<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">At the August Python users group meeting the question was asked if
anyone would be interested in giving a talk in the coming months. Here is my presentation proposal, let me know if
there is any interest...</div>
<h1 style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Cultivating innovation in the public sector with Python</h1><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">After 15+ years in private sector engineering &
scientific R&D, moving into the public sector was quite an awakening. How do you leapfrog a culture that’s technologically
a decade or more behind the curve? One
method that has started to show success is leveraging Python as a practitioner's
tool rather than just another "programming language". In this
presentation I will provide use cases of how using Python as a
practitioner's tool can help plant seeds of innovation in environments &
cultures that are traditionally slow to adopt new technology. Sample projects include, but are not limited to:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span><font face="Symbol">*</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; "> </span></span><!--[endif]--><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Python/SciPy-based event probability monitoring
plug-in for Nagios; alerting and reporting on abnormal behavior
patterns in complex systems.</font></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">*<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Django-based multi-tenant, multi-lingual,
mobile-friendly customer check-in, queuing and analytics system that leverages
web-services, wireless Internet TV's, Twilio and iSpeech.</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 37.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">*<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->An introduction and working demonstration of
Web2py as a practitioner’s web-based front-end.</div></div></div></body></html>