[TCMUG] FW: [PyMNtos] Invitation to "Community Coder Lounge" event & more; July 20-26

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

I originally got the below message through the local Python Users Group list.  There might be some good opportunities to promote TCMUG/TCOSGEO and general open geospatial stuff.  Check it out if you are interested.

If we had some more warning (and organization...) would could potentially have held one of our meetings at this event.

David.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chacha <chachasikes at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM
Subject: [PyMNtos] Invitation to "Community Coder Lounge" event &
more; July 20-26
To: PyMNtos <pymntos at googlegroups.com>


Hi PyMNtos!

Would love to invite those of you who are interested to join a very
fun event that is happening between July 20 and 26. We have a space
for a 'pop-up-storefront' at 2441 Lyndale (near the Wedge in Uptown.)

This is an experimental space in which we are creating fun/interactive/
educational activities for the public that teach about how cool open
source is, and how fun programming is. Also, this will serve as a
place for folks from different open source projects to hang out & hack
together in a 'community coder lounge.'

I got the idea for the coder lounge from attending DrupalCon this
year, in our hotel they had a 'coder lounge' which was open all the
time, and it was a fun place to hang out with people but also work on
code projects. So, every night between July 20 and 23 (7pm-10pm) we
invite you to come to our community coder lounge.

It is not a huge space, feel free to just show up, but sending an
email to chachasikes at gmail.com expressing your interest would also be
awesome.

Specifically, if you have any Python projects that focus on building
open source tools for communities, definitely come! We will have blue
chalkboards, so if you have been itching to have a meeting with other
developers, consider having it in our space. There will be people
around to look at any 'paper prototypes' you might make, and people
who have absolutely no idea what Python is. There will also be people
who are interested in learning about Python & your group.

We will have a paper bulletin board featuring awesome ongoing tech
events/meetings. If someone can send me details about PyMNTos, I would
be happy to add it to our board (along with the upcoming She's Geeky
event, e-democracy.org Neighborhood forums, MinneBar and everything
else cool we can find.)

Here is more information about the event:
http://garden.localbiology.org/internet-variety-store

- Chach
http://garden.localbiology.org
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