Montreal Python

As we mentioned during the last Montréal-Python meeting, Chris Perkins, core developer of TurboGears2, will be giving a one-day hands on training on TurboGears2 on March 9th. His tutorial covers several parts of TurboGears2 that are common to Pylons so those who were interested by the presentation by Alexandre Bourget will certainly get the opportunity to dig deeper into Pylons and the other parts of the WSGI ecosystem. At $300 and with the $100 rebate if you go to conference, it’s a real bargain.

Next Friday, why not celebrate the end of the week with members of
other user groups? Montréal-Python, W3Québec, PHP-Québec, AMUG, Montréal Girl Geek Dinners, and many others invite you for a drink or two at Pub Ste-Elizabeth starting at 6pm.

When I first got the book, I was surprised by the number of pages it had (>1000).

But still, I managed to finish it relatively quickly because the font is big and the content well organized / spaced. I have also ignored a quite a few pages on how to install and configure your environment.

The target audience is without doubt beginners. If you want to learn the Python language, get the book. You won’t be sorry.

If you already know Python 2.6 you can just learn the language changes introduced in 3.0.

Read the rest of this review on Alex Gal’s blog.

Given the popularity of the first Django translation sprint, we decided to do it again. The next sprint will be on 2010-02-15 at Brasseurs Numériques’ office:

1124 Marie-Anne, suite 11,  Montréal, Qc H2J 2B7

We warmly thank Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for supporting the event with food and drinks for every participants.

The sprint begins at 18h and ends once everyone is too tired to type. Bring your own laptop or make an arrangement for pairing on the mailing list beforehand. We only have 12 places; use the mailing list to RSVP. If you can’t join us physically, you can still participate on IRC, on #montreal-python on irc.freenode.net.

The list of flash presentation at Montréal-Python 11 is out:

• David Goodger: BIG & BOLD Slides With reST & S5
• Hadrien David: Deploiement sur AppEngine
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel: Sprints de programmation et de traduction
• Mathieu Viau: ConFoo Jobfair
• Jean Schurger: Emacs pour les Pythoneux
• Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre: Packaging de projets Python pour Debian et Ubuntu

There’s only a few days left to benefit from the early bird rate at
ConFoo. Don’t wait and reserve now the opportunity to meet
international experts on Web development. At ConFoo, you will
get to discuss with famous Pythonistas such as Tarek Ziadé
(distribute), Antoine Pitrou (core Python), and James Tauber (Pinax).

The django translation sprint was a clear success. A team of eight sprinters worked on the Django documentation and after an intense training session on the toolchain, we were able complete a sizable part of the API documentation. Our coach, Mathieu Leduc-Hamel, did a great job pinpointing the relevent documents and supporting the team during our moments of struggle with Mercurial and Sphinx.

This is definitely an adventure that we want to revisit. We estimate that with three or four additional sittings, we would be able to reach the complete translation of the documentation.

Thanks to Brasseurs Numériques for hosting the event and Congratulations to the sprint team:

• Davin Baragiotta
• Julien Desrosiers
• Alex Gal
• Yannick Gingras
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
• George Peristerakis
• Jean Schurger
• Alexandre Vassalotti

Montréal-Python 11 will take place at UQAM, on Monday 2010-01-25 in room SH-3340 of the Sherbrooke building. The SH building is located at 200 Sherbrooke west, Place-des-Arts metro station.

Here is our schedule for the evening:

• 18h00: Opening
• 18h20: Announcements
• 18h30: Flash presentations
• 19h00: Break
• 19h20: Main presentation
• 20h30: Discussions and refreshments at Benelux

Flash presenters are going to be:

• David Goodger: BIG & BOLD Slides With reST & S5
• Hadrien David: Deploiement sur AppEngine
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel: Sprints de programmation et de traduction
• Mathieu Viau: ConFoo Jobfair
• Jean Schurger: Emacs pour les Pythoneux
• Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre: Packaging de projets Python pour Debian et Ubuntu

Our main presenter will be Alexandre Bourget and he is going to talk about Pylons, the swiss army knife of Python Web development.

In this session, we’re going to go through the main components of Pylons, with live demos of each piece of the stack: templating engines, persistence models, controllers, WSGI bricks, and some deployment scenarios. We’ll also have some little comparisons between frameworks; how Pylons relates to other frameworks and languages.

Alexandre is a passionate Python specialist who teaches the language as a main trainer at Savoir-Faire Linux. He is also the creator and main developer of SFLVault, an open source authentication information management software project, and contributes to other packages such as FormAlchemy.

Alexandre is also Consultant and Development Director at Savoir-Faire Linux, where he integrates different web technologies around open source.

We want to thank our sponsors for making Montréal-Python 11
possible:

• UQAM
• Savoir-faire Linux
• No Starch Press
• Benelux
• Ecometrica
• AESS

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Montréal-Python helps with the French translation of the Django documentation Monday 2010-01-18.  Brasseurs Numériques, a  young Montréal startup, will host us in their office:

Brasseurs Numériques
1124 Marie-Anne, bureau 11
Montréal, Qc
H2J 2B7

The sprint begins at 18h and ends once everyone is too tired to type. Bring your own laptop or make an arrangement for pairing on the mailing list beforehand.

There is a now a google calendar for MP!
You can search google calendar for it, but it’s also embedded here:
http://montrealpython.org/event-calendar/
Where you can easily subscribe to it on google cal.

If you use another calendar, you can subscribe to MP with the following links:

* xml
* ical
* or just see the calendar in its own page

We’ll keep it up to date with links to the event announcements as well as the location and date – this will be the canonical source of information for where and when things are happening in MP.