Winni PUG¶
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The Winnipeg Python Users Group¶
Welcome! We are about 60 Python users in and around Winnipeg, Manitoba.
We formed in 2005 and for 3+ years we met monthly to listen to a presentation, learn from each other’s experience programming in Python, or occasionally work on a project together. Since February 2009 we have not been meeting as regularly. Time will tell if this means we’re dormant, taking a break, or just functioning as a mailing list of Python users in Winnipeg. We have members at all levels of experience from expert to novice, and our discussions aren’t tied to any particular operating system or platform - so all are welcome. There is no charge to attend the meetings or join the group.
We encourage you to join our mailing list. The traffic is low and it provides a point for connection to Winnipeg Python users for events, job offers, etc. There are archives.
Meeting Times and Location¶
Meetings have traditionally been held the fourth Wednesday of the month from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 or 9:30 p.m. downtown, but we may try alternating between downtown and the U of M.
For meetings at Epic, the address is 167 Sherbrook, parking on the street or in the lot at the back, website http://Epic.ca.
Future Meetings¶
Date |
Location |
Topic |
Presenter/Facilitator |
Presentation File |
7:30 p.m., Mar 23, 2011 |
Epic |
Bo-Keep |
Mark Jenkins |
Past Meetings¶
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Presentation File |
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Dec 13, 2005 |
Organizing |
Stuart Williams |
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Jan 17, 2006 |
Teaching Programming with Python |
Stuart Williams |
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Feb 22, 2006 |
Recent Code and List Comprehensions |
Mark Jenkins |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
Database Access |
Sydney Weidman |
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Apr 26, 2006 |
Code review of text based game |
Mike Pfaiffer |
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May 24, 2006 |
Object Oriented Python |
Syd Weidman |
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Jun 28, 2006 |
Wrapping C Libraries |
Mark Jenkins |
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Jul 26, 2006 |
LdapFS.py sprint |
Scott Balneaves |
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Aug 23, 2006 |
Starlanes2 sprint |
Syd Weidman |
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Sept 27, 2006 |
Iterators and Generators |
Jason Hildebrand |
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Oct 25, 2006 |
Beer |
Various |
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Nov 22, 2006 |
Python IDEs |
Various |
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Nov 22, 2006 |
Python IDEs |
Various Artists |
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Jan 24, 2007 |
Some Beautiful and Ugly Code |
Stuart Williams |
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Feb 28, 2007 |
GUI Development with Glade |
Scott Balneaves |
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Mar 28, 2007 |
Django Tutorial |
Syd Wiedman |
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Apr 25, 2007 |
Topic Planning |
Group |
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May 23, 2007 |
Python for System Administrators |
Scott Balneaves |
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Jun 27, 2007 |
Batteries Included: A tour of the Python Library |
See presenter list |
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Sep 26, 2007 |
Python Introduction, Decorators, and Protest Bag Searches |
Stuart, Mark, Scott |
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Oct 24, 2007 |
Lightning Talks - How we’ve used Python recently |
various |
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Nov 28, 2007 |
Misc: virtualenv, nose, optparse |
Jason Hildebrand |
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Jan 23, 2008 |
Python 101 |
Stuart Williams |
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Feb 27, 2008 |
Python 102 |
Stuart Williams |
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Apr 23, 2008 |
What’s new in Python 3000 |
Various Artists |
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May 28, 2008 |
buildout |
Syd Weidman |
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Oct 22, 2008 |
PyUNO for OpenOffice Automation |
Syd Weidman |
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Nov 26, 2008 |
win32 python module for MS-Office Automation |
Stuart Williams |
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Jan 28, 2009 |
Python Scripting in the Enterprise |
Stuart Williams |
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Feb 25, 2009 |
Future-proof Python 2.6 code for Python 3.0 |
Stuart Williams |
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Mar 25, 2009 |
No meeting |
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Apr 22, 2009 |
Cancelled |
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Feb 26, 2010 |
Tavern United downtown |
PyCon reflections |
Stuart Williams |
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Sep 22, 2010 |
University of Manitoba, 356 Parker |
Introductions and Planning |
Topic Ideas¶
The following are possible future topics.
Visual Python
Zope and Plone
replacing shell scripts
scientific computing
Python for system administrators
MS-Windows automation with Python
IDE’s such as LEO, PyDev (Eclipse), Stani’s Python Editor
quick intro to Python for programmers
Web framework like Django or TurboGears
GUI framework like Kiwi
Python for Java programmers
Python bake-off: python vs. other languages head to head
Python’s potential in the enterprise
Basic tutorial on Python
Batteries included: A tour of the python libraries
Distributing python programs using setuptools
Extending Python with C
Test-driven design and development with Python
Python in Ubuntu
IronPython, .NET, and Context Menus
Google App Engine
Jython
Jython, Groovy, and JRuby comparison
Python bindings for gnucash