pyCologne Python User Group, Cologne, Germany, June 10th Notes

The Cologne Python User Group met on June, 10th at the computer centre of the University of Cologne. The meeting was attended by 11 people. German speakers might want to refer to our wiki page http://www.pycologne.de.

Announcements

• EuroSciPy in Leipzig (Germany) see http://www.euroscipy.org/

• NumPy Workshop (comercial) in DLR (Cologne, Germany), Everyone interested should contact AndreasSchreiber (see http://wiki.python.de/AndreasSchreiber)
  

• In case pyCologne members would like to contribute project-presentations to FrOSCon, please decide quickly. Call for projects is (was) still open. (see http://www.froscon.de/)
  

• pycologne.de appears to experience problems. Christopher Arndt and Fabian Schächter solved the problem. pyCologne's homepage is reachable at http://www.pycologne.de again.
  

Proposals for upcoming pyCologne-Sessions

• Daniel Hepper offers a talk about the Web-Framework Django

Todays Talk: Mercurial (Reimar Bauer)

• Version-Control-Systems in General
• Distributed Version-Control-Systems
• Introduction into Mercurial (init, update, ...)
  
• Clones, pull and push operations

You can find the talk (in German language) at http://wiki.python.de/User%20Group%20K%C3%B6ln/Protokoll%2020090610/mercurial

Books

• Beginning Python Visualization: see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1430218436

• Dive into Python, available as well as free Online-Book http://www.diveintopython.org/

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

The next meeting will be held on, Wednesday, July, 8th.

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