Montreal Python

What a great turn-out! I counted at least fifty people showing up to our second event. And I think we’re going to get many more.

Spread the word with friends! Join our Facebook group! Volunteer to give a talk!

Location: StandoutJobs, 3981 boul. St. Laurent, Suite 615, Montreal

A friend of mine jokes: “You should do the next one the day of the Stanley Cup final” … we will track the game close to live as we can

Here are the presentations for tonight.

Asterisk and Python
by Cyril Robert

Asterisk, allows the average user to do pretty much anything he wants
with his telephony system. It is open source and billed as the “future of telephony”.

The first step in using asterisk is understanding it correctly, which
will be the first part of Cyril’s lecture. The second part will
focus on how to take advantage of Python to make asterisk a whole lot
easier.

PyQT and PyOpenGL: Live hacking a toy app
by Yannick Gingras.

For the first 35 mins, Yannick will hack a toy app from scratch using
PyQt and PyOpenGL. After that, he will answer questions for 10 minutes.

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Michael Deutsch also proposed we take a look at the introduction by Guido Van Rossum of Google App Engine - if we have time and if you guys want to

See you all tonight.

Grig Gheorghiu  from SoCal piggies says:

We had the SoCal Piggies meeting at the Disney Animation Studios last night. It was a great meeting — great presentations from Disney engineers on how they use Python at Disney (and they use it A LOT!), great food, great turnout, and great atmosphere. Let me tell you — the Disney Animation Studios are *lush*. Thanks to Paul Hildebrandt for organizing the meeting.

I’ll probably blog separately about the technical content of the presentations, but for now I just wanted to comment on the fact that everybody seems to be hiring Python programmers — Gorilla Nation and Virgin Charter are just two companies in the L.A. area that are aggressively looking to hire Python talent. Another thing: we used to have difficulties in finding venues for our meetings. We used to meet at either USC or Caltech, and around 10-12 people max. would show up. Now companies are clamoring for organizing the meetings at their offices, and we have 20-30 people in the audience, with many new faces at every meeting. Even more: Ruby on Rails programmers are showing up at our meetings, looking for an opportunity to be more involved with Python!

I take that as a sign that Python has arrived. It’s a good time to be a Python programmer

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-good-time-to-be-python-programmer.html

If you’re on facebook, here is the event page for MontrealPython2: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22020974904

If you haven’t already, please sign-up on the barcamp wiki: http://barcampmontreal.org/wiki/MontrealPython2

Let people know about our next meetup.

Welcome to our new identity.

We owe this identity to Hamish Macpherson who did a wonderful job. I encourage everyone to thank him and tell him how awesome he is.

Remember that the next meetup is coming April 10th and please invite anyone who needs to be invited.

If you haven’t signed up on the wiki, please do it now.

Here is another concept for MontrealPython contributed by Hamish.

I love it. Thanks Hamish.

Yannick Gingras will be doing a presentation about graphical programming with Python.

For the first 35 mins, I can hack a toy app from scratch using PyQt and PyOpenGL.  After that, I will answer questions for 10 minutes.

I’m looking forward to that !

Arach

As a result of brainstorming with fellow Montrealers Martin, Eric and Vadim at PyCon, we are going to introduce lightning talks in our next meetup. The idea is simple, attendees can volunteer to come up between the first and second talk during the meetup and talk about how they use of Python.

Simple and informal, these lightning talks are meant to inform each other about how we use python, and eventually spark conversations.

What do you think?

MontrealPython2 will be held April 10 2008 @ 6:30PM. We’ll be meeting at Standout Jobs : 3981 boul. St. Laurent, Suite 615, Montreal.

We have one presentation confirmed, and one open spot.

Arach (from PyCon Chicago)

Here is our first attempt at a logo. We have Hamish Macpherson to thank for this original design. Over time, we’ll come up with an original website and you are all welcome to contribute (read please contribute! )

What do you think ?