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 * January 14th, 2009: Presentation about Django, Pinax & related discussion

The Austin Python User Group (affectionately, APUG) was restarted in early 2006 on meetup.com. As of September 2006, we've moved to this wiki page and the scipy-hosted mailing list. There's also still a presence on meetup.com, since several folks have requested the Python meetup through that site. We'll maintain both this wiki presence and the meetup until there's a clear winner.

Meetings are generally the second Wednesday of each month at the Enthought offices at 7pm. The entrance to the building is on Congress; if the door is locked, you can press the intercom buzzer and tell the security guy that you're here to visit Enthought for the Python meeting. He should let you in and make you sign in.

Enthought's office is on the 21st floor. Once you enter the front door of the office, if there's no one there, proceed down the hallway to your right (do make the turns around corners!) and near the very end of the hallway, there will be a conference room, and we will be in there with the pizza and drinks.

Parking downtown can be tricky, though metered street spots are free at this time. There are also a number of parking garages around, though I don't know the fee details. 515 Congress does have its own parking garage but usually the security gate is down for the night by the time of the APUG meeting so you can't get in. If you do manage to get in, don't worry about getting out as you can always buzz the security guard to request the raising of the exit gate.


Table of Contents:

Next Meeting

Upcoming Schedule

Please list any ideas for discussion here.

Previous meetings

  • January 14th, 2009: Presentation about Django, Pinax & related discussion

  • December 10th, 2008: Matt Ray gave a demonstration of Zenoss and talked about how they use Python in their product
  • November 12th, 2008: Discussion about AI, neural networks, etc.
  • September 10th, 2008: Optaros presents The High School Sports Network: Inside of a high-load publishing application written in Python and Django

  • August 13th, 2008: How to Contribute to the Austin Django Sprint, and iPython Widgetry (presenter names?).
  • July 9th, 2008: Dave Peterson's presentation on setuptools and eggs
  • June 11th, 2008: IDE show-and-tell. A roundtable discussion about what environments and tools people are using to develop their Python projects. Some of the tools mentioned were:
  • May 14, 2008: Special guest speaker Greg Wilson talked about "Beautiful Code" and other topics. Great turnout!

  • April 16, 2008: Big turnout this month. Discussed Google App Engine and other topics.

  • Mar 12, 2008: Held at PyCon 2008

  • Feb 13, 2008: CNC machine controls using Python
  • Oct 10th, 2007: Using Python for teaching languages in Indonesia
  • Aug 8th, 2007: Multitouch table, hacking Tivo
  • Jul 11th, 2007: Web scraping Travis County tax data, analyzing Prosper.com data
  • May 16th, 2007: Sudoku sprint
  • March 7th, 2007: Exciting topics from PyCon 2007.

  • February 8th, 2007: Web Development discussions (mostly around Django)
  • January 18th, 2007 Topic: My first Django Site (that I got paid for)

  • December 7th, 2006. Topic: How Pyro is used at NetworkIP (Eugene Oden)
  • October 12th, 2006. No one volunteered to give a presentation so it was just a social. Here is a page describing the meeting.

Topic ideas for future events

Topic suggestions:

  • Intro to Twisted
  • What's new in Python 3000
  • Python Testing Tools (doctest, unitest, etc..)
  • Python performance (tips, tricks, etc...)
  • Building GUI apps
  • Web Development with Python (Django, TurboGears, Zope, Plone, etc.)

  • Profiling and debugging tools
  • Growing the APUG community
  • Web Development with Google App Engine

Topics you're willing to speak about (with speaker identified):


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