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10 November 2007

Notes on Python-North-West 2nd meeting

I just posted some notes on the second Python North_West meeting in "Happenings in Python User Groups". And also some notes on the new IRC channel vs the Facebook group.

Labels: Facebook, GeekDiary, IRC, kamaelia, python, PythonNorthWest

posted by GiacomoL @ 7:07 PM 2 comments links to this post

introducing #python-north-west and #pythonaro

Was feeling tired but slightly "hyper" last night, so I set up an IRC bot and registered two channels on irc.freenode.net. One is #python-north-west, for the group, and the other is #pythonaro, for me & friends. Come and say hello :)

Labels: GeekDiary, personal, PythonNorthWest

posted by GiacomoL @ 12:45 PM 0 comments links to this post

29 October 2007

Python North-West meeting

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 6:30 PM at MDDA (Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester, England M1 6ED)

New meeting of the Python North-West community!
Michael Sparks will talk on "Greylisting using Kamaelia", how to reduce spam using the Kamaelia framework. See this post from Michael's blog for some details.

After the talks, people will be able to showcase their cool python stuff, get tips from others, or just have a chat with fellow-minded python geeks.
Free wifi and refreshments will be provided! Feel free to bring your gear to showcase cool python hacks.
If you want to give a talk at this meeting (or the next one...), just post the idea on the mailing list or drop me a message.

Labels: GeekDiary, kamaelia, python, PythonNorthWest

posted by GiacomoL @ 1:34 PM 0 comments links to this post

03 October 2007

Post-meeting

I published my django presentation slides on the Files section of the list page (in ODP and PDF).

My notes on the meeting are in the relevant post at Happenings in Python Usergroups.

I certainly enjoyed it, and I hope the other guys did too. The presentation was ok (even though I slightly fudged the demo, and didn't really go too deep into details); I think people enjoyed the overview, and I tried to communicate what django was all about, more than showing clever tricks or how to satisfy obscure requirements.

Who knows, maybe one day I'll actually make a living out of this stuff...

Labels: django, GeekDiary, python, PythonNorthWest

posted by GiacomoL @ 12:25 PM 5 comments links to this post

26 September 2007

Python North-West meeting

So here it comes!
We sorted out the location thanks to the fantastic Manchester Digital Development Agency. They offered us their room free of charge, with projector & free wifi! For once, I'm very happy about paying taxes (MDDA is funded with public money).

The first meeting of the Python North-West community will feature a short talk on Django, "the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines"; I'll share my experience in building a django-powered site using some of the "contrib middleware", and what you can expect from it. I'm confident I'll lower the bar so much, that people will step up for further talks real quick ;)

Then people will be able to showcase their cool python stuff, get tips from others, and just have a chat with fellow-minded python geeks. Since there's free wifi and the room is secure, laptops are welcome!

If anyone wants to give a talk at this meeting (or the next one, or the one after that...), they can post the idea on the mailing list or contact me. Michael Sparks will probably talk about "Greylisting with Kamaelia" next month.

I also created a Python North-West Google Calendar, to track meetings & other stuff: feed - iCal - HTML.

See you there!

Labels: GeekDiary, python, PythonNorthWest

posted by GiacomoL @ 7:51 AM 2 comments links to this post

10 September 2007

Introducing Python-North-West

On the wave of the great time we had at Pycon, it was decided we should have a proper mailing list dedicated to North-West-based Python users... so here it comes!

The list is open to everyone in the area who loves coding/playing/enjoying Python. To join, you don't need to know your django from your pylons or your pyqt from your wxwindows... and certainly you don't need to pronounce WSGI. Don't worry, it's going to be uber-informal and very low-traffic, and I promise we won't use lolcats (not much anyway).

You can subscribe from the Python North West googlegroup page. Introduce yourself to fellow pythoneers, talk about your Python projects... you might get help!

Ideas on how to link this to other social software (facebook etc) are welcome.

Labels: GeekDiary, GoogleGroups, PyconUK, python, PythonNorthWest