PySIG -- "horn tooting"

[Bill Sconce]

A few days ago the fine folks at the Amoskeag Business Incubator (our
ever-generous hosts for our meetings in Manchester) asked me for a
small writeup on what PySIG is about.  I expected to write 4 or 5 lines,
but this was the result...

(BTW, meeting tonight.  "Maple Floater" cookies.  A discussion on
default values in function definitions, if anyone would like to
see some demo code I've hacked together, and a little handout.
"Beginners' session" at 18:30, as always.)


watch_out_for_tornadoes'ly yrs,

Bill

  
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Begin forwarded message:

From: Bill Sconce [mailto:sconce at in-spec-inc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:56 AM
To: [Amoskeag Business Incubator]
Subject: PySIG - draft "horn tooting" - could use more (but then, could be shorter too)

PySIG is a group of technical computer people who use the Python
programming language, people who have heard about Python and want
to learn more about it, and project/management people who are
interested in the productivity gains and cost savings available
from using modern tools such as Python.

Python is used widely and gratefully around the world.  NASA
uses Python; Google's IT structure is built on Python.  Honeywell
uses Python; AstraZeneca, Industrial Light & Magic, Philips,
Rackspace, and many more use Python -- and in many cases, base
their businesses on Python.  Chances are that several of the Web
sites you browsed today run on Python (notably the remarkable
Django Web framework, as well as others).  Universities and
schools use Python to run their IT systems, and increasingly
use Python as the base for their Computer Sciences curricula.

Using Python makes sound business sense.  Not incidentally,
Python is delightful to use -- designed for human beings, and
purposely free of certain kinds of busywork that used to
characterize computer languages.

PySIG's members include software developers, IT managers, CIOs
and CEOs, electrical engineers, Web developers, and pilots;
members from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont attend
our meetings in Manchester, and a friendly mailing list on the
Web answers questions and shares experiences from wherever on
the Earth PySIG members may be.

PySIG meetings are seminar-like, with problem-solving, sharing
of experiences, and formal presentations (primarily during the
academic season).  Each PySIG meeting is open to everyone,
experienced to beginner to merely curious, with a special half
hour beginning at 6:30 PM always devoted to beginners'
questions and introductions.

Python is licensed under terms which confer the freedom to use
it, study it, and modify it to everyone (that is, it's free
software); Python runs on nearly everything, from smartphones
to PCs to supercomputers, and on operating systems from MacOS
to Windows to Linux and beyond.  More information at

  http://python.org

Come join us if you'd like to know more about this exciting
development in getting things done on your computers.

-Bill