Mailman 3 May 2012 - python-uk

One more lightning talk place left for next week's dojo...
by Nicholas H.Tollervey July 11, 2012

July 11, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Carles has booked two slots for a 10minute talk on, well, let's just say it'll be fun to watch and smell his presentation. One more space left... any takers..? :-) N. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPx0I5AAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6yuAH/3box6amaiOjjkBkAJm4CBxq Ft8+xRgIIDJ4j0EF5ELxiz6xn58GNQsRPahcr72nxc8goxWybLopoC3m3O6cZSI0 H2MCqcQyXCbqGvG3X4lzXKu3mF2z0LNuZa240HE9OvPGxnZz6u5IlW4dhVo7CgZU b0mOdv89o1rLBgYlvB+WgXPsGgMy9zIKFHaBm8MvpHDGXKavg7OeSiWbKE8f2kCl X9bQqDU+SeHjH+FeIOXgHaR+oadxlqox6dmY4RMWyIvsfnpRr7JICR261unb6ZJf DYHauINogvv0z7GZPlynx2v8vqcwv+SMzG0g89qwX7qKZ1KPNen1zFK3/gLKuQQ= =Rr64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Lightning talks at the Dojo
by Nicholas H.Tollervey May 31, 2012

May 31, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, We have slots for three lightning talks at this month's dojo. If you're interested in having 5 minutes of fame drop me a line. Nicholas. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPxzjoAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6sB0IAK6YW6OS/+QHlOXSyQqeRKyj Lo1NZ4ubzP6/jxxcJp/BAjkojVqhxdN6wKL0TE3mkUxO/Xj8qsLkfx86ftbdAvb4 AUIjbiJXmuGPqOrgiNTTtFfD9/cgGaK2bwNlXKjDQUWR+tTTnmfHfGCXLXDerV5g mUY0NhzNvPfLmGe4JFcISovfrbZVUQyxpulaoJrfEcneOZRMEP0ANp26LVD8D0pe CiBhK742xfaasJjqh13P2wF++87j+IniwAacHq5KpNWsFXamOm8OCLmEuRu5LHep vjKPodhhcV6niEQ4/g6PN4Fs0a0has5bQRnCylD5/vhAOPdpIt7f1fpUReBzIEU= =ptI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Next London Python Code Dojo
by Nicholas H.Tollervey May 31, 2012

May 31, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, The next dojo will be happening on Thursday 7th June from 6:30pm. We'll be AT A NEW VENUE: Royal London House 22-24 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1DX ...thanks to the guys at GoCardless and Smarkets (who are also providing the pizza and beer). Josette has gone beyond the call of duty this month by providing us with enough stickers and screen wipes to sink a battleship, 7-8 O'Reilly caps, a spare copy of MAKE magazine and lots of funky bubble wrap in addition to the usual book. Sign up here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-3-episode-10 Tickets sold out in about two and a half hours last time so book early to avoid disappointment. See you there! Nicholas. (This month's cat-herder). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPxzYOAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6WQAH+waxi7KhQOfDCIkuxGoKHLN6 n/BI4gishowU9BQy+ABnHdf6HmpNga6+g1peqJAm0UiYV/JLl4D0NjJFq3btfpgg jgHiKc1JVFltdByeiWBN09I/aiolcTwdeLRQsKZ6gmNP66ahKaH6USc0a5LCxZ9i AwdXIqjMpsVnYrnfHOsmoiNnRs0xGso85hx0UCneYzoIezLYBZMNqiE75iluvsy6 0PvkwAiRzMCk2xNbks02wMTBjYto5fWPjKxZG+8keYgOtrS9i0Tq3kscFGLbOd4/ W31GiOpgzvU9wr3qYqQb8gJ4ujwnDzmDlx2hrZ464yRv3/B9KW8WPTbCH75fPSw= =Et5N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Next CamPUG meeting: Tuesday 12th June (yes, the 12th)
by Tony Ibbs May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

As announced on our google group: The next meeting of the Cambridge Python User Group will be Tuesday 12th June, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub. Note the meeting is a week later than normal, because Tuesday 5th June is a public holiday (for the Queen's Jubilee). This will be a doing-programming-stuff meeting. Any good ideas on how to organise it will be welcome, otherwise I'll try to think of something we can spring off from. Meetings after that should be: • Tuesday 3rd July, a talks meeting again • Tuesday 7th August, a non-talks meeting again • Tuesday 4th September, another talks meeting Tibs

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Next Python Sheffield meeting May 29th
by Daley Chetwynd May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

Hi all, The next Python Sheffield meeting will be on Tuesday May 29th at the GIST Lab. The meeting will run from 19:00 - 20:45, although doors will be open at the GIST Lab from 18:45. The GIST Lab is located opposite Sheffield train station and behind the Showroom cinema: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab This month we're joining up with our friends at the Sheffield Mobile Experience Group for some coding on the Sheffield App. This app provides information on all Sheffield events and is being implemented using an intermediate mobile API framework called Molly: http://mollyproject.org/ The API is still in an early stage and can be found at http://github.com/gistfoundation/sheffieldapi. Come and join us for some coding as we help to implement the API. We currently have 6 people registered for the meeting. If you'd like to join us, please register for free at: http://pythonsheffield1205.eventbrite.co.uk/ We're always looking for future speakers, so if you'd like to talk on anything Python-related and fancy a trip over to Sheffield, please get in touch. To find out more, follow @pysheff on Twitter or see the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield Thanks, Daley -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Python West Midlands Evidence for Development Hackday, 26th May
by Sarah Mount May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

Calling all FOSS contributors! This hackday is a little different. Python West Midlands is hosting a hackday to kick off a new open source project for a very interesting little charity called Evidence for Development(EfD). EfD wants to help people make better decisions about aid projects – at local and national level – by putting real data about the real situation in the hands of the people making the decisions. If you want to know if your aid programme is making a difference to the right people then you need to model the economy of your target village or district, before and after. Makes sense; simple science right? Problem is you can' afford a bunch of western econometricians crawling all over the place (cost too much, takes too long) and anyway their cash-based economic models don't work that well in a place where cash is only a small part of the economy (grow your own; harvest wild food; get paid in kind or cash or both for day labour; trade crops, labour or other goods; etc, etc). So EfD developed simple economic models that work in this environment, that can be learned and applied by locally trained people and that, are built to run on laptops. No reliance on big foundations' data centres. Last year EfD, in partnership with Chancellor College of the University of Malawi and The University of Wolverhampton developed a Python/MySQL app to model local economies that is already in use in several countries in Southern Africa. This year the challenge is bigger – to build software that can model national and international economies. The model exists and works (it has a great track record of predicting famine effects from annual summary surveys of rural economies). But the only current implementations are proprietary, ill-supported and not extensible. Smells like open source spirit. So for this hackday we're going to have with us the two developers who led the IHM development last year (from Chancellor College in Zomba, Malawi) and the developers of the modeling methodologies from EfD (from Barnes and Surrey – exotic eh?). We'll have a pretty complete MySQL database schema to work on and we hope to finish the day with a simple demo scenario that downloads reference data about a geographical area (a livelihood zone) produces a spreadsheet template to capture information about that livelihood zone (what they grow there, what they eat, how they make a living) runs some local completeness reports and uploads the captured data for merging (with other livelihood zone surveys) to allow analysis of a national survey. *** Date *** 10:30 onwards, 26th May. Please sign up here for a (free) ticket: http://efdhacks.bitbucket.org/ *** Location *** Thyme Software Innovation Centre Coventry University Technology Park Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Map: http://g.co/maps/4mj43 Please sign up here for a (free) ticket: http://efdhacks.bitbucket.org/ -- Sarah Mount, Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton website: http://www.snim2.org/ twitter: @snim2

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London Python Dojo May 3rd
by Tim Golden May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012

Just a reminder that this month's London Python Dojo is tomorrow, May 3rd. If you couldn't book but would like to come, ping me (@tjguk) or the team (@ldnpydojo) on Twitter and we'll put you on the waiting list. Conversely, if you find that you can't come, also drop us a line and we'll try to match places with people. As usual we'd welcome a few lightning talks: we usually like to have a module-of-the-month on one of the stdlib modules or a widely used one. But we'd also love to hear about your pet project or whatever else. Let me know if you'd like to be a lightning-talker. TJG

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Announcement: West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thursday 10 May
by Wavy Davy May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thursday 10 May == = Talk: The Twisted Toolbox - Simon Davy = There are many asynchronous networking libraries for Python, but Twisted has been around the longest by far. Although it suffers from a mixed reputation (some deserved, some not), it has one killer capability that no other async framework has - it's protocol library. Nearly all standard Internet protocols come implemented out-of-the-box on twisted, and when you need it, it's just brilliant. We will look at a simple in-memory SMTP and IMAP server written to speed up acceptance test runs involving email. This will include implementing Twisted SMTP and IMAP interfaces, as well as Twisted.cred, the AUTHN/Z framework. This talk will not assume any prior knowledge of Twisted, but will aim to make the case that in this use case, Twisted is hard to beat. = Date and Time= Thursday 10 May, talk from 7:30pm. If you want to arrive before the talk, the venue will be open from about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub afterwards. = Location = Old Broadcasting House 148 Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9EN We will be holding the talk in the boardroom at the back of the ground floor of the building. If you arrive late we may not hear the doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860. = About the Group = The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one talk, as well as a trip to the pub. Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also follow us on Twitter at @WYPython. -- Simon

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West Yorkshire Python Group Meeting - Thurs. 10 May - Leeds
by Peter Russell May 2, 2012

May 2, 2012

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thursday 10 May == = Talk: The Twisted Toolbox - Simon Davy = There are many asynchronous networking libraries for Python, but Twisted has been around the longest by far. Although it suffers from a mixed reputation (some deserved, some not), it has one killer capability that no other async framework has - it's protocol library. Nearly all standard Internet protocols come implemented out-of-the-box on twisted, and when you need it, it's just brilliant. We will look at a simple in-memory SMTP and IMAP server written to speed up acceptance test runs involving email. This will include implementing Twisted SMTP and IMAP interfaces, as well as Twisted.cred, the AUTHN/Z framework. This talk will not assume any prior knowledge of Twisted, but will aim to make the case that in this use case, Twisted is hard to beat. = Date and Time= Thursday 10 May, talk from 7:30pm. If you want to arrive before the talk, the venue will be open from about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub afterwards. = Location = Old Broadcasting House 148 Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9EN We will be holding the talk in the boardroom at the back of the ground floor of the building. If you arrive late we may not hear the doorbell, so please phone Peter on 07763 570 860. = About the Group = The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one talk, as well as a trip to the pub. Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.

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