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  • bradallen
    #1

    Python user group in Portland, OR?

    I've been visiting Portland, OR on a multi-week client project, and am
    wondering if there are any local Python or Zope programmers in the
    Portland area.

    I am only going to be here for a couple more weeks, and the client is
    getting nervous about whether there are any Python/Zope programmers in
    the local area, because they are thinking seriously of hiring internal
    staff to manage their app. They have a fairly large web app that uses
    Zope 2/FIVE and a couple of significant wxPython apps, along with a
    Linux server running PostgreSQL as well as a lot of other moving parts
    managed by Python scripts. I have enjoyed working on this project,
    but cannot stay indefinitely.

    I've tried to assure them that Python is widely used, and that they
    should have no difficulty finding local support in a city like
    Portland. Anybody out there? Even if you're not looking for work, I'd
    enjoy meeting local Pythonistas while I'm in Portland, since I am
    missing the Dallas user group meetings I normally attend.

    Thanks!

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    • Matimus
      #2
      Re: Python user group in Portland, OR?

      Python.org lists PORPIG (PORtland Python Intrest Group) but the site
      that it points to no longer seems to represent that. Also, when I
      looked into going to a meeting a while back, the last one listed was
      some time in 2004. I will put this out there though, if someone wants
      to start a PIG back up for Portland I would certainly be interested. I
      am at least one Python developer living in the Portland area. The web
      contains evidence of others as well. In general there is a fairly
      large software development presence in Portland, especially around
      Open Source.

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        • bradallen
          #3
          Re: Python user group in Portland, OR?

          On May 1, 5:09 pm, Matimus <mccre...@gmail .comwrote:
          Python.org lists PORPIG (PORtland Python Intrest Group) but the site
          that it points to no longer seems to represent that. Also, when I
          looked into going to a meeting a while back, the last one listed was
          some time in 2004. I will put this out there though, if someone wants
          to start a PIG back up for Portland I would certainly be interested. I
          am at least one Python developer living in the Portland area. The web
          contains evidence of others as well. In general there is a fairly
          large software development presence in Portland, especially around
          Open Source.
          Thanks for the response. If there is not an active local user group,
          maybe
          it would be a good idea to start one. It can be a lot of fun and
          professionally
          rewarding, and a city like Portland is a great environment due to
          all the free public spaces for congregating.

          I would be happy to meet with you and any other Portland Python
          programmers to talk about ideas for organizing a user group.
          There is also some good discussion about it on the Python Advocacy
          the mailing list, because PSF has begun an effort to foster and
          promote
          user groups.

          Sometime next week might be a good time for a meeting during
          a weekday evening at a dinner place in the main city center area
          of Portland. Maybe by then there would be enough time to find others
          and invite them to join us.

          I can be contacted via e-mail using "brad" + ampersand + "allendev."
          + "com"


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            • bradallen
              #4
              Re: Python user group in Portland, OR?

              It looks like there are a lot of folks in the Portland area at
              meetup.com who have expressed an interest in a meetup group. In hopes
              of attracting those, I went ahead and shelled out the bucks to start a
              meetup site for a Portland Python user group:

              404 Not Found
              http://python.meetup.com/183/





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                • Ben Collver
                  #5
                  Re: Python user group in Portland, OR?

                  bradallen wrote:
                  I would be happy to meet with you and any other Portland Python
                  programmers to talk about ideas for organizing a user group.
                  There is also some good discussion about it on the Python Advocacy
                  the mailing list, because PSF has begun an effort to foster and
                  promote
                  user groups.
                  I don't use Ruby, but I read the blog of a dude in Portland who went to
                  the Ruby user group. He said that the programmers there spent as much
                  time talking about Python and Perl as they did about Ruby, so you might
                  be interested in that.

                  Ben

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