The Canberra Python Users Group
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First Thursday of every month
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.
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. An RSVP here would be greatly appreciated.
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 6:45 and 7pm there should be some fellow pythoneers around this vicinity to help point you in the right direction.
We meet on the first Thursday of every month at 7pm.
After talks, discussions are informally encouraged to continue at the Wig and Pen on Alinga Street.
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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
Thursday 4th April 2013
5 minute talks
- Why Python? What is it good for?
- Come along and let us know how you are using Python, and some of the cool things you are doing with it.
20 minute talks
Show and Tell
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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