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 
The main culprits are Richard Jones, Tennessee Leeuwenburg and Ed Schofield, along with a number of other Pythoneers.
Short URL: http://j.mp/mpug . We've also got a PDF flyer that you can post on message boards. There's a meetup.com group to track numbers etc. Please join up and add yourself to the group! We'll keep you posted with announcements about the meetings. http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Python-Meetup-Group/. 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)
Meetings are hosted by Inspire9 at 1/41 Stewart Street in Richmond.
Schedule
We meet on the first Monday of every month starting at 6pm.
Monday 2nd April
15 minute talks
- How not to repeat yourself in Django! - Brian May
PyCon US 2012 Roundup - Andrew Walker
Pizza for this meeting will be provided, sponsored by ekit.
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:
- Django
- 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 5th March
5 minute talks
PyCon AU update
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)
Monday 7th November
5 minute talks
Mike Dewhirst "Back of the envelope entrepreneuring. Sweat-equity."
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
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)"