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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
  • October 2010
    • Elliot Paton-Simpson: "EasyGui"

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

  • /September2010

  • /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:
  • /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

Colin on teaching Python:
ColinOnTeachingPython.jpg

Some "inter talk snacks:"
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