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BayPiggies Meetings at Google

BayPiggies will hold meetings at Google on the second Thursday of each month. This wiki page is a communication tool for visitors to Google for these meetings. If you plan to attend, please add yourself to the attendee list for each applicable date.

NOTE

Our usual room in Building 43 is not available for the May 10 meeting, so we'll be convening in Seville Tech Talk. Check in at building 41 reception, then security will escort you to Seville in building 40.

Overview

Program

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Location: Google

Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

..... 7:35 PM to 8:40 PM ................ Topic: Unittest Speaker: Collin Winter

About the Talk: Collin reports on his recent work to redesign Python's unittest module. This is a preview of the presentation he'll be giving at EuroPython 2007 on the same topic: "Python's unittest module sucks. Come find out why and what's being done to fix it."

Links: http://oakwinter.com/code/a-new-unittest/ http://oakwinter.com/code/pythons-unittest-module-sucks/ http://oakwinter.com/code/motivation-for-rewriting-unittest/

About Collin: Collin is a Python core developer and works at Google with Guido van Rossum on Mondrian [1]_, Google's code review tool. Most of his Python work is focused on Python 3000, such as the 2to3 tool [2]_ for translating Python 2 into Python 3 source. _[1] - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502904076440714866 _[2] - http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/2to3/

..... 8:40 PM to 9:00 PM ................ Event: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on

The July Meeting The July meeting is Newbies' Night, Part 2, presenting the second half of Alex Martelli's Python for Programmers talk.

Security

Please inform 'gate' security that you are a visitor for the BayPiggies Python Users Group Meeting. If you get a funny look, let them know that you are a guest of Leslie Hawthorn and that you will be checking in with security at Building 43 (May 10, building 41)reception.

Parking

Any unoccupied parking space outside our underground garage is free game. Help yourself.

Logistics

Attendee Lists

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