Montreal Python

The 5th translation sprint is changing location. Google kindly offered to host the sprint in it’s Montréal office and we gladly move to the new location, which only one block away from the McGill metro station: 1253 McGill College, suite 250.

Django 1.2 has been released and then 1.2.1. The project moves on and so will be our translation effort. Montréal-Python is organizing a next sprint on 2010-06-28 at Google’s office:

1253 McGill College suite 250

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 seats; use the wiki to RSVP. If you can’t join us physically, you can still participate on IRC, on #montreal-python on irc.freenode.net.

update: the event is delayed by one week. The new date is 2010-07-26.

Montréal-Python 15 will take place in room SH-3420 of UQAM on 2010-07-26. This is in the Sherbrooke building. It will be a scaling and deployment themed edition.

Here is our schedule for the evening:

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

Our flash presenters are going to be:

• Pierre Thibault on ipython
• Dimitry Zolotaryov on dealing with remote API calls
• Derek Mounce on A way-too-short introduction to a new Web framework for Python
• Simon Law on Startup Mistakes in Cloud Deployment
• Wesley Bouarab on skeedy.com

Our main presenter is going to be Stéphane Jolicoeur and he’s going to talk about the architecture of NFB.ca, a platform with open and pythonic roots.

He is going to describe what he and his team at the National Film Board of Canada had to do in order to accommodate the massive increase in traffic that they received after deploying their new Django-powered website.

Technical Lead at the Web department of the National Film Board of Canada, Stéphane Jolicoeur is the architect and the lead implementer of the NFB.ca website.

Montréal-Python 15 is our last meeting of the summer; after a well-deserved break, we’ll be back in September.

Thanks to our sponsors for making Montréal-Python 15 possible:

• UQAM
• Benelux
• Savoir-faire Linux
• Ecometrica
• Apress

Montréal-Python 14 will take place at UQAM, on Monday 2010-06-14 in room SH-3420 of the Sherbrooke building. The SH building is located at 200 Sherbrooke west, Place-des-Arts metro station.

We are happy to annouce the list of flash presentations for
Montréal-Python 14 this Monday:

• Jeremy Barnes on Recoset
• Chris Hart on the business value of Python
• Michael Lenczner and Daniel Drouet on Ajah
• Sébastien Pierre on FFunction