pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, Jan 9, Notes

The Python User Group in Cologne met at the computer centre of the University of Cologne. The meeting was attended by 14 people. German speakers might want to refer to our wiki page: http://pycologne.de.

After welcoming and introducing new participants we got to the main topics of the meeting. This time the creator of the pyCologne Logo Michael Weigend joined the Meeting.

Firstly, there were some announcements made by Christopher Arndt:

• On April 12th, 13th there will be held the Ruby & Python Conference (RuPy) in Poznan, Poland. They are looking for the contribution of additional talks.
  Please refer to: http://www.rupy.eu

• On January 12th, 13th a worldwide TurboGears Sprint is being held. Christopher Arndt, who hosts the German part, invites to join him. Further information can be found at: http://docs.turbogears.org/SprintOrganization

Furthermore, the discussion about the pyCologne Logo was continued and a final decision has been taken.
You can see the new pyCologne Logo at the beginning of this post.

This time two talks were be held:

The Publisher/Subscriber-Pattern (Christopher Arndt)

• Definition
• Classification
• Characteristics of the Implementation in Python
• Centralized vs. distributed architecture (Event-Broker)
  
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous passing of events
• Usage examples: Graphical-User-Interfaces, Logging-Systems, Games

A talk about the MoinMoin Wiki (Reimar Bauer, member of the MoinMoin core team)

• The home-page of MoinMoin can be found at http://moinmo.in
• Since version 1.6 the desktop edition has been build into the main package. (The desktop edition allows you to download and run your own Wiki on your Computer in no time.)
• Creole as a attempt to create a standardized Wiki-Language
• Packaging of Wiki-Pages into ZIP-files and automatted synchronizing of Wikis
• Configuration of access-control using hierarchical Access-Control-Lists (ACL)
• Introduction into the directory and file organisation which make up the Wiki-pages
• The (German) slides can be found at: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinTalks/pyCologne-2008-01

The next meeting will be held on, Wednesday, February, 13th.

The minutes of the meeting in German language can be found here.

As usual the formal part was followed by having pizza and nice conversation in a nearby restaurant.

Omaha Python Users Group, Jan 9, Notes

We met at Rosken's Hall on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

This month's meeting was a bit shorter than before due in fact to the great accommodations. It's amazing how much nicer it is to meet in a less crowded environment.

Topics:

• Crunchy and/or Idiomatic Python
• Lightning Talks
• Group Q and A session
• Crunchy
• SAGE math
• Security, Python, Coverity, DHS
• UtilityMill
• func
• gnuCash
  

The talk generated some nice discussion.

Thanks to everyone who attended.


Refreshments:
The venue does not allow food/drink so after the meeting we decided to meet at a local establishment for some food and beverage and more talk.

Door Prize:
Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears, Mark Ramm

Web Site:
Crunchy
SAGE math
Security, Python, Coverity, DHS
UtilityMill
func
gnuCash

Website:
http://www.omahapython.org/

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, Jan 9, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place

Wednesday, January, 9th
starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm
at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B)
University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany

Agenda:

• Talk about MoinMoin (Reimar Bauer)
  
• Talk about the Publisher/Subscriber-Pattern (Observer-Pattern) (Christopher Arndt)
• Discussion about how to proceed concerning the now established pyCologne-Logo
  

From about 8.30 pm we will enjoy the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:
http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_K%C3%B6ln (Sorry, this page is in German only)