Next meeting, Tue 4th November, and after that...

[Tibs]

The next three meetings are:

* Tue 4th November, Lightning Talks, 7.30 - 9.30
Room 013, Anglia Ruskin Library
* Tue 2nd December, Pub Meeting, 8pm at the Carlton Arms
* Tue 6th January, Talks or some other event -- see below

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The next meeting will again be at the Anglia Ruskin University
Library, in the same room as our last Talks meeting. This time
we want to do a series of Lightning Talks, rather than a few
longer presentations.

We're asking for volunteers to do 5 minute talks (shorter is OK,
too) on anything that might be of interest to Python programmers.
Presentations don't need to be polished -- quoting from the
London Meetings announcements:

Remember - anyone can do a lightning. You don’t need to be any
kind of expert; a plea for help or advice makes a perfectly
good lightning. Expertise is welcome too, of course. A pet
project, a new library you’ve come across recently, a learning
experience you’ve had, anything. Please, don’t be backward
coming forward!!

Please volunteer by emailing me, or following up to this message.

If we get enough talks to fill all the time, that would be
wonderful, but if not we shall use them as a spur for discussion.
The last section of the meeting will be used to talk about what
we do for the first meeting next year.

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At time of writing, directions to the Anglia Ruskin Cambridge
Campus, and to the library, can be found here__, but it seems
they sometimes move this information (the link from the
University Library pages is wrong, for instance).

__ http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/your_university/
anglia_ruskin_campuses/cambridge_campus/find_cambridge.html

[Tibs]

Just a reminder that next week's meeting will be

* Tue 4th November, Lightning Talks, 7.30 - 9.30
  Room 013, Anglia Ruskin Library

We've already got some lightning talks
lined up, but more would be very welcome.

Tibs

[Bryan Cole]

Hi,

I'm new to the group. It finally looks like I'll be able to make it to
tomorrows meetings. I'd be happy to introduce myself and give a brief
summary of my python-related interests (science and engineering
applications mostly).

cheers,

Bryan

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> Tibs
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[Tony Ibbs]

On 3 Nov 2008, at 20:23, Bryan Cole wrote:
>
> I'm new to the group. It finally looks like I'll be able to make it to
> tomorrows meetings. I'd be happy to introduce myself and give a brief
> summary of my python-related interests (science and engineering
> applications mostly).
>
> cheers,
>
> Bryan

Great - look forwards to seeing you.

Tibs

[Tibs]

Many thanks to all those who came to the meeting, especially those who
gave lightning talks.

We had the following talks:

:Tibs: Why I like Pyrex
:Tom Lynn: Figleaf and code coverage testing
:Safe Hammad: "Mum's program"
:David Jones: clearclimatecode.org
:Joe Metcalfe: Teaching Python to Year 9 (i.e., age 13 year olds)
:Toby White: Rabbit-MQ
:Richard Boulton: xappy (Python wrapper for xapien search engine)
:Bryan Cole: Python at Teraview

(hope I got titles more-or-less correct). Lots of interesting synergy
around the talks.

Next three meetings will be:

Tue 2 Dec: pub meeting, Carlton Arms, 8pm
Tue 6 Jan: talks -- venue to be announce, hopefully doing one
or two 30 minute talks, and some lightning talks.
Any volunteers welcomed...
Tue 3 Feb: pub meeting (as above)