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 Robot Sushi and Bar, 12 Bligh Place, Melbourne.
http://tinyurl.com/ybtzlgg <-- Google Map
Schedule
We meet on the second Tuesday of every month starting at 6:30pm. In 2010 we'll be moving to the first Monday of every month, still starting at 6:30pm. The schedule is available as a Google calendar (iCal).
Tuesday the 8th of December
15 minute talks
- "promise" by Ryan Kelly
- Mozilla Raindrop and/or CouchDB by Mark Hammond
5 minute lightning 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
Tuesday the 13th of October
15 minute talks
HTML generation in code made way nicer (Richard Jones)
Accelerate your Pylons development with BlastOff (Chris Miles)
5 minute lightning talks
A whirlwind tour of FS and filelike (Ryan Kelly, slides here: fs_and_filelike.tar.gz)
Tuesday the 8th of September
15 minute talks
- Mike Dewhirst reviewing Pro Django
- Richard Jones by request doing a short intro to context managers
5 minute lightning talks
- Richard Jones isn't a lumberjack, but someone cool is...
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 ... a new cool thing I'm working on
5 minute lightning talks
Chris Miles "Intro to PSI (Python System Information)"