The Melbourne Python Users Group
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
45 minute talks
- Python for big data analysis: Ed Schofield and Chris Boesch
15 minute talks
- Managing Scientific Simulations with Redis-Queue: Andrew Walker
5 minute talks
- Please write yourself in!
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
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)
Inspire9 will be generously hosting this and subsequent meetings, and drinks will be generously provided by Python Charmers.
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)"