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The Front Range Pythoneers is an active Python users group in Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
[[http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers|Front Range Pythoneers]] are an active Python users group meeting in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, USA. |
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We meet every third Wednesday of the month to learn from talks about Python topics, to swap stories and coding tips, and to enjoy food and drink. But we don't just talk about Python, we live it: on the first Saturday of most months, we get together for a code sprint. Front Range Pythoneers are proud to have contributed as a group to TurboGears2, Jython, Django, and IPython. | |
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We hold a regular monthly meeting every third Wednesday. We are in the process of planning the next BoulderSprint on Jython. Looks like we will be holding these sprints on a regular basis! In the future we may hold a BoulderJam to play with an exciting new technology together. | Join us! Whether you're just learning Python or have already memorized the output of "import this", you'll find something worthwhile. |
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Lastly, there has been talk of helping pair mentors with aspiring Pythoneers. If you are so aspirationally inclined, please contact us! | = The Mailing List and Wiki = Please join our [[http://lists.community.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/frpythoneers|mailing list]] and check [[http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers|this page]] at the Python Wiki for more information about [[http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers|Front Range Pythoneers]]. |
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= Web Site = Our web site is at [http://www.fr.co.us.pythoneers.org/]. Thanks to [http://tummy.com tummy.com, ltd.] and their principals, SeanReifschneider and Evelyn Mitchell, for generously hosting us. = Mailing List = You can subscribe to our [http://lists.community.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/frpythoneers mailing list]. We also have a [http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/frpythoneers/ mail archive]. = Meetings = |
= Meetings and Sprints = |
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* Date/time: Every 3rd Wednesday, 6-8 PM. Calendars [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/frpythoneers%40gmail.com/public/basic XML] [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/frpythoneers%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics ICAL] [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=frpythoneers%40gmail.com HTML] | * Date/time: Every 3rd Wednesday, 6-8 PM. Check our [[http://www.meetup.com/frpythoneers/|Meetup site]] for the latest details. |
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* Default topic: OpenSpace | * Location: (For Boulder meetings) [[http://www.http://inspiringapps.com/|InspiringApps]], [[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1045+Pearl+Street%0ABoulder,+CO+80302|1045 Pearl Street, Boulder]]. For Denver meetings, please check [[http://www.meetup.com/frpythoneers/|Meetup.com]] for latest information. Lately the group has been meeting at [[http://www.forestroom5.com/|Forest Room 5]] which is located at [[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2532+15th+StreetDenver,+CO+80211|2532 15th Street, Denver]]. |
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* Location: watch this space, our emails, and other announcements, because it's been changing from meeting to meeting recently. The next location is at Churchill Navigation's spiffy new office, see just below. | * [[http://picasaweb.google.com/frpythoneers/|Photos]] of selected sprints and meetings. |
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== Meeting: January 17, 2007 == | * [[http://www.meetup.com/frpythoneers/|Meetup.com]] is a great way to keep abreast of Front Range Pythoneers' activities. |
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* Location: [http://www.churchillnavigation.com Churchill Navigation], 100 Arapahoe Ave, Suite 10, all the way at the end, in Boulder, Colorado. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=100+Arapahoe+Ave,+Suite+10+Boulder+CO+80302&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=40.012792,-105.297904&spn=0.017289,0.05064&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps link]. There is abundant parking. | |
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Topics and people attending include the following: | = Future Events = |
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* BoulderSprint. We had a great JythonSprint, focusing on design. Momentum is really building, Jython might actually get the love that Charles Oliver Nutter of JRuby proposed. More interestingly, there's a chance for people in the dynamic language community to work together on JVM implementations. | = Previous Events = |
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* Tom Churchill and Vinny Fiano will demo Churchill Navigation's earth-rendering engine (which looks like Google Earth, only apparently even better and faster ;) ). Vinny (their main Python guy) will explain how they built the glue logic (and why they decided against SWIG) and perhaps some of the implications of using Python as a scripting language in a real-time (60 fps) environment, and the techniques we employed to keep the graphics pipeline from stalling when making an expensive call into their engine from Python. | == Unconference: November 13, 2010 == |
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* Brian Granger from [http://txcorp.com/ Tech-X] will help us think more deeply about concurrent Python programming, especially as seen in a new version of [http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/IPython1 IPython]. | Details are [[FrontRangePythoneersUc10|here]]. |
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== Meeting: December 20, 2006 == | An unconference is a conference that is organized and run by the participants. The more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it. For more information about unconferences, click here [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference]] |
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Canceled! We were going to plan the JythonSprint and see some demos. But a blizzard intervened. Fortunately, we should be able to do all of that instead in January. | == Meeting: Sept 29, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM == |
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== Meeting: November 15, 2006 == | Message Passing Concurrency with Python and ZeroMQ |
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This was a fun meeting! Even if Jill's has increasingly been high decibel. But we really can't complain about the success of our venue. | == Meeting: August 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM == |
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* Steve Rogers showed up for his first meeting with us. He credits seeing the [http://zyasoft.com/pythoneering/ Pythoneering blog], now that it's included in the [http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm Daily Python-URL]. It's good to have the visibility. With Steve around and fresh from [http://sc06.supercomputing.org/ Supercomputing 2006], we talked a lot about parallel computing paradigms in Python, among other things. | Applications in Parallel Computing with iPython |
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== Meeting: October 18, 2006 == | == Meeting: July 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM == |
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* Discussed possible proposals for PyCon2007. The basic consensus was that it was a great idea that for PyCon "we're especially interested in presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful." In particular, we all would like to see talks with more useful takeaway code, not just talks saying, hey we are doing great things with Python. Trust us :) . | MongoDB |
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* Began planning of BoulderSprint, which apparently has been a burning desire for JimBaker for a while. | == Unconference: October 10, 2009 == |
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= Events = | We're going to try something new: an unconference. Conference Saturday October 10th, followed by code sprints Sunday October 11. Details are [[FrontRangePythoneersUc09|here]]. |
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* BoulderSprint. | An unconference is a conference that is organized and run by the participants. The more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it. For more information about unconferences, click here [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference]] |
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* BoulderJam, an opportunity to try out interesting technologies together. | == Meeting: April 8, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM == |
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* [http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage PyCon 2007] Dallas/Addison TX February 23-25, 2007 | We'll meet in Boulder, one week earlier than usual. Maciej Fijalkowski will discuss his PyPy work, and we'll hear a recap of PyCon 2009. == Meeting: March 18, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM == We had free-range conversation, food, and drink. Folks from tuggl.com were there looking to hire Django people, and we talked a lot about the state of iPhone and Android development. == Meeting: February 18, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM == We met at Wynkoop's in Denver and had "Python Q&A Night." == Meeting: January 21, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM == Neal McBurnett described auditing Boulder County election results using Python and Django. == More == See our [[FrontRangePythoneersArchive/| archive page]] for details of older events. |
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* [http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/ Fernando Perez], CU Applied Math, and Brian Granger, [http://txcorp.com/ Tech-X], both work on [http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ IPython]. | == People == |
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* Eric Dobbs, [http://www.bivio.biz bivio Software, Inc.], works on PyQScimpl as a contractor with Tech-X. SciPy 2006 [http://dobbse.net/thinair/2006/08/scipy/ presentation] of PyQScimpl. | * [[http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/|Fernando Perez]], CU Applied Math, and Brian Granger, [[http://txcorp.com/|Tech-X]], both work on [[http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/|IPython]]. |
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* Fred Clare and Mary Hall, [http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ NCAR], are behind [http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu PyNGL]. | * Eric Dobbs, [[http://www.bivio.biz|bivio Software, Inc.]], works on PyQScimpl as a contractor with Tech-X. SciPy 2006 [[http://dobbse.net/thinair/2006/08/scipy/|presentation]] of PyQScimpl. |
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* Jeffrey Whittaker, contributed this [http://www.scipy.org/Wiki/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps plot] to matplotlib for geospatial projections of data. * Yeong-Shang Log, [http://casa.colorado.edu/ CASA], is exploring space with the [http://www.stsci.edu/hst/ Hubble Space Telescope] in [http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python Python]. |
* Fred Clare and Mary Hall, [[http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/|NCAR]], are behind [[http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu|PyNGL]]. |
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* [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/ Jim Martin], [http://www.colorado.edu CU Boulder], teaches [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/csci5582.html Intro to AI] and [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/csci5832.html Natural Language Processing] in Python. The NLP class uses the [http://nltk.sourceforge.net/ NL toolkit]. | * Jeffrey Whittaker, contributed this [[http://www.scipy.org/Wiki/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps|plot]] to matplotlib for geospatial projections of data. |
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* [http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/ Martha Palmer], [http://www.colorado.edu CU Boulder], teaches a [http://verbs.colorado.edu/mpalmer/ling5200/ class on linguistics] in Python. | * Yeong-Shang Log, [[http://casa.colorado.edu/|CASA]], is exploring space with the [[http://www.stsci.edu/hst/|Hubble Space Telescope]] in [[http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python|Python]]. |
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* Ravinder Singh and Scott Kelley, [http://www.colorado.edu CU Boulder], teach a [http://mcdb.colorado.edu/courses/6440/index.html class] on bioinformatics and molecular biology, using Biopython. | * [[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/|Jim Martin]], [[http://www.colorado.edu|CU Boulder]], teaches [[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/csci5582.html|Intro to AI]] and [[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/csci5832.html|Natural Language Processing]] in Python. The NLP class uses the [[http://nltk.sourceforge.net/|NL toolkit]]. |
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* [http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/ Duncan McGreggor], [http://pymon.sourceforge.net/ PyMon] and other projects. | * [[http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/|Martha Palmer]], [[http://www.colorado.edu|CU Boulder]], teaches a [[http://verbs.colorado.edu/mpalmer/ling5200/|class on linguistics]] in Python. |
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* [http://rmi.net/~lutz/ Mark Lutz] has taught over 170 [http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/ Python training sessions]. | * Ravinder Singh and Scott Kelley, [[http://www.colorado.edu|CU Boulder]], teach a [[http://mcdb.colorado.edu/courses/6440/index.html|class]] on bioinformatics and molecular biology, using Biopython. |
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* [http://www.softwaresummit.com/2005/speakers/smith_mitchell.htm Mitchell Smith] led the adoption of Python at [http://www.arraybiopharma.com/ Array Biopharma]. | * [[http://rmi.net/~lutz/|Mark Lutz]] has taught over 170 [[http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/|Python training sessions]]. |
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* [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ Uche Ogbuji] keeps us honest about XML. | * [[http://www.softwaresummit.com/2005/speakers/smith_mitchell.htm|Mitchell Smith]] works with Python at [[http://www.arraybiopharma.com/|Array Biopharma]]. |
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* Joe VanAndel, [http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ NCAR]. | * [[http://uche.ogbuji.net/|Uche Ogbuji]] keeps us honest about XML. |
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* [http://www.ophinity.com Demian Neidetcher], currently at [http://www.avaya.com Avaya], wrote a simple web gallery in Python called [http://pix.sf.net pix]. | * Joe !VanAndel, [[http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/|NCAR]]. |
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* [http://www.jim-baker.com Jim Baker], [http://www.zyasoft.com Zyasoft] maintains the [http://zyasoft.com/pythoneering/ FR Pythoneering blog]. He also likes iterators. A [http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20060817_003823 lot]. Jim also co-founded [http://www.bizlogix.net Bizlogix]. | * [[http://www.percious.com/|Chris Perkins]]. Turbogears developer and TDD proponent. Current employed by NREL. |
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* [http://www.tummy.com/journals/users/jafo Sean Reifschneidner], [http://www.tummy.com tummy.com, ltd.], maintains many projects, including the [http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/python-memcached/ Python client] to the ever-useful [http://www.danga.com/memcached/ memcached]. | * [[http://www.ophinity.com|Demian Neidetcher]], currently at [[http://www.avaya.com|Avaya]], wrote a simple web gallery in Python called [[http://pix.sf.net|pix]]. |
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* [http://shrogers.com/weblog Steve Rogers] does systems engineering at [http://www.seagate.com Seagate Technology]. * [http://www.churchillnavigation.com Churchill Navigation] in Boulder builds high-end navigation systems with a high-level Python interface. |
* [[http://www.jim-baker.com|Jim Baker]], [[http://www.zyasoft.com|Zyasoft]] maintains the [[http://zyasoft.com/pythoneering/|FR Pythoneering blog]]. He also likes iterators. A [[http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20060817_003823|lot]]. Jim also co-founded Empact Solutions and [[http://www.bizlogix.net|BizLogix]] and is now at [[http://www.bivio.biz|bivio Software]]. * [[http://www.tummy.com/journals/users/jafo|Sean Reifschneider]], [[http://www.tummy.com|tummy.com, ltd.]], maintains many projects, including the [[http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/python-memcached/|Python client]] to the ever-useful [[http://www.danga.com/memcached/|memcached]]. * [[http://shrogers.com/weblog|Steve Rogers]] does systems engineering at [[http://www.seagate.com|Seagate Technology]]. * [[http://www.churchillnavigation.com|Churchill Navigation]] in Boulder builds high-end navigation systems with a high-level Python interface. * DuncanMcGreggor lives in Loveland (just south of Fort Collins). He's a [[http://twistedmatrix.com|Twisted]] guy and consults for [[http://zenoss.com/|Zenoss]]. * [[http://www.sprout.org/matt|Matt Boersma]] in Boulder actually led the adoption of Python at [[http://www.arraybiopharma.com/|Array BioPharma]], where he works with five other full-time Pythonistas. * SeanGillies lives in Fort Collins, works at UNC-Chapel Hill's Ancient World Mapping Center on a historical geography project named [[http://pleiades.stoa.org|Pleiades]]. * KenKinder lives in Boulder, works for a ''top secret'' company doing vertical search, and loiters Sunday afternoons on the Pearl Street Mall. [[http://kenkinder.com/|kenkinder.com]] * [[http://brosner.blogspot.com/|Brian Rosner]] lives in Highlands Ranch, works at [[http://www.churchpartner.com/|ChurchPartner]] writting Python for their e-commerce platform. In his spare time works on [[http://www.cherokee-project.com|Cherokee]]. * [[http://eatthedots.blogspot.com|Casey Duncan]] lives in Castle Rock, but works for [[http://www.pandora.com|pandora.com]] in Oakland tending a herd of PostgreSQL databases and generally gluing everything together with Python. In his spare time he's been working on some [[http://code.google.com/p/caseman|Python games]] and the [[http://code.google.com/p/py-lepton|lepton particle engine]]. * [[http://zodlogic.webfactional.com/mikekramlichsoft/|Mike Kramlich]] lives in Northglenn but his mind is on Mars. He does freelance contract software development but will engage in just about any venture that sounds interesting, a good skill fit, and profitable. Loooves Python. Wrote a Rogue-like in Python called [[http://DeadByZombie.com|Dead By Zombie]]. Also does iPhone, Java and Flash programming. Idea rabbit. Loves designing new tools, systems and applications. * Kurt Fehlhauer lives in Conifer and works at an e-payables company as a software architect. His interests include statistical analysis and making sense of polling data. |
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== Groups == There are some other great groups in the area that we interact with on a periodic basis. Shared membership helps here! * [[http://www.bouldersoftware.org/|Boulder Software Club]] * [[http://www.agiledenver.org/|Agile Denver]] organizes more formal meetings. [[http://agile.meetup.com/24/|Agile Boulder]] is a monthly meetup that's taken a lightning talk focus, well worth checking out. * [[http://www.boulderjug.org/|Boulder Java Users Group]] * [[http://www.denverjug.org/|Denver Java Users Group]] Meet the 2nd Wed. of every month at Tivoli in Denver. Let us know if you want another [[http://www.jython.org/Project/|Jython]] talk and who you want to speak. * [[http://boulder.pm.org/|Boulder Perl Mongers]]. They don't meet formally often - perhaps 2 or 3 times in the last 6 years? - but doesn't prevent other modes of meeting like hikes and disk golf. * [[http://rubyforge.org/projects/bdrg/|Boulder-Denver Ruby Group]] Please add your favorite group here if it seems relevant to local Pythoneering. = Projects = We (collectively) are the maintainers of Django's Oracle support. Ian Kelly is the driving force of this support. = Acknowledgments = Thanks to [[http://tummy.com|tummy.com, ltd.]] and their principals, SeanReifschneider and Evelyn Mitchell, for generously hosting our web site and mailing list. ---- CategoryHomepage |
About Us
Front Range Pythoneers are an active Python users group meeting in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, USA.
Activities
We meet every third Wednesday of the month to learn from talks about Python topics, to swap stories and coding tips, and to enjoy food and drink. But we don't just talk about Python, we live it: on the first Saturday of most months, we get together for a code sprint. Front Range Pythoneers are proud to have contributed as a group to TurboGears2, Jython, Django, and IPython.
Join us! Whether you're just learning Python or have already memorized the output of "import this", you'll find something worthwhile.
The Mailing List and Wiki
Please join our mailing list and check this page at the Python Wiki for more information about Front Range Pythoneers.
Meetings and Sprints
We just happen to have the friendliest bunch of Python people coming to our meetings. So why not come too?
Date/time: Every 3rd Wednesday, 6-8 PM. Check our Meetup site for the latest details.
Location: (For Boulder meetings) InspiringApps, 1045 Pearl Street, Boulder. For Denver meetings, please check Meetup.com for latest information. Lately the group has been meeting at Forest Room 5 which is located at 2532 15th Street, Denver.
Photos of selected sprints and meetings.
Meetup.com is a great way to keep abreast of Front Range Pythoneers' activities.
Future Events
Previous Events
Unconference: November 13, 2010
Details are here.
An unconference is a conference that is organized and run by the participants. The more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it. For more information about unconferences, click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
Meeting: Sept 29, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM
Message Passing Concurrency with Python and ZeroMQ
Meeting: August 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM
Applications in Parallel Computing with iPython
Meeting: July 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM
MongoDB
Unconference: October 10, 2009
We're going to try something new: an unconference. Conference Saturday October 10th, followed by code sprints Sunday October 11. Details are here.
An unconference is a conference that is organized and run by the participants. The more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it. For more information about unconferences, click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
Meeting: April 8, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM
We'll meet in Boulder, one week earlier than usual. Maciej Fijalkowski will discuss his PyPy work, and we'll hear a recap of PyCon 2009.
Meeting: March 18, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM
We had free-range conversation, food, and drink. Folks from tuggl.com were there looking to hire Django people, and we talked a lot about the state of iPhone and Android development.
Meeting: February 18, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM
We met at Wynkoop's in Denver and had "Python Q&A Night."
Meeting: January 21, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM
Neal McBurnett described auditing Boulder County election results using Python and Django.
More
See our archive page for details of older events.
Guide to Front Range Pythoneering
People
Fernando Perez, CU Applied Math, and Brian Granger, Tech-X, both work on IPython.
Eric Dobbs, bivio Software, Inc., works on PyQScimpl as a contractor with Tech-X. SciPy 2006 presentation of PyQScimpl.
Jeffrey Whittaker, contributed this plot to matplotlib for geospatial projections of data.
Yeong-Shang Log, CASA, is exploring space with the Hubble Space Telescope in Python.
Jim Martin, CU Boulder, teaches Intro to AI and Natural Language Processing in Python. The NLP class uses the NL toolkit.
Martha Palmer, CU Boulder, teaches a class on linguistics in Python.
Ravinder Singh and Scott Kelley, CU Boulder, teach a class on bioinformatics and molecular biology, using Biopython.
Mark Lutz has taught over 170 Python training sessions.
Mitchell Smith works with Python at Array Biopharma.
Uche Ogbuji keeps us honest about XML.
Joe VanAndel, NCAR.
Chris Perkins. Turbogears developer and TDD proponent. Current employed by NREL.
Demian Neidetcher, currently at Avaya, wrote a simple web gallery in Python called pix.
Jim Baker, Zyasoft maintains the FR Pythoneering blog. He also likes iterators. A lot. Jim also co-founded Empact Solutions and BizLogix and is now at bivio Software.
Sean Reifschneider, tummy.com, ltd., maintains many projects, including the Python client to the ever-useful memcached.
Steve Rogers does systems engineering at Seagate Technology.
Churchill Navigation in Boulder builds high-end navigation systems with a high-level Python interface.
DuncanMcGreggor lives in Loveland (just south of Fort Collins). He's a Twisted guy and consults for Zenoss.
Matt Boersma in Boulder actually led the adoption of Python at Array BioPharma, where he works with five other full-time Pythonistas.
SeanGillies lives in Fort Collins, works at UNC-Chapel Hill's Ancient World Mapping Center on a historical geography project named Pleiades.
KenKinder lives in Boulder, works for a top secret company doing vertical search, and loiters Sunday afternoons on the Pearl Street Mall. kenkinder.com
Brian Rosner lives in Highlands Ranch, works at ChurchPartner writting Python for their e-commerce platform. In his spare time works on Cherokee.
Casey Duncan lives in Castle Rock, but works for pandora.com in Oakland tending a herd of PostgreSQL databases and generally gluing everything together with Python. In his spare time he's been working on some Python games and the lepton particle engine.
Mike Kramlich lives in Northglenn but his mind is on Mars. He does freelance contract software development but will engage in just about any venture that sounds interesting, a good skill fit, and profitable. Loooves Python. Wrote a Rogue-like in Python called Dead By Zombie. Also does iPhone, Java and Flash programming. Idea rabbit. Loves designing new tools, systems and applications.
- Kurt Fehlhauer lives in Conifer and works at an e-payables company as a software architect. His interests include statistical analysis and making sense of polling data.
Please help expand this local guide! (Also feel free to remove yourself from this list, if that makes sense personally.)
Groups
There are some other great groups in the area that we interact with on a periodic basis. Shared membership helps here!
Agile Denver organizes more formal meetings. Agile Boulder is a monthly meetup that's taken a lightning talk focus, well worth checking out.
Denver Java Users Group Meet the 2nd Wed. of every month at Tivoli in Denver. Let us know if you want another Jython talk and who you want to speak.
Boulder Perl Mongers. They don't meet formally often - perhaps 2 or 3 times in the last 6 years? - but doesn't prevent other modes of meeting like hikes and disk golf.
Please add your favorite group here if it seems relevant to local Pythoneering.
Projects
We (collectively) are the maintainers of Django's Oracle support. Ian Kelly is the driving force of this support.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to tummy.com, ltd. and their principals, SeanReifschneider and Evelyn Mitchell, for generously hosting our web site and mailing list.