pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, Feb 13, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place

Wednesday, February, 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:

• Key Signing Party - (Organization Christopher Arndt)

• Bicycle Repairman - Your daily helper for refactoring in Idle, Emacs und SciTE. Short introduction and example. (Rex Turnbull)

At 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://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only)

Omaha Python Users Group, Feb 6, Notes

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

Mike Hostetler gave a great presentation/demonstration of django. After some opening comments comparing different styles of web development, Mike took us through a blog application with django. There were lots of questions all through the presentation. Thanks Mike!

Topics:

• django
  • satchmoproject a django based ecommerce framework
  • heartlandstores.com - A site Mike built based on django / satchmoproject and utilizing YUI
• Lightning Talks
• Group Q and A session
  • PyCon 2008 in Chicago
  • wxPython
  • WebFaction

Thanks to everyone who attended.

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

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)

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, Dec 12, Notes

The Python User Group in Cologne usually meets at the computer centre of the University of Cologne. The meetings are attended by about 15 people. German speakers might want to refer to our wiki page: http://pycologne.de.

Reimar Bauer talked about the Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ for students which involves tasks for the Python-Project, Plone and MoinMoin. After 100 new tasks have been added recently, the Python project now features more than 250 tasks.

Talk proposals and requests for future pyCologne meetings:

• Talk about MoinMoin (proposed by Thomas Richter
  and to be held by Reimar Bauer)
• Talk about the Publisher/Subscriber-Pattern (Observer-Pattern) (proposed and to be held by Christopher Arndt)

Talks:

• A general introduction into design-patterns (advantages and disadvantages, different types, example: Singleton-Pattern) by Stefan Pielicke
• A talk about the Composite-Pattern and its use-cases e.g. parsing/matching by Ralf Schönian
• Selected advanced topics from an introductory course into Python (Iterators, Generators, Lambda, Sets, function-parameters with *, **) by Rebecca Breu

This post is closely based on the minutes of the meeting taken by Rebecca Breu. The original German text can be found here.

pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, Dec 12, Announcement

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place

Wednesday, December, 12th
starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm
at Room 1.08 , 1st floor, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B)
University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany

Agenda:

• Short introduction to design-patterns (Stefan Pielicke)
• A Talk about the Composite Pattern (Ralf Schönian)
• Selected topics from an introductory course into Python (Rebecca Breu)

From about 8.30 pm we will enjoy the evening in a nearby restaurant or visit one of Cologne's christmas markets to enjoy the mulled wine.

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)