Mailman 3 March 2011 - python-uk

Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 5th April
by Tony Ibbs March 31, 2011

March 31, 2011

As posted to the CamPUG google group: The next meeting will be a dojo meeting, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 3rd May, another talks meeting * Tuesday 7th June, a dojo meeting again * Tuesday 5th July, talks again I'm collecting talks for the May meeting, too - since I didn't give my SOAP talk, that's probably on the schedule, but please feel free to let me know of anything anyone else might want to present. Tibs

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EuroPython 2011: call for paper is ending - Please spread the word
by Francesco Pallanti March 31, 2011

March 31, 2011

Hi all, I'm Francesco and I am writing on behalf of "Python Italia APS", a no-profit association promoting EuroPython conference. (www.europython.eu) Europython End of Call for Presentations is April 6th. I'd like to ask to you to forward this mail to anyone that you feel may be interested. We're looking for proposals on every aspects of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation. **First-time speakers are especially welcome**; EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Presenting at EuroPython ------------------------ We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the programme. Can you show the conference-goers something new and useful? Can you show attendees how to: use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? If so, consider submitting a talk. Talks and hands-on trainings ---------------------------- There are two different kind of presentations that you can give as a speaker at EuroPython: * **Regular talk**. These are standard "talk with slides", allocated in slots of 45, 60 or 90 minutes, depending on your preference and scheduling constraints. A Q&A session is held at the end of the talk. * **Hands-on training**. These are advanced training sessions for a smaller audience (10-20 people), to dive into the subject with all details. These sessions are 4-hours long, and audience will be strongly encouraged to bring a laptop to experiment. They should be prepared with less slides and more source code. If possible, trainers will also give a short "teaser talk" of 30 minutes the day before the training, to tease delegates into attending the training. In the talk submission form, we assume that you intend to give a regular talk on the subject, but you will be asked if you are available for also doing a hands-on training on the very same subject. Speakers that will give a hands-on training are rewarded with a **free entrance** to EuroPython to compensate for the longer preparation required, and might also be eligible for a speaking fee (which we cannot confirm at the moment). Topics and goals ---------------- Specific topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to: - Core Python - Other implementations: Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless - Python libraries and extensions - Python 3.x migration - Databases - Documentation - GUI Programming - Game Programming - Network Programming - Open Source Python projects - Packaging Issues - Programming Tools - Project Best Practices - Embedding and Extending - Science and Math - Web-based Systems Presentation goals usually are some of the following: - Introduce audience to a new topic they are unaware of - Introduce audience to new developments on a well-known topic - Show audience real-world usage scenarios for a specific topic (case study) - Dig into advanced and relatively-unknown details on a topic - Compare different options in the market on a topic Community-based talk voting --------------------------- This year, for the first time in EuroPython history, the talk voting process is fully public. Every partecipant gains the right to vote for talks submitted during the Call For Papers, as soon as they commit to their presence at the conference by buying a ticket. See all the details in the talk voting[1] page. Contacts -------- For any further question, feel free to contact the organizers at info(a)pycon.it. Thank you! [1]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/talk-voting -- Francesco Pallanti - fpallanti(a)develer.com Develer S.r.l. - http://www.develer.com/ .software .hardware .innovation Tel.: +39 055 3984627 - ext.: 215

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Experienced Python / Django Developer Required
by Tom Inglis March 30, 2011

March 30, 2011

Role: We require an experienced Python / Django developer for our exciting Edinburgh-based startup company. The role involves the full lifecycle agile development of sophisticated social website and mobile applications, and will grow in time to include leadership of a team of developers. Essential Skills: Python, Django HTML 5, CSS 3 JavaScript, jQuery PostgreSQL Desirable Skills: Ubuntu Nginx, WSGI Solr Memcached OpenStreetMap Amazon Web Services Benefits: The successful candidate will benefit from the autonomy to shape the direction of the company's technology, whilst working on cutting edge projects for major clients. They will be based at our stylish office in central Edinburgh, and will command a competitive salary. -- Tom Inglis Director Feusd Ltd Telephone: +441312083707 Feusd Ltd is a company incorporated in Scotland with registered number SC314546 and having its registered office at 24 Canning Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EG.

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April London Python Code Dojo
by Nicholas Tollervey March 28, 2011

March 28, 2011

Hi Folks, It's taking place on Thursday 7th April 2011 at the usual place. Sign up here: https://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-2-episode-8 Recently tickets have been selling like hot-cakes. If you *do* sign up and realise you can't make it after all *please* let me know since we've had a waiting list for the past three dojos. In this dojo we’re aiming to continue with our quest to build a top-down dungeon / world in PyGame. Specifically, we’ll be looking at making the game a multi-user networked affair. No prior knowledge of PyGame or a coding dojo is required to attend this event – just an open and enthusiastic attitude! :-) We might have a couple of speakers giving short talks to kick off the event too (tbc). Pizza and beer start at 6:30pm and coding/talks will start at 7:30. We aim to finish 9:30ish. Free pizza and beer will be provided. (Thanks Fry-IT) Participants get the chance to win a cool book: “XMPP: The Definitive Guide” (thanks O’Reilly). This is a great book to win since this dojo will include a quick look at XMPP. Oh yeah... as a test run for ordering stickers for Fluidinfo I got a bunch of London Python Dojo stickers done using the "logo" on this month's site. Grab 'em on a first come first serve basis. ;-) Looking forward to it, Nicholas.

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Python Sheffield March 29th
by Daley Chetwynd March 25, 2011

March 25, 2011

Hi all, The next Python Sheffield meeting is being held at the GIST Lab this Tuesday (March 29th). The meeting will run from 19:00 - 21:00, although doors will be open at the GIST Lab from 18:30. The GIST Lab is located opposite Sheffield train station and behind the Showroom cinema: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab This month our talks schedule is as follows: Francis Irving: Using ScraperWiki with Python David Jones: N things I like about Python that aren't in (many) other languages (lightning talk) Daley Chetwynd: Using IronPython with Visual Studio and Mono (lightning talk) At our last meeting in February we had 19 people attending. This month we have 13 people registered so far. If you'd like to join us then please register for free at: http://pysheff1103.eventbrite.com/ To find out more about the Python Sheffield group, follow @pysheff on Twitter or join the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class

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Cloud Python/Pycon 2011 talk, London, Thursday, 24th March, 7pm
by Robert Rees March 20, 2011

March 20, 2011

Hi there, Just wanted to plug a talk we're doing this week about Dirigible the cloud-spreadsheet that is built with Python and also to ask anyone who wants to give a Pycon report to come along. Details: http://london-geek-nights.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/events/dirigib… Location: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=14602842370777055372

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Long Week Startups
by Chris Dew March 16, 2011

March 16, 2011

This may be a bit off-topic for this group, but is anyone here interested in Long Week Startups - either pursuing your own idea, helping others, or just watching some spectacular failures? http://www.barricane.com/2011/03/05/uk-internet-startup-week.html http://groups.google.com/group/long-week-startups I hope this isn't too close to PyWeek for Python game developers. All the best, Chris. P.S. We have had unsolicited interest from a journalist from a major UK publication, so if you're looking for publicity for your startup/ idea, this could help.

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Want to join a PyWeek team?
by Ciarán Mooney March 7, 2011

March 7, 2011

Hi, The April 2011 PyWeek challenge has just opened for registration. The premise is to write a game, in python from scratch in a week. More details are on the website. The actual challenge starts on 3rd April and finishes 10th April. http://www.pyweek.org/ It would be cool if a small (or large!) contingent of the UK python groups would join together for some python game-writing fun. Those that want to take part please email me. A few of us did it last year and it was great fun. There is no need to commit to a full weeks work, most of us worked from home in our spare time. We met up a few times face-to-face to get some work done which was also fun, but certainly not required. I'm London based and this was announced at the London Python Dojo, but that shouldn't be seen as a barrier to others who want to join the team. For an example of what can be made the product of our work last year was "Woger the wibbly wobbly wombat." http://pyweek.org/e/ldnpydojo/ Now we don't expect to reach the lofty standards of Woger again this year, and it's certainly a competition where most of the fun is taking part rather than winning. One of the best things about PyWeek was checking out the next day and finding a game that was 10x better than when you left it, with fun extra features added in by your team mates. Ciarán

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Python Sheffield March 29th
by Daley Chetwynd March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Hi all, The next Python Sheffield meeting is being held on Tuesday March 29th at the GIST Lab in Sheffield. The meeting will run from 19:00 - 21:00, although doors will be open at the GIST Lab from 18:30. The GIST Lab is opposite Sheffield train station and behind the Showroom cinema: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab At our last meeting on Feb 22nd we had 19 attendees and 3 speakers, including a great introduction to Django from @safehammad of Python North West. This month our main talk will be from @scraperwiki, a popular screen-scraping platform for data processing and storage that can be used with several different languages, including Python (www.scraperwiki.com). We have slots available for lightning talks, so if you'd like to talk for ten minutes on anything Python-related then please get in touch. If you'd like to give a longer talk at a future meeting (20-30 minutes), please get in touch also. The registration page for the next meeting is now open, so if you'd like to join us then please register for free at: http://pysheff1103.eventbrite.com/ More information on the Python Sheffield group can be found by following @pysheff on Twitter, or from the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web

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Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 1st Mar
by Tony Ibbs March 1, 2011

March 1, 2011

As (rather apologetically) posted to the CamPUG google group: Aagh, I thought I'd done this post, but apparently not. The next meeting will be a talks meeting, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). I've said I'll do something on SOAP in Python (quite likely to be demonstration based, given preparation time! - but that should work for this topic), and Bryan hopes he'll be able to do something, although again more likely to be demonstration/lightning based. Of course, anyone else is welcome as well. On the other hand, if you're going to be going to the Richard Stallman talk, instead of us, please do let the group know. Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 5th April, a dojo meeting * Tuesday 3rd May, another talks meeting * Tuesday 7th June, a dojo meeting again Tibs

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