August meeting

[Nancy]

Next meeting: Aug 2, 2012 - correct?

At SRT as usual - correct?

Is there a topic?

 

Thanks,

-Nancy

[Mike Bernson]

we are changing meeting location:

new meeting location:

 Washtenaw Community College
 4800 East Huron River Drive
  Ann Arbor, MI 48105

in room BE-180 (Business Education Building).
  http://www.wccnet.edu/about-us/visiting/

meeting topic:
gtk/qt add some widgets for input data for the game of life

A map is available at http://www.semislug.mi.org/directions/ for
those unfamiliar with the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area.  (Or go directly to
http://www.wccnet.edu/aboutwcc/collegeinfo/directionsandmaps/
for the information.)

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[Nancy]

I remember discussing that possibility at last meeting. Thanks for clarifying! :-)

[Craig]

What time is the meeting?

[Mike Bernson]

meeting time 7:00pm aug 2, 2012 at  wcc not SRT

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[Victor R. Volkman]

Is there a www.meetup.com group? If so it is a far far better way to have meeting notices and reminders sent
out. I do appreciate that for every group I belong to and it definitely improves my attendance rate for events.
I can help set it up if you like

At 11:20 PM 7/31/2012, you wrote:
>meeting time 7:00pm aug 2, 2012 at wcc not SRT
>On 07/31/2012 07:07 PM, Craig wrote:
>>What time is the meeting?
>>
>>On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:50:20 PM UTC-4, Nancy wrote:
>>Next meeting: Aug 2, 2012 - correct?
>>At SRT as usual - correct?
>>Is there a topic?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Nancy
>>
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[Mike Bernson]

We can talk about it at the meeting.

Not sure what www.meetup.com is.

[Victor R. Volkman]

Meetup.com is the method of choice for organizing face-to-face meetings and attracting new members.
It is used by many Ann Arbor area groups including Ann Arbor Entrepreneurs, New Tech, Appropriate
Technology Cooperative and other groups
have a look at one and see if you like it
<http://www.meetup.com/The-Appropriate-Technology-Collaborative/>http://www.meetup.com/The-Appropriate-Technology-Collaborative/

It has "social" features so it is easy to forward an invite to a meeting, talk about it on your Facebook, etc.

Also, when you create your group it will notify like-minded people in the area who are already members of meetup.com
that a new group is starting if it matches their interests.

[Nancy]

Presentation Topic:  "Game of Life" in pygtk
 Current series of topics is exploring various visualization libraries in Python using "Game of Life" model
 

Demonstration of UI
 Code Review/Discussion of changes to create the UI

 Adding a "Save" dialog box (pygtk)
 

Open Discussion Topics:

 Timers & Threading issues

 Memory allocation issues

 Saving State (gnome) to handle "Recently Used" files (discussed in context of "Save" dialog box)

 Platform-independent options to "save state" in Python - options discussed: dictionary/repr(), pickle/cPickle, xml, JSON

pickle/cPickle to store objects: ability to "walk," deep save, serialize/de-serialize objects more reliably than in than some languages (ex. Java)

  xml: ability to validate against schema, some characteristics of "good" vs "bad" schema, tools (ex. xml spy editor) for generating schema/xml

  JSON (JavaScript subset): another schema that allows for swapping languages

 

 Wolfram/"A New Kind of Science", Turing Machines, Quarks

 Communications: Brief discussion of mail list, meetup.com, wordpress site, google groups. Might be good to discuss pros/cons via the List.
 
 Meeting Place: Key advantage at WCC is being able to get door unlocked! Unknown what scheduling issues might exist once fall semester starts.
 

Next meeting: Sept. 6, 2012 at Washtenaw Community College