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, Tennessee Leeuwenburg and Ed Schofield, 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 RMIT University, 12.10.03 (building 12, level 10, room 03). It's close to the corner of Swanston and Franklin Streets. We typically head over the road afterwards for dinner, drinks and conversations.
Map: http://maps.google.com.au/?ll=-37.807737,144.962969&z=18
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/
Schedule
We meet on the first Monday of every month starting at 6pm.
Monday 7th March
5 minute talks
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
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 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)"