Mailman 3 April 2017 - python-uk

Announcing uk.python.org
by Peter Inglesby April 28, 2017

April 28, 2017

Hi all, I'm delighted to announce uk.python.org, a new website that brings together news and events from the Python community in the UK. We're also sending out a monthly newsletter, which you can sign up to via the website. If you run a regular meetup, are putting on an event that you'd like us to publicise, or have other news you'd like to share, please let me know! All the best, Peter.

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[contract job] Django developer at the University of Oxford
by Alexander Dutton April 27, 2017

April 27, 2017

Hello, list, We lovely people at the University of Oxford's IT Services are looking for a Django contractor to help out on an internal project. The initial contract length would be about 3 months. There's more detail at <https://pythonjobs.github.io/jobs/ox-it-django-contractor.html>, but in summary: * it's working on a devolved administration interface and API for our new VoIP system, and integrations into other systems (e.g. our core user directory and the voicemail system) * we're using django-rest-framework and celery * development takes place on GitHub with Trello for planning, following the GitFlow methodology For more information, or to express an interest, please contact jemima.spare(a)it.ox.ac.uk, with your CV, stating your availability and your day rate if you wish to be considered. All the best, Alex

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Next CAMPug meeting: Tue 9th May 2017 (the SECOND Tuesday)
by Tibs April 25, 2017

April 25, 2017

The next meeting of the Cambridge Python User Group will be at 7pm on Tuesday 9th May 2017, at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, 30 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2JH **Note that our next meeting is on the second Tuesday of the month, not the first.** This is our monthly meeting. Normally some of us go on to the pub afterwards. Simon Byrne will present: A hands on introduction to Julia This is an introduction to the Julia language. Heavily inspired by Python, it is a dynamic language that aims to be enjoyable and easy to use as well as high performance, in order to avoid the "two language problem", particularly common in technical computing. This is planned to be a practical session using Raspberry Pi's graciously loaned by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. However you may still want to bring along a laptop. Simon Byrne has been using Julia since 2012, and now works for Julia Computing. He is also still an avid user and fan of Python. **Again, please note that this is on Tuesday 9th May, the second Tuesday of the month.** We are now on meetup.com, at http://www.meetup.com/CamPUG/. If possible, please RSVP there for meetings so we have an idea of numbers. As an incentive, there's normally more detail about each meeting there, and you can also find out about future meetings. Tweeting may occur at https://twitter.com/campython Tibs

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Re: [python-uk] Python West Midlands needs you! - A call for talks and tutors
by Stephen Hawkes April 25, 2017

April 25, 2017

Hi Nick, You’re totally right - it’s huge! Here’s the details for the meet up: https://www.meetup.com/pythonwm/ <https://www.meetup.com/pythonwm/> It’s just outside of Solihull off the M42. We start 12pm - 3pm, with pizza arriving ~45mins in. We’re sponsoring the venue, food & drink through the Developer Society, but I don’t have the capacity to take on producing all the content for the meet up. I’m hoping to get to a critical mass or session routine that will deliver great content for the regions python peeps. How you could help? It’d be great if you could do a talk or better yet host an interactive 'lets hack on this' session. Sound doable? or spark any better ideas? Best ~Steve

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Python West Midlands needs you! - A call for talks and tutors
by Stephen Hawkes April 25, 2017

April 25, 2017

Hi there, We’re looking forward to hosting another Python West Midlands meet up on 27th May, 2017. As last month’s meet up was cancelled due to Easter, it’d be great to see if we can make next month’s extra special. This is where you come in, if we provide the venue, food & drink, could you bring a talk or group learning/hacking session on some open-source python loveliness? If so please do let me know and we can make something great happen. Really appreciate your time here, and I’ll work tirelessly to support any speakers who can make it. Best ~Steve

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Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning
by Thomas Kluyver April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be a workshop on text processing and machine learning. If you're coming to this, please bring a laptop to get the most out of it. Detect clickbait with machine learning Date: 6pm-7.30pm 3rd May 2017 Venue: University of Southampton, Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083) - see https://maps.southampton.ac.uk/ Speaker: Oliver Laslett, Uni of Southampton Oliver has kindly agreed to run his tutorial which has already been accepted for PyData London, so this should be a really interesting session! Because this session is interactive, it will be a bit longer than our typical meetings: around 90 minutes. Nearer the date, a link to the tutorial materials will be available on the SPUG website and Google group. I won't spam other lists again for that, so keep an eye out if you're interested. http://southampton-python.github.io/ As usual, refreshments will be provided before the talk, and everyone is welcome to join us in the pub afterwards. Thanks, Thomas ---- With this one weird trick you can build a text processing pipeline! We've all fallen for clickbait articles online. They pollute our news feeds and make it harder to filter out valuable information. In this workshop we'll stream news articles in real-time and detect clickbait using simple machine learning techniques. By the end of the workshop you'll have your very own python app for streaming real-time news and detecting click bait. In the workshop we'll cover: - Streaming data from a REST API - Preprocessing textual data - Training a simple machine learning classifier for clickbait - Putting everything together in a scikit-learn pipeline - Analysing our results (which news source is the most clickbaity?)

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Summer training (from India with love)
by Nicholas H.Tollervey April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Hi Folks, Please pass this onto anyone you may know who'd benefit from this. Since the mid-00's Kushal Das has been running free online training courses delivered via IRC for beginner programmers in India. When I spoke at PyCon India in 2015 and asked the assembled conference how many of them had started via Kushal's efforts, a significant minority (of around 1.5k) put up their hands. It's delivered via IRC, covers all the basics for Python programming in a FLOSS environment and includes "guest" speakers (including yours truly). He's running it again this year. Only this time, Kushal would like to try an experiment and spread the net wider. If you know of anyone who would benefit from free, high quality remote training, please point them to: https://dgplug.org/summertraining17/ I'm more than happy to answer any questions. FWIW, Kushal is a legend. His efforts, reach and outcomes when it comes to building a Python community dwarf all others. India's flourishing Python community is largely down to the efforts of Kushal and his allies (PyCon India is the second largest PyCon in the world, at close to 2000 attendees). We all have so much to learn from Kushal. Best wishes, N.

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Handling large file uploads
by Hansel Dunlop April 11, 2017

April 11, 2017

Hello all I'm working on an application that has to accept large uploads. Think ~ 2GB+ size files getting uploaded over slowish connections. These files are eventually going to end up in S3. Uploading smallish files is not a problem. But things get a bit complicated when you're dealing with large files and load balanced servers. Servers that can be replaced at any time. Has anyone done something similar? My current plan is: 1. Accept chunked uploads. So the app/browser sends individual POST requests with ~10mb chunks. Once that upload is complete the server responds with a chunk id and the current offset 2. The server stores each intermediate chunk in a temporary S3 bucket 3. Once the final chunk has been uploaded the server kicks off another process that stitches the pieces together and puts the whole file into it's final location. And then deletes the intermediate pieces. I think I have to do the file in chunks like this but maybe there is some way to stream the files somewhere? -- Hansel

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Python engineer/ Nameko/ Micro-services/ Soho
by Sophie Hendley April 11, 2017

April 11, 2017

Hey Guys, I am looking for a (mid-level) Python developer to join one of my favourite managers in their Platform Engineering team. The role is based at the office in soho where they build things that help students (hopefully you like students). As mentioned above the guys are working on the Nameko framework (their manager helped build it at Onefinestay). Its a close collaborative team and perfect for someone with a few years Python experience that wants to step things up and learn from some amazingly experience guys. Salary up to 60k. Drop me an email if it sounds intriguing and we can have a proper chat about it. Thanks guys, have a great day. Sophie -- Sophie Hendley| Principal Consultant| Digital Vision *M:* 07505145903 *E: *sophie.hendley(a)digvis.co.uk *W:* www.digvis.co.uk Sponsor me please!!!!- https://www.justgiving.com/sophiehendley/

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London projects night, Wednesday 19th April
by S Walker April 7, 2017

April 7, 2017

Good morning all, Anyone interested in coming and hacking on that project-that-you-are-going-to-start-soon-maybe-even-tomorrow, the next projects night is on Wednesday 19th April in London. Come along and join in! https://www.meetup.com/London-Python-Project-Nights/events/238879566/ Thanks, S

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