Utah Python User Group meeting TONIGHT

[tonedevf]

The next Utah Python User Group meeting is tonight at our fantastic Draper
location.

Stephen McQuay will be doing an overview of thread/threading and
multiprocessing, with a simple example of each (waiting on network load, and
calculating pi on multiple procs).

Jake Trent will be showing Django on jython.

Several books will be given away, pizza and drinks will be consumed, good
company will be enjoyed.

Details at http://utahpython.org

[Alec Henriksen]

Damn, I wish I could be there... I'm in Israel right now. Have fun everyone!!

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[Ray Hunter]

I will not be able to make it either tonight...will there be some
slides or information available from the presentations that can be
sent out or linked too.

Thanks,
Ray

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:29 AM, tonedevf <tone...@gmail.com> wrote:

[AJ ONeal]

I'm coming up for the first time, from BYU.

Does anyone want a ride?

AJ ONeal
(317) 426-6525

[Jeff Shipley]

I don't think I'll be able to make it either. I still haven't seen the
new Draper location :(

Ray, you can generally find slideshows and/or code examples from past
presentations at utahpython.org on the "Past Presentations" page.

[stnc...@xmission.com]

Are either of the Dave's (or others) interested in carpooling tonight?

Meet at the Albertson's on 2300 E and 2100 S? Leave there at 6:30?

-Steve

[tonedevf]

[David Owen]

stnc...@xmission.com wrote:
> Are either of the Dave's (or others) interested in carpooling tonight?
>
> Meet at the Albertson's on 2300 E and 2100 S? Leave there at 6:30?

Great, see you there.

-David

[tonedevf]

I'll join too, if you don't mind riding with the pizzas.

Dave

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[AJ ONeal]

Could someone give me a call and help me find the place?

I'm out wardriving at the end of a dead-end road with a random neighborhood near some sort of barbed wire establishment.

I started out early because I heard it was hard to find. It definitely is in a fog like this.

AJ ONeal
(317) 426-6525

[AJ ONeal]

I found it, I'm here, the guy in the purple shirt typing on his laptop... and hitting send.

AJ ONeal
(317) 426-6525

[Shawn Willden]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:29 AM, tonedevf <tone...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The next Utah Python User Group meeting is tonight at our fantastic Draper
> location.

Darn, missed another. Unfortunately, I have a standing appointment
every Thursday evening for the foreseeable future. Probably most of
2010. :(

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Shawn

[tonedevf]

Hello all,

At the last meeting I asked everyone to suggest presentation topics. I took
some sparse notes which I will attempt to flesh out below. I'm sure I've
made plenty of mistakes so please help by correcting any mistakes you see
and adding new topics you'd like to see and/or present.

Verio Cloud Computing
Suggested by: Rob Bailey, Verio
Presenter: Rob Bailey
When: ? ?

Google Wave
Suggested by: Jeremy Hanna
Presenter: Jeremy Hanna
When: ? ?

Webcrawling
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

Map/Reduce
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

Python basics (possibly several presentations, from different perspectives,
covering different aspects)
Suggested by: Bear & DexterTheDragon
Presenter(s): Bear & DexterTheDragon
When: ? ?

Nifty (or stupid) Python Tricks
Suggested by: many people
Presenters: hopefully lots of people
When: ? ?

Twisted
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

Distributed processing of Bezier curves and surfaces
Suggested by: Stephen McQuay
Presenter: Stephen McQuay
When: ? ?

Gstreamer
Suggested by: Clint
Presenter: Clint
When: May/June

Other ideas:

Code sprints - What projects are people interested in working on? Would
this make sense for our usual 2 hour meeting time or should a larger chunk
of time be scheduled?

Others ? ? ?

[Seth House]

Code build and/or deployment systems came up on IRC a couple weeks
back.

virtualenv, pip, Fabric, zcbuildout, (others?). Taken individually
each is a bit light, but together they should fill out a presentation.
toppcloud may be interesting to throw into the mix, even if it's still
pretty wet behind the ears.

[tonedevf]

List now updated with Seth's suggestion.

Anyone else?? We need presenters. If you suggested one of the topics below
consider learning it a bit and presenting on it. No need to be a seasoned
expert before presenting.

Hello all,

Code build and/or deployment systems mini-presentations: virtualenv, pip,
Fabric, zcbuildout, toppcloud, others?
Suggested by: Seth
Presenters: ? ?, ? ?, ...
When: ? ?

[Coverston, Ben]

I could do a 30k foot view on MapReduce, the class of problems it is designed to solve, and lead a high level discussion on some of the implementation challenges that implementers face when using a highly distributed system that stores and processes large sets of data.

I'm not much of a python programmer (as some of you well know), but I do have a lot of experience with the limitations of a traditional n-tiered system when scaling above a certain point.

Ben

Hello all,

Other ideas:

Others ? ? ?

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[Jeremy Hanna]

I have a friend here at work that is doing a lot with CouchDB right
now - http://couchdb.apache.org/ - and could do a presentation on how
to program against couchdb with python... that could go alongside a
MapReduce presentation since couchdb uses a map reduce algorithm
itself. Anyway, I'll cc him on here too since I don't think he's on
the mailing list... yet... :)

Jeremy (jeromatron)

[Hatem El-Zanaty]

excuse me Jeremy for my ignorance could you please tell me what is couchdb
thanks in advance

[Ricardo]

I'd love to hear more about couchdb.

--Shane

[Jeremy Hanna]

Hatem,

Take a look at the couchdb link in the thread. It's a non relational db that is primarily a document store. Queries and return values are in JSON. It's used for syncing for the ubuntu one service and is being considered as the persistent DOM db for Firefox.

Hope that gives some more context but others may be more familiar with it.

Jeremy

[Alec Henriksen]

As another suggestion, I would like to hear/see a presentation on each
of the well known web frameworks. I bet you guys have done this before
several times, so nevermind if you guys are against it.

I would be glad to give it in the future, if, once again, it won't bore
the crowd. I would also be glad if someone more experienced did it. :)

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[Christian Horne]

i like the couchdb idea - heck, i might even look that up anyway

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[tonedevf]

Were you thinking more of a brief overview of everything out there, or a
more in-depth comparison?

[tonedevf]

We've had a few additions and some volunteers. Below is the updated list.
Please add to the list of topics and sign up to present. Thanks!

Code build & deployment systems: virtualenv, pip, Fabric, zcbuildout,

toppcloud, others?
Suggested by: Seth

Presenters: Seth
When: February

Verio Cloud Computing
Suggested by: Rob Bailey, Verio
Presenter: Rob Bailey

When: March or April ?

MapReduce & CouchDB
Suggested by: Jeremy Hanna
Presenter: Ben Coverston & Steve
When: March or April ?

Python basics (possibly several presentations, from different perspectives,
covering different aspects)
Suggested by: Bear & DexterTheDragon
Presenter(s): Bear & DexterTheDragon
When: ? ?

Distributed processing of Bezier curves and surfaces
Suggested by: Stephen McQuay
Presenter: Stephen McQuay
When: ? ?

Gstreamer
Suggested by: Clint
Presenter: Clint
When: May/June

Webcrawling
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

Nifty (or stupid) Python Tricks
Suggested by: many people
Presenters: hopefully lots of people
When: ? ?

Twisted
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

[tonedevf]

Sounds great!

Ben, Steve, could you present in March or April? I'm also waiting to hear
back from Rob@Verio about a Cloud Computing / Verio presentation in March or
April.

Thanks!

Dave

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[Coverston, Ben]

I don't have a preference, Steve?

[Steve Olson]

I could do either March or April.

Steveo
Steven Douglas Olson
stev...@gmail.com

[tonedevf]

...updated with some confirmed dates for March and April. Woot!

Code build & deployment systems: virtualenv, pip, Fabric, zcbuildout,

toppcloud, others?
Suggested by: Seth

Presenters: Seth
When: February

Verio Cloud Computing
Suggested by: Rob Bailey, Verio
Presenter: Rob Bailey

When: April

MapReduce & CouchDB
Suggested by: Jeremy Hanna

Presenter: Ben Coverston & Steve
When: March

Python basics (possibly several presentations, from different perspectives,
covering different aspects)
Suggested by: Bear & DexterTheDragon
Presenter(s): Bear & DexterTheDragon
When: ? ?

Distributed processing of Bezier curves and surfaces
Suggested by: Stephen McQuay
Presenter: Stephen McQuay
When: ? ?

Gstreamer
Suggested by: Clint
Presenter: Clint
When: May/June

Webcrawling
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

Nifty (or stupid) Python Tricks
Suggested by: many people
Presenters: hopefully lots of people
When: ? ?

Twisted
Suggested by: ? ?
Presenter: ? ?
When: ? ?

[tonedevf]

Steve, Ben,

 

Looks like Verio will do April so I’ll put your two presentations down for March 12.

 

Thanks!

 

Dave