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 * Lightning Talks! (open mic for 5-minute-or-less talks)

Charlottesville Python Meetup Group (PyCHO) meets on the second Tuesday of each month at WillowTree Apps in Charlottesville, VA, USA.


We're a small, but enthusiastic group. Below, we note the high-level details of each meeting. Monthly attendance has floated between 5 and 14 people, with total membership at ~40 people (and a few extras on the mailing list). Our group is always free.

Special Meetup

  • Saturday, October 29, 2011 in Richmond. See http://pythonmeetup.eventbrite.com/ for details.

  • 10:30a-2:30p
  • Includes meal & refreshments, RSVP at http://pythonmeetup.eventbrite.com/.

  • Thibaud => Introduction to RESTful APIs using Python/Django/Piston

  • Ron => Testing in Python: From simple tools you shouldn't miss to 100% test coverage

  • Dan => Building advanced forms for Web and more with ToscaWidgets

  • Lightning Talks! (open mic for 5-minute-or-less talks)

Next Meeting

  • Tuesday, November 8, 2011
  • 6:00-8:00pm
  • WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)

  • presentation: Google App Engine, presented by Wei Wang

Format

  • arrival and social - 15m
  • round-table introductions - 10m
  • open format - floor is open for recent modules / reading material / fun Python bits - things for others to take away from the meeting - 40m
  • headline topic - conference-grade discussion or talk followed by Q&A - 40m

  • open discussion / sidebars - 15m

Topic Wishlist

  • Google App Engine, offered by Wei Wang
  • PyPy

  • Python and your data store - working with various database technologies
  • hacktivism
  • more topics in scientific computing
  • Python @ work - how do you use Python?
  • Python data scripting sandbox - get a demo / get to know a twitter wrapper or other public data api wrapper written in Python

Discussion and Questions

  • PyCHO is currently organized by Ron DuPlain. Feel free to email him with questions or ideas about the local Python user group. For questions on Python (and you're local), use the mailing list.

  • mailing list: centralva@python.org

  • PyCHO started with two Charlottesville Python devs at PyCon 2009 and its future direction was heavily discussed at PyCon 2011. If you have ideas, speak up!

Past Meetings/Events/Notes


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

  • 5 attendees
  • WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)

  • hack night

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

  • 8 attendees
  • WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)

  • Building APIs in Django: a look at Piston and Tastypie - Thibaud and Matt
  • Using BuildBot for continuous integration of Flask and its extensions - Ron

  • Also: A look at search with Haystack (Thibaud) and a sneak peek of TryFlask on ep.io (Ron)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

  • 9 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
  • WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)

  • Topic: PyGame! http://pygame.org/ - presented by Jonathan Nye

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

  • 14 attendees
  • WillowTree Apps, 107 5th Street SE, Suite B; Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info | where | map)

  • Topic: asynchronous programming

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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

  • Topic: Building server-side APIs for mobile (native) applications, led by Michael Prichard of WillowTree Apps.

Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011

  • 14 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic: Charlottesville PyCon Digest - PyCon attendees shared conference highlights and insights through lightning talks followed by an open discussion.

PyCon 2011

  • 10 attendees from Charlottesville!

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011

  • 12 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic: SQLAlchemy: Object Relation Mapping (ORM) and so much more, plus a taste of metaprogramming

Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011

  • 5 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic: Development environments. Let us look over your shoulder as you interact with Python. Share editor configurations, tools, and tips. At a previous meetup, editors included: idle, emacs inside screen, gvim, vim inside screen, TextMate, Eclipse with PyDev, and Kate.

Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010

  • 4 attendees (plus many reqrets due to weather, illness, and a newly born baby)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic was editing environments, but turned into an open discussion and hack session.

Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010

  • 8 attendees (plus 1 regret)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Topic: Spinx. An amazing documentation tool for compiling camera-ready docs in html, pdf, and epub from a concise set of restructured text documents and Python docstrings. See http://sphinx.pocoo.org/. One notable example of Sphinx output: http://docs.python.org/

Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010

  • 6 attendees (plus 2 regrets)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • hack night: we discussed our personal projects - during the meeting, we published the alpha version of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/consolation to the cheeseshop

Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010

  • 4 attendees (plus 2 called in sick)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • What have you been doing in Python? We shared recent tips and ideas. Topics included interfacing with LDAP, Flickr API scripting, ipython interactive interpreter configuration, and literate testing (writing documents as tests and verifying with nose).

Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010

  • 5 attendees (plus 3 regrets)
  • OpenSpace, 455 Second Street SE, Suite 100 Charlottesville, VA 22902 (info)

  • Kai Groner gave demos and led a discussion on Behavior Driven Development using Lettuce for Python, with a walkthrough on writing test code, writing functional specs, and running automated tests in the browser with Selenium (through Lettuce hooks). This approach allows a project to write functional specifications using simple grammar and somewhat natural English statements, tests for which can be automated and run nightly or on-demand in the development cycle.

Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010

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

  • Topic: Demo a module/package (or a few) which you have been using lately: http://xkcd.com/353/.

    • csv (Matt)
    • SimpleHTTPServer (Ron)
    • itertools, itertools.groupby (Kai)
    • flask (Ron)
    • lxml (Robert)
    • selenium (Robert)
    • ipython (Kai)
    • rlcompleter & readline (Ron)

    • bpython (Ron)
    • pysolr (Ron)

Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010

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

  • Our session was Python 102. We provided a continued introduction to Python, then broke out into Q&A.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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

  • Our session was Python 101. We provided a brief introduction to Python, then paired up attendees who are old and new to Python.
  • We also gave away a freshly minted Learning Python (Lutz) book... you missed out!

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

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

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009

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?

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

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

  • Hello, World.


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