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The Melbourne Python Users Group is currently mostly active via its [[http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug|mailing list]]. Newcomers are always welcome; we're a friendly bunch :)
The Melbourne Python Users Group is currently mostly active via its [[http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug|mailing list]]. Newcomers are always welcome to attend or pre; we're a friendly bunch!

If you're not sure on a topic, or don't want to give a presentation, perhaps you could give us an idea of topics or areas that you would like to hear about - that way we can encourage people who have that particular area of expertise, but who might be wavering. Some topics that have been suggested are:

 * Django, web2py, zope, web/CGI
 * PIL, pygame, pyopengl
 * wxPython, QT
 * pypi, distutils, virtualenv
 * Pypy (not pypi), IronPython, Cpython internals, bytecode hacking
 * Databases, Unit Testing, Patterns
 * Devops, Cloud Computing
 * ... if you are interested in a particular topic, add it here!
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'''Monday 1st July 2013'''

Please write yourself in!

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 * Python for big data analysis: Ed Schofield and Chris Boesch


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=== Previous Topics ===

'''Monday 3rd June 2013'''

'''5 minute talks'''

 * None yet. Write yourself in!

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 * Python one-liners: useful tools in a single line: Graeme Cross

'''Monday 6th May 2013'''


'''5 minute talks'''

 * None yet. Write yourself in!

'''15 minute talks'''

 * Nose of Yeti: A rspec-like testing DSL exploiting Python codecs - Stephen Moore
 * Ansible: easy systems configuration and deployment with Python, yaml and ssh -- Javier Candeira
 * [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-g0UYgV72jwtyeFLHYqz0Sh56VSiCiGHn5Bu3TW2hUM/edit?usp=sharing|Python Packaging for Production]]: Deploying python programs on Debian - Michael Cooper
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Yes, it's Easter Monday ''and'' April Fool's Day, but MPUG is still on

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 * 20 useful, clever or cool Python one-liners - Graeme Corss


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 * Hacking science with Ipython Notebook - Tennessee Leeuwenburg (sorry hardware fail on the arduino talk)

 * Infrastructure as a service with Python, apache-libcloud and Rackspace or AWS - Javier Candeira

'''Monday 1st October'''

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 * What's New in Python 3.3 - Ryan

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[[http://web.archive.org/web/20121115092658/http://www.slideshare.net/r1chardj0n3s/message-queueing-by-an-mq-noob|Message Queueing from an MQ noob's perspective]] - Richard Jones
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* [[PyCon|PyCon]] AU update


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"Platform as a Service" or PaaS is a popular buzz-word in Cloud Computing. But what does it mean, and how can you use it? [[OpenShift|OpenShift]] by Red Hat is a free-as-in-beer and soon to be free-as-in-speech PaaS platform that supports several open-source application server environments, including JavaEE6, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Perl. This demo will show you how to sign up for [[OpenShift|OpenShift]], install and use the command-line tools to create an application, and how to use git to download, modify, and upload your own WSGI and Python applications. You can use your WSGI framework of choice, including Django, Flask, and Bottle.
"Platform as a Service" or PaaS is a popular buzz-word in Cloud Computing. But what does it mean, and how can you use it? OpenShift by Red Hat is a free-as-in-beer and soon to be free-as-in-speech PaaS platform that supports several open-source application server environments, including JavaEE6, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Perl. This demo will show you how to sign up for OpenShift, install and use the command-line tools to create an application, and how to use git to download, modify, and upload your own WSGI and Python applications. You can use your WSGI framework of choice, including Django, Flask, and Bottle.
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* the awesome [[PyCon|PyCon]] AU schedule!
 * Graeme Cross: 5 useful resources for Python beginners (my [[PyCon|PyCon]] AU lightning talk)


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 * Graeme Cross: 5 useful resources for Python beginners (my PyCon AU lightning talk)

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* Richard Jones: [[PyWeek|PyWeek]] number 12!


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* [[IronPython|IronPython]] / Silverlight by Tarn; [[http://blog.sharpthinking.com.au/post/2010/01/25/Python-SilverlightMoonlight-2-Xapping.aspx|more info]] and [[http://markdown-madness.appspot.com/silverlight-pygments|pygments syntax highlighting example]]
 * IronPython / Silverlight by Tarn; [[http://blog.sharpthinking.com.au/post/2010/01/25/Python-SilverlightMoonlight-2-Xapping.aspx|more info]] and [[http://markdown-madness.appspot.com/silverlight-pygments|pygments syntax highlighting example]]
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[[
CategoryUsergroups|CategoryUsergroups]]
CategoryUsergroups CategoryUsergroups

The Melbourne Python Users Group

map to the meeting

The Melbourne Python Users Group is currently mostly active via its mailing list. Newcomers are always welcome to attend or pre; we're a friendly bunch!

If you're not sure on a topic, or don't want to give a presentation, perhaps you could give us an idea of topics or areas that you would like to hear about - that way we can encourage people who have that particular area of expertise, but who might be wavering. Some topics that have been suggested are:

  • Django, web2py, zope, web/CGI
  • PIL, pygame, pyopengl
  • wxPython, QT
  • pypi, distutils, virtualenv
  • Pypy (not pypi), IronPython, Cpython internals, bytecode hacking

  • Databases, Unit Testing, Patterns
  • Devops, Cloud Computing
  • ... if you are interested in a particular topic, add it here!

Next Meeting

Monday 1st July 2013

Please write yourself in!

45 minute talks

  • Python for big data analysis: Ed Schofield and Chris Boesch

15 minute talks

5 minute talks

Previous Topics

Monday 3rd June 2013

5 minute talks

  • None yet. Write yourself in!

15 minute talks

  • Python one-liners: useful tools in a single line: Graeme Cross

Monday 6th May 2013

5 minute talks

  • None yet. Write yourself in!

15 minute talks

  • Nose of Yeti: A rspec-like testing DSL exploiting Python codecs - Stephen Moore
  • Ansible: easy systems configuration and deployment with Python, yaml and ssh -- Javier Candeira
  • Python Packaging for Production: Deploying python programs on Debian - Michael Cooper

Monday 1st April 2013

No, it was Easter Monday and April Fool's Day, but MPUG didn't happen.

Monday 4th March 2013

5 minute talk

  • PyCon AU is coming - Everyone

  • Python loves Dropbox - Stewart Haines
  • How many ways are there to install a Python Package? - Andrew Walker

15 minute talks

  • Boo! Not Python but Almost. - Loki Davison
  • ...

Monday 5th November

15 Minute Talks

  • Hacking science with Ipython Notebook - Tennessee Leeuwenburg (sorry hardware fail on the arduino talk)
  • Infrastructure as a service with Python, apache-libcloud and Rackspace or AWS - Javier Candeira

Monday 1st October

5 minute talks

  • What's New in Python 3.3 - Ryan

15 minute talks

Message Queueing from an MQ noob's perspective - Richard Jones

Monday 6th August 2012

5 minute talk

  • PyCon AU is coming - Richard

15 minute talks

  • A Grab Bag of Python Powered Computational Geometry Code - Andrew Walker & Daniel Cousens

Monday 2nd July

5 minute talk

  • Blender game using python - Bianca Gibson

15 minute talks

  • Tutorial: Authorization and authentication with oauth and duct tape - Javier Candeira
  • Command line argument processing showdown: a battle between four different ways in the standard library and also some PyPI modules - Graeme Cross
  • Getting started with jython - will go through some examples, most probably using something with Swing, JDBC and if I have time to prepare, an EJB. - Chai Ang

Monday 4th June

5 minute talk

  • Udacity and Coursera - Tennessee Leeuwenburg

15 minute talks

  • What's coming in Python 3.3 - Ed Schofield

Monday 7th May

5 minute show-and-tell

  • gspread: Google Spreadsheets for humans - Javier Candeira
  • Co-working venues in Melbourne - Ed Schofield

45 minute talk

  • The Zen of Python - Richard Jones

Monday 2nd April

15 minute talks

  • How not to repeat yourself in Django! - Brian May
  • PyCon US 2012 Roundup - Andrew Walker

10 minute talks

  • An intro to lists, sets and list comprehensions - Graeme Cross
  • The NASA International Space Apps Challenge - Pat Sunter

Monday 5th March

5 minute talks

15 minute talks

  • Using Python and AI to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors [Lizard, Spock?]

Monday 6th February

5 minute talks

  • Tackling Project Euler with Python - Andrew Walker
  • A Bit Of Cheese - Richard Jones

15 minute talks

  • Hello! Python - Anthony Briggs

Tuesday 10th January

CANCELLED - First meetup of the new year: Tue 10th January, Mark Atwood Presenting

Unfortunately Mark Atwood has had to cancel his appearance due to travel problems. With most regulars still on holidays and limited response to a call for alternative presentations, this meeting has regrettably been cancelled.

"Platform as a Service" or PaaS is a popular buzz-word in Cloud Computing. But what does it mean, and how can you use it? OpenShift by Red Hat is a free-as-in-beer and soon to be free-as-in-speech PaaS platform that supports several open-source application server environments, including JavaEE6, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Perl. This demo will show you how to sign up for OpenShift, install and use the command-line tools to create an application, and how to use git to download, modify, and upload your own WSGI and Python applications. You can use your WSGI framework of choice, including Django, Flask, and Bottle.

Monday 5th December

5 minute talks

  • parse() - Richard Jones

15 minute talks

  • behave - Benno Rice, with Richard heckling
  • Using AI and Python to do badly in competition rock-paper-scissors (and other cool things)

Inspire9 will be generously hosting this and subsequent meetings, and drinks will be generously provided by Python Charmers.

Monday 7th November

5 minute talks

15 minute talks

  • Daehyok Shin - Python-based streamflow forecasting system at the BoM
  • Tennessee Leeuwenburg "Using Python and AI to do poorly in the Rock Paper Scissors competition"
  • Ed Schofield - cool developments in IPython

Monday 3rd October

15 minute talks

  • Noon Silk - Python in LaTeX
  • PyPI availability and mirroring - Richard Jones

Monday 5th September

15 minute talks

  • someone talked about Jenkins
  • Richard talked about PyWeek

Monday 1st August

5 minute talks

  • the awesome PyCon AU schedule!

  • Graeme Cross: 5 useful resources for Python beginners (my PyCon AU lightning talk)

15 minute talks

  • Richard Jones: web micro framework battle preview (probably more like 30 minutes)

Monday 4th July

5 minute talks

  • none

15 minute talks

  • Ryan Kelly: supervisord and django-supervisor
  • Ed Schofield: Lessons from PyCon APAC in Singapore (June)

Monday 6th June

5 minute talks

  • Richard Jones: overload!

20 minute talks

  • Javier Candeira: Driving Gimp with Python: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

Monday 2nd May

5 minute talks

  • Richard Jones: Porting to Python 3
  • Ryan Kelly: Django on DotCloud - from zero to deployed in five minutes

20 minute talks

  • Alec Clews: Introduction to Programming with Python.

I'd like to quickly shoot through an outline presentation/workshop I am giving at Linux Users Victoria Beginner's Workshop later in May, I am not a Python programmer but I'm presenting a 2-3 hour workshop for programming neophytes and currently I think Python is the language of choice.

Looking for feedback and suggestions on my approach.

Monday 4th April

5 minute talks

  • Richard Jones: PyWeek number 12!

15 minute talks

  • Ryan Kelly: tnetstring, an experimental alternative to JSON

So, I started writing a benchmarking package... (Tennessee)

  • It uses decorators. Just @benchmark your unit tests
  • And I figured out how to make it installable (it wasn't hard)
  • And started hacking on a reporting/graphing module (still under development)
  • But it's probably rubbish, so I can take feedback

Monday 7th March

5 minute talks

  • Pat Sunter: Introduction to PDF generation with ReportLab

  • Ed Schofield: Python coding sprint (tentatively scheduled for Saturday 16 April)

15 minute talks

  • Tony Forster: OLPC / Sugar. Sugar is the GUI of the One Laptop Per Child, wiki.sugarlabs.org it is largely written in Python
  • Richard Jones: what's new in Python 3.2
  • Graeme Cross: an introduction to decorators

Monday 31st January

5 minute talks

  • python me
  • Ryan Kelly: dexml, a dead-simple object-xml mapper

15 minute talks

  • Ed Schofield: An introduction to IPython

Monday 6th December

5 minute talks

  • Ed Schofield: Teaching Python

15 minute talks

  • Richard Jones: A Somewhat Rambling Talk About The Aweseomness Of Cython

Friday 5th November

5 minute talks

  • Rory Hart: Using Fabric for deployment and server management
  • Graeme Cross: Python/C++ integration with PythonQt

  • Rasjid Wilcox: Frosted Python
  • Ed Schofield: How to promote Python
  • Anthony Briggs: Writing Hello Python!

Monday the 10th of May

15 minute talks

  • using fabric/pip/virtualenv bootstrapping and deploying environments (Rory Hart)

5 minute talks

  • Load-balancing xmlrpclib/jsonrpclib for robust distributed applications (Andreux Fort)
  • using coverage.py in unit testing (Rory Hart)

Monday the 12th of April

15 minute talks

  • Scientific computing with NumPy / SciPy / Matplotlib (Ed Schofield)

5 minute talks

  • filemov.py - a tool for relocating old files (Mike Dewhirst)

Source code including unit tests, (aged) test files and py2exe setup.py are at http://svn.pczen.com.au/repos/pysrc/gpl3/filemov - userid = public (no password). Drop me a line if you can contribute improvements and would like write access to the repo. Performance needs attention!

Monday the 1st of March

15 minute talks

  • PyWeek - the why and the how (Richard Jones)

Monday the 1st of February

Tuesday the 8th of December

  • "promise" by Ryan Kelly (slides here: promise.odp)

  • Mozilla Raindrop and/or CouchDB by Mark Hammond

Tuesday the 10th of November

No talks.

Tuesday the 13th of October

Tuesday the 8th of September

  • Mike Dewhirst reviewing Pro Django
  • Richard Jones by request doing a short intro to context managers
  • Richard Jones isn't a lumberjack, but someone cool is...

Tuesday the 11th of August

  • Martin Schweitzer "Primetime Wordfinding"... It's a rather novel algorithm that I (re)discovered(?)* for finding word matches when given a group of letters (eg. think of the puzzle in the age where you have a grid with 9 letters and have to find words). I then noticed that it had applications to other fields such as bioinformatics (which I won't go into in the talk [unless, of course, there is a particular interest]). It also has a very nice representation in Python - which I will mention.
  • Richard Jones ... a new cool thing I'm working on
  • Chris Miles "Intro to PSI (Python System Information)"


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