Meetings

Auckland meetings are held every third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm.

The current venue and directions are described here.

Next

• Future dates:
  • May 18 (Auckland Uni, Symonds St, Engineering 403.402) - Python on Android

Past Meetings

• /April2011

  • Topics:

    • John Graves: "The Wiki-to-Speech System" (incl. use of CherryPy)

    • Colin Coghill and John Graves: "Using CherryPy"

    • StuartMitchell: "Using Sphinx and Creating a Documentation Skeleton"

• /March2011

  • Topics:

    • Glenn Ramsey: "PyODE and Visual Python"

• /February2011

  • Topics:

    • GuyKloss: "Template for a Python Project, Packaging and PyPI"

• December 2010

  • Next meeting: 15 December (Gailbraith's Pub, Mt. Eden)

  • Topics:
    • Just a social "end of year" meetup in the pub ...
• November 2010

  • Cancelled due to Kiwi PyCon

• October 2010

  • Elliot Paton-Simpson: "EasyGui"

  • Colin Coghill: "I changed to Python 3 and the world is still holding together"

• /September2010

  • Topics:

    • Glenn Ramsey (http://www.digitalrowing.com): "Porting RowPro to Python"

    • GuyKloss: "The logging module (its easy really)"

• /August2010

  • Topics:
    • Coding Dojo Roman Numerals

• /July2010

  • Topics:

    • LeonMatthews: "Unicode: The Big Idea" (see homepage for slides)

    • GuyKloss: "Idiomatic Python" (second half of talk)

• /June2010

  • Topics:

    • Brooke: "The Amazon Web Services (AWS)"

    • RobertCoup (or Craig): "The "boto" Library for AWS in Python" (~15 minutes)

• /May2010

  • Topics:

    • Stefan: "Matplotlib"

    • GuyKloss: "Idiomatic Python"

• /April2010

  • Topics:

    • Colin Coghill: "CouchDB"

    • John Graves: "ConfigObject"

    • Robin Paulson: "Info pitch for Auckland Creative Space" (5 min)
      http://creativespace.org.nz/

• /March2010

  • a series of short talks, presentations, discussions, show'n'tells

• /February2010

  • Topics:

    • LeonMatthews: "time.time() is always enough"

    • Peter Harrison: "The Autonomous Python Boat"

• /January2010

  • Topics:
    • A series of short 5-10 minute talks/demos on distribution/packaging.

• /November2009

  • Topics:
    • Anita Kean
      • "Producing Beautiful documentation using Sphinx"

    • GrantPatonSimpson

      • wxPython GUI (sizers and events), unicode, and i18n (internationalisation)

    • Kiwi PyCon review, discussion

• /October2009

  • Topics:
    • Various lightning/short talks

• /September2009

  • Topics:

    • Wen-Chen Hol: "CourseBuilder"

• /August2009

  • Topics:

    • Michael Dunstan: "Testing Workshop"

• /July2009

  • Topics:

    • Craig Taube-Schock: "Design Patterns"

• /June2009

  • Topics:

    • Grant Paton-Simpson: "SOFA Statistics - Developing, packaging, and promoting a Python open source project"

• /Apr2009

  • Topics:

    • DannyAdair: Foundation meeting: "NZPUG - The Incorporation"

    • RobertCoup: "A quick (applied) intro to Twisted"

      • ... for an an IM (XMPP) client/bot using Wokkel
      • ... for an SSH/telnet server into your running application

• /Dec2008

  • Talks:

    • StuartMitchell: "Pulp-or Linear Programming in Python"

    • DannyAdair: New lightning talk series - "Python Cookbook"

• /Jun2008

  • Talks:

    • RobertCoup: "Django 101"

    • GuyKloss: "Beating the (sh** out of the) GIL - Multithreading vs. Multiprocessing"

• /Mar2008

  • Talks:

    • Colin Coghill: "Teaching Python"

    • Adam Boileau: "Mos' definitely: A Python C compiler?"

• /Feb2008

  • Talks:

    • DarrylCousins: "Getting started with eggs, zc.buildout and Zope3"

• /Jan2008

  • Talks:

    • GuyKloss: "Thinking Hybrid - Python/C++ Integration (Python where we can, C++ where we must)"

    • Beau Butler: "The Komodo IDE for Python"

Future

• /ShortTermPlan

• /Ideas

Colin on teaching Python:

Some "inter talk snacks:"

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