Montreal Python

MontrealPython3 was a lot of fun. Martin Blais gave us 2 very interesting presentations. In case you missed it or want to follow up, you can find snakefood, beancount and more at http://furius.ca/home/software.html.

Thanks again to StandoutJobs for lending us their space and Akoha for the refreshments.

MontrealPython4 will be July 31st. We’ll have more details in the weeks to come.

 –Arach

MontrealPython3 will be held June 26 2008 @ 6:30PM. We’ll be meeting at Standout Jobs : 3981 boul. St. Laurent, Suite 615, Montreal. Going forward, we will do one presentation per meetup. This will be more convenient for lots of people, who have to leave before the end and feel bad about it…

Our presenter will be Martin Blais, who will give one of his proposed presentations (Snakefood / Beancount).

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I really like the use of the mailing list as a way to pitch presentation ideas, it’s efficient and open. The downside is that a mailing list is not great for individual feedback because nobody wants to disturb more than 30 people with their preference. So here is a little experiment to help us organize in a more simple and open way: a polling widget.

For more information on the presentations listed below, look here for Hugo Boyer’s and here for Martin Blais’ presentation ideas .

There are other people who have suggested presentation topics they would like to present, I invite them (you) to write to the list, it’s the way to get a talk on MontrealPython. If you’re not on the mailing list, please join http://groups.google.com/group/montrealpython

MontrealPython3 date coming soon …

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– Arach

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the videos of
Montreal Python #2.

• Cyril Robert: Asterisk and Python
• Yannick Gingras: Practical intro to PyQt and PyOpenGL

Thanks to Pior Bastida for his hard work behind the camera and for the edition.

– Yannick Gingras

What a great turn-out! I counted at least fifty people showing up to our second event. And I think we’re going to get many more.

Spread the word with friends! Join our Facebook group! Volunteer to give a talk!

Location: StandoutJobs, 3981 boul. St. Laurent, Suite 615, Montreal

A friend of mine jokes: “You should do the next one the day of the Stanley Cup final” … we will track the game close to live as we can

Here are the presentations for tonight.

Asterisk and Python
by Cyril Robert

Asterisk, allows the average user to do pretty much anything he wants
with his telephony system. It is open source and billed as the “future of telephony”.

The first step in using asterisk is understanding it correctly, which
will be the first part of Cyril’s lecture. The second part will
focus on how to take advantage of Python to make asterisk a whole lot
easier.

PyQT and PyOpenGL: Live hacking a toy app
by Yannick Gingras.

For the first 35 mins, Yannick will hack a toy app from scratch using
PyQt and PyOpenGL. After that, he will answer questions for 10 minutes.

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Michael Deutsch also proposed we take a look at the introduction by Guido Van Rossum of Google App Engine - if we have time and if you guys want to

See you all tonight.

Grig Gheorghiu  from SoCal piggies says:

We had the SoCal Piggies meeting at the Disney Animation Studios last night. It was a great meeting — great presentations from Disney engineers on how they use Python at Disney (and they use it A LOT!), great food, great turnout, and great atmosphere. Let me tell you — the Disney Animation Studios are *lush*. Thanks to Paul Hildebrandt for organizing the meeting.

I’ll probably blog separately about the technical content of the presentations, but for now I just wanted to comment on the fact that everybody seems to be hiring Python programmers — Gorilla Nation and Virgin Charter are just two companies in the L.A. area that are aggressively looking to hire Python talent. Another thing: we used to have difficulties in finding venues for our meetings. We used to meet at either USC or Caltech, and around 10-12 people max. would show up. Now companies are clamoring for organizing the meetings at their offices, and we have 20-30 people in the audience, with many new faces at every meeting. Even more: Ruby on Rails programmers are showing up at our meetings, looking for an opportunity to be more involved with Python!

I take that as a sign that Python has arrived. It’s a good time to be a Python programmer

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-good-time-to-be-python-programmer.html

If you’re on facebook, here is the event page for MontrealPython2: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22020974904

If you haven’t already, please sign-up on the barcamp wiki: http://barcampmontreal.org/wiki/MontrealPython2

Let people know about our next meetup.

Welcome to our new identity.

We owe this identity to Hamish Macpherson who did a wonderful job. I encourage everyone to thank him and tell him how awesome he is.

Remember that the next meetup is coming April 10th and please invite anyone who needs to be invited.

If you haven’t signed up on the wiki, please do it now.

Here is another concept for MontrealPython contributed by Hamish.

I love it. Thanks Hamish.