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 Inspire9's premises at 9 / 83 Dover St, Richmond.

http://bit.ly/9lnfi7 <-- Google Map

Schedule

We meet on the first Friday of every month starting at 6pm.

Friday 5th November

See http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Python-Meetup-Group/calendar/15191871/

5 minute talks

• Rory Hart: Using Fabric for deployment and server management

• Graeme Cross: Python/C++ integration with PythonQt

• Rasjid Wilcox (maybe): Frosted Python
• Ryan Kelly: dexml
• Ed Schofield: How to promote Python

15 minute talks

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 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

• IronPython / Silverlight by Tarn; more info and pygments syntax highlighting example

• withrestart by Ryan (slides here: withrestart.pdf)

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

• HTML generation in code made way nicer (Richard Jones)

• Accelerate your Pylons development with BlastOff (Chris Miles)

• A whirlwind tour of FS and filelike (Ryan Kelly, slides here: fs_and_filelike.tar.gz)

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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