The Melbourne Python Users Group
The Melbourne Python Users Group currently meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at Intrepid Travel in Fitzroy. New members and presenters are always welcome.
The main culprit is [mailto:anthony.briggs@gmail.com Anthony Briggs], along with a number of high caliber/hard core pythonistas. We also have a [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug mailing list].
Meeting Details, Location, etc.
Awooga, awooga, purple alert! Meetings on hold while the group stares at own navel... We welcome contributions.
Intrepid Travel BR 12 Spring St, BR Fitzroy BR
[http://www.whereis.com/whereis/mapping/geocodeAddress.do?advertiserId=&streetNumber=12&streetName=Spring+st&poiType=&suburb=fitzroy&state=Victoria&x=39&y=11 Map to Intrepid Travel]
It's pretty close to the 96 and 112 tram, and only a short hop from Parliament station. Not too sure about parking, but there's a fair bit of street parking around, particularly after hours. There are also a large number of cafes and restaurants along Brunswick street.
The meeting format is largely ad-hoc, and we're willing to experiment with different ideas, such as lightning presentations, announcements, demos or code/design reviews. If you have an idea, drop Anthony an email or bring it up for discussion, either on the list or at the meeting.
Schedule
Meeting Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Presentation File |
| Early September | Launch of MPUL | Tennessee Leeuwenburg | t.b.a.
Past Meetings
Meeting Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Presentation File |
June 16th, 2005 |
Automation with Python |
Anthony Briggs |
[attachment:autocode.sxi Autocode] |
July 21st, 2005 |
Using Twisted for BEEPy |
Justin Warren |
[attachment:twisted.sxi Twisted] |
August 18th, 2005 |
TDD with Python |
Bruce Cropley |
[attachment:Unit-testing.ppt UnitTesting] BR [attachment:nim.py nim.py] BR [attachment:nimtest.py nimtest.py] |
September 15th, 2005 |
Pygame |
Richard Jones |
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October 20th, 2005 |
Python Style |
Anthony Briggs |
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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
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 