Video of PyCon Sydney mod_wsgi talk now available.

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Graham Dumpleton

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Jul 5, 2010, 8:52:49 AM7/5/10
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I haven't watched it myself yet, so could be complete and utter crap,
but video of my mod_wsgi talk at Sydney PyCon is now available at:

http://blip.tv/file/3840484

The corresponding slides are at:

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?name=mod_wsgi-pycon-sydney-2010.pdf

I'll try and get round to watching it in the next few days some time
and work out all the things I said that were wrong. :-)

Graham

Jaume Sabater

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Jul 5, 2010, 10:38:12 AM7/5/10
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Nice introductory session, Graham. Do you have any regarding the
internal architecture of mod_wsgi? That one would be most interesting
to watch.

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Graham Dumpleton

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Jul 5, 2010, 9:06:41 PM7/5/10
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I once did a talk at a local Python user group which touched on
aspects of that. The talk was held at Google and video was captured.
The video was meant to have been made available but was told it
wouldn't be because it was too long. That sounded like a bit of a lame
excuse to me, so I suspect that the recording was simply stuffed up
and not done properly.

So, the answer is no, there isn't anything available about that.

I have been musing about whether to prepare a second talk about how
mod_wsgi works and submit to NZ PyCon for later in the year along with
this existing talk, but it is quite a bit of work to prepare the talks
and not sure I have the time. Also don't know if they have made videos
of NZ PyCon talks in the past or not. Firewall at work blocks me from
blip.tv so cant find out. Thus, even if did it, you might not get to
see it unless you are there.

Graham

Robert Coup

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Jul 5, 2010, 11:02:50 PM7/5/10
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Graham Dumpleton
<graham.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been musing about whether to prepare a second talk about how
> mod_wsgi works and submit to NZ PyCon for later in the year along with
> this existing talk, but it is quite a bit of work to prepare the talks
> and not sure I have the time.

We would love to have you over here presenting :)

> Also don't know if they have made videos
> of NZ PyCon talks in the past or not. Firewall at work blocks me from
> blip.tv so cant find out. Thus, even if did it, you might not get to
> see it unless you are there.

NZ Pycon from 2009 has its videos available at kiwipycon.blip.tv - i
thought they were somewhere else as well, will see whether I can dig
up a url.

Rob :)

Graham Dumpleton

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Jul 5, 2010, 11:45:08 PM7/5/10
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On 6 July 2010 13:02, Robert Coup <rober...@koordinates.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Graham Dumpleton
> <graham.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been musing about whether to prepare a second talk about how
>> mod_wsgi works and submit to NZ PyCon for later in the year along with
>> this existing talk, but it is quite a bit of work to prepare the talks
>> and not sure I have the time.
>
> We would love to have you over here presenting :)

Speculating further on this, as a followup talk to that first one,
what more in depth topics would people be interested in.

The obvious one is something about how mod_wsgi works and that covers
the differences between embedded mode and daemon mode, but concerned
that that may be too specific and not of general interest or
applicability to everyone.

A better talk might be to compare and contrast the architectural
models of all the different major Python web hosting mechanisms. That
is, compare CGI, FASTCGI/SCGI/AJP, mod_wsgi and pure Python web server
solutions including CherryPy WSGI server, spawning, tornado etc. Would
need to give a bit of an explanation as to why one would choose one
other another to be useful, but that may get quite hard as it is never
that clear cut.

In other words, need not all be about mod_wsgi. The most popular talk
at PyCon Sydney was about 15 tonne robots and the lightening talk on
the soccer robots was also quite cool. So, if I want to be cool maybe
I need to talk about something like that. Anyone got some 15 tonne
autonomous robots spare that can be programmed to play soccer. ;-)

Graham

Clodoaldo Neto

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Jul 6, 2010, 8:56:10 AM7/6/10
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2010/7/6 Graham Dumpleton <graham.d...@gmail.com>:

> On 6 July 2010 13:02, Robert Coup <rober...@koordinates.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Graham Dumpleton
>> <graham.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have been musing about whether to prepare a second talk about how
>>> mod_wsgi works and submit to NZ PyCon for later in the year along with
>>> this existing talk, but it is quite a bit of work to prepare the talks
>>> and not sure I have the time.
>>
>> We would love to have you over here presenting :)
>
> Speculating further on this, as a followup talk to that first one,
> what more in depth topics would people be interested in.
>
> The obvious one is something about how mod_wsgi works and that covers
> the differences between embedded mode and daemon mode, but concerned
> that that may be too specific and not of general interest or
> applicability to everyone.
>
> A better talk might be to compare and contrast the architectural
> models of all the different major Python web hosting mechanisms. That
> is, compare CGI, FASTCGI/SCGI/AJP, mod_wsgi and pure Python web server
> solutions including CherryPy WSGI server, spawning, tornado etc. Would
> need to give a bit of an explanation as to why one would choose one
> other another to be useful, but that may get quite hard as it is never
> that clear cut.

I think that would be a popular talk.

I have an observation to which I hope you could give a bit of
attention at the next talk. For this non native english speaker you
diction is very hard to understand. May be it is just your region's
accent as I'm not used to listen to Australians and I also have
difficulty listening to Americans from Texas.

Regards, Clodoaldo

>
> In other words, need not all be about mod_wsgi. The most popular talk
> at PyCon Sydney was about 15 tonne robots and the lightening talk on
> the soccer robots was also quite cool. So, if I want to be cool maybe
> I need to talk about something like that. Anyone got some 15 tonne
> autonomous robots spare that can be programmed to play soccer. ;-)
>
> Graham
>

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Thomas Gratier

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Dec 24, 2013, 4:35:32 PM12/24/13
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Hello,

It seems that the video is not available anymore when following your link (http://pyconau.blip.tv/file/3840484/) on the wiki http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/WhereToGetHelp?tm=6#Conference_Presentations
The Blip website displays "Sorry, this show has been removed from Blip." (and the parent subdomain http://pyconau.blip.tv/ as well)
I found an alternative link to download the video at http://pyvideo.org/video/468/pyconau-2010--getting-started-with-apache-mod-wsg
Maybe, you should edit the link in the wiki or upload the video again on a third party video hosting.
Thanks for your contribution with this valuable content in all cases.

Cheers

Thomas
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