Talk suggestions for future meetings

[Daley Chetwynd]

Hi all,

 

Thanks to everyone who attended the coding session last night. For future meetings, what are some Python topics that you'd like to see covered? Are there any of the talk requests below that you have experience of and would like to volunteer to give?  :)

 

Here's my wish list:

 

Using Python with NoSQL (Couch, Mongo etc)

Python scripting with Android

Python scripting with ESRI ArcGIS

Common gotchas for newbie Python developers

Python anti-patterns

 

Thanks,

 

Daley

[William Furnass]

On 29 August 2012 15:31, Daley Chetwynd <pythons...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone who attended the coding session last night. For future
> meetings, what are some Python topics that you'd like to see covered? Are
> there any of the talk requests below that you have experience of and would
> like to volunteer to give? :)

A few more suggestions:
- (Fairly) rapid GUI development with PySide (Qt) and possibly QML
- Python plug-ins for Quantum GIS
- Cython - writing Python extensinons in C and creating wrappers
around 3rd party C code.

Might be able to give a talk on Cython in a couple of months' time.

Will

[Ian Murray]

Hi all,

If anyone has any experience in packaging python applications as .rpms or .debs I'd love to hear about that.  For our internal deployments at work, we've recently taken the approach of packaging-up python virtual environments, which I could give a short talk about.   But I don't think that's the "proper" approach to take, if for example, you were trying to get your package accepted into the Ubuntu repos.

I think a couple of short talks on handling dates/times and also unicode in python would be pretty informative.  I certainly found them both to be a bit of a stumbling block when I first encountered them, mostly, I think, because they require a bit of domain-knowledge to get it right.  If there's interest, I could give a couple of talks about these at some point.

 - Ian.

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 6 September 2012 10:13, Ian Murray <ian.c....@gmail.com> wrote:
> If anyone has any experience in packaging python applications as .rpms or
> .debs I'd love to hear about that

I've done a bit of .deb packaging, both for applications and Python
packages. I could talk a bit about that.

Thomas

[Daley Chetwynd]

Would you be able to give this talk at this month's meeting on Tues Sept 25th Thomas?

 

Are there are more talk requests that people have for future meetings?

Daley

[Gary]

Given the recent talk about virtualenv and pypi, it might be good to hear about alternatives like buildout and also any ways of mitigating problems of using pip.

Gary

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 6 September 2012 12:47, Daley Chetwynd <pythons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you be able to give this talk at this month's meeting on Tues Sept
> 25th Thomas?

Yep, I can do that. I'll try to include a demo as well.

Thomas

[Chad]

Something about Unicode would be grand, I seem to spend a lot of time yelling at strings :) Also maybe a talk comparing different python web frameworks would be nice, or comparing python web frameworks with other web languages?

[Daley Chetwynd]

A Unicode talk would be a good idea. Is there anyone on this list who's experienced with Unicode in Python and would like to give a talk on how to manage it correctly?

 

Daley

[Ian Murray]

I could talk about handling unicode etc.

 - Ian.