Mailman 3 March 2007 - python-uk

Python evening talks in London
by Andy Robinson June 25, 2007

June 25, 2007

Hi all, Yet another London-centric suggestion. Apologies to the rest of the country. I've been talking to a friend who is discovering the joys of Python, and is a committee member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (www.theiet.org) He believes we could get rooms in their place, which is next to the Savoy, to hold evening talks followed by networking over a drink or two. They have a distinguished location with rooms for anything from 20 up to 200 and he believes it could cost little or nothing to the visitors. The general idea would be a talk on some Python-related subjects, libraries or frameworks, about once a month, which can reach a wider network of developers than usually turn up for the pub sessions. People would be encouraged to bring laptops (Wifi available) and try out whatever's being talked about, so if they discovered a few useful libraries for a task, they could put them to work next day; and experience Pythonistas could advise newbies. A proposal is needed to their committee by end of this month. So, - who'd find something like this useful? - who'd like to give talks, and on what? - who'd like to hear talks, and on what? - who'd bring colleagues along? - any thoughts on format, target audience and so on.... I understand the start would be a few months off. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 the Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK tel +44-20-8544-8049 mobile +44-7725-056175

12 31

Python Contractors Wanted for long term contract work..........
by Rakesh Thakrar March 28, 2007

March 28, 2007

Hi All, My client is looking for 3x Python or C++ Developers to join a new and exciting R&D Project. Suitable candidates will have to demonstrate programming skills with Python or C++. Candidates with only skills in C++ must demonstrate experience/knowledge in any one of the following; QT, GTK, KDE or similar toolkits. This will be a long term contract based in South West of England, with the opportunity to do some telecommuting. Please do not hesitate to call me for a detailed specification. Regards Rakesh ___________________ Rakesh Thakrar Manager Microcom Recruitment Division 2 Adelaide Street St. Albans Herts, AL3 5BH Tel: 01727 752000 Mob: 079 7094 3227 Fax: 01727 752018 www.microcom-recruitment.com <http://www.microcom-recruitment.com> Permanent and Contract IT Recruitment Specialists ____________________________________ ************************************************************ The views expressed in this e-mail are not necessarily the views of European Recruitment Network Ltd, its directors, officers or employees make no representation or accept any liability for its accuracy or completeness unless expressly stated to the contrary. This e-mail, and any attachments are strictly confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. The content may also contain legal, professional or other privileged information. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, no contracts may be concluded on behalf of European Recruitment Network Ltd by means of e-mail communication. You may report the matter by calling us on +44 (0) 1727 752000. Please ensure you have adequate virus protection before you open or detach any documents from this transmission. European Network Recruitment Ltd does not accept any liability for viruses. European Recruitment Network Ltd is registered in England: Company number: 5651508. Registered Office: Greener House, 66-68 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4RF ************************************************************

1 0

EuroPython 2007: Call for Proposals
by Michael Hudson March 26, 2007

March 26, 2007

Book Monday 9th July to Wednesday 11th July 2007 in your calendar! EuroPython 2007, the European Python and Zope Conference, will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last year's conference was a great success, featuring a variety of tracks, amazing lightning talks and inspiring keynotes. With your participation, we want to make EuroPython 2007, the sixth EuroPython, even more successful than the previous five. Talks, Papers and Themes ------------------------ This year we have decided to borrow a few good ideas from PyCon, one of which is to move away from the 'track' structure. Instead, speakers are invited to submit presentations about anything they have done that they think would be of interest to the Python community. We will then arrange them into related groups and schedule them in the space available. In the past, EuroPython participants have found the following themes to be of interest: * Science * Python Language and Libraries * Web Related Technologies * Education * Games * Agile Methodologies and Testing * Social Skills In addition to talks, we will also accept full paper submissions about any of the above themes. The Call for Refereed Papers will be posted shortly. The deadline for talk proposals is Friday 18th May at midnight (24:00 CEST, Central European Summer Time, UTC+2). Other ways to participate ------------------------- Apart from giving talks, there are plenty of other ways to participate in the conference. Just attending and talking to people you find here can be satisfying enough, but there are three other kinds of activity you may wish to plan for: Lightning Talks, Open Space and Sprints. Lightning Talks are very short talks that give you just enough time to introduce a topic or project, Open Space is an area reserved for informal discussions, and Sprints are focused gatherings for developers interested in particular projects. For more information please see the following pages: * Lightning Talks: http://www.europython.org/sections/events/lightning_talks * Open Space: http://www.europython.org/sections/events/open_space * Sprints: http://www.europython.org/sections/sprints_and_wiki Your Contribution ----------------- To propose a talk or a paper, go to... * http://www.europython.org/submit For more general information on the conference, please visit... * http://www.europython.org/ Looking forward to seeing what you fine folk have been up to, The EuroPython Team

1 0

BBC Research, Kamaelia & Google's Summer of Code 2007
by Michael Sparks March 22, 2007

March 22, 2007

Hi, We're participating in Google's Summer of Code as a mentor organisation again, and I thought it worth spreading some extra publicity on mailing lists, I'm on that I think might have some interested people. (I perhaps should've sent this sooner!) * What's Google Summer of Code? Essentially it's Google paying students to work on open source projects and being mentored in those projects, producing useful code and learning useful skills. Part of the aim is to increase the number of people bitten by the open source bug :-) * How is BBC Research/ Kamaelia involved? Like last year we're a mentor organisation, Kamaelia is the open source project that project applications are invited for. It's aim is to make highly concurrent systems natural to create and simple to maintain. (given a choice of forces the we choose the latter) We seem to be having some success in this and have a number of systems we've built using Kamaelia. Kamaelia is primarily focussed around building networked, multimedia systems, tools and applications, however Kamaelia is a generic component framework & toolset. The current implementation is in python, but the approach and concepts are portable with a proof of concept in python. Our project ideas and guidance page is here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2007 However, we're also interested other ideas beyond that, especially systems that use Kamaelia that can act as exemplars. To give an idea of potential scope, a list of components can be found here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Components * Who can Apply ? You need to be a student now, or in september enrolled at a university degree course or similar level of institution/degree. * When is the deadline ? Monday midnight. * Url? http://code.google.com/soc/ Please feel free to forward this to any students or student groups you would find this interesting ! :-) Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research, Technology Group michael.sparks(a)rd.bbc.co.uk, Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

1 0

PyCamp UK
by Doug Winter March 20, 2007

March 20, 2007

There was a lot of talk of this in early Feb, but then it's all gone quiet. Are things "happening" or has it died a death? Is there anything we can do to help it happen? Cheers, doug. -- Isotoma, Open Source Software Consulting - http://www.isotoma.com Tel: 01904 567349, Mobile: 07879 423002, Fax: 020 79006980 Postal Address: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA, UK Registered in England. Company No 5171172. VAT GB843570325. Registered Office: 19a Goodge Street, London, W1T 2PH

2 1

Python lecture series
by Michael Grazebrook March 19, 2007

March 19, 2007

2 1

Available Python Positions (All levels of experience considered)
by Rakesh Thakrar March 15, 2007

March 15, 2007

Hi All, I am looking for both Contract and Permanent Developers (all levels of experience considered, including graduates) to work with Python in the following locations; If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact me for further information. Cambridge - Contract West Sussex x3 - Perm Midlands - Perm London x2 - Both Contract and Perm Regards Rakesh ___________________ Rakesh Thakrar Manager Microcom Recruitment Division 2 Adelaide Street St. Albans Herts, AL3 5BH Tel: 01727 752000 Mob: 079 7094 3227 Fax: 01727 752018 www.microcom-recruitment.com Permanent and Contract IT Recruitment Specialists ____________________________________ ************************************************************ The views expressed in this e-mail are not necessarily the views of European Recruitment Network Ltd, its directors, officers or employees make no representation or accept any liability for its accuracy or completeness unless expressly stated to the contrary. This e-mail, and any attachments are strictly confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. The content may also contain legal, professional or other privileged information. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, no contracts may be concluded on behalf of European Recruitment Network Ltd by means of e-mail communication. You may report the matter by calling us on +44 (0) 1727 752000. Please ensure you have adequate virus protection before you open or detach any documents from this transmission. European Network Recruitment Ltd does not accept any liability for viruses. European Recruitment Network Ltd is registered in England: Company number: 5651508. Registered Office: Greener House, 66-68 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4RF ************************************************************

1 0

Re: [python-uk] Personal selection of Python books for sale to UKdevelopers
by me＠christhetechie.org.uk March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

Evening, > On 06/03/07, Dave Lists <dave.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > No http://www.christhetechie.org.uk/ that website. > > Well I see the problem, it says: > > "Internet Information Services (IIS)" > > That is normally a fatal error ;) Nazis. Hitler etc etc. Godwins law invoked now that's enough ;-) Cheers, Chris Smith http://www.christhetechie.org.uk/

2 1

Personal selection of Python books for sale to UK developers
by me＠christhetechie.org.uk March 6, 2007

March 6, 2007

Hi, I've moved to ebooks (as I'm laptop driven these days) and am selling some well known and useful Python books to those who prefer paper! These are for UK people only as I'm not interested in shifting them worldwide - too much hassle. I also don't want to use Amazon or eBay as they're rubbish and I like my books to go to a good home where they'll get worn out rather than get dusty. As follows (great books these!): * O'Reilly - Programming Python - 3rd ed 2006 * O'Reilly - Python Cookbook - 2nd ed 2005 * Manning - wxPython in Action - 1st ed 2006 And some non-python goodness - possibly of use. * Wrox - Beginning MacOS X programming (Tiger OSX1.4) - 1st ed 2005 * PH - Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Minix 3! - 3rd ed 2006 * O'Reilly - C in a Nutshell - 1st ed 2005 (2006 reprint) * Morgan Kauffman - 3D game engine design - 1st ed 2001 Condition of all books is excellent - I look after them well! I'll accept SENSIBLE offers for all of these as they cost me a small fortune and will charge postage at Royal Mail's standard first cost. Please drop me an email if anyone is interested in any titles. Cheers, Chris Smith http://www.christhetechie.org.uk/

3 4

Re: [python-uk] Personal selection of Python books for sale to UKdevelopers
by me＠christhetechie.org.uk March 6, 2007

March 6, 2007

Hi, > Not poking fun. Your website is down with the following "Directory > listing is denied" Yeah I know - the perpetually unfinished web site is still unfinished. There's lots of content there but it's hidden. > Can you give us what you think is a reasonable price? I'd expect at least £15 quid each for the Python ones (considering they cost around 40 quid each to start with). 10-15 quid for the others. They are all pretty new current edition ones! Postage will be around the £4-6 per book as they're heavy as anything. I live in North London so if anyone wants to collect that's fine plus I work in the city so if anyone wants to meet up I can shift them that way. Cheers, Chris Smith http://www.christhetechie.org.uk/

1 0