The Portland Portland Python User Group meets every second Tuesday at [http://cubespacepdx.com CubeSpace] in SE Portland, Oregon.
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Next Meeting
- When: Tuesday, November 11th 2008 at 7pm
Where: [http://cubespacepdx.com CubeSpace], SE Grand
- What: Perhaps more of what's New in 2.6 and 3.0
- list topics you would like to discuss here
- Beer afterward at Produce Row or Green Dragon.
Sign up for an empty slot or add one for your favorite feature. 5-10 minutes, max! Projector available if you want one.
Other Meetings
The [http://groups.google.com/group/pdxdjango Portland Django User Group] has recently been formed to focus on [http://www.djangoproject.com/ Django].
The [http://code.arlim.org/wiki/ Portland Code Sprints] have been going strong and by some fluke most of the projects have been in Python. The sprints are great hands-on fun for folks at any level. If you're a beginner with little or no Python experience, come and get paired up with an expert; if you're an expert come and expand your knowledge or share your experience.
Resources
Mailing list: [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland portland@python.org]
- IRC: #pdxpython on Freenode
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxpython
We have a [http://python.meetup.com/183/ Meetup] group with a local calendar, feeds and automated event reminders.
Python advocacy mailing list: [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy advocacy@python.org]
Need to contact an organizer? <snakeherders@pdxpython.org>
Future Topics
- Organizing a Pacific Northwest regional Python conference
- Web frameworks: Django, Pylons, and more
- Using and extending Trac
- Pygments
IronPython
- Unit testing, Doctest, web testing
- Standard library module roulette!
- subprocess
- Reportlab / RML
- doctools / LaTeX output and rendering
- Python on Windows / Windows system admin with Python
- unit testing, unittest nose
- More robots!
- Add anything you want to talk about!
Past Meetings
October 14th 2008
Python Release Party! What's New in 2.6 and 3.0
- multiprocessing: Adam
- formatting: Matt
- print(): Kirby
- next(): Kirby
- except as: Jason
- Class Decorators: Brett
- _ _ dir _ _: Matt
- property: Brett
- Abstract Base Classes: Michel
- 3.0's Unicode: Kirby
- getattr(): Jason
September 9th, 2008
- Brett: Building and Distributing Python Eggs
Mark: [http://democracylab.org DemocracyLab]
- Leo Soto: Django on Jython
August 12th, 2008
- Beer and Bytecode
July 8th, 2008
- Framework vs Toolkit!
Rami & Roman: Django
Michel: Twisted & Werkzeug
June 10th, 2008
- Michael: Django
Igal: TurboGears & Pylons
- Jason: WSGI
- Michel: Twisted
- Pizza courtesy of Vidoop! Books courtesy of O'Reilly!
May 13th 2008
Adam: [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/z3c.rml z3c.rml]
- Matt: Configuration files and AST transformations
April 8th 2008
Jason: Decorators/inspect/code generation [http://discorporate.us/jek/python/inspectexec.py inspectexec]
Jason: [http://discorporate.us/projects/sliderepl/ sliderepl]
Mark: [http://ipython.scipy.org/ ipython]
Discussion: AppEngine
March 11th 2008
Michel: [http://labix.org/mocker Mocker]
- Discussion: Testing methodologies
February 12th 2008
Jason: [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv virtualenv]
Kirk: [http://www.pysoy.org/ PySoy]
January 8th 2008
Cozy round-table discussions about [http://www.pysoy.org/ PySoy], GUI frameworks, web frameworks and GUI vs. Web.
December 11th 2007
- First annual December Coders' Bash!
- Food, Beer, Games and Socializing
- Geek discussions of many different geek flavors(tm)
Many thanks to Sam Keen of [http://pdxphp.org/ PDXPHP], our own Jeff Schwaber, and all the other individuals who helped put this party together for their hard work. It was an incredible turnout, and everyone had a fabulous time!
November 13th 2007
Brett: Converting HTML forms to PDF forms with ReportLab
Kirby: Open Source and Health Care / BarCamp Alpha
- Jeff: Simplicity
Chris: Django NewForms
Pizza provided by [http://www.kavi.com/home Kavi]! Thank you, Kavi (and Adam, and Brett)!
October 9th, 2007
- Small group discussions-
Beginning Python, [http://www.reportlab.org ReportLab], Mercurial, web frameworks and unit testing.
September 11th, 2007
- Kevin defects to the Ruby Coding Dojo!
Jason: [http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodPyflakes PyFlakes]
Kirby: [http://www.python.org/cp4e/ P4E] (Programming for Everyone)
Kirby: [http://www.tuxisalive.com/ Programming the Tux Droid]
Mark: [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ PIL Projects]
August 14th, 2007
Extending Python with D via [http://www.dsource.org/projects/pyd pyd]
OSCON wrap-up: [http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/pycon2007/Py3k2007PyCon.ppt Python 3000] (.ppt) and [http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/ Code Like a Pythonista]
July 10th, 2007
- Intro to debugging with PDB
- Web automation with mechanize
- A Python frontend for a microcontroller
SQLAlchemy in 5 (ok, 20) minutes [http://discorporate.us/jek/python/ slides, video]
June 12th, 2007
- Social
May 11, 2007
- Planning
May 8, 2007
- We exist!