Charlottesville Python User Group (PyCHO) meets every third Tuesday at OpenSpace in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

We're a small, but enthusiastic group. Below, we note the high-level details of each meeting. Monthly attendance floats between 4 and 9 people, with total membership at 13 people (and a few extras on the mailing list).

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, May 18, 2010
• 6:00-8:00pm

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

Discuss Online

• mailing list: centralva@python.org

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

Past Meetings/Events/Notes

Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010

• 9 attendees

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

• Dan Lepage (UVA) led a discussion on scientific computing, image manipulation, matlab-style graphing and plotting in Python, and high-performance extensions (C, CUDA) for Python. CUDA is NVIDIA's platform for highly parallel applications on graphics processors.

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010

• 26 attendees (20 AgileCville, 6 PyCHO)

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

• Joined AgileCville for a series of talks/discussions on technical debt. Meeting details (including what technical debt is): here

Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010

• 3 attendees

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

• investigated Python in a Debian environment running on an Android G1 - Android and Debian running on the same device without interfering with each other (setup instructions here)

  • discussed experience with running Python on embedded devices - not as slow as some might think
  • Debian on Android gives a full Python installation with entire standard library

    • can connect to Android Scripting Environment (ASE) by RPC to access Android API from the Debian side

    • no laptop or additional computer needed to run full Python scripts on the ASE
  • virtualenv and extension modules work fine on debian+Android

  • installed supervisor on Android via Debian; can easily launch any linux-based background application on Android using supervisor!

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

• 3 attendees

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

• A look at pyjamas

• discussed new hack night format

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009

• 5 attendees

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

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

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. We 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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