Charlottesville Python Labs (PyCHO) meet every third Tuesday at OpenSpace in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
• 6:00-8:00pm

• OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

• Meet in the Workbench Studio room (middle conference room in the back).
• New problems and ideas are welcome, but we currently have on the table:

• Continued RSS & Atom development in LodgeIt.

• Bring (optional):
  • a laptop with Python installed
  • VGA-ready connection

Upcoming Meetings

• We may get together for a hack session on our group project in the meantime. See the mailing list for details.

At some point...

• We may meet with other local language groups (TBD)...

• Cross-Language Meetup: RubyCodeJam, Charlottesville .NET User Group (?)

• further details: TBD

Discuss Online

• mailing list: centralva@python.org

• twitter hashtag: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23PyCHO

Past Meetings/Events/Notes

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009

• 4 attendees

• OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

• explored werkzeug.contrib.atom and demo'd Atom in LodgeIt

Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009

• 4 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• hacked a simple proof of concept for RSS of pasties in LodgeIt

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009

• 6 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• discussed unit testing in Python:

  • unittest (std. lib)

  • doctest (std. lib)

  • nose (easy_install nose)

  • py.test (part of pylib)

• project: http://github.com/rduplain/whiskeytub

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009

• 6 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• started the PyCHO project, discussed http://pypi.python.org/pypi

• project: http://github.com/fj/whiskeytub

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009

• 4 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• "hack night"
• discussed potential projects to tackle as a group

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

• 7 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• theme: Dive into Python Web Frameworks

• presentation: Diving into CGI, WSGI, and web.py, led by Ron DuPlain

• presentation: Diving into Django, led by Matt Dawson

• presentation: Diving into SQLAlchemy, led by Kai Groner

• Served: soft drinks + cookies

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

• 7 attendees

• 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (map)

• presentation: What's in a Python Users Group?

  • Ron DuPlain

  • slides + manuscript

• demo: PyPI, pip, and virtualenv
  • Kai Groner

  • Ron DuPlain

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

• Hello, World.

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