MEMpy

May 20, 2013

Brad Montgomery — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, May 20th, 2013

Location

Emerge Memphis, Tennessee Room (1st floor)

516 Tennessee St., Memphis, TN 38103

You'll need the following code to get in the building. This code is only good for today.

Door Code: 30108#

RSVP

Food and Drinks will be provided, so please let us know if you plan to attend.

Presentations

Well we (and by "we", I mean "Brad"), didn't spend much time planning this month, so we'll have a Project Night. Bring a laptop and whatever you're working on (or ideas about things you haven't yet started), and we'll just see what happens.

April 15, 2013

Brad Montgomery — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, April 15th, 2013

Location

Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove, Memphis TN  38134
MAB - 149

Here's a Google Map depicting the building and parking locations.

RSVP

Pizza and Drinks will be provided, so please let us know if you plan to attend.

Presentations

This month's meeting will consist of a round of short talks on various topics, potentially including (but not limited to):

PiCloud
backbone.js
Font Awesome
Things that power genenetwork.org
Mock

Feel free to show up with a presentation ready to go, and we'll add yours to the list! :-)

Hack Nashville

Brad Montgomery — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:40:00 -0000

How about a 48-hour hackathon? With a prize! It's happening in Nashville during the (annual?) Hack Nashville event May 3 - 5.

You can get free tickets here: http://hacknashville.eventbrite.com/

Nashville Code Cooperative Talk Day

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:45:00 -0000

Just in case you haven't heard, our friends at the Nashville Code Cooperative are having a Talk Day on March 30. The day includes:

Short tech talks from 9 to 2-ish
Lunch catered in
Conversation, hacking, and fun

It looks like they're full, but you can still get on th waiting list. This event will definitely be worth your time, so look for it to happen again in the future.

March 25, 2013

Brad Montgomery — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, March 25th, 2013

Location

Room 405
FedEx Institute of Technology
365 Innovation Drive
Memphis, TN 38152

Parking

Park in the Garage right across the street from the FedEx Institute on Innovation Drive. Parking will be free for attendees of this event.

RSVP

I'm happy to announce that this month's meeting is sponsored by the Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) and FedEx Institute of Technology. They're providing both the venue and the food for this month's meeting, so please RSVP if you plan to attend:

Details

I'm happy to announce our guest speaker, Matt Makai. Join us as he talks about Development Workflows with Github.

Github Development Team Workflows: What are the strengths and weaknesses of using Github for varying development team configurations? This talk will cover topics such as creating a canonical repository to have development team members fork from, handling code reviews through pull requests, and creating separate branches for testing and production deployments. This programming language-agnostic talk draws upon work with both co-located and geographically dispersed teams at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the George Washington University, and Motley Fool, some of which was recently covered in an article by Wired (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/hack-the-government/)

About the Speaker: Matt Makai is a traveling software developer visiting thirty cities in five months from March through August 2013. He remotely develops software with Python for two clients: the Motley Fool and George Washington University. He has previously developed software for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Marriott International, the FBI, Department of Defense, and Freddie Mac. In addition to his undergrad Computer Science B.S. from James Madison University, Matt has an M.S. in Computer Science and Applications from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia. Matt writes two blogs, one on software development and entrepreneurship at http://www.mattmakai.com/ and another on his current Coding Across America trip around the United States to visit with technology companies at http://www.codingacrossamerica.com/.

Presentation

Github Workflows by Matt Makai

February 18, 2013

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, February 18th, 2013

Location

This month's meeting is graciously hosted by Mosaik Solutions. (Google Map.)

Mosaik Solutions
6423 Shelby View Drive, Suite 101
Memphis, Tennessee, 38134

RSVP

We'll provide food and drinks, so please let us know if you plan to attend. RSVP at one of the following, or just say, "I'll be there" on twitter or over email.

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Food!
7:00 - 7:30: Learn to Count with Brad Montgomery
7:30 - 8:30: Douglas Starnes

January 21, 2013

Brad Montgomery — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, January 21st, 2013

Location

Emerge Memphis, The Memphis Room  (1st floor, East side of the building)
516 Tennessee St.
Memphis, TN  38103

Here's a Google Map to Emerge. Street-side parking is available along Tennessee Street.

RSVP

We'll provide food and drinks! Let us know if you plan to attend:

Agenda

Join us for our first meeting of the New Year! We'll kick things off this year with a special guest: Jason A Myers.

6:30 - 7:00: Food!
7:00 - 8:30: Jason Myers presents Testing with Selenium.

December 17, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, December 17th, 2012

Location

Southwest Tennessee Community College
Room MAC-271 (Macon Academic Building C, room 271)
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN  38103

Here's a Campus Map.

RSVP

We'll provide food and drinks! Let us know if you plan to attend:

Agenda

Join us for a session of Is this code too Clever?

Bring examples of code (preferably python, but anything's ok) you've seen (or written) that made you scratch your head and wonder what's going on. We'll pick it apart, and see if we can make sense of it!

November 5, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:20:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, November 5th, 2012

Location

Southwest Tennessee Community College
Room MAC-171 (Macon Academic Building C, room 171)
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN  38103

Here's a Campus Map.

RSVP

We'll provide food and drinks! Let us know if you plan to attend:

Agenda

Join us for the Special GEEK-week edition of MEMpy!

We'll be treated to a Coding Dojo run by Thomas Langston (who also happens to lead up the Memphis/Mid-South JUG.

Thanks Thomas!

October 15, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:55:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, October 15th, 2012

Location

The Launchpad, Emerge Memphis
516 Tennessee St. Suite 127
Memphis, TN  38103

Here's a Google Map.

RSVP

We'll provide pizza and drinks! Let us know if you plan to attend:

Agenda

Bring a laptop & work on a project. Have a lightening talk? Bring it. Have any other kind of talk or presentation? Bring it!

September 17, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, September 17th, 2012

Location

Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove
Room MAB-263
Memphis, TN  38103

Of the three newer buildings close to I-40, MAB is the one in the middle. Here's a Google Map.

RSVP

We'll provide pizza and drinks!

Agenda

TBD

August 20, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, August 20th, 2012

Location

The Launchpad, Emerge Memphis
516 Tennessee St. Suite 127
Memphis, TN  38103

Here's a Google Map.

RSVP

We'll provide pizza and drinks!

Agenda

Bring your laptop and any projects on which you're working! We'll do a short web-dev workshop followed with some "open hack" time.

July 16, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:30:00 -0000

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date: Monday, July 16th, 2012

Location

Welcome to our first Downtown Meeting! We'll be in the Launchpad inside EmergeMemphis. There is free on-street parking along Tennessee Street, both North and South of the EmergeMemphis building.

The Launchpad, Emerge Memphis
516 Tennessee St. Suite 127
Memphis, Tennessee, 38103

Here's a Google Map.

NOTE: If the outside doors are locked when you get here, tweet us at MemphisPython or call 901-730-6835.

RSVP

We'll provide pizza and drinks, so please RSVP at one of these:

Agenda

June 18, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:30:00 -0000

Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com.

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Date: Monday, June 18th, 2012

Location

Mosaik Solutions
6423 Shelby View Drive, Suite 101
Memphis, Tennessee, 38134

Here's a Google Map.

NOTE: The doors lock after hours, so if you show up, and there's nobody to let you in, either tweet to @MemphisPython or give call 901-730-6835.

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:00: Logging, with email notifications (and other goodness)
8:00 - 8:30: Collaborating with Git

May 28, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:12:00 -0000

Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com.

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Date: Monday, May 28th, 2012

Location

Greater Memphis Chess Center
5796 Shelby Oaks Drive Suite 11
Memphis, TN 38134

Here's a Google Map.

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:00: MongoDB and PyMongo by Douglas Starnes; Video on YouTube
8:00 - 8:30: Super-simple guided Flask tutorial with Video, part 1 and Video, part 2.

April 16, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:25:00 -0000

Bring a laptop and your curiosity. We'll be exploring the python programming language in a fun and relaxed setting. This meeting will be perfect for those that are just getting started!

Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com. That way we know how much food to bring!

Time & Date

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Date: Monday, April 16th, 2012

Location

We'll be in the main conference room on the 2nd floor; Go up the stairs and keep walking toward the back of the building.

Bert Bornblum Library
Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134
http://www.southwest.tn.edu/macon/

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:00: Python: and introductory walk-through
8:00 - 8:30: Fun with tabular data!

March 19, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0000

We're mixing things up a bit for the next meeting! Join us at the Simple Focus HQ for a round of Lightening Talks. Have you got something you can share for 10-15 minutes? Bring your laptop and show us what you've been working on!

Time & Date

Join us at 6:30pm on March 19th! Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com. That way we know how much Pizza to bring!

Location

Simple Focus
2130 West Street
Germantown, TN 38138

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:30: Lightening Talks
- GUI Apps with wxPython by Douglas Starnes
- Deploying to Heroku by Daniel Pritchett
- Working with logstash by Kevin Nuckolls
- Fun with Tabular Data (csv and tablib) by Brad Montgomery
- Your talk here!

February 20, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Join us at 6:30pm on February 20th! Please RSVP on Facebook or Meetup.com. That way we know how much Pizza to bring!

Location

MAC 186
Southwest Tennessee Community College:
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:30: Web Scraping Workshop! Bring a laptop and practice turning the web into Data with Requests and Beautiful Soup! Here's how to get started: https://gist.github.com/1872970.

January 16, 2012

Brad Montgomery — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Join us at 6:30pm on January 16th!

Location

Fulton Auditorium
Southwest Tennessee Community College:
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134

Google Map

The auditorium is at the West end of the building (just to the left after walking in the front door).

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 7:30: pip and virtualenv (with a tornado demo), by Douglas Starnes.
7:30 - 8:30: A Django Walkthrough (pdf), by Brad Montgomery with sample code.

December 19, 2011

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0000

Time & Date

Join us at 6:30pm on December 19th for the next meeting of the The Memphis, TN Python User Group!

Location

Fulton Auditorium
Southwest Tennessee Community College:
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134

Google Map

The auditorium is at the West end of the building (just to the left after walking in the front door).

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 8:30: Python in the cloud & Google App Engine by Douglas Starnes: Code and Slides

November 21, 2011

Brad Montgomery — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0000

Join us at 6:30pm on November 21st for the first meeting of the The Memphis, TN Python User Group!

Location

Hospitality Room (Farris 1106)
Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove,
Memphis, TN 38134.

Google Map

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00: Meet & Greet & Food
7:00 - 7:20: Whirlwind introduction to Python by Brad Montgomery.
7:20 - 8:30: Cassandra and pycassa by Rick Branson.