[cap-talk] Capabilities SIG meetings in Silicon Valley?

[Brett Cannon]

On 1/8/07, Mark S. Miller <markm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > Howdy!  I've been lurking the last week or so since I subscribed to
> > this list.  I'm very happy to see some old friends and acquaintances
> > here.
>
> Hi Russell, good to have you join us!
>
>
> > The reason I'm breaking silence right now is to ask if anyone would be
> > interested in having regular, monthly meetings of a "Capabilities SIG"
> > (or some other, better name) hosted at Google's main campus in Mt.
> > View, California... would this be welcomed?
>
> Currently, much of the local capabilities crowd gather every Friday morning
> from 10-12 (and then continuing through lunch) at HP Labs in Palo Alto.[*] In
> order to draw some new people in, I think it would indeed be good to hold one
> of these meetings every month on the Google campus. Other Friday morning-ers:
> does this sound good?
>
> Local cap-talkers: if you'd like to show up at the HP Labs Friday morning
> meetings, we gather in the lobby of 1501 Page Mill Dr starting about 9:50.
>
>
> > I'm thinking something
> > along the lines of the BayPIGgies meetings
> > (http://www.baypiggies.net/) we also host here...
> >
> > ...speaking of which, and only tangentially so: would anyone be
> > interested in discussing Pyth-E (to my so-far-limited understanding, a
> > cap-secure variant of Python) at one of the next BayPIGgies meetings?
>
> The person doing this is Brett Cannon (cc'ed). "Pyth-E" is our suggested name
> for his project. Last I heard, he has yet to pick a name.
>

No name yet.  I am watching every Monty Python episode for
inspiration, though.  =)  It might also not get its own name if it
ends up in Python itself.

> Brett, if you do speak at a BayPIGgies, please let us know. I'd certainly like
> to show up!
>

Definitely.  But as I said in another email (that I hope reached the
list but the archives are not showing it at the moment), I am in
Vancouver and I have no idea when I will be back in the Bay Area so I
wouldn't hold my breath for me doing a BayPIGgies talk.

There is a decent chance that my talk at PyCon will get recorded for
audio or video (if last year was any indication).  If that is the case
I will send a link to it to the list.  Plus Russell is going to be
there so you can also pester him afterwards about how I did.  =)

-Brett