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The next meeting is scheduled for Thurdsay April 4th 2013 at 7pm. The next meeting is scheduled for Thurdsay 2nd May 2013 at 6pm.

The topics for the meeting are: "Statistics using Python" and "Effective workflow using Python".

The Canberra Python Users Group (2013)

We meet the first Thursday of every month at 7pm

Newcomers are always welcome; we're a friendly bunch and female-friendly :)

The responsible parties are Padarn WilsonJay LarsonPaul Leopardi and Ed Schofield along with a number of other Python folk. Feel free to contact any of us with questions

Where to get information:

There's a Canberra Python Users Group community page on Google+. Please join up and add yourself to the group! We'll keep you posted with announcements about the meetings. The Meetup group that was used in 2012 http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-Python-Meetup-Group/ still exists and has been updated with this planned meeting. RSVP via the meetup page would be greatly appreciated.

JOIN THE MAILING LIST: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/canberra-pug

Venue:

Meetings are hosted by Computer Science at ANU and are held in room N101, CSIT building ANU.

Map: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=2626780438576429652&q=CSIT+Building&iwloc=A&gl=AU&hl=en

This can be tricky to find the first time: it's a semi-circular glass-fronted meeting room directly south of the large bike cage which is located behind the CSIT building. If you can get to the back-side of the CSIT building and arrive between 6:45 and 7pm there should be some fellow pythoneers around this vicinity to help point you in the right direction.

Upcoming meetings:

The next meeting is scheduled for Thurdsay 2nd May 2013 at 6pm.

The topics for the meeting are: "Statistics using Python" and "Effective workflow using Python".

Calendar: HTML, iCal

Food:

We plan to organize pizza or similar to arrive during the meeting for those interested. We will also provide some (non alcoholic!) drinks. After the meeting, those who are interested may continue discussions at the Wig and Pen on Alinga Street.

Potential Topics

We are open to any topics Python related at this stage, though we will discuss the possibility of encouraging a theme of 'Scientific Computing and Analytics' at the first meeting.

Some topics that have interested the Canberra python users in the past are:

  • GIS, data analysis, SciPy/NumPy, wxPython, PyJS (Pyjamas), Django, Python hardware interfaces

  • Demos of what you're doing/working on!

Talks Schedule

Thursday April 4th 2013:

At the first meeting of the year we invite anyone to give a short talk about what they are doing with Python and what they are excited about.

5-15 minute talks currently proposed

  • Introduction to the Canberra Python Users Group 2013 -- Padarn Wilson
  • MOOCs -- Tom Worthington
  • Python at Geoscience Australia -- Fei Zhang
  • PyCCSM, the first pythonic coupled climate mode and new directions in multigrid frameworks -- Jay Larson

Note: A timetable of these talks for the night will be decided on early in the week starting the 1st of April.


OLD WIKI INFORMATION FROM 2012 AND EARLIER


Wednesday 26th September 2012

5 minute talks

20 minute talks

  • 10 cool things about Python -- Ed Schofield

Show and Tell

  • PyCon AU highlights -- Elena Williams (contributions welcome from other attendees!)

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Wednesday 27th June 2012

20 minute talks

  • One way to create tutorials using Python (with Cython somewhere in the background) -- Paul Leopardi (ANU)

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Wednesday 30 May 2012

Great night! Rhys' slides and photos coming soon.

20 minute talks

  • "Python at Uber" -- Rhys Elsmore (UberGlobal)

  • "Cython, Part 2: stranger parts of C++" -- Paul Leopardi (ANU)


Wednesday 2nd May 2012

5 minute talks

  • "Zookeepr (and my FOSSD experience): The Story So Far" -- Elena Williams (+ a demo if people are interested)

20 minute talks

Show and Tell

  • Demo Fabric -- David Pretty


Wednesday 4th April 2012

5 minute talks

  • "Python bindings to GDAL for raster data" -- Ben Davies

20 minute talks

  • "What the heck is Cython?" or "What last month's cold prevented me from saying" -- Paul Leopardi

Show and Tell


Wednesday 7th March 2012

Summary: plenty of new faces despite the sleety, cold Canberra "Autumn" weather. Nice mixed bag of interests, more python games people which seemed to spark some interest.

Thanks to Adam for telling us about his deployment system.

We will definitely be following up on interest in being involved with Zookeepr project for Linux Conf.

Lots of great discussion for future talks, tutes and demos. There was a bit of interest in some fun python basics.

A group of hardened web-tech/django folk were talking queuing, caching and static serving until nearly 11pm at the Wig. Good times.

5 minute talks

  • "Package deployment and management in a locked down Windows environment" - Adam Kerz
  • "Upcoming: PyConAU; Linux Conf AU and Zookeepr interest" - Elena Williams

20 minute talks

  • "How did and will we use Python for streamflow forecast services? Bureau of Meteorology" - Daehyok Shin
  • Using Cython to wrap C++ classes: Part 1: What is Cython and who uses it, anyway? - Paul Leopardi (Postponed to next month - I have a cold and won't be able to speak, sorry.)

Show and Tell


Video from OSDC 2011 on Python for R&D - Ed Schofield

Elena's "Welcome to Python (Canberra)" slides

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