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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!

The Melbourne Python Users Group

The Melbourne Python Users Group is currently mostly active via its mailing list. Newcomers are always welcome; we're a friendly bunch :)

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 St, Melbourne.

http://www.mechanicalcat.net/images/HorseBazaarMap.png

http://bit.ly/8vR2Kw <-- Google Map

Schedule

We meet on the first Monday of every month starting at 6:30pm. The schedule is available as a Google calendar (iCal).

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!

  • Load-balancing xmlrpclib/jsonrpclib for robust distributed applications (Andreux Fort)

Monday the 1st of March

15 minute talks

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

5 minute talks

  • suggest a talk!

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
  • web2py

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 :)

Previous Topics

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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