Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'talks': 0.03; 'subject:: [': 0.04; '-people': 0.09; 'django,': 0.09; 'large-scale': 0.09; 'meetup': 0.09; 'url:github': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; 'django': 0.11; '>>': 0.16; 'cc:name:python list': 0.16; 'from:addr:james': 0.16; 'high- tech': 0.16; 'informative.': 0.16; 'skip:g 80': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:when': 0.16; 'url:%9c': 0.16; 'url:categories': 0.16; 'why,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'subject:] ': 0.20; '8bit%:5': 0.22; '>>>': 0.22; 'email addr:gmail.com>': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**1': 0.23; '>>>': 0.24; 'nyc': 0.24; 'skip:l 30': 0.24; 'url:utf8': 0.24; 'helpful': 0.24; 'source': 0.25; '>': 0.26; 'bay': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:mailman': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'post.': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'subject:what': 0.31; 'yesterday': 0.31; 'open': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'projects.': 0.33; 'maybe': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'beyond': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'patient': 0.36; 'subject:one': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'area': 0.37; 'pm,': 0.38; 'url:2012': 0.39; '8bit%:6': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'skip:t 30': 0.61; 'skip:* 10': 0.61; 'you.': 0.62; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'duty': 0.68; 'url:%1': 0.72; 'groups.': 0.74; 'url:wordpress': 0.78; '*twitter*': 0.84; 'find.': 0.84; "it'd": 0.84; 'meetup.com.': 0.84; 'subject:find': 0.84; 'theories': 0.84; 'url:loc': 0.84; 'joel': 0.91; '<>*': 0.95; 'subject:OFF': 0.95 X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=LZcxblzeqgFFzQsyGtQcrFfgZtllSMyakL8mS9QeIdE=; b=D8iZi4Zf865jCFK5i+hXAiDnj+6c3hZdjatwxMsbw//Fvfe5ycRiNE5lxSRse3YoZl oPK3eXVUbrftscF/467cfy8P7Snf2OZmes1sm5e/Ne+Wrwz1HPtdABAvQyCxOAutSj41 Qu50VVVqnQIe3dJ7h916AsIWK6PNw8QdR3HH7k//szttnQAFTDs3WOpuNvSZFh1FnLI7 vje6SLVD5bzgjIfEm7P7K5btYHjczc804woH9cCKbCXB41yDtXrXtZBQxTa75u4tNr8a +R9mB8WKz4TaU2pwiUCINvZEdVTViZr5TaDPJaLRFSVx3/28GSnYjdG9sFbJPFWAXNKC RQ7A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmh4zdl3xqM29AdGv5gHHrY6Hf9AEgEE391qdwOCnD9oAxaKzKleojo3MuRG3Tamtt9xtmF MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.131.65 with SMTP id ok1mr2661847lbb.51.1396986359503; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:45:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201404081114.57345.gheskett@wdtv.com> <53442760$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 12:45:59 -0700 Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? From: James Brewer To: Joel Goldstick Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b3439e4b6eeeb04f68d3bbe Cc: Python List , Steven D'Aprano X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 145 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1396986739 news.xs4all.nl 2868 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38332 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69900 --047d7b3439e4b6eeeb04f68d3bbe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm in the Bay Area and I did actually go to a Django meetup yesterday in SF where there were talks revolving around large-scale Django applications. It was very informative. :) On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Joel Goldstick w= rote: > Check meetup.com. I live in nyc where there are django, python groups. > Maybe where you live too > On Apr 8, 2014 12:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" < > steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> >>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your >> >>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you. >> >> >> >> A utopia very few will ever find. >> > >> > In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source >> > projects. 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I'm in the Bay Area and I did actually go to a Django = meetup yesterday in SF where there were talks revolving around large-scale = Django applications. It was very informative. :)


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Joel Go= ldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> wrote:

Check meetup.com. I = live in nyc where there are django, python groups. Maybe where you live too=

On Apr 8, 2014 12:45 PM, "Steven D'Apra= no" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

>>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your=
>>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you.
>>
>> A utopia very few will ever find.
>
> In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open= source
> projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for= a
> long post.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-s= hop-politics/





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