After a long couple months, it's been great to recharge the batteries a bit. We are currently under lease negotiations for our new space in Chicago and very much looking forward to the expansion...it's time to spread our wings a bit.
Not a hell of a lot more to say other than hope everyone enjoyed their fourth.
Saturday, Kansas City Python coders finally came out of their basements to meet and discuss the first ever broad-scale Python user group in Kansas City.
After months of brewing interest in a Python meetup, curiosity about the existence and occupation of local Python developers, and discussions with the Python Software Foundation about hosting a future PyCon in Kansas City, the Python KC user group was born.
The meeting was well-attended, and we were honored and humbled to be able to host the first discussion at Liquid 9. In attendance were some brilliant minds, from the founder of the zero-knowledge data encryption, backup, sync, and storage service SpiderOak, to a developer of the mobile media platform MobiTV, which serves up hundreds of shows for television giants NBC, Fox News, ESPN, The Disney Channel, and Comedy Central.
The diversity of ways developers are using Python in Kansas City really gave credence to the power and flexibility of the language, and made it clear that a user group such as this would be beneficial to us all, and to the Kansas City programming community at large. It was great also to see a handful of attendees who had never touched Python code at all, but just had curiosity about the merits of the language and wanted to learn a bit more.
Some of the key goals discussed in the meeting:
It will be a fun road to see how this group evolves over time.
def init_user_group():
meet_and_discuss()
for today in forever:
users = [user.name for user in local_developers if 'Python' in
user.interests]
group = Group(members=','.join(users), activities=lambda day: [
user.brings_to_the_table(day) for user in users])
group.perform_activities(today)
Yesterday was a good day. Mental Giant made it to NYC for MTV delivery with four minutes to spare...a month of no sleep, 150k+ in soft costs plus a shoot budget that would make a lot of folks throw up seems to no longer matter when you see the final product. It was the hardest shoot/post/project we've ever done, but seeing the final through new eyes was exciting. It really is cool.
While the file was uploading I was lucky enough to shoot the game opener for our friends at Sporting KC. Such an amazing group--not sure there's another batch of world class athletes the that are both that humble and that fun. Can't wait to see it on the 80 ft. screen at Livestrong Stadium this summer.
Oh yeah. I guess I moved. My poor wife moved our entire house (with the help of movers, obviously) yesterday...I had been in LA for the previous two weeks shooting Jay Rock and came back to three 16 hours days. If you see her give her a hug...that must have sucked.