Dayton Dynamic Languages Group

Welcome to DDL!

About Us

We’re a group of Dayton-area programmers who help each other learn how to write in dynamic languages. We’re casual, inquisitive, beginner-friendly, and include both professionals and amateurs.
If you’re interested in Ruby (including Rails), Python (including Django), PHP, Perl, Javascript, Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc, this is the place for you. Now and then we poke into other languages, too, particularly if they seem interesting and exciting.

We’re responsive and informal; if there’s a topic you’d like to present on or just like to see, we’ll probably be interested in it too!

We are a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Dayton Microcomputer Association. See other DMA SIG meetings at [Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/Dayton-Microcomputer-Association-Meetup/

Upcoming Meetings

Our monthly meetings take place at Dayton’s Innovation Hub, but we also use the “General” voice channel of the PyFri Discord, so if you aren’t fully vaccinated or can’t make it downtown for any other reason, feel free to join us online.

April 2024: Running Local LLMs

April 10, 2024

April 2024: Running Local LLMs

Crossover meeting with Gem City Machine Learning

For April, we’re going to crash Gem City Machine Learning’s party! GCML’s Nick Gerakines is presenting to GCML:

Running your own LLM is pretty easy and there are a lot of tools and platforms that make it possible. If you have the right hardware, with a little bit of elbow grease, you can run your own chatbots and interact with LLMs using session interfaces and APIs.

… and we’re going to join them! They’re coming to our meeting place (The Hub) and our time - well, roughly (social time starts at 6 PM, lecture at 6:30). So let’s all get together!

Details at GCML

The official GCML meeting will wrap up before DDL’s usual end time, so we can decide on the fly what we will do then - perhaps we’ll go for dinner together, or stick around and try out what we just learned together.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 6:30 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.

PyFri@WBI: Python self-study meetups

time change to 2 PM

Together with Tec^Edge, we’re having an informal weekly lunchtime meeting for folks learning Python. No program, just come to share questions with each other, show off what you’ve been working on, and discuss. We meet most Fridays at 2 PM (changed from noon!), barring holidays.

For now, PyFri meets online in the “General” voice channel of the PyFri Discord. Once things are back to normal, we’ll return to meeting at the Wright Brothers Institute. Check meetup to make sure we’re meeting on a particular Friday.

Calendar link: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDZzamEwb2lhZzRkYjk0Zml2dDM4cjdwb2kgY2F0aGVyaW5lLmRldmxpbkBt&tmsrc=catherine.devlin%40gmail.com

PyFri notebooks

Some Jupyter notebooks from our Friday sessions are posted at https://github.com/dayton-dynamic/pyfri

Mailing list

We have a mailing list that we use for occasional discussion, but usually just monthly meeting reminders. It’s extremely low traffic and definitely the best way to know what is going on with the group.

Location

New home!

We meet meet on the !2nd Wednesday of every month from 7 to 9 pm at Dayton’s Innovation Hub

All Meetings

Dayton

Dayton is home of the Dayton Microcomputer Association, one of the country’s oldest computer user groups. DMA serves as an umbrella group for a variety of Special Interest Groups like ours - see DMA’s meetup page.

The Dayton Tech Guide has links to a variety of resources in Dayton’s technical community.

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