The Canberra Python Users Group
First Wednesday of every month
Newcomers are always welcome; we're a friendly bunch and female-friendly
The responsible parties are Ed Schofield and Elena Williams, along with a number of other Python folk.
There's a meetup.com group to track numbers etc. Please join up and add yourself to the group! We'll keep you posted with announcements about the meetings. http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-Python-Meetup-Group/.
Meetings are hosted by Computer Science at ANU and are held in room N101, CSIT building ANU.
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 and 6.30 there should be some fellow pythoneers around this vicinity to help point you in the right direction.
We meet on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm start, with talks commencing at 6.30pm.
After talks, discussions are informally encouraged to continue at the Wig and Pen on Alinga Street.
JOIN THE MAIL LIST: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/canberra-pug
Potential Topics
Some topics that interest the Canberra python users are:
GIS, data analysis, SciPy/NumPy, wxPython, PyJS (Pyjamas), Django, Python hardware interfaces
- Demos of what you're doing/working on!
Schedule
Wednesday 7th March
5 minute talks
- "Package deployment and management in a locked down Windows environment" - Adam Kerz
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