Author : Yannick Gingras
29 01 2010Next 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.
Author : Alex Gal
26 01 2010When 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.
Author : Yannick Gingras
23 01 2010Given 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.
Author : Yannick Gingras
22 01 2010The list of flash presentation at Montréal-Python 11 is out:
Author : Yannick Gingras
20 01 2010There’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).
Author : Yannick Gingras
19 01 2010The 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:
Author : Yannick Gingras
16 01 2010Montréal-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:
Flash presenters are going to be:
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:
Author : Yannick Gingras
15 01 2010Montréal-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.
Author : Éric St-Jean
15 01 2010There 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.
Author : Yannick Gingras
13 01 2010Montréal-Python is involved in many activity to promote the growth of a strong community of Pythonistas in Montréal. Among other things, we have the regular meetings, the editing and publishing of videos, the ConFoo conference, and recently, the organization of sprints. In order to better manager these activities and to launch new ones, the Montréal-Python team is looking for new organizers.
A good organizer is probably someone who uses Python frequently but most of all, it’s someone who can communicate effectively in both French and English. If your are interested by the challenge, let us know swiftly because we have several tasks that have to be undertaken if we which to have a meeting in January.
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