From padarn at gmail.com Mon Feb 3 00:38:22 2014 From: padarn at gmail.com (Padarn Wilson) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:38:22 +1100 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] FEBRUARY 6TH MEETING CANCELLED - next meeting March Message-ID: Hi all, Unfortunately due to a lack of speakers we have decided to cancel the February meeting of the Python users group that was planned for later this week. The meetings will instead start up again on the 6th of March. There should be enough speakers for this meeting, but expressions of interest to speak are certainly always welcome. Cheers Padarn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From padarn at gmail.com Mon Feb 24 23:21:41 2014 From: padarn at gmail.com (Padarn Wilson) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:21:41 +1100 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Meeting 6th of March Message-ID: Hi all, The next Canberra PUG meeting will take place on the 6th of March, 6pm in John Dedman G35 (the Neumann room), ANU. Gavin Jackson has diligently been keeping our social media up to date, and details about the meeting can be found on the G+ event here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c3v4m916ptobuceiq6b89g11lu8?authkey=COX57rayk43JvwE I've also copied the details of the talk to the bottom of this email. Looks like a good talk, I hope everyone can make it! Padarn ------------------ TALK DETAILS ------------------------ *Presentation Topic* "Sorry for the convenience" An introduction to the Pyramid web application framework *Presenter* Gavin Jackson (www.gavinj.net) - a local software engineer who has written several Pyramid web applications for his employer. *Abstract* Jump in and start building high quality, scalable web applications using the Pyramid micro-framework - in this presentation Gavin will discuss the history of Pyramid, create a demonstration web application that uses pyramid project scaffolding, web templating libraries, the use of deform and bootstrap to produce responsive web interfaces. *Homework* If you would like to follow along with the tutorial, run the following before rocking up (assuming python 2.7 with virtualenv installed): virtualenv --no-site-packages pyramid-env . pyramid-env/bin/activate pip install pyramid pip install deform pip install deform-bootstrap wget https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/download/v3.1.1/bootstrap-3.1.1-dist.zip pcreate -t starter test_project This will create a test project using the starter scaffold. Fire it up by running: pserve test_project/development.ini We will proceed to turn this into something pretty. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ed at pythoncharmers.com Fri Feb 28 06:05:24 2014 From: ed at pythoncharmers.com (Ed Schofield) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:05:24 +1100 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Position for a scientific Python programmer Message-ID: Hi all! Is anyone interested in a scientific Python programming job? I have been asked to post the job ad below. It looks like a good opportunity for the right person. If you?re interested, please contact Daehyok Shin (details below). Cheers, Ed ??????? Scientific Python Programmer (Melbourne or Canberra, Australia) $76,025 - $86,438 per annum, plus an additional 15.4% superannuation Scientific Python programmer. We are looking for a scientific Python developer to work in the area of hydrological modelling and water forecasting. You will be involved in developing forecasting tools to produce and deliver water information products at a variety of time-scales with an emphasis on web delivery of products. Full-time for one-year. ? professional knowledge and experience of the Python standard library as well as key third party packages for scientific computing such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib and PyTables ? experience with basic software engineering practices (e.g. distributed VCS, issue tracking, code review) ? experience with shell scripting and basic Linux system administration tasks ? familiarity with scientific data management practices and formats (e.g NetCDF and HDF) and/or relational databases ? web development experience (with Javascript/HTML/CSS) would be an additional benefit You will be part of a team working across a number of projects delivering systems and development support, as such, strong communication skills are a must. Contact: Daehyok Shin, The Bureau of Meteorology, Australia E-mail contact: d.shin at bom.gov.au No telecommuting ??????? -- Dr. Edward Schofield Python Charmers +61 (0)405 676 229 http://pythoncharmers.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: