We will be having our regular PyGTA meeting at our regular time (7:15 on the 19th) and place (Linux Caffe) this month. Please note that *next* month (June 2009) we'll be meeting on the 17th (a Wednesday) as our speaker for June is not available on Tuesdays. Linux Caffe is at the corner of Grace and Harbord streets, 1 block South of Christie subway station. Tuesday, May 19th: Software Liability Round Table (Open Discussion) Proposals are afoot in the EU to make companies liable for the software they write. What would you need to accept liability for the software you write? Would you be willing to contribute software to an Open Source project if you could be sued when someone else broke it? What level of warranty would you be willing to give for your software ("Money Back" or "Damages" or "Damages and Loss of Bussiness")? Is liability even a good idea? Would it stifle innovation? Would it be workable for your business? What benefits would you get out of warranties? Is there a service or testing methodology you feel would let you provide warranties better/cheaper/faster than others? Would an exception raised to the user constitute a "money back" event? Or would you have to fail to repair the software? Does "repairing" include making your software work with changing dependencies? What contracts or requirements would you need to be comfortable being a contract software developer? Wednesday, June 17th: Behdad Esfahbod will be presenting on how to use the Cairo rendering library from Python. Cairo is a vector graphics library that allows for targetting multiple graphical back-ends including OpenGL, X-windows, OSX Quartz, Win32, PDF, PNG etceteras. It is used in the Firefox and WebKit engines as well as the GTK library. Note the change in day-of-week! Tuesday, July 21st (tentative): Robert Jackiewicz of the Toronto Plone User's group will be presenting the zc.buildout package. Buildout is a tool for creating redistributable Python applications which is used extensively by the Zope and Plone communities. It is a "recipe" based engine for reproducing a set of modules and application code onto a number of machines. http://www.pygta.org/ Enjoy yourselves, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com