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At the most recent meetup there was some interest about learning how to do "Big Data" with pandas. For the purpose of starting the discussion, I'll frame that as analysis/manipulation of data that is larger than can easily fit in-memory on your laptop/workstation. There are a number of tools out there to do this. The one I'm most familiar with is Dask (http://dask.pydata.org/).

Anyone interested in planning for a talk/tutorial in 2017?

cc/ @AlbertDeFusco @annafil

With the up-coming release of Python 3.6, an overview and demonstration of some of the new features would be of interest to the group.

Some specific highlights of the upcoming release that might be interesting to demo:

• dict() ordering and compact representation
• new async tools
• formatted string literals
• variable annotations
• preserved order of kwargs and class attributes
• new secrets module

The bot would perform useful services for the group and the channel. This would also create an opportunity to work on a non-trivial project as a group effort at hack nights, etc.

Some random feature ideas that may or may not be good ideas or possible to implement, but came off the top of our heads during a brainstorming session:

1. Could post notifications when new issues (e.g. topic proposals) are created in pghpy-talks
2. Could let channel users express an interest in hearing about certain topics, which could be recorded
3. Could let people sign-up for lightning talk nights?
4. Could answer FAQs about the group or C&S
5. Could post notifications to the channel of new Python or PghPy-related events

This project could leverage a number of existing libraries / projects:

• lins05/slackbot
• slackhq/python-rtmbot
• How to Build Your First Slack Bot with Python

We can also setup a git repository for this project under the pghpy organization.

Random ideas:

• Talk about how Python searches for modules using the $PYTHONPATH.
• How are packages used to namespace Python code?
• How can packages and modules be used to effectively organize your code?
• How are modules different from classes?

We'd like more presentations about non-Django web frameworks. Pyramid is a popular and powerful alternative that would make for an interesting topic for a Python meeting.

Bonus points for comparison/contrast with the Django framework or other Python frameworks.

Talk about built-in async support in Python 3.4+ from the asyncio module.