From eric at intellovations.com Thu Aug 13 03:30:02 2009 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:30:02 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] First Central Ohio Python User Group Meeting September 28 Message-ID: <34f468870908121830p6d267634we2e7483085af782@mail.gmail.com> All, This list has been dormant for a while, but that is hopefully going to change. I'm happy to report our first meeting of the Central Ohio Python User Group will be Monday, September 28, at 6:30pm at TechColumbus. TechColumbus is located at 1275 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212. If you have an interest in Python and can attend the meeting, we'd love to have you! Please forward this to anyone you know who might be interested, or any groups who might have members who would like to attend. This list will be the official communcation vehicle for the group. If you know people who are interested and aren't signed up for the list, please have them sign up at: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh We're still in the early stages of forming a group and are in need of some volunteers. Anything you can contribute will be greatly appreciated! 1. Publicity -- gettting the word out to other groups (computer society, linux user group, meetup, techlife columbus, etc.) I can help give you the contacts and introduce you to the ones I know about. 2. Agenda -- soliciting ideas from everyone and putting together a meeting agenda, wrangling speakers or volunteers to talk about Python topics, and sending it out. 3. Note-taker -- someone to take notes at the meeting and publish a short summary including important announcements mentioned at the meeting. If you would like to help out and have an hour or two to spare, thank you so much, and please let me know. Also, if you have any ideas or suggestions for the group, please reply to the list. For those of you whom I've met, I look forward to seeing you again in September! For those of you whom I've not met, I look forward to the opportunity to meet you in September! Best Regards, Eric Floehr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian.costlow at gmail.com Fri Aug 14 19:18:39 2009 From: brian.costlow at gmail.com (Brian Costlow) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:18:39 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy User's Group Meeting Topics Message-ID: <89d8b1b00908141018v1f73ad46pe9baba0c73a3e94e@mail.gmail.com> All, Here are some of my ideas for meeting presentation topics, based on things I would like to see. Now it's time for everyone else to chime in. I think trying to manage this via the list is going to get unwieldy. However, until we come up with a better repository/tracker, just reply to this thread on the list to suggest your own topics, 'second' a suggested topic, or volunteer to present on a topic. That way it's at least in one easily search-able thread. It strikes me that some little Django/TG2 app would work for this (could add suggestions, vote, and volunteer, etc. via the app). If we get enough yea's on that idea, I'll volunteer to start on one, but I'd need a host, I don't have access to any publicly available servers at the moment. Alternatively, we could stick MoinMoin somewhere and just make this a Wiki topic, or feel free to suggest alternatives. Key->Value DBs with Python client libs Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant Couch DB Mongo DB Redis memcachedb Deep(er) Dive into python ORMs Django (including use outside of the whole framework) SQLAlchemy Storm ??? Functional Programming. Iterators,generators, map, lambdas, tour of the functools lib, python "closures". NumPy, SciPy Especially love to hear from anyone using this to do Excel-business-type apps as opposed to a NumPy/SciPy Matlab-type app. Multiprocessing module Alternatives? Threading on Jython or IronPython? Twisted + Ampoule (is that project even alive?) Python web frameworks where framework not in ["Django", "TurboGears", "Pylons"] Profiling python code. Using shlex with DSLs or custom configuration files. XML parsers comparison. GUI Desktop app toolkits+frameworks Especially PyQt, PyWebkitGtk, PyJamasDesktop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nludban at osc.edu Fri Aug 14 22:57:30 2009 From: nludban at osc.edu (Neil Ludban) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:57:30 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] First Central Ohio Python User Group Meeting September 28 In-Reply-To: <34f468870908121830p6d267634we2e7483085af782@mail.gmail.com> References: <34f468870908121830p6d267634we2e7483085af782@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090814165730.e91264fb.nludban@osc.edu> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:30:02 -0400 Eric Floehr wrote: > 2. Agenda -- soliciting ideas from everyone and putting together a meeting > agenda, wrangling speakers or volunteers to talk about Python topics, and > sending it out. What about reserving 20-30 minutes at the beginning of each meeting for lightning talks? From james at atlantixeng.com Sat Aug 15 13:53:50 2009 From: james at atlantixeng.com (James - Atlantix) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:53:50 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] SciPy/Numpy and Excel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000001ca1d9f$0ebc56b0$2c350410$@com> Brian; I am responding to proposed topic of "NumPy, SciPy Especially love to hear from anyone using this to do Excel-business-type apps as opposed to a NumPy/SciPy Matlab-type app." I have developed several applications with Python employing the COM interface to Excel as an engineering application. The basic structure of the app is to parse electrical schematics via a COM/OLE type interface, then opens Excel and creates a very well defined Excel mutli-page worksheet that is a bill of material. This BOM is then used by purchasing agents to acquire electrical components for the PCB being built. There is some basic math involved in the process. I would be interested to present on this topic. I have also used Numpy/Scipy for various applications. The use of Python to effectively add additional seats of Matlab computing capability as companies need these type of computing resources is very applicable in present economic times. All the more reason why SciPy/NumPy is going to be a very valuable toolset to the engineering community. Thanks, James -----Original Message----- From: centraloh-bounces+james=atlantixeng.com at python.org [mailto:centraloh-bounces+james=atlantixeng.com at python.org] On Behalf Of centraloh-request at python.org Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:00 AM To: centraloh at python.org Subject: CentralOH Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2 Send CentralOH mailing list submissions to centraloh at python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centraloh-request at python.org You can reach the person managing the list at centraloh-owner at python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentralOH digest..." Today's Topics: 1. COhPy User's Group Meeting Topics (Brian Costlow) 2. Re: First Central Ohio Python User Group Meeting September 28 (Neil Ludban) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:18:39 -0400 From: Brian Costlow To: centraloh at python.org Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy User's Group Meeting Topics Message-ID: <89d8b1b00908141018v1f73ad46pe9baba0c73a3e94e at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" All, Here are some of my ideas for meeting presentation topics, based on things I would like to see. Now it's time for everyone else to chime in. I think trying to manage this via the list is going to get unwieldy. However, until we come up with a better repository/tracker, just reply to this thread on the list to suggest your own topics, 'second' a suggested topic, or volunteer to present on a topic. That way it's at least in one easily search-able thread. It strikes me that some little Django/TG2 app would work for this (could add suggestions, vote, and volunteer, etc. via the app). If we get enough yea's on that idea, I'll volunteer to start on one, but I'd need a host, I don't have access to any publicly available servers at the moment. Alternatively, we could stick MoinMoin somewhere and just make this a Wiki topic, or feel free to suggest alternatives. Key->Value DBs with Python client libs Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant Couch DB Mongo DB Redis memcachedb Deep(er) Dive into python ORMs Django (including use outside of the whole framework) SQLAlchemy Storm ??? Functional Programming. Iterators,generators, map, lambdas, tour of the functools lib, python "closures". NumPy, SciPy Especially love to hear from anyone using this to do Excel-business-type apps as opposed to a NumPy/SciPy Matlab-type app. Multiprocessing module Alternatives? Threading on Jython or IronPython? Twisted + Ampoule (is that project even alive?) Python web frameworks where framework not in ["Django", "TurboGears", "Pylons"] Profiling python code. Using shlex with DSLs or custom configuration files. XML parsers comparison. GUI Desktop app toolkits+frameworks Especially PyQt, PyWebkitGtk, PyJamasDesktop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:57:30 -0400 From: Neil Ludban To: Eric Floehr Cc: centraloh at python.org Subject: Re: [CentralOH] First Central Ohio Python User Group Meeting September 28 Message-ID: <20090814165730.e91264fb.nludban at osc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:30:02 -0400 Eric Floehr wrote: > 2. Agenda -- soliciting ideas from everyone and putting together a meeting > agenda, wrangling speakers or volunteers to talk about Python topics, and > sending it out. What about reserving 20-30 minutes at the beginning of each meeting for lightning talks? ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentralOH mailing list CentralOH at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh End of CentralOH Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2 **************************************** From brian.costlow at gmail.com Sat Aug 15 19:07:26 2009 From: brian.costlow at gmail.com (Brian Costlow) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:07:26 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy User's Group Meeting Topics Message-ID: <89d8b1b00908151007u4e1f36f8g42c3fb543b843797@mail.gmail.com> James, I'd love to see what you've done. Would you be ready to present on the first meeting (7/28)? How long do you think your presentation would run? (Note: changed subject to try to move this back under the Meeting Topics Thread) Regards, Brian On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM, James - Atlantix wrote: > > Brian; > > I am responding to proposed topic of > "NumPy, SciPy > Especially love to hear from anyone using this to do Excel-business-type > apps > as opposed to a NumPy/SciPy Matlab-type app." > > I have developed several applications with Python employing the COM > interface to Excel as an engineering application. The basic structure of the > app is to parse electrical schematics via a COM/OLE type interface, then > opens Excel and creates a very well defined Excel mutli-page worksheet that > is a bill of material. This BOM is then used by purchasing agents to acquire > electrical components for the PCB being built. There is some basic math > involved in the process. I would be interested to present on this topic. I > have also used Numpy/Scipy for various applications. The use of Python to > effectively add additional seats of Matlab computing capability as companies > need these type of computing resources is very applicable in present > economic times. All the more reason why SciPy/NumPy is going to be a very > valuable toolset to the engineering community. > > Thanks, > > James > > From eric at intellovations.com Sat Aug 15 23:03:35 2009 From: eric at intellovations.com (Eric Floehr) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:03:35 -0400 Subject: [CentralOH] COhPy Meetup group Message-ID: <34f468870908151403x18ac33bdrb74329b29887fa36@mail.gmail.com> All, I created a Meetup group to keep track of the calendar and help with RSVPing. If you are interested in joining, head over to the Central Ohio Python Users Group Meetup at: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh Also, please RSVP if you are planning to attend the September 28th meeting. Thanks so much! Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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