadies group is smaller, but evidently much >> more active. End of list. >> >> Regards, >> Matt >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Frank >> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [SEAPY] impromptu meetings >> >> nate, do you envision this being python-specific, or more general? i >> *love* the idea of meeting to discuss and work through concrete problems, >> but i'm knee-deep in scala nowadays. that said, functional programming >> concepts are useful for pythonistas as well... >> >> -Michael >> >> On 9/24/13 2:47 PM, Adam Garcia wrote: >> > Great idea! I'd love to get in on this, but not tonight. >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Nate Sanders <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > There was some mention of people getting together and working on >> > code, whiteboarding interview problems (could be code-related or >> > data structures/algorithms or system design), etc at the last >> meeting. >> > >> > I'm taking some time off from working for a bit (not sure how long) >> > and would be interested in getting together in smaller, more focused >> > groups if anybody is interested in that. Could be for working on a >> > small implementation of something or talking about problem solving, >> > etc. I'm not sure of a place where we could get a whiteboard, but >> > if the group is small enough, pen and paper could work, too. >> > >> > One requirement for me, for these particular things, though, is that >> > we have some sort of agenda -- again, I don't care if it's problems >> > or coding, but I think it should be more focused than our last >> > meeting was (this is not a general statement about our previous >> > meeting -- no connotation), by comparison. If people want to >> > chit-chat afterwards (whenever "afterwards" is) or go get drinks or >> > whatever, I think that would be great. >> > >> > I'm available most of the time these days. I could even do >> > today/tonight. >> > >> > -- Nate >> > >> > >> >> > > > -- > Maria Mckinley > Software Developer with Bonus SysAdmin Experience > www.mariakathryn.net > www.linkedin.com/in/mariamckinley >
