Past Meetings

2009 Meetings

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04/16

Mark Kohler: "Unit testing wxPython applications"; John Mark Schofield: "Command-line kung-fu"; Free discussion: PyCon 2009 retrospective

Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 9006)

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02/12

James Robey: "Introduction to the pyroglyph and wildfire projects"; Benjamin Bush: "The Pyevolve evolutionary algorithms package"

Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 9006)

N/A

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2008 Meetings

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11/13

Tommi Virtanen: Selection from talks given at EuroPython

Yellow Pages, Glendale

http://eagain.net/blog/2008/07/07/ep2008-pythonic-fs.html; http://eagain.net/blog/2008/07/19/europython2008.html; http://eagain.net/blog/2008/08/11/ep-talk-videos.html

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09/18

Michal Kwiatkowski: "Generating unit tests automatically with Pythoscope"; Joe Shochet: "Python and Toontown"

Disney Animation Studios, Burbank

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07/24

Clint Bidlack: "Using Nginx with multiple Quixote servers via WSGI"; Grig Gheorghiu: "Encrypted backups to Amazon S3 using boto and duplicity"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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05/01

Pablo M.: "Google App Engine chat application demo"; Ben Bangert: "Introduction to Pylons"

Gorilla Nation office, Culver City

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03/27

Disney Animation engineers: "How we use Python at Disney"

Disney Animation Studios, Burbank

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02/28

Chuck Esterbrook: "Introduction to the Cobra programming language"; Steven Wagner and Saravana Reddy: "Django reports with JQuery -- how to build a report system in 60 minutes"

Gorilla Nation office, Culver City

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2007 Meetings

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12/13

Titus Brown: "Overview and highlights of the GHOP contest"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

See the GHOP site

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10/10

Meet and greet with core MoinMoin developers Thomas Waldmann and Alexander Schremmer

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

N/A

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08/22

Tommi Virtanen: "Git for Computer Scientists", Michael Carter: "Introduction to Twisted", Grig Gheorghiu: "Selenium RC demo"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

Blog post

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07/25

Michael Carter: "Introduction to Orbited", Diane Trout: "Hacking Jabber and Jabber Bots"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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05/31

Titus Brown: "Introduction to pyparsing"; Brandon King: "How I wrote a Django non-wiki wiki in 5 days"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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04/26

Clint Bidlack: "Using Python with Pylons, JQuery, EXT and simplejson to build a rich UI Web app"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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03/15

Michael Carter: "Introduction to stackless and pyevent"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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02/15

Chris Hughes: "Using Python to manage applications deployed on Amazon EC2"; Titus Brown: "figleaf goodness", Grig Gheorghiu: "Pybots and the Cheesecake Service"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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01/18

Daniel Arbuckle: "NumPy tutorial"; Benedikt Reiter (intern at ActivePrime): "Controlling VMWare from Python with pyvix"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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2006 Meetings

Date

Presentation

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11/16

Diane Trout: "Investigating Mono with Iron Python"; George Bullis: "A first look at .NET programming with Iron Python by a non-GUI programmer" (based on Matt Griffith's "Installing Iron Python in 5 min." screencast and on Jon Udell's interview/screencast with Jim Hugunin)

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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10/19

Darius Bacon: "Introduction to the E scripting language"; Brandon King: "Ubuntu coolness"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

N/A

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09/12

Michael Carter: "Introduction to SQL Alchemy"; Steve Wedig: "PyJS: Turning Javascript into Python"

"Caltech, Kerckhoff 101"

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07/13

Daniel Arbuckle: "Erlang for Python programmers"; Greg Abbas: "Introduction to Django"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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06/01

Mark Kohler: "Using Python for Linux kernel debugging" and "subprocess module overview"; Titus Brown: "scotch: recording and playback tools for WSGI-aware applications" and "nose-fu: advanced hacks with the nose unit testing framework"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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04/25

Daniel Arbuckle: "Python and Domain Specific Languages", Titus Brown: "twill and WSGI", Grig Gheorghiu: "Unit testing with mock objects"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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03/23

Diane Trout: "Boost Python overview"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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02/15

Grig Gheorghiu and Titus Brown: Dry-run of PyCon tutorial presentation on "Agile development and testing in Python"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

See http://agile.idyll.org agile.idyll.org wiki

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01/17

Howard Golden: "metakit overview", Grig Gheorghiu: "Testing a Python Web app with Selenium"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 322"

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2005 Meetings

Date

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11/10

Daniel Arbuckle: "Python and Unicode", Mark Kohler: "What You Can Do with Python in 90 Minutes"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

NinthMeeting

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10/13

Brian Leair: "PIL tutorial", Diane Trout: "matplotlib overview", Grig Gheorghiu: "Creating sparklines with matplotlib"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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9/13

Diane Trout: "Experiences with Trac", Titus Brown: "Why I like Darcs"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

SeventhMeeting

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8/16

Steve Williams: "Demo/presentation of a commercial wxWindows-based Python application", Daniel Arbuckle: "Sets and decorators"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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7/21

Grig Gheorghiu: "py library overview"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

FifthMeeting

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6/21

Diane Trout: "SimpleTAL tutorial" and "Pyrex tutorial"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

FourthMeeting

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5/17

Titus Brown: "Quixote Tutorial Part 2", Daniel Arbuckle: "Iterators, Generators and Continuations"

"USC Salvatori Computer Science Center, room 222"

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4/19

Daniel Arbuckle: "Metaclasses for fun and profit", Titus Brown: "Creating Web apps with Quixote 2.0"

NewportBeach

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3/8

Grig Gheorghiu: "Agile Testing with Python Test Frameworks" , Titus Brown: "Dapper/June"

NewportBeach

FirstMeeting

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