The Canberra Python Users Group (2013)
We meet the first Thursday of every month at 6pm
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:
Information about meetings will be updated on this wiki as promptly as possible. Discussion about the upcoming meetings and reminders are posted to the mailing list.
Join the mailing list here: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/canberra-pug
You can also email one of the organizers if you wish.
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 (NOTE EARLIER TIME THAN LAST MEETING).
At this meeting Gavin Huttley will talk to us about pycogent; his python package for bioinformatics. We will also have some short talks, discussing related issues in bioinformatics and workflow in python.
Food:
PLEASE NOTE THAT NO CATERING WILL BE PROVIDED (although we'll have water).
There is the possibility that some members of the group will go and have dinner after the meeting nearby.
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 May 2md 2013:
Main talk (30 minutes): Gavin Huttley will intro
5-15 minute talks currently proposed
- Paul Leopardi will discuss the bioinformatics work he is doing in Python, and workflow issues he is facing
- Padarn Wilson will give a brief description of doing traditional statistics in Python (linear regression etc)
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