Python Class Instructor Meeting 2018 01 23

Next Meeting is scheduled for 2018 02 20, Tuesday, 7pm in Turing

• Meeting Moderator: eenblam
• Note taker: also eenblam

Attendees

• Lady Red
• Trent
• razzi
• eenblam

New instructors added

None

Discussion items for this week

Lady Red - I'm submitting a PyCon talk on controlling LEDs that I'd like to demo here first as a guest talk

Nick is going to focus on making an AI class (for a different time,) so he won't be working on Python Class in the immediate future.

Schedule for next month

• January 29 - sqlite3 (Razzi)
• February 5 - Algorithms (Elena)
• February 12 - Advanced Functions / Higher Order Functions (Jay)
• February 19 - Flask (Ben)
• February 26 - Python + LEDs! (Lady Red)
• March 5 - tbd guest talk
• March 12 - tbd guest talk
• March 19 - Django! (Razzi)
• March 26 - Django! (Razzi?)
• April 22 - Django! (Razzi?)

Actions for next week

1. Pick a day to have guest talks concurrent with Razzi's Django classes (for all three weeks)
2. Spend the last 20 minutes hacking on the repo to get it cleaned up (merge duplicate lessons, organize a bit better, etc.)
3. Add the email template to the repo instructors folder
4. Add the announcement checklist to the instructors folder
5. Add a markdown file to instructors folder with both templates and instructions for how to use them.
6. Add a markdown file for how to run/start your class - specifically donations for nb, who hasn't had a tour, brief info about nb (harassment pol. etc).