PyUGAT Python User Group Austria - Meeting 2010-12-12: PySide and QML

The Python User Group Austria is celebrating its first birthday - one year of PyUGAT :) There will be a hands-on talk and workshop about PySide and QML for creating good-looking mobile UIs with Python. The meeting will take place on Sunday, December 12th 2010 around 19h at the Metalab in Vienna (how to get there). Wiki page for the December meeting

As always, everyone is kindly invited to join in and meet local Pythonistas in and around Vienna. Bring your scripts, projects and hacks and present your findings as lightning talk, get answers to your questions or get help with your problems.

PyUGAT is also on Meetup, Twitter and Identi.ca.

German version:

Die Python User Group Austria feiert ihren ersten Geburtstag - Ein Jahr PyUGAT :) Es wird einen Hands-On Talk und Workshop zum Thema PySide und QML geben, womit man hübsche, mobile UIs in Python erstellen kann. Gefeiert wird beim nächsten Meeting am Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2010 um ca. 19 Uhr im Wiener Metalab (Anfahrtsplan). Wiki-Seite zum Dezember-Meeting

Wie immer ist auch diesmal jede(r) herzlich eingeladen bei uns vorbei zu schauen, und Pythonistas aus der Umgebung zu treffen. Bringe deine Scripts, Projekte und Hacks und präsentiere deine Erkenntnisse in einem Lightning Talk, finde Antworten auf deine Fragen oder erhalte Hilfe bei Problemen.

PyUGAT findest du auch auf Meetup, Twitter und Identi.ca.

Pittsburgh Python User Group - 1st meeting Thurs, Nov 11, 7pm

After a brief interlude, we’re happy to announce that the Pittsburgh Python User Group is up and running again!

Our first meeting will be Thursday, November 11 at 7pm in the upstairs of Silky’s in Squirrel Hill.

More details are available at pghpython.org or through our Twitter account @pghpy.

Hope to see you there!

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, November 10, 2010, 6.30pm

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place:

Wednesday, November, 10th
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:

• Summer of Code Summit, Google Code In (Reimar Bauer)
• Upcoming events and activities

Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:

http://www.pycologne.de


(Sorry, the web-links are in German only.)

Python.de-Sprint at Leipzig Python User Groupt Meeting on Tuesday, November 9, 2010

We will have a sprint about Python.de.

Our goals are to gather important information about Python in German-speaking countries and to provide a good German starting point for newbies. We use the Python-based CMS Plone. Everybody is invited to help. The temporary home of the portal is http://python.inqbus.de and will eventually move to python.de. You can register on the site to get access. Please let us know if you like to get even more involved.

We will meet on November 9, 2010, 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany (How to find us)

Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info@python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately.

Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate.

While the meeting language will be mainly German, English speakers are very welcome. We will provide English interpretation if needed.

The dates of our next meetings can be found in our calendar.
Information about meetings can also be found on our mailing list.

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, October 13, 2010, 6.30pm

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place:

Wednesday, October, 13th
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:
Using Rietveld for Code Reviews (Andi Albrecht)

Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:

http://www.pycologne.de

(Sorry, the web-links are in German only.)

Leipzig Python User Group, Next Meeting Tuesday, October 12, 2010

We will meet on October 12, 2010, 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany (How to find us).

Markus Zapke-Gründemann will talk about this topic:

Celery - Eine asynchrone Task Queue (nicht nur) für Django

Celery ist eine asynchrone Task Queue, die als Middleware große Mengen von Nachrichten verarbeiten kann.

Da Celery in Python geschrieben ist eignet es sich gut, um als Task Queue (nicht nur) für Django Applikationen eingesetzt zu werden. Als Backends stehen RabbitMQ, Redis und der Ghetto Queue (RDBMS & Cron) zur Verfügung.

Mit Celery lassen sich große Mengen von Nachrichten synchron und asynchron verarbeiten. Sowohl nur auf einer Maschine als auch in einem Szenario mit mehreren Servern.

Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info@python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately.

Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate.

While the meeting language will be mainly German, English speakers are very welcome. We will provide English interpretation if needed.

The dates of our next meetings can be found in our calendar.
Information about meetings can also be found on our mailing list.

PyUGAT Python User Group Austria - Next Meeting: September 15th, 2010

The next meeting of the Python User Group Austria (PyUGAT) will take place this Wednesday, September 15th 2010 around 19h at the Metalab in Vienna (how to get there). You can also find us on Meetup.

As always, we're open for all kinds of Python-related talks, discussions and ad-hoc code reviews. If you happen to be in or around Vienna this Wednesday, come and join us in the Metalab!

You can also follow us on Twitter for up-to-date news. We plan to post more often here from now on, so stay tuned. In the mean time, you can find logs of our previous meetings on our website. See you on Wednesday!

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, September 08, 2010, 6.30pm

Hello,

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place:

Wednesday, September, 8th

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:

 - Cooking Eggs - A distutils & setuptools recipe book (Christopher Arndt)

 - Lightning Talks

Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:

http://www.pycologne.de

(Sorry, the web-links are in German only.)

Best Wishes,

Andi (on behalf of pyCologne)

pyCologne, Python User Group Cologne, Germany, August, 11th, Announcement

Hello,

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place:

Wednesday, August, 11th
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:

• adm6 - ip6tables-, pf.conf- and ipf scripts with Python (Johannes Hubertz)
• Python libraries for accessing Excel files (Sophia Raab)

Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:
http://www.pycologne.de

(Sorry, the web-links are in German only.)

Best Wishes ,

Andi

Python BarCamp April, 17th at Cologne, Germany organized by pyCologne

Design by Thomas Richter

Authors: Reimar Bauer, Thomas Lenarz

On April 17th, 2010, pyCologne, the Python-User-Group of Cologne, Germany, welcomed about 20 participants at the first German Python-BarCamp at the site of GFU Cyrus AG in Cologne.

GFU, a Cologne based IT training company (http://www.gfu.net/), provided a set of three conference rooms, their cafeteria, and an assembly hall, which built up a perfect venue for the barcamp.

O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.de/) sponsored selected Python-books, which were raffled in addition to a special Barcamp T-Shirt among the participants. The start of the event was awaited with eager anticipation since at a barcamp the participants themselves take care of the content. pyCologne took care of the organizational preparations.

After a warm welcome from Reimar Bauer and Muharem Hrnjadovic on behalf of pyCologne and a brief round of introductions, planning of the slots using the prepared Flipcharts started immediately. Planning just finished, the participants swarmed out to join the different sessions: PyPy, Plone, MoinMoin-2.0, Django, imap2xmpp und bildout. Couchdb, from frameworks to libraries, 3D-graphics programming, Midi as well as Python and Java found enthusiastic participants, following the scheme "presentations last as long as it takes or the next slot is about to start".

To get motivated again after the lunch break with pizza and drinks, Christopher Arndt invited the participants into the sunny assembly-hall for the lightning talks: speakers talk for five minutes max, the goal is to entertain. After four minutes the moderator signals that their is one minute left and breaks off the talk after five minutes unconditionally.

Topics were: Coworking Project Cologne, pyCologne@FrOSCon, PyPy, RPX für Plone und Twitter, Zotero, html2wiki, Web-Development Client vs. Server, scriptutil for fun and profit and Django OR-M im Backend.

Again keen for action, the afternoon started with further sessions. Easily noticed by the noise of the keyboards many of the new learned topics were transferred immediately to the internet. Using the hashtags #pybar and #pybarcamp everybody from inside and outside the camp could follow the event.

After the closing session and the group-photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/12317756@N08/4530807440/sizes/o/) it was time to say goodbye to GFU.

The participants enjoyed the rest of the evening at the restaurant "La Mäng" in a cosy atmosphere having food and drink and friendly conversation.

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, April, 14th, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place:

Wednesday, April, 14th
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:

• Organization of the Cologne PythonBarCamp taking place on April, 17th.
  Please refer to http://wiki.python-forum.de/PythonBarCamp
  

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of
the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get
to the location can be found at:
http://www.pycologne.de

(Sorry, the web-links are in German only.)

Best Wishes
Thomas

P.S.: Due to spare-time issues on my side the regular announcements of our meetings will be taken over by another pyCologne-member. All the Best, Thomas

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, March, 10th, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place

Wednesday, March, 10th
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:

• Presentation: Experience with Pinax (Web-Site-Platform) (Klaus Blindert)
• Discussion about planning and preparation of a Python-BarCamp in Cologne
• Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!
  

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:
http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only)

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, January, 10th, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place

Wednesday, February, 10th
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:

• editmoin (Reimar Bauer)
• Using MoinMoin-Templates (Reimar Bauer)
• Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!
  

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:
http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only)

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, January, 13th Notes

The Python User Group Cologne (pyCologne) met on January, 13th at the computer centre of the University of Cologne. The meeting was attended by 10 people. German speakers might want to refer to our wiki page http://www.pycologne.de

This time we had a talk about the network-tool Scapy:

"Scapy - Experimenting with network packets" (Dirk Loss)

Dirk introduced the network-tool "Scapy" which allows building as well as analysing network packets. There are some similarities between Scapy and Wireshark, a well known graphical network analyser. Wireshark is also known by its predecessor Etherreal.

Scapy features building and manipulating network packets using an extended python-command-prompt. The '/' (division)-operator is overloaded to represent nesting of a packet-part into another. To nest an ICMP (ping echo-request) packet into an IP-packet you would write: i=IP(dst="8.8.8.8")/ICMP()

Besides the creation of network packets you can use Scapy to:

• Send out network packets
• Sniff network packets and analyse them on the command-line
• Visualize a conversation using the command conversation()
• Visualize the nested structure of an IP-packet with the command pdfdump()
• Create a series of packets with slight, random faults for testing purposes ("Fuzzing")

Analysing complex, high level protocols is difficult. However, Scapy offers state machines to keep track of the conversation.

Dirk did a live presentation of all the mentioned features, which led to a lot of interesting questions during and after the talk.

You can find the slides of Dirk's talk here:

http://dirk-loss.de/scapy/Scapy_pyCologne_2010-01-13_DirkLoss_v1.1.pdf

Other topics

During the rest of the meeting we talked about the following other issues:

• Question for good python introductory material: "Dive into Python" was recommended.
• Martin looks for a solution to generate comments within a C++-library into doc-strings of the corresponding Python-wrapper. There were some answers. However, we could not find a final strategy for doing that. Suggestions are very welcome!
• We would like to encourage participants to do, additionally to the classic talks, short talks or live presentations which need less preparation. The estimated duration of a talk should be announced beforehand for better organization.
• Reimar proposes to organize a "Python-Day" in Cologne and to invite other Python-User-Groups from Germany as well to participate. We will look for 1 or 2 suitable days on a weekend.
  

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

The next meeting will be held on, Wednesday, February, 10th.

Most of the participants enjoyed the rest of the evening in our usual italian restaurant having food, drinks and friendly conversation.

TuPLE (Tucson, AZ) - January 2010 recap

The Tucson Python Language Enthusiasts met Monday, January 11, 2010 at 1702 Pizza & Beer.

We had 8 attendees with 2 new faces (Welcome Jude and Leslie!)

We had 5 short-form "lightning talks" to kick off the new year.

• Generating PDFs with Reportlab (http://reportlab.org) - (Chris Niswander)
• Multiple ways to consume PDFs, with Reportlab being the best option for generating
• Using S5, Docutils, and reST to create web based slideshows (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/slide-shows.html)  - (Chris Merle)
• Why I hate ORMs - (Scott Schanel)
• Lively discussion about the (mis)use of ORMs (Object Relational Mapper) to manage data access. Good arguments for using an existing, if imperfect, query language (SQL) and understanding the 'relation' in relational database.
• Django syndication. Generating Media RSS feeds from Photologue galleries - (Lucas Taylor)
• Django makes it trivial to generate RSS feeds and reasonably easy to create custom syndication formats. A demo application was presented showing multiple galleries using the CoolIris plugin for consuming the feeds.
• iftd, a multi-transport protocol file transfer program - (Jude Nelson)
• iftd is a data transfer daemon that allows clients to access files via a variety of transfer protocols (http, ftp, bittorrent, et al.). Protocol and error handling are encapsulated in the iftd daemon, freeing clients from having to perform these functions as it chooses the best available transfer protocol. It is a component of the Stork project at the University of Arizona.

At least 4 TuPLE members are planning to attend PyCon 2010 in Atlanta next month, so our March meeting will be a recap of the conference. February remains a mystery.

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, January, 13th, Announcement

The first meeting of pyCologne in 2010 will take place

Wednesday, January, 13th
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:

• Short-Introduction into the ConfigParser module and discussion about configuration-files (Ralf Schönian)
• Presentation of Scapy (A network-tool featuring packet manipulation) (Dirk Loss)
• Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings!
  

At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant.

Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at:
http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only)