Past Meetings, events and meetups
Thursday August 20, 2010
Merlin Corey: "Autopythonomation - Automating away all your concerns with a powerful Python" Flask application that runs the slides will be released from an upcoming update to the slides so you can automate your next talk
Held at Technical Connections office, 11400 Olympic Suite 700, Los Angeles, California
Thursday June 17th, 2010
Howard Golden: "The Python Hitchhiker's Guide to Haskell"
Michael Pan: "Report on pomsets (selected to be showcased at Structure2010)"
Held at Language Weaver office, Howard Hughes Center, 6060 Center Drive, Ste 150, Los Angeles, CA 90045-8808.
Thursday May 27th, 2010
Good turnout.
Jathan McCollum presented "Intro to Twisted"
Adam Bernier showed us "Intro to Flask framework"
Christopher Mahan demoed "Python on Android Incredible with ASE" http://christophermahan.com/hacking/2010/may.html
Held at Technical Connections
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Steve Wedig presented "Dependency Inversion in Python"
Michael Elkins presented "Intro to Functional Programming in Python"
Held at Technical Connections
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Lots of people showed up to this meeting. We had to get more chairs.
Paul Hildebrandt presented "Pythoscope"
Michael Pan showed "Overview and demo of pomsets: a workflow management system for your cloud". See the presentation slides.
Jathan McCollum showed AOL's Simian, a python tool to manage firewall configurations, and a whole bunch more.
The meeting ran late and there was no time to talk about PyCon. Next time.
Held at Technical Connections.
Thursday, February 11 2010
We met at the Language Weaver office in the Howard Hughes Center from 7 pm to 9:30 pm.
Language Weaver developers: 'How we use Python'; Members of the SoCal Piggies: FiveMinutePresentations.
Thursday, January 14 2010
We met at the Technical Connections office in West Los Angeles from 7 pm to 9:30 pm.
Dan Stromberg presented "The treap module". Grig Gheorghiu presented "Deploying Tornado in production"
Discussions included:
* We should all get together on a project.
< more to come >
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Meetup at Will's house. Chris Mahan, Brian, and Will attended. (Great food says Chris)
The meetup was small but enjoyable. Here are some tid-bits...
Meeting minutes from Will:
- Avoid threading when possible, use subprocesses and let the kernel manage the resources. Brian and Chris joked about how they could have told me "oh, threading is easy, go for it"
RDBMS are not necessarily the appropriate choice for all applications. http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
- Python is great glue between other programs.
- "Dictionaries Rock" - Brian L.
- No one is going to get rich from open source projects. Its rewards are social not monetary.
- Finding and installing the appropriate dependencies is still a hassle.
- Most any type of accepted standard helps everyone
- After the meeting I eliminated 15 python files and about half the code from my project while retaining all its functionality. Granted it still doesn't do much.
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11/19 |
John Mitchell: "Introduction to the RabbitMQ AMQP message queuing service"; All: lively discussions on Google's go language (see Michael Elkin's code samples), the Python moratorium, etc |
Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 90064) |
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10/08 |
Greg Abbas: "Automated Testing for Rendering"; Chris Mahan: "Self-documenting XMLRPC service in Python" |
Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 90064) |
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08/13 |
Dan Stromberg: "Python tools -- looper (run multiple commands in parallel) and pnetcat (a netcat lookalike)"; Grig Gheorghiu: "Developing a RESTful Web service in restish, with a Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant backend" |
Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 9006) |
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04/16 |
Mark Kohler: "Unit testing wxPython applications"; John Mark Schofield: "Command-line kung-fu"; Free discussion: PyCon 2009 retrospective |
Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 9006) |
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02/12 |
James Robey: "Introduction to the pyroglyph and wildfire projects"; Benjamin Bush: "The Pyevolve evolutionary algorithms package" |
Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 9006) |
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2008 Meetings |
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11/13 |
Tommi Virtanen: Selection from talks given at EuroPython |
Yellow Pages, Glendale |
http://eagain.net/blog/2008/07/07/ep2008-pythonic-fs.html; http://eagain.net/blog/2008/07/19/europython2008.html; http://eagain.net/blog/2008/08/11/ep-talk-videos.html |
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09/18 |
Michal Kwiatkowski: "Generating unit tests automatically with Pythoscope"; Joe Shochet: "Python and Toontown" |
Disney Animation Studios, Burbank |
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07/24 |
Clint Bidlack: "Using Nginx with multiple Quixote servers via WSGI"; Grig Gheorghiu: "Encrypted backups to Amazon S3 using boto and duplicity" |
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05/01 |
Pablo M.: "Google App Engine chat application demo"; Ben Bangert: "Introduction to Pylons" |
Gorilla Nation office, Culver City |
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03/27 |
Disney Animation engineers: "How we use Python at Disney" |
Disney Animation Studios, Burbank |
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02/28 |
Chuck Esterbrook: "Introduction to the Cobra programming language"; Steven Wagner and Saravana Reddy: "Django reports with JQuery -- how to build a report system in 60 minutes" |
Gorilla Nation office, Culver City |
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2007 Meetings |
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12/13 |
Titus Brown: "Overview and highlights of the GHOP contest" |
See the GHOP site |
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10/10 |
Meet and greet with core MoinMoin developers Thomas Waldmann and Alexander Schremmer |
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08/22 |
Tommi Virtanen: "Git for Computer Scientists", Michael Carter: "Introduction to Twisted", Grig Gheorghiu: "Selenium RC demo" |
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07/25 |
Michael Carter: "Introduction to Orbited", Diane Trout: "Hacking Jabber and Jabber Bots" |
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05/31 |
Titus Brown: "Introduction to pyparsing"; Brandon King: "How I wrote a Django non-wiki wiki in 5 days" |
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04/26 |
Clint Bidlack: "Using Python with Pylons, JQuery, EXT and simplejson to build a rich UI Web app" |
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03/15 |
Michael Carter: "Introduction to stackless and pyevent" |
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02/15 |
Chris Hughes: "Using Python to manage applications deployed on Amazon EC2"; Titus Brown: "figleaf goodness", Grig Gheorghiu: "Pybots and the Cheesecake Service" |
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01/18 |
Daniel Arbuckle: "NumPy tutorial"; Benedikt Reiter (intern at ActivePrime): "Controlling VMWare from Python with pyvix" |
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2006 Meetings |
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11/16 |
Diane Trout: "Investigating Mono with Iron Python"; George Bullis: "A first look at .NET programming with Iron Python by a non-GUI programmer" (based on Matt Griffith's "Installing Iron Python in 5 min." screencast and on Jon Udell's interview/screencast with Jim Hugunin) |
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10/19 |
Darius Bacon: "Introduction to the E scripting language"; Brandon King: "Ubuntu coolness" |
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09/12 |
Michael Carter: "Introduction to SQL Alchemy"; Steve Wedig: "PyJS: Turning Javascript into Python" |
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07/13 |
Daniel Arbuckle: "Erlang for Python programmers"; Greg Abbas: "Introduction to Django" |
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06/01 |
Mark Kohler: "Using Python for Linux kernel debugging" and "subprocess module overview"; Titus Brown: "scotch: recording and playback tools for WSGI-aware applications" and "nose-fu: advanced hacks with the nose unit testing framework" |
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04/25 |
Daniel Arbuckle: "Python and Domain Specific Languages", Titus Brown: "twill and WSGI", Grig Gheorghiu: "Unit testing with mock objects" |
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03/23 |
Diane Trout: "Boost Python overview" |
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02/15 |
Grig Gheorghiu and Titus Brown: Dry-run of PyCon tutorial presentation on "Agile development and testing in Python" |
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01/17 |
Howard Golden: "metakit overview", Grig Gheorghiu: "Testing a Python Web app with Selenium" |
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2005 Meetings |
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11/10 |
Daniel Arbuckle: "Python and Unicode", Mark Kohler: "What You Can Do with Python in 90 Minutes" |
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10/13 |
Brian Leair: "PIL tutorial", Diane Trout: "matplotlib overview", Grig Gheorghiu: "Creating sparklines with matplotlib" |
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9/13 |
Diane Trout: "Experiences with Trac", Titus Brown: "Why I like Darcs" |
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8/16 |
Steve Williams: "Demo/presentation of a commercial wxWindows-based Python application", Daniel Arbuckle: "Sets and decorators" |
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7/21 |
Grig Gheorghiu: "py library overview" |
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6/21 |
Diane Trout: "SimpleTAL tutorial" and "Pyrex tutorial" |
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5/17 |
Titus Brown: "Quixote Tutorial Part 2", Daniel Arbuckle: "Iterators, Generators and Continuations" |
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4/19 |
Daniel Arbuckle: "Metaclasses for fun and profit", Titus Brown: "Creating Web apps with Quixote 2.0" |
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3/8 |
Grig Gheorghiu: "Agile Testing with Python Test Frameworks" , Titus Brown: "Dapper/June" |
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I have piece of advice: you should write short essay after visiting the meeting. Include in it the main thoughts and ideas, that were discussed there.