Meetings in Wellington
UPDATE June 2011: We now also keep meeting updates on Meet Up: http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/
UPDATE June 2010: We now run monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month, to avoid encroaching on Wellington Perlmongers. Prior to July 2010, meetings were on the second Thursday of the month.
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.
Next Meeting
Meetings are now tracked on http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/
Future Meetings
Meetings are now tracked on http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/
Past Meetings
/July2011 6pm Thursday 7 July 2011
/June2011 6pm Thursday 2 June 2011
/May2011 6pm Thursday 5 May 2011
/April2011 6pm Thursday 7 April 2011
/March2011 6pm Thursday 3 March 2011
/February2011 6pm Thursday 10 February 2011
/January2011 6pm Thursday 13 January 2011
Nic Cave-Lynch: "The Rubber Ducky debugging technique"
/December2010 6pm Thursday 2 December 2010
/November2010 6pm Thursday 4 November 2010
Discussion of potentially hosting KiwiPyCon 2011 in Wellington
Nic Cave-Lynch - "On Logging"
Michael Hudson - "Debugging production python programs"
/October2010 6pm Thursday 7 October 2010
Stephen Judd - "Fun with Hudson and nose for unit testing"
/September2010 6pm Thursday 2 September 2010
Michael Hudson - "a patronizing guide to what makes a good unit test"
Olly Betts - "my compact geocoding format"
Brett Wilkins - "Something something something Virtual Environments"
/August2010 6pm Thursday 5 August 2010
- Social at the Ruby Lounge
/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"
Nic Cave-Lynch: "Using Python to drive custom stage lighting controllers" - http://tymar.com/
Aaron Barnes: "Web-based IRC-style chat with jquery and python"
Tim and the entire Bazaar team: "Bazaar"
JonathanHarker, possibly other attendees(?): "Highlights of Christchurch PyCon 2009"
Tim McNamara: "The Sahana project, the web2py framework, and developing emergency UIs"
Andy Chilton: "Google App Engine"
Jared Wright: "Introducing the Pyglet library"
Jonathan Harker: "Whizzy GUI applications using Glade"
Noah Gift - "PyQT and Pyro"
Jonathan Wright - "Python News: the famous GIL talk"
Tony Vignaux: (impromptu) "SimPy, the Python-bases discrete-event simulation system"
Noah Gift: "Pylons Demo"
Richard Clark: "A tank Game in 20 minutes", "Reading and writing excel files", "Use cases for decorators and closures"
Richard Clark: "Event timeline charting"
Stephen Judd: "a skeleton python script"
Three Weta People: "Processing module"
Noah Gift: "Google App Engine Hackathon Plug"
- 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"
- Intro to Python and Python 3.0
NoahGift: O'Reilly author introduces himself and his work