Meetings in Wellington

UPDATE June 2010:

We now run monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month, to avoid encroaching on Wellington Perlmongers. Prior to the July 2010 meeting, Wellington meetings were on the second Thursday of the month.

Next Meeting

/August2010 6pm Thursday 5 August 2010

Future Meetings

/September2010 6pm Thursday 2 September 2010
/October2010 6pm Thursday 7 October 2010
/November2010 6pm Thursday 4 November 2010
/December2010 6pm Thursday 2 December 2010

Venue

Level 3, Catalyst House, 150 Willis St, Wellington - map

The front door is locked after 6pm. We'll have someone on hand to let folks in after that. If you're running late, send a TXT to Jonathan 021 2952390 when you arrive and we'll fetch you.
Beer and minor snacks will be provided courtesy Catalyst IT beer and minor snacks department.

Anyone interested in giving a short talk on the night is welcome. There will be a screen and a projector.

RSVP

Please email jonathan@catalyst.net.nz so we can prepare refreshments and snacks in appropriate quantities.

Past Meetings

/July2010 6pm Thursday 1 July 2010
- Lars Wirzenius: "My B-Tree Library"
/June2010 6pm Thursday 10 June 2010
- François Marier: "Freeing the cloud, one (small) service at a time"
/May2010 6pm Thursday 13 May 2010
- Brett Wilkins: "The Bottle web framework"
/April2010 6pm Thursday 8 April 2010
- Lars Wirzenius: "Debian packages, and unit testing"
/March2010 6pm Thursday 11 March 2010
- Art Protin: "Python DB API: Lessons from an instance"
- Brett Wilkins: "Finding Moodles with Turbogears"
/February2010
- Nic Cave-Lynch: "Using Python to drive custom stage lighting controllers" - http://tymar.com/
/January2010
- Aaron Barnes: "Web-based IRC-style chat with jquery and python"
- Tim and the entire Bazaar team: "Bazaar"
/December2009
/November2009
- JonathanHarker, possibly other attendees(?): "Highlights of Christchurch PyCon 2009"
- Tim McNamara: "The Sahana project, the web2py framework, and developing emergency UIs"
/October2009
- Andy Chilton: "Google App Engine"
- Jared Wright: "Introducing the Pyglet library"
/September2009
/August2009
- Nic Cave-Lynch - "Either difflib, or asyncore/asynchat"
- Jonathan Wright - "Using pypng to implement hidim". Store data as a visible PNG file. Interesting for glancing at a binary file and getting a sense for the structure.
/July2009
- Jonathan Harker: "Whizzy GUI applications using Glade"
- Noah Gift - "PyQT and Pyro"
- Jonathan Wright - "Python News: the famous GIL talk"
/June2009
/May2009
- Tony Vignaux: (impromptu) "SimPy, the Python-bases discrete-event simulation system"
/April2009
- Noah Gift: "Pylons Demo"
- Richard Clark: "A tank Game in 20 minutes", "Reading and writing excel files", "Use cases for decorators and closures"
/March2009
- Richard Clark: "Event timeline charting"
- Stephen Judd: "a skeleton python script"
- Three Weta People: "Processing module"
- Noah Gift: "Google App Engine Hackathon Plug"
/Feb2009
- Richard Clark - parsing logs, file skipping, regexes, and more!
- Reed Wade: "python on mobile phones"
- Nic Cave-Lynch: "Leo - my favourite editor" or "Fun python stuff I do at work"
/Jan2009
- Intro to Python and Python 3.0
- NoahGift: O'Reilly author introduces himself and his work

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