Here is a follow-up on Montréal Python 8. By public demand, we will do our best to re-post the slides and example files online after the event.
Flash presenters at MP8 were:
- Jennifer Bell: visiblegovernment.ca and fixmystreet.ca -- Google Maps API and Geodjango (slides, code)
- Sébastien Pierre: Pamela -- rediscovering the pleasure of hand-written HTML (slides)
- Francis Pieraut: follow-up on Digipy, the real time character recoginition system presented at Montreal Python 6 (slides)
- Yannick Gingras: the Setuptools entry-points plugins system (examples)
Our main presenter was Alexandre Vassalotti on developing extension modules for CPython (slides, examples).
As mentioned, we Montreal Python teams up with PHP Québec for the PHP BBQ, which unfortunately we did not have time to rename to something more language agnostic. The BBQ will take place at Parc du Mont-Royal on 2009-08-08 at 13h. There will be a home brew beer contest between the PHP master brewer and the Python master brewer. I will proudly represent the Montréal Python team with a keg of Pythoune Brune, a fruity Belgian dark ale. Please confirm your presence by calling 514-581-8497 to make sure that there is enough food. Admission is only $5.
Montréal-Python will take a break for the rest of the summer. We get back on track in mid-September with Andrew Francis who is going to do a presentation on Stackless Python. We keep you posted as soon as we have the final date and location.
As usual, we are still looking for presenter for both flash and main presentation. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have an idea for a presentation.
Montréal Python would like to thank the sponsors who made MP8 possible:
- gold: Département d'Informatique de l'UQAM
- silver: Pivotal Payments and Savoir-faire Linux
- bronze: O'Reilly and AESS
Thanks again to the presenters and to the attendees. See you at the BBQ.
