From paul.leopardi at anu.edu.au Mon Apr 1 04:14:55 2013 From: paul.leopardi at anu.edu.au (Paul C. Leopardi) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:14:55 +1100 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] First 2013 Canberra Python Users Group Meeting 7pm Thu 4 Apr, CSIT N101, ANU Message-ID: <1674721.PvqY65KM9Y@linfinit> Hi All, This is a reminder that the first Canberra Python Users Group Meeting for 2013 is on at 7pm this Thursday, 4th April, at Building 108, CSIT, room N101. There should be someone there to let you in from about 6:45 onwards. The topic for the meeting is "Why Python? What's it good for?" and you are welcome to give a short (5-10 minute) informal talk on how you are using Python. Use the wiki http://wiki.python.org/moin/CanberraPUG to see what's already scheduled and to announce your talk. We will be ordering pizzas, so come hungry and bring a donation (around $5-$6) if you want some. Also, please go to http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-Python-Meetup-Group/events/suggested/ and click on "I'm Attending". We still need one more RSVP so that the meeting can be announced to the Meetup group. Thanks and out, Paul -- Paul Leopardi http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~leopardi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chrisjrn at gmail.com Tue Apr 2 02:18:46 2013 From: chrisjrn at gmail.com (Chris Neugebauer) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:18:46 +1100 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] PyCon Australia 2013 Call for Proposals closes this Friday! Message-ID: This week marks your last opportunity to submit proposals to present at PyCon Australia 2013, the national conference for the Python programming community, to be held on July 6 and 7 in Hobart, Tasmania. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday April 5, 2013, and more information can be found at http://pycon-au.org/cfp PyCon Australia is an excellent opportunity to share experience and knowledge with like-minded Python developers from all walks of life -- we attract professional developers from industry, government, science and education, along with enthusiast and student developers. Presentations can be targeted at all skill levels, on any topic related to Python programming. This year, we're welcoming DjangoCon AU under the PyCon Australia umbrella, it'll run on Friday 5 July, before the main conference. Every Django-related proposal we receive in the PyCon Australia CFP will also be considered as part of the DjangoCon AU programme. Our OpenStack Miniconf is running a separate CFP, and first-round submissions close on April 9. Details can be found at the OpenStack Miniconf CFP site (http://tinyurl.com/pyconau-2013-openstack). If you're a first-time Python developer, don't be afraid to submit a presentation -- we're a community-driven conference, and we have a focus on building the next generation of Python programmers. We can't wait to see your proposals. == About PyCon Australia == PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fourth PyCon Australia will be held on July 5--7, 2013 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2013, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum sponsor: Australian Computer Society (Tasmanian Branch) (www.acs.org.au); and our Gold Sponsor, Google Australia (www.google.com.au). For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -- -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison PyCon Australia: Hobart 2013 -- http://pycon-au.org -- @pyconau 5?7 July 2013; CFP now open: closes 5 April -- http://pycon-au.org/cfp Jabber: chrisjrn at gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn From padarn at gmail.com Thu Apr 11 09:18:21 2013 From: padarn at gmail.com (Padarn Wilson) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:18:21 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Topics for next Users Group meeting - Call for speakers Message-ID: Hi all, The next meeting for the Canberra Python Users Group has been scheduled for 6pm, 2nd of May 2013. I will send out a reminder via the mailing list closer to the time. For this meeting the topic will be: *Statistics using Python* and *Efficient Workflow in Python* I will give a short talk on my experiences in using Python for statistics. If anyone would like to give a talk, or has a suggestion for our main speaker please either reply to the mailing list or to one of the organizers (me for example) directly. If people have ideas for other speakers/topics for future meetings then these are also appreciated. Two possible subjects we've identified are: *-Consistency and reproducible science using Python * *-Directions in high performance numerics using Python * Paul Leopardi has set up a google+ event here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c6gab73vrkhd4binea43n5u8rgo It would be helpful if people RSVP via the event, but it is not at all essential. I hope to see you there. Padarn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From chrisjrn at gmail.com Mon Apr 29 01:07:41 2013 From: chrisjrn at gmail.com (Chris Neugebauer) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:07:41 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] PyCon Australia 2013 Early Bird registrations almost sold out! Message-ID: tl;dr: PyCon Australia's Early Bird registrations are on sale until this Friday, 3 May -- or until we've sold 80 tickets. There's fewer than 20 left now, so hurry! Find out more at http://2013.pycon-au.org/register/prices, including details of our accommodation programme. Are you planning on coming to PyCon Australia 2013, the national conference for the Python programming community? If you've been putting off your registration, now is an excellent time to act: there's fewer than 20 Early Bird tickets left for the conference, and these WILL sell out before the deadline of Friday 3 May. Early Bird registration rates are available from $165 for "Enthusiast"-level tickets, or $420 for our all-inclusive "Professional"-level tickets; each of these represents a saving of more than 10% on our regular prices. All tickets include access to the CodeWars event on Friday 5 July, and the post-conference sprints on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July. Professional tickets include access to DjangoCon AU or the OpenStack Miniconf on Friday 5 July, admission to a Miniconf is available to Enthusiast ticket holders for $44. For full details of what comes with each of our tickets, and for more information about the conference itself, visithttp://2013.pycon-au.org/register/prices. === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fourth PyCon Australia will be held on July 5--7, 2013 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2013, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum sponsor: Australian Computer Society (Tasmanian Branch) (www.acs.org.au); and our Gold Sponsors, Google Australia (www.google.com.au), the Tasmanian Government Department of Economic Development, and TasICT. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. From padarn at gmail.com Tue Apr 30 02:14:26 2013 From: padarn at gmail.com (Padarn Wilson) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:14:26 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Meeting reminder - 2nd of May Message-ID: Hi All, This is a reminder that the Users Group will be meeting this week, Thursday 2nd of May. Please be careful to note two changes from last time: - The meeting will start at 6pm, with talks beginning around 6:15pm. We will finish up by 8pm at the latest. - There will be no catering provided. Hope to see you there. Padarn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eliswilson at hushmail.com Tue Apr 30 23:59:45 2013 From: eliswilson at hushmail.com (eliswilson at hushmail.com) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:59:45 -0400 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Message-ID: <20130430215945.37D3614DBE1@smtp.hushmail.com> Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world?s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP?s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See Section 2 of http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from scientific to other (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP?s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia?s) pockets. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP?13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP?s fraudulent activities. That is why WORLDCOMP?13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP?s website is just an email address! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet?s activities at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.