Important Change: we will be meeting at bivio Software instead of Jill's to better accommodate this month's demos. == Meeting: December 20, 2006 == * Time: 6-8 PM * Location: bivio Software, Inc., 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. * BoulderSprint. Eric Dobbs proposed we adopt Jython, and this looks like we have enough momentum to actually get some useful work done in our upcoming sprints. * Tom Churchill and Vinny will demo Churchill Navigation's earth-rendering engine (which looks like Google Earth, only apparently even better and faster ;) ). Vinny (their main Python guy) will explain how they built the glue logic (and why they decided against SWIG) and perhaps some of the implications of using Python as a scripting language in a real-time (60 fps) environment, and the techniques they employed to keep the graphics pipeline from stalling when making an expensive call into their engine from Python. * Brian Granger from Tech-X will help us think more deeply about concurrent Python programming, especially as seen in a new version of IPython. We will have food & drink available. Did I mention the free beer? Hope to see you there. For more information: http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers