[Chicago] This Thursday July 12: ChiPy July Meeting at "1871"

Eric Stein toba at des.truct.org
Sun Jul 15 00:41:50 CEST 2012


Will the slides be posted? I'd love to have the slides from Adrian's 
talk if possible.

Eric

P.S. Adrian that talk was awesome.

On 07/10/2012 08:34 AM, Brian Ray wrote:
> Adrian Holovaty, Co-creator of Django, founder of EveryBlock, long
> time ChiPy member, will be presenting on extracting music information
> from sound. Ben Toews (aka mastahyeti), security expert, gets fancy
> with his SQL injecting tool.  Joshua Herman, Python evangelist,  will
> hit the bottle (that is bottle.py). As promised we will have table
> tenis (aka ping pong) tables set up so come in early if you want to
> play. Doors open at 6pm, meeting starts promptly at 7pm. Free, as in
> Beer. Robots Welcome.
>
> If your not convinced by this amazing line up, flawless venue, bouncy
> ping pong tables, and charismatic sponsors... this will be our best
> meeting ever!
>
> RSVP at http://chipy.org/
>
> Quick Links:
> YES http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/50/yes
> MAYBE http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/50/maybe
>
> When
> ----
>
> Thursday July 12th, 2012 at 7PM (doors open at 6pm)
>
> Where
> -----
>
> "1871"
> The Merchandise Mart
> 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza
> 12th Floor
> Chicago, IL, 60654
>
> Directions to The Mart:
> http://www.mmart.com/merchmart/index.cfm/plan-your-visit/directions/
>
> Directions once you're in the building:
> Walk to any center bank of elevators, take to the 12 floor. Walk to
> West end of the building.
>
> Agenda
> -------
>
> 1) 6pm-7pm Table Tenis and Social hour
>
> Thank you Killer Spin http://www.killerspin.com/ for donation of the
> table tenis and equipment. Also thank you Textura for donations of
> pizza and drink.
>
> 2) 7pm  Official Start time. Intro, word from our sponsors
>
> 3) 7:15pm Extracting musical information from sound
> By: Adrian Holovaty
> Music Information Retrieval technology has gotten good enough that you
> extract musical metadata from your sound files with some degree of
> accuracy. Find out how to use Python (along with third-party APIs) to
> determine everything from the key/tempo of a song to the pitch/timbre
> of individual notes. Then we'll do some amusing analysis of popular
> tunes. This is a talk from PyCon 2012, with some small improvements.
>
> 4) 8:10pm BBQSQL
> By: Ben Toews
> Ben recently discovered event driven concurrency. He will be talking
> about some of the basics as well as trying to compare it with other
> concurrency options. The focus will be on its application in a few
> recent projects as well as a comparison of Python's gevent and
> node.js.
>
> 5) 8:45pm Web app development with bottle.py, twitter bootstrap and
> formalchemy.
> By: Joshua Herman
> Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight micro web-framework for
> Python. It is distributed as a single file module. I will show you how
> to use it with twitter bootstrap and interface with form alchemy so
> you can make a quick utility fast.
>
> A word...
> -----------
>
> from our meeting sponsor...
>
> """Textura is experiencing excellent growth. We are looking to add
> Python Developers (end to end development) to join our team. Textura
> provides an opportunity to work with the latest and greatest
> technologies. In addition, we provide excellent growth opportunities,
> support creativity, and offer competitive compensation & benefits.
> Please contact Jessica Cassidy 312-496-7975 or
> jessica.cassidy at texturacorp.com if interested in learning more."""
>
>
> About ChiPy
> -----------
>
> ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers. Participants range
> from absolute beginners to seasoned veterans. In short, *everyone* is
> welcome (including you)! Every second Thursday of the month ChiPy
> members gather to give talks on a wide variety of topics related to
> Python and related technology. Our community benefits from a variety
> of participants, so we would love it if you would make yourself a
> participant!
>
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