Montreal Python

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 ?

PyCon 2008 is coming up next week, and it’s shaping up to be a great event.  You can find information at http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/, check out the blog http://pycon.blogspot.com/ . There is also a scheduler for the talks presented http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/schedule/.

PyCon 2008, to be held soon in the Chicago area, has over 950 registered attendees at this time. That is over one and a half times the number of attendees from just the year before!

BTW. David Goodger who gave our first presentation ever is the Chair of the conference.

Anybody from MP going to be at PyCon?