> Collaborations in healthcare open source

> Link: http://www.chos-wg.eu

> It is about collaboration between healthcare professionals. A  
> patient record shared between several health actors in charge of a  
> common patient. The family doctor has a coordinating role.

> There's already a lot of health care open source software, but they  
> don't talk together. So there is a need for a more modular approach  
> in order to share those components. Python seems a good match for  
> the project, but they need technical help for this. See the open  
> source working groups of theinternational situation for telemedicine

> Reimplementing the google app engine datastore in berkeley DB - java  
> edition

> The GAE isn't really portable. That's just for practical issues, not  
> by design. One of the barriers is the datastore. So he chose to  
> reimplement the datastore (as alternatives weren't practical yet).  
> Targeting small to medium apps. In the end he went for BDB which  
> shared some features with the original google data store. He uses  
> java for it, for instance as Python's protocol buffers are dog slow.  
> And the java implementation of BDB is pretty good and solves some  
> issues with the normal BDB.

> Python and excel (Chris Withers)

> Python and excel: you could use CSV or the "HTML hack". There's  
> something better: xlrd. This can directly read and write excel files.

> Link: http://www.Python-excel.org/

> tl.eggdeps (Thomas Lotze)

> Link: http://pypi.Python.org/pypi/tl.eggdeps

> It collects declared dependencies between eggs as a tree. And it can  
> visualize them using dot/graphviz. You can filter out uninteresting  
> packages (like setuptools) and zoom in on the dependencies of one  
> specific package. You can also group for instance all zope.tal.*  
> packages into one zope.tal node to make the image cleaner. And you  
> can even filter by regular expression.

> MOAI (Kit Blake)

> MOAIis an open access server platform for institutional  
> repositories. The server manipulates OAI feeds that are in some xml  
> format. One of the users is http://www.cwi.nlwhich actually is the  
> birth place of Python. Infrae harvested the 8963 documents in CWI's  
> repository. So in the demo Kit was able to find 16 documents by a  
> certain Guido van Rossum from 1995.

> So 14 years after Guido left CWI, the first fully fledged Python  
> application is installed at CWI. Python has come home!

> The cloud in Five (Kevin Noonan)

> He demonstrates amazon's cloud stuff. Cloudware is outsourced  
> virtualization. So a virtual server or storage hosted on a remote  
> platform. The two well known once are Amazon Web Services and  
> Google's app engine. It is good for scaling on demand. And you can  
> get some outsourcing of your infrastructure. The oldest of Amazon's  
> web services is S3, the storage solution. There are Python libraries  
> to connect to it and manage it.

> How to hack like an evil overlord (Jonathan Lang)

> How to hack like an evil overlord in five easy steps:

> Shooting is not too good for my enemies. There is no software bug  
> for which shooting is not the good solution.
> Take a 5 year old as an advisor. They will always spot the flaws in  
> your plans. So always have someone else look at your code.
> Do not consume any more energy than will fit in your head. So no  
> metaclasses.
> If I have an unstoppable superweapen, I will use it as early and  
> often as possible. So pdb instead of print statements.
> "Push the button" should be enough. Automate everything. Don't do  
> long manual steps or the hero will slay you.
> Internet censorship (Holger Krekel)

> Governments are turning the internet and the mobile networks into  
> the greatest mass surveillance system ever. Iran likes that as it  
> can useoursurveillance software and our data-retaining mobile  
> infrastructure to retain all the protesters SMS messages and analyze  
> them afterwards... So our western measures enacted for our  
> protection is going to send thousands of Iranians into the torture  
> chambers.

> And the government in some countries is allowed to put trojan horses  
> on your devices. And the government in Germany can in the future  
> sensor any webpage they want. Just by executive decision instead of  
> democratic process. And France tries to put a three-strikes law into  
> effect.

> And all that even though the internet is so great. But it is turning  
> into a huge surveillance database for the government. There are  
> technical counter-strategies. Unlocatable content. Untrackable  
> connections. Untrackable access. And there are political counter-
> strategies like blogging, involvement, twitter, etc.

> So support political actions and create cooler technology! For a  
> free internet.

> CMS in django (Tommi)

> He showed an event-like system used for re-rendering placeholder-
> tags in an html page with the real content.

> SciPy (Stefan Schwarzer)

> At the end of July there'll be a European conference for Python in  
> science in Leipzig, Germany. http://www.euroscipy.org

> PyCharm (Dmitry Jemerov)

> They're working on a new Python IDE: pycharm. Currently a plugin for  
> intelliJ IDEA, but soon standalone. See http://www.jetbrains.com.  
> Price not yet announced, should be available later this year.

> He demoed it with nice warnings, quite intelligent autocompletion.  
> Integrated test support. Snippets. Display of docstrings for methods  
> with just a keyboard shortcut.

> Psyco 2.0 (Christian Tismer)

> He showed a speed test of a normal and a pure Python property  
> implementation to see how much psyco2 can speed that up. On average,  
> there was a 100x improvement. There'll be a psyco2 release on  
> Saturday.

> Self-service terminals (Bernard Nikolaus)

> There are self-service terminals at his university  
> (Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien), implemented with Python, for paying  
> study fees, taking photos, etc. So a card reader, printer, touch  
> screen, etc. All vandal-proof.

> The hardest thing of the project was to communicate with all the  
> hardware. There's a watchdog that monitors a subversion repo for  
> updates. And it starts the main program. Zope is used with xmlrpc  
> for the data. The data is stored in an oracle database. The use  
> mostly WXPython widgets for the user interface. Quite big buttons as  
> the interface is a touch screen.

> Jacob Hallen

> Please use political activism to prevent the recording industry from  
> being allowed to lift us from our beds in the middle of the night  
> for horrid crimes like downloading stuff or even developing open  
> source software. It isa very real danger. We prevailed against  
> software patents after a long struggle. Therearepoliticians that are  
> willing to listen, but wemust be the ones to do the talking.

> Python system information

> PSI is a Python C extension to get information from the kernel via  
> system calls and kernel hooks and so. It currently supports most  
> unixy platforms already, but BSD is lacking and windows too. They do  
> want to add that.

> Twisted interface to Erlang (Thomas Herve)

> TwOTP: twisted interface to Erlang. http://launchpad.net/twotp.  
> Erlang is a functional language with a focus on scalability. There  
> is an "ERM" protocol to communicate between nodes, which is  
> documented. CouchDB is one of the nice applications made with  
> Erlang. But as a Python programmer we want to access that too.

> TwOTP has parsing/packing to/from Python types, an EPMD deamon  
> implementation and implementations for server and client protocols.  
> And monitoring of Erlang processes. Send and receive messages from/
> to Erlang processes. The good thing: every Python goodie is  
> available to develop with, like UI, web libraries and database  
> interfaces. Several of those things are hard(er) with Erlang.

> Python for numerical analysis (Eric)

> Most numerical analysis is still done with Fortran. Not nice. So he  
> tried to do it with Python. All the goodies like eigenvalues, green  
> functions, plots of the green functions. The number of lines in the  
> program was much lower than with a comparable Fortran program. He  
> hopes that the Python community will work towards promoting the  
> scientific application of Python. It is so much nicer.

> FilterPype network (Rob Collins)

> Filterpype: "complex systems in 10 lines of code". A classic case of  
> a filter and pipe system is an oil refinery. With filterpype you can  
> also work with pipes and filters: from source to sink.

> There are base classes for all sorts of filters. Stuff you can do?  
> Just pass it on, bzip compression, etc. You tie the filters together  
> in a pipeline with a small config file that specifies the route  
> between the various filters.

> Link: http://www.filterpype.org/

> TPS reports in django (Felix)

> Django's admin interface is highly customizable. At his company he  
> needed to make some modifications, especially adding reports for  
> their issues database. In the end, he generated reports with word by  
> using a template in word's xml format where he could get the  
> software to fill in data. The template was simply uploaded to the  
> site. The documentation on how he did it is all on the wiki of  
> djangoproject.org.

> Distributed version control system (Radomir Dopieralski)

> Use it, it really changes the way you program. It is real easy to  
> make a clean copy of something, work on it and possibly push the  
> changes back. He thinks there should be more tools like that. For  
> instance for bug reports: there is a tool that embeds bug reports in  
> such a DVCS.

> hattais something that he made that embeds a wiki in the DVCS,  
> including the whole page history. It comes with a small web server  
> that you run straight from your DVCS checkout, so you can easily  
> browse your version of the wiki and even change it via the web  
> interface. And also directly in the source file, of course.

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