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he 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 also hold a regular monthly sprint, usually on the first Saturday of each month. The next sprints will by on Jython and IPython1, an update of the popular python shell. At this point, it looks like we will be holding these sprints on a regular basis. 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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Future possibilities include holding an occasional BoulderJam to play with an exciting new technology together, and helping pair mentors with aspiring Pythoneers.

= 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].
= 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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 * 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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 * Location: watch this space, our emails, and other announcements, because it's been changing from meeting to meeting recently. The next location returns to bivio Software.  * 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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Sprints are usually held the 1st Saturday of each month, also at bivio.  * [[http://picasaweb.google.com/frpythoneers/|Photos]] of selected sprints and meetings.
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== Next Sprint: February 3, 2007 ==  * [[http://www.meetup.com/frpythoneers/|Meetup.com]] is a great way to keep abreast of Front Range Pythoneers' activities.
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 * JythonSprint. Part of our BoulderSprint series. Topic TBD.
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 * Location: [http://www.bivio.biz/ bivio Software, Inc.], 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2701+Iris+Ave.,+Boulder+CO&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=A Google Maps link]

== Next Meeting: February 21, 2007 ==

 * Location: [http://www.bivio.biz/ bivio Software, Inc.], 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2701+Iris+Ave.,+Boulder+CO&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=A Google Maps link]

== PyCon: February 23-25, 2007 ==

 * [http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage PyCon 2007] Dallas/Addison TX. List of attendees from the Front Range:

 0. Matt Boersma
 0. Eric Dobbs
 0. Brian Granger
 0. Evelyn Mitchell
 0. Sean Reifschneider
 0. Jim Baker

== IPython Sprint: April 6, 2007 ==

 * [http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Developer_Zone/Sprint IPython1 Beta]. This would be an excellent opportunity to learn about decorators, Twisted, and other advanced Python concepts while helping getting this shell to beta status.
= Future Events =
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== Meeting: January 17, 2007 == == Unconference: November 13, 2010 ==
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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. Details are [[FrontRangePythoneersUc10|here]].
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Topics and people attending include the following: 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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 * 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. == Meeting: Sept 29, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM ==
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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. Message Passing Concurrency with Python and ZeroMQ
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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]. == Meeting: August 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM ==
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== Sprint: January 6, 2007 == Applications in Parallel Computing with iPython
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 * JythonSprint. We talked about rethinking the existing compiler to converge on !CPython 2.5/trunk. == Meeting: July 25, 2010, 6 PM - 8 PM ==
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== Meeting: December 20, 2006 == MongoDB
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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. == Unconference: October 10, 2009 ==
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== Meeting: November 15, 2006 == 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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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. 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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 * 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. == Meeting: April 8, 2009, 6 PM - 8 PM ==
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== Meeting: October 18, 2006 == 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.
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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 :) .
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 * Began planning of BoulderSprint, which apparently has been a burning desire for JimBaker for a while. == 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 ==
 * [[https://www.youtube.com/user/fireboxtraining|Julie Johnson]], CEO of [[http://www.fireboxtraining.com|Firebox Training]] based in Golden, CO has written several Python training courses.
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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.  * Fred Clare and Mary Hall, [[http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/|NCAR]], are behind [[http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu|PyNGL]].
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 * 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].  * 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://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].  * 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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 * [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.  * [[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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 * 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://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://oubiwann.blogspot.com/ Duncan McGreggor], [http://pymon.sourceforge.net/ PyMon] and other projects.  * 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://rmi.net/~lutz/ Mark Lutz] has taught over 170 [http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/ Python training sessions].  * [[http://rmi.net/~lutz/|Mark Lutz]] has taught over 170 [[http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/|Python training sessions]].
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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://www.softwaresummit.com/2005/speakers/smith_mitchell.htm|Mitchell Smith]] works with Python at [[http://www.arraybiopharma.com/|Array Biopharma]].
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 * [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ Uche Ogbuji] keeps us honest about XML.  * [[http://uche.ogbuji.net/|Uche Ogbuji]] keeps us honest about XML.
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 * Joe !VanAndel, [http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ NCAR].  * Joe !VanAndel, [[http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/|NCAR]].
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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].  * [[http://www.percious.com/|Chris Perkins]]. Turbogears developer and TDD proponent. Current employed by NREL.
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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 Empact Solutions and [http://www.bizlogix.net BizLogix] and is now at [http://www.bivio.biz bivio Software].  * [[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://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.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]].
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 * [http://shrogers.com/weblog Steve Rogers] does systems engineering at [http://www.seagate.com Seagate Technology].  * [[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]].
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 * [http://www.churchillnavigation.com Churchill Navigation] in Boulder builds high-end navigation systems with a high-level Python interface.  * [[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.
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Thanks to [http://tummy.com tummy.com, ltd.] and their principals, SeanReifschneider and Evelyn Mitchell, for generously hosting our web site and mailing list. Thanks to [[http://tummy.com|tummy.com, ltd.]] and their principals, SeanReifschneider and Evelyn Mitchell, for generously hosting our web site and mailing list.
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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?

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

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!

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.


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