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Ian is a London-based independent Chief Data Scientist who coaches teams, teaches and creates data products. More about Ian here.
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ShowMeDo – new videos, ffmpeg, Google Group
I made two posts a little while back on the ShowMeDo blog about compiling ffmpeg on RedHat and compiling LAME on RedHat.
We use these to auto-process new ShowMeDo videos, another step in taking Kyran and myself out of the loop. It is always nice to realise that a bottleneck is ‘you’ and ‘you’ can be removed from the loop. Obviously we still check each video before publishing – it is so much nicer now that the manual processing occurs in the background.
Recently we had some interesting videos – there’s a Django wiki tutorial by Siddhi, videos on learning the IPython shell and GUI building with PythonCard.
We have also deprecated our forum and replaced it with the Google ShowMeDo Group which is now host to several very useful conversations. Our main authors hang-out here, do drop by if you have questions.
Finally – I’m working with Jeff Rush of the PSF to add ShowMeDo videos to the Python.org website in a new ‘5 minutes with Python‘ [python.org] series. We have 4 videos so far, you can see 3 at python.org and all 4 on our 5 Minutes with Python page [ShowMeDo.com].
5 Pound App Write-up, Tom Hume’s Future Platforms
[Edit – Jane has posted pictures – thank you!]
We had our 5th Five Pound App meeting last night and Tom Hume spoke about the formation and growth of Future Platforms over the last 7 years.
Tom is a great speaker and he gave a nice and light-hearted look at some of their past apps including the quasi-scientific Ghost Detector mobile app. Tom also mentioned that he’s recruiting mobile developers. Thanks also to Andy Budd for saving the day with his Mac, Tom’s developed a rather odd blue-pigment-only screen weirdy.
Tom has a brief write-up and here’s a link to his slides.
I’m very pleased to say that we have a new sponsor – Alan Newman of Sensible Development (who spoke here before on effeffelle) sponsored our drinks for the night. Alan is also hiring Java Developers.
After the talk we had some announces and a Pitch. Stuart Conway wants a mash-up of Google Maps and elevation information so you can see some gradient info on routes.
For the announces I suggested that later in the year, around the time of the Digital Festival, we could have a larger £5 App-like hack/start-up day. Most of our 30ish crowd like the idea which is a great start.
Danny plans to run a week-long set of SkillSwap evenings and Raj talked about a widget creation day for the Brighton and Hove web awards (last year’s site).
Jobs – as mentioned already Alan is hiring Java developers for Sensible Development, Jane says that Madgex is recruiting and Tom Hume is after a Technical Project Mgr, Senior Designer and Software Developers.
Next event? Tuesday 11th September will be the date for our 6th Five Pound App meet, fingers-crossed we’ll have a talk from Martin on his successful ShareWare projects for Macs.
Django-powered £5 App site
Our five pound app site is now Djangoified via some uber-John-coding.
The next speaker is Tom Hume of Future Platforms, talking about:
“The Gritty Realities of running a software company: a reasonably warts-and-all discussion of the last 7 years of FP, rounded off with a showcase of some of the more ludicrous stuff we’ve managed to persuade people to pay us for.”
Sign-up so I know how much beer to buy (and I promise we won’t run-out like last time!). I see 30 attendees so far, that may mark this as the most popular £5 App event so far.
Ian.
Printable Events-Summary List?
I mention the events that I attend (£5 App, OpenCoffee Sussex, Girl Geek Dinner, Geek Dinner, Geek Wine Thing) to friends and colleagues and often I’m met with a blank stare. It seems that most people I know just don’t realise that there are events like these in town.
I’m wondering if a printable list of the established events might be useful – they’d be like flyers to hand around or post on Notice Boards. This would be especially useful for the upcoming OpenCoffees as many of the companies who attend have no idea that there are related events in town.
Would anyone be up for drafting a nicely-presented list of the established events? Perhaps a simple alphabetic listing, 1 line summary, website, date? Inspiration for listings here at Sussex Digital.
If someone did a nice listing and it had your company logo on the bottom, it strikes me that it would be a fair exchange of your design-time for some helpful exposure, whilst helping the events community.
OpenCoffee Sussex – first meeting
Today Jon (Inuda) and I ran our first OpenCoffee Sussex at the Sussex Innovation Centre.
The aim of our OpenCoffee is to get the start-ups in the Innovation Centre talking to people in Brighton and vice versa. Matt Weston runs the excellent Business Bricks (Upcoming listings) every Friday in town (at the RedRoaster or Mad Hatter) so we knew that the idea works – and our first event was a grand success and will be repeated next Thursday.
I remember 13 people – 5 were SInC companies, 5 were Brighton companies who knew little about SInC, 3 were academics from the University. Some of the companies:
- ShowMeDo (me)
- Inuda (Jon and Anna)
- Sensible Development (Alan)
- PANalytical (Trisha)
- Hobo Internet (Danny)
- LaunchPad (Paul)
- ioLab (Linc)
along with Ribot, Jerome, Peter, Joh, Matt.
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