We are happy to announce that Montréal-Python 21, aka Eruptive Exorcist, will take place Monday the 9th. This gives us the opportunity to invite some of the LGM people to come over and talk to us about graphics stuff!  The meeting will be in room SH-3140 of the UQAM Sherbrooke building. The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is a gathering of developers and users of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software. This year, it will be held in Montréal, from May 10th to 13th. LGM also is completely free, it's going to be held at École Polytechnique de Montréal. It's free, and we encourage you to attend! We're going to try a brand new and eruptive format, composed mostly of 20-minute talks. Montréal-Python 21 will start at 6:00 PM with the following schedule:
  • 18h00: Doors opening
  • 18h20: Announcements
  • 18h30: Flash presentations
  • 19h00: Break
  • 19h20: Main presentations
  • 20h30: Discussions and refreshments at Benelux
Flash presentations :
  • Joao S. O. Bueno: Status of Python on Free Graphics Software
  • Christopher Allan Webber: Media Goblin
  • Eric Schrijver: Python and Type design
Main presentations :
  • Alex Quessy: How SAT uses Python (to be confirmed)
  • Ricardo Lafuente: Nodebox and Shoebot
  • Alessandro Rimoldi: Scribus' scripter engine
  • Joao S. O. Bueno: GIMP Python bindings
  • Christopher Allan Webber: Blender's bpy Python API
  • Gregory Pittman: Selected Python scripts for Scribus
The event is free to attend and no registration is required. Some snacks will be provided but do not expect a complete meal. We still have room for a few more prentations so let us know if you have a subject in mind. Thanks to our sponsors for making Montréal-Python 21 possible:
  • Ludia
  • QNX
  • iWeb
  • Benelux
  • UQAM
  • Le Site
  • Savoir-Faire Linux