Need Talks

[Michael Crute]

This is going out a lot later than I had hoped, sorry about that.

After out meeting last month there was a lot of interest in tailoring
our talks better to new python users and away from the more advanced
topics that we normally try to cover. Of particular interest where
Python web frameworks. We now have a lot of web developers visiting
from other languages (.NET, ColdFusion, Java, etc...)

To that end I've assembled a list of topics that people would like to
see covered. If you already have a talk or would like to give a talk
about one of these topics please let me know.

I'd like to have a Django talk for the next meeting if anyone has one
prepared and wouldn't mind giving it. Anything that covers the basics
without getting too deep into advanced stuff would be useful.

Topics of Interest
==============
Customizing and Embedding iPython
Websites with Django
Websites with CherryPy
Websites with TurboGears
Beginning Python
Unit Testing Python Code
Websites with Zope/Plone
A Comparison of DVCS

Let me know if you would like to give any of these talks or if you
have another talk that's outside of this list.

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Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson

[Mike Pirnat]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Michael Crute <mcr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Websites with Django
> Websites with CherryPy
> Websites with TurboGears

One thing that might be fun, if we had enough projectors/screens,
would be multiple simultaneous demos... Well, maybe more like
"cooperatively multiprocessed", with each presenter showing the way to
do something in their framework, then yielding to the next presenter
to show how their framework does the same thing (starting a project,
URL routing, templating, etc.). It might be a good way to compare
frameworks side by side.

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[Michael Crute]

That would be awesome, we could probably rig up some way to share a
single projector. Would you be interested in giving any of those 3
talks?

[Mike Pirnat]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Michael Crute <mcr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be awesome, we could probably rig up some way to share a
> single projector. Would you be interested in giving any of those 3
> talks?

Yeah, I think you'd just need a KVM to flip between presentations.

I would in theory be interested in taking part in such a thing, but I
definitely don't have any time for the forseeable future. Probably
not for some months.

[Michael Crute]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Michael Crute <mcr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to have a Django talk for the next meeting if anyone has one
> prepared and wouldn't mind giving it. Anything that covers the basics
> without getting too deep into advanced stuff would be useful.

I just talked to dstanek and he offered to give a Django talk at the
next meeting. It sounds like he's planning to start by writing a
simple application and then make it audience driven from that point.

-mike

[Patrick Regan]

I'm working on a presentation on (D)VCS's for the ALUG, I might be able to do that one next month, if there is interest. Things that will (likely) be covered is central and distributed models for VCS's and examples using SVN, BZR, and probably GIT, and HG. If you have anything you'd like specifically in there I'm willing to tailor it a little too. I might give this presentation to my co-workers too.

Pat

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Email: regan....@gmail.com
Phone: (330) 576-4044

[Nick Barendt]

  Appreciated Dave's talk last night.

  If there is interest, I would be willing to do a similar presentation on TurboGears 2 - only if people are interested, though - if the group has had enough of web frameworks, that's fine.

  Feedback?

-Nick

[David Stanek]

+1

If there were too many frameworks we wouldn't feel compelled to make a
new ones.

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[Ralph Heimburger]

Agreed.  I think a TG2 talk would be very good.

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[Christian Wyglendowski]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Nick Barendt <nickb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Appreciated Dave's talk last night.
>   If there is interest, I would be willing to do a similar presentation on
> TurboGears 2 - only if people are interested, though - if the group has had
> enough of web frameworks, that's fine.
>   Feedback?

I think it's a good idea. I talked to Mike Crute after the meeting
about doing a CherryPy talk, so there's another framework talk to toss
onto the stack.

I'd also like to talk about diesel (http://dieselweb.org/) sometime.
It's a library for writing async applications using generators as
coroutines. Some of the core software at our startup
(http://shoptalkapp.com/) uses it. We released it as open source last
month. It isn't a full web framework, but it does include a basic
HTTP/1,1 implementation (server and client).

Thanks again for doing the talk last night, Dave. It was good to see
lots of new faces at the meeting, and of course the long-timers as
well.

Christian

[Chris Weisel]

TG2 +1
CherryPy +1

[Matt Gibberman]

Diesel seems kind of interesting, +1 for that, too.

[Patrick Regan]

+1 for both.

I talked to Mike about doing one with him and another person (the name he mentioned escapes me at the moment) on the different DVCS's. Not sure what people would think about that.

Pat

[Michael Crute]

Christian has some time constraints so lets do his Cherrypy talk for
November. Nick, would you be able to do a TG2 talk in December? I
would really like to hear about Diesel sometime after that. And then
maybe in the January/February timeframe we can get a talk about DVCS.
Patrick mentioned wanting to give a talk about Bazzar, I'd love to
represent git and maybe I can con Dave into taking up the Mercurial
side of the debate. How does that sound to everybody? I don't want to
plan too far past January since plans may change for speakers.

-mike

[Benjamin W. Smith]

While we're on the topic of frameworks, I'd be happy to talk about
Tornado, or web.py. I've used both in projects and would be happy to
talk about em.

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[Daniel Buch]

wrt web frameworks, I'm a Pylons guy and would be happy to present on that

[Nick Barendt]

  Sure, I can do the TG2 talk in December.

-Nick