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

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, Dec 15, 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. We currently have on the table:

  • Python on Android with the Android Scripting Environment

  • Continued RSS & Atom development in LodgeIt.

• Bring (optional):
  • a laptop with Python installed
  • VGA-ready connection
  • an Android device (you can connect over wifi if you don't have one)
  • if you do bring an Android handset, bring a USB cable for it

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, Nov 17, 2009

• 5 attendees

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

• Dove into Python on Android with the Android Scripting Environment (ASE).

• We had 3 Android phones (incl. the new Droid), and played with sensors & httpd. Added a simple hack to allow connecting ASE over wifi, without USB cables. This will allow future attendees to run Python on an Android device from their laptops, without needing to bring their own Android device (esp. if they don't have one).

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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