[Chicago] Pycon! Bags! Meeting!

[Anthony Rubin]

Has there been any movement on this?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Monday March 10 2008 12:02:18 pm Chris McAvoy wrote:
>  > Thursday night we're going to try and have an official ChiPy meeting.
>  > However, it's pretty sketchy as to where it will be.  So you'll have
>  > to do some detective work.  As details become available, they'll be
>  > put on the list.  Also, bring your stuffing hands, as we'll probably
>  > be stuffing more bags.
>
>  There's an open 30 minute slot on Saturday 2:10-2:45 in Ballroom 3.
>  http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/schedule/
>
>  It has been suggested by yours truly on #pycon and pycon-organizers at python.org
>  that we have our meeting then.  This would be not only ChiPy's best, and
>  perhaps biggest, meeting ever, but also our most timely.
>
>  The main problem with a Thursday night meeting was lack of space.  Here's a
>  space lacking a meeting. ;-)  What do y'all think?
>
>  --Pete
>
>  PS: Here's an outline of the talk I pitched.
>
>  Title: GrassyKnoll: A Search Engine in Python
>
>  Summary: GrassyKnoll is a search engine written in Python.  It features a
>  powerful storage model supporting several backends, a RESTful HTTP inteface
>  and message passing concurrency for multi-core and distributed programming.
>  It was conceived and prototyped at the PyCon 2007 sprints.
>
>  This talk will discuss GrassyKnoll's archictecture and its potential for
>  large-scale computing.  It is intended for intermediate to advanced Python
>  programmers.  Familiarity with HTTP, threads and distributed computing is
>  helpful but not required.
>
>  Outline
>  =======
>   - Introduction
>     - project goals
>     - project history
>     - status
>   - Collections: a universal storage model
>     - description of the model
>     - comparison to traditional databases
>     - Supported backends: lucene, sqlite, etc.
>     - Queries: Questions Answered, quickly
>   - REST: Embracing HTTP
>     - description of REST
>     - comparison to RPC
>     - advantages of REST
>     - REST and the Collection model
>   - Message Passing: Concurrency Simplified
>     - description, theory and influences
>     - Advantages: Death to deadlock & Killing the GIL
>     - Distributed Computing with HTTP : turtles all the way down
>   - Future Work
>     - Sprinting
>     - More backends
>     - Towards a new HTTP library for Python
>     - Possible use cases
>
>
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