February prPIG Meeting

Puerto Rico Python User Group Celebrates First Anniversary

One year ago the Puerto Rico Python Interest Group (prPIG) was founded on one purpose; to create a sustainable user community based on software development in Puerto Rico. On February 20, 2014 we will celebrate our first anniversary with an open format meeting with lightning talks from the community.

prPIG is looking for volunteers from the community that are willing to give a short introduction to their favorite Python library, some popular modules we'd like to see include: math, decimal, datetime, time, dateutil, re, sqlite, json, urllib2, pyquery, and sh. Suggestions are also welcome.

During their first year, the Puerto Rico Python user group hosted 18 events, and established an active community online. According to founder Kevin Shockey, “prPIG has successfully established an online network that is helping to sustain our software development user group in Puerto Rico. We've gained many new partners and collaborators in our first year. They have really helped us and we look forward to more collaborative opportunities.”

The February meeting of prPIG will be held at 7:00pm in 2nd Floor Conference Room, Puerto Rico Science, Research, & Technology Trust, Rd. 21, Río Piedras.

Note: prPIG is kindly sponsored by the Internet Society, through their Community Grant program. We are deeply grateful for all of the support we have received so far, it has been well beyond our wildest expectations.

January 2014 Meeting CFP

On January 16, 2014 the Puerto Rico Python user group will kick-off the new year with our first

meeting.  We are looking for speakers who can share what they know about Python or related FLOSS topics.

The theme of the meeting will be tools.  We would especially like to see lightning talks that give new users an overview of the typical tools a user needs to get the most out of Python and free software.  

Sample tools include: IDLE, Eclipse, Python Tools for Visual Studio, GIT, IRC, Xen or other virtualization software, the GNU toolchain (GNU Make, GCC, Binutils, or GNU Autotools).

November Meeting

November is around the corner and our monthly meeting will soon be upon us! It'll be held at our usual place, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust (google map: http://bit.ly/science_trust_pr), at 7:00 pm local Puerto Rico time.
Here are the invites for your calendars:

• Google+: http://bit.ly/prpig_nov_meeting
• Facebook: http://bit.ly/prpig_nov_meeting_fb

That being said I want to try something different. I would like to do a "call for papers" for this meeting. These "papers" could be anything, an intro to a library/framework, a "war story", a simple tutorial, live code, questions, etc.
Below is a Google form for your submission of talks. I hope to see you all at our meeting!

Meeting on 3/27: Hacking the Hackathon

The Puerto Rico Python Interest Group (prPIG) will hold their 3rd meeting on March 27th at 6:30 PM.  The meeting will dedicated to hacking away at the prPIG process to host collaborative events, such as a Python Hackathon, in the San Juan, Puerto Rico area.  We will brainstorm how to use what's already known and adapting (translating) it to the types of projects, processes, and activities that will be successful in Puerto Rico.

Our next scheduled regular meeting will be on April 10th, 2013 at 6:30 PM.  The co-founders of Blimp (a local startup based on Python) will give us an inside look at their SD stack.

All of the prPIG meetings at sponsored by the Internet Society, ASOPYMES, and Altamente.  Meetings are held in the ASOPYMES offices in the Teachers Association Building in Hato Rey, Suite 403.  prPIG can be contacted through a variety social networks: Google Communties, Google Groups, our Facebook Page, and here on the prPIG homepage.

prPIG was founded to create a sustainable user community based on software development in Puerto Rico

prPIG Meeting - 2/28/13

I'm organizing the next meeting of the Puerto Rico Python Interest Group.  It will be February 28 at 6:00pm in the facilities of the Teachers Association in Hato Rey. The address is 452 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan, PR 00919.  I'll have the details promptly in Facebook.

The tentative agenda is to introduce the mission of prPIG and begin planning our first joint project.  I hope to see you there!

Coordination for 1st prPIG Meeting

I'm trying to nail down the location, the date, and the time for the first meeting.  One of our partners ASOPYMES has volunteered to host our first meeting.  Their offices are in the Association of Teachers building near the Department of Labor station of the Tren Urbano.

I'm shooting for the last week of February, either the 25th, 26th or 27th.  While I would prefer the meeting during business hours, I'm open to suggestion.  Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

If I don't hear back from the group by 2/18/13, I'll setup the meeting and let you know the where and the when.

Making Bacon

Come all ye Phythonistas!

The feedback from the meetup last night, is that Puerto Rico is ready for a software development community. With pleasure, prPIG is here to serve.

I'd like to announce that we will hold the 1st Puerto Rico Python Interest Group meeting before the end of the month (2/28).

Tentatively, the meetup will be at the UMET Cupey campus, unless someone would like to volunteer a location in the SJ Metro area? With WIFI por favor? :-)

Thanks for the leadership of Axel Rivera!  It was great networking with other Pythonistas!

Don't forget to like the prPIG Facebook Page!

First Puerto Rico Python Interest Group Meeting

Long live Puerto Rico PIG!

2/06/13 @ Ficus Cafe at 8pm

We will conduct our first meeting on February 6th at 8:00 pm at the Ficus Cafe in front of the Puerto Rico Convention Center.  Alex Rivera, founder of Startup After Hours Puerto Rico, has graciously allowed me a few minutes to introduce prPIG to his community during their scheduled meetup.

My objectives are simple. First, in order to prepare for the meeting, I wanted to launch a minimal viable product website and email mailing list, which I completed yesterday.  That's why I reached out to Alex, because...

An second, I wanted to get the word out as quickly as possible. At the event I will share the mission of the prPIG community, invite new members (free), and review the types of activities we have planned.  I hope to see you there!

P.S. I'm in the process of getting us listed on the Python Foundation Local User Group page of official list of Piggies on the Python Foundation Wiki. Soon it will be official, Puerto Rico will have their very own Piggy!(*)

(*) The Python Foundation refers to their local user groups as Python Interest Groups (PIG).