[Baypiggies] BayPIGies presentation proposal - Cultivating innovation in the public sector with Python

[Nagappan Alagappan]

+1 for first 2 topics. Thanks

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Brian Peterson <bpeterso2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> At the August Python users group meeting the question was asked if anyone
> would be interested in giving a talk in the coming months.  Here is my
> presentation proposal, let me know if there is any interest...
> Cultivating innovation in the public sector with Python
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> After 15+ years in private sector engineering & scientific R&D, moving
> into the public sector was quite an awakening.  How do you leapfrog a
> culture that’s technologically a decade or more behind the curve?  One
> method that has started to show success is leveraging Python as a
> practitioner's tool rather than just another "programming language". In
> this presentation I will provide use cases of how using Python as a
> practitioner's tool can help plant seeds of innovation in environments &
> cultures that are traditionally slow to adopt new technology. Sample
> projects include, but are not limited to:
>
> *        Python/SciPy-based event probability monitoring plug-in for
> Nagios; alerting and reporting on abnormal behavior patterns in complex
> systems.
> *         Django-based multi-tenant, multi-lingual, mobile-friendly
> customer check-in, queuing and analytics system that leverages
> web-services, wireless Internet TV's, Twilio and iSpeech.
> *         An introduction and working demonstration of Web2py as a
> practitioner’s web-based front-end.
>
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