The Melbourne Python Users Group

The Melbourne Python Users Group is currently mostly active via its mailing list.

A Facebook group has also been set up to facilitate interactions between MPUGgers, should they prefer that medium. (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59918958226)

The main culprits are Richard Jones and Tennessee Leeuwenburg, along with a number of other Pythoneers.

Bitly URL: http://bit.ly/mpug (n.b. not 'MPUG')

Meeting Details, Location, etc.

Meetings are held at Horse Bazaar:

397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

(03) 9670 2329

Schedule

We meet on the second Tuesday of every month starting at 6:30pm.

Tuesday the 11th of August

15 minute talks

• 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 "Adventures in IronPython"

5 minute lightning talks

• Chris Miles "Intro to PSI (Python System Information)"

Potential Topics

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:

• PIL
• pygame
• pyopengl
• zope
• pypi
• distutils
• wxPython
• Twisted
• web/CGI
• Databases
• Unit Testing
• Patterns

If you feel qualified to give a talk/presentation on any of these, let me know and I'll schedule you in for a timeslot. Or just edit the wiki directly - that's what it's all about, after all

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