Charlottesville Python Meetup Group (PyCHO) has meetups by announcement in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Developers
Join the centralva@python.org mailing list, introduce yourself, ask questions, share your interests, and propose a meetup.
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Recruiters
If you're a recruiter looking for Python developers, you are one of many. You are welcome to send mail to Python developers in Central VA at centralva@python.org , a private moderated list. However, note that you'll have better success meeting and networking with Python developers than simply blasting out a job posting.
If you are a Python developer looking for a job, see the list archives for postings and get in touch with PyCHO members through the mailing list (or try contacting the organizer).
Discussion and Questions
mailing list: centralva@python.org (subscribe here)
mailing list archives are available to subscribers here
PyCHO was created by Ron DuPlain. As of October 2013, the group is now being run by Andrew Montalenti. Feel free to email him with questions or ideas about the local Python user group. Try the mailing list first. For questions on Python (and you're local), use the mailing list.
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Next Meeting
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Topic: Modern Python Concurrency
- Presenters: Doug Turnbull (Open Source Connections) and Andrew Montalenti (Parse.ly)
Center for Open Science, 210 Ridge McIntire Road, Suite 500, Charlottesville, VA 22903
- + some many assorted lightning talks
- slides/video forthcoming
Past Meetings/Events/Notes
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Topic: Docker, Containers for Humans
- Presenter: Mike Wilkerson of Willow Tree Apps
- ~30 attendees
Center for Open Science, 210 Ridge McIntire Road, Suite 500, Charlottesville, VA 22903
- + some many assorted lightning talks from Center for Open Science summer interns
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Center for Open Science, 210 Ridge McIntire Road, Suite 500, Charlottesville, VA 22903
- + some assorted lightning talks
- ~12 attendees
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Topic: Python for Dev Ops
Center for Open Science, 210 Ridge McIntire Road, Suite 500, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Mike Wilkerson (of Willow Tree Apps) on Salt Stack & Docker
Mac MacCorkle (of Second Life) on Ansible, Blueprint & Fabric
- ~30 attendees
- some assorted lightning talks, as well
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Topic: Pandas and rapid data visualization with Python by AndrewMontalenti
- ~20 attendees
Center for Open Science, 210 Ridge McIntire Road, Suite 500, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
- 15 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
Topic: Charlottesville PyCon Digest - PyCon attendees shared conference highlights
Meeting Format through November 2011
- arrival and social - 15m
- round-table introductions - 10m
- open format - floor is open for recent modules / reading material / fun Python bits - things for others to take away from the meeting - 40m
headline topic - conference-grade discussion or talk followed by Q&A - 40m
- open discussion / sidebars - 15m
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
- 9 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
- presentation: Google App Engine, presented by Wei Wang
Saturday, October 29, 2011
- 15 attendees
Meetup in Richmond sponsored by Capital TechSearch. http://pythonmeetup.eventbrite.com/
- 10:30a-2:30p
Thibaud => Introduction to RESTful APIs using Python/Django/Piston
Ron => Testing in Python: From simple tools you shouldn't miss to 100% test coverage
Dan => Building advanced forms for Web and more with ToscaWidgets
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
- 5 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
- hack night
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
- 8 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
- Building APIs in Django: a look at Piston and Tastypie - Thibaud and Matt
Using BuildBot for continuous integration of Flask and its extensions - Ron
Also: A look at search with Haystack (Thibaud) and a sneak peek of TryFlask on ep.io (Ron)
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
- 9 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
Topic: PyGame! http://pygame.org/ - presented by Jonathan Nye
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
- 9 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
Topic: Unicode in Python - http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html - http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
- 14 attendees
WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)
- Topic: asynchronous programming
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
- 10 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Topic: Building server-side APIs for mobile (native) applications, led by Michael Prichard of WillowTree Apps.
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011
- 14 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Topic: Charlottesville PyCon Digest - PyCon attendees shared conference highlights and insights through lightning talks followed by an open discussion.
PyCon 2011
- 10 attendees from Charlottesville!
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011
- 12 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
- Topic: SQLAlchemy: Object Relation Mapping (ORM) and so much more, plus a taste of metaprogramming
Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011
- 5 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Topic: Development environments. Let us look over your shoulder as you interact with Python. Share editor configurations, tools, and tips. At a previous meetup, editors included: idle, emacs inside screen, gvim, vim inside screen, TextMate, Eclipse with PyDev, and Kate.
Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010
- 4 attendees (plus many reqrets due to weather, illness, and a newly born baby)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
- Topic was editing environments, but turned into an open discussion and hack session.
Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010
- 8 attendees (plus 1 regret)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Topic: Spinx. An amazing documentation tool for compiling camera-ready docs in html, pdf, and epub from a concise set of restructured text documents and Python docstrings. See http://sphinx.pocoo.org/. One notable example of Sphinx output: http://docs.python.org/
Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010
- 6 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
hack night: we discussed our personal projects - during the meeting, we published the alpha version of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/consolation to the cheeseshop
Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010
- 4 attendees (plus 2 called in sick)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
What have you been doing in Python? We shared recent tips and ideas. Topics included interfacing with LDAP, Flickr API scripting, ipython interactive interpreter configuration, and literate testing (writing documents as tests and verifying with nose).
Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010
- 5 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Kai Groner gave demos and led a discussion on Behavior Driven Development using Lettuce for Python, with a walkthrough on writing test code, writing functional specs, and running automated tests in the browser with Selenium (through Lettuce hooks). This approach allows a project to write functional specifications using simple grammar and somewhat natural English statements, tests for which can be automated and run nightly or on-demand in the development cycle.
Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010
- 6 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Topic: Demo a module/package (or a few) which you have been using lately: http://xkcd.com/353/.
- csv (Matt)
- SimpleHTTPServer (Ron)
- itertools, itertools.groupby (Kai)
- flask (Ron)
- lxml (Robert)
- selenium (Robert)
- ipython (Kai)
rlcompleter & readline (Ron)
- bpython (Ron)
- pysolr (Ron)
Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010
- 7 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Our session was Python 102. We provided a continued introduction to Python, then broke out into Q&A.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
- 7 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
- Our session was Python 101. We provided a brief introduction to Python, then paired up attendees who are old and new to Python.
- We also gave away a freshly minted Learning Python (Lutz) book... you missed out!
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010
- 9 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Dan Lepage (UVA) led a discussion on scientific computing, image manipulation, matlab-style graphing and plotting in Python, and high-performance extensions (C, CUDA) for Python. CUDA is NVIDIA's platform for highly parallel applications on graphics processors.
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
26 attendees (20 AgileCville, 6 PyCHO)
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Joined AgileCville for a series of talks/discussions on technical debt. Meeting details (including what technical debt is): here
Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
- 3 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
investigated Python in a Debian environment running on an Android G1 - Android and Debian running on the same device without interfering with each other (setup instructions here)
- discussed experience with running Python on embedded devices - not as slow as some might think
- Debian on Android gives a full Python installation with entire standard library
can connect to Android Scripting Environment (ASE) by RPC to access Android API from the Debian side
- no laptop or additional computer needed to run full Python scripts on the ASE
- virtualenv and extension modules work fine on debian+Android
installed supervisor on Android via Debian; can easily launch any linux-based background application on Android using supervisor!
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
- 3 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
A look at pyjamas
- discussed new hack night format
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009
- 5 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
More Python on Android with the Android Scripting Environment (ASE).
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
- 5 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
Dove into Python on Android with the Android Scripting Environment (ASE).
We had 3 Android phones (incl. the new Droid), and played with sensors & httpd. We added a simple hack to allow connecting ASE over wifi, without USB cables. This will allow future attendees to run Python on an Android device from their laptops, without needing to bring their own Android device (esp. if they don't have one).
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
- 4 attendees
OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)
explored werkzeug.contrib.atom and demo'd Atom in LodgeIt
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009
- 4 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
hacked a simple proof of concept for RSS of pasties in LodgeIt
Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
- 6 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
- discussed unit testing in Python:
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
- 6 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
started the PyCHO project, discussed http://pypi.python.org/pypi
project: http://github.com/fj/whiskeytub
Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009
- 4 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
- "hack night"
- discussed potential projects to tackle as a group
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
- 7 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
- theme: Dive into Python Web Frameworks
presentation: Diving into CGI, WSGI, and web.py, led by Ron DuPlain
presentation: Diving into Django, led by Matt Dawson
presentation: Diving into SQLAlchemy, led by Kai Groner
- Served: soft drinks + cookies
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- 7 attendees
520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)
presentation: What's in a Python Users Group?
Ron DuPlain
- demo: PyPI, pip, and virtualenv
- Kai Groner
Ron DuPlain
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
- Hello, World.