Python Jobs: Free Software enthusiasts are hiring in Montreal!

Savoir-faire Linux team is looking for two Python Web developers.

Conditions:

• Ready to program in Python full-time, in agile mode
• Want to join a team with more than 30 experienced developers
• Can identify Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds on a photo

You can apply online via this address:

http://www.savoirfairelinux.com/en/careers/2011060701-web-python

Montreal-Python and the UQAM Computer Science Student Association (AGEEI) are proud to present their very first French open attendance Django Workshop.

Last week, we introduced Python through a dynamic workshop and we will now dive head first in web development using the Django Python framework.

You only need to have a basic knowledge of the Python language in order to participate (if you have assisted to our first workshop, you’re good to go).

The evening will be animated by Davin Baragiotta of Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and will be split up in two parts:
* Web development with Python and Django: an overview of a typical project architecture
* Street Hockey League: we will be working on a little sample Django project

The workshop will be next Thursday, on December 1st at the Sherbrooke building of UQAM, room SH-R810 from 6h30pm to 9pm.

More info can be found about the event at:

http://montrealpython.org/r/projects/workshop-uqam-2011-12-01/wiki

Pizza, coffee and soft drinks will be provided.

We would like to thank our sponsors: Ludia and Savoir-faire Linux for helping us organize this event.

Please bring yourself, a laptop and your sense of humor!

Please have Python 2.7 (or >= 2.5) and Django 1.3.1 installed.
For installation instructions : http://montrealpython.org/r/projects/workshop-uqam-2011-12-01/wiki

If you bump into any issue during the installation, don’t panic, we will be in room SH-R810 starting at 5:30pm to help you setup your laptop for the workshop, whatever OS you are running.

To register, please confirm your presence on our guest list:

http://guestli.st/79653

Tomorrow is the Montréal-Ouvert Hackathon and we will play with plenty of open data. Don’t forget to register on the eventbrite page, there are still some places available:

http://montrealouvert.eventbrite.com/

At our last meeting, we came up with 3 different projects. Feel free to join us on these projects or to start your own one. In the mean time, here is a brief description of what we would like to do:

Air and Water Quality

Create an automated twitter feed that will publish alerts on bad
environmental conditions on the island of Montreal in real-time by
monitoring air and water quality information published by the city.

Montréal Photos 2.0

Improve Montrealphotos.org with semantics information by crowd sourcing.
Those information include more accurate geotags and datetags, links to
relevant websites (wikipedia?) and tags. And then make it social!

Recreation Montreal

Centralized all the informations about the different recreation activies available in Montreal and then, allowing the citizens to enjoy their pools, their ski trails and all what they need to have fun in their city in a pythonic way.

For Hacks and glory

How does a developer change the world? One function at a time. This December the Notman House gives you a chance to join likeminded others and hack for a greater good.

The event is Random Hacks of Kindness and it will be hosted this December 3rd and 4th.

On the first day, Montreal participants will be presented real-life problems by representatives of Médecins Sans Frontières and the LIRNEasia think tank. Once a problem chosen, your team will then have two days to create a solution.

In this feat you will not be alone. Thousands of people world wide will be participating in 30 sister events along with you. Participants in other cities will work on solutions to the problems of their community or their organization.

Here in Montreal, I (Dimitry Zolotaryov) am looking for team-mates to represent Montreal-Python. Developers, designers, engineers and social media people are all welcome. Send me a message if you’re interested in being part of an enthusiastic team: dimitry@webit.ca.

This is your chance to hack for good. Won’t you accept the challenge?

Register Here: http://mtlrhok.eventbrite.com/?srnk=1
Event Page: http://www.rhok.org/event/montr%C3%A9al-canada

Past Problems: http://www.rhok.org/problems

Let me tell you a story… Two years ago, I embarked on this great adventure starting a company, raising high my Python sword and slashing all the challenges that I would face during my journey.

This feeling that warms you up when someone finds your code so useful that they will pay money for it is amazing.

Starting a company is much more than that though; it’s the opportunity to talk to people and to use your empathy to figure out what they really want; it’s the opportunity to decide all by yourself what kind of crazy new software development methodologies you’re going to use; it’s the opportunity to write code that is 100% tested — or not waste anytime on those stinking tests that only slow you down; it’s the opportunity to take the the phone and to learn the hard way how to close a sale (a skill that will serve you well for years to come in many aspects of your life, from negotiating a business deal to dating).

Starting a company is stressful, yes, but it’s a lot of fun.
Founder Fuel is an exciting local initiative that gives an average of $20k to new startups and helps them grow by nurturing them with skilled mentoring and a very influential network of contacts.

In the four months of the program, the companies are are expected to grow from essentially nothing into usable and marketable products.

The first round of startups presented their products last Tuesday during the demo day, and it was very exciting to see how far many of those went during such a short time.

The second round is now open to applications, and you have until January 7th to submityour startup idea. In the first round, not a single startup had a strong Python presence.

Will we see more Python companies this time?

Let’s try to make it happen!

We are here today with solomn hearts, dear friends. As many of you may know, our previous president Yannick “What these glasses?!” Gingras will be leaving Montréal for the warmer pastures of San Francisco to work for none other than the one… Facebook.

It is indeed a great loss for Montréal Python, our city itself and all of us who call Yannick a friend. It’s also a pretty severe loss for all the brew-pubs in Montréal Québec Canada. And yet, it is an exceptionally exciting move for Yannick; he has the opportunity to bring Python to something that millions of people use every day.

And so, with Yannick leaving and the winter just starting, what better time to celebrate – a sort of melancholy celebration – but a celebration nonetheless. The plan:

Wednesday, November 16th from 17h to “19h” at our staple, Benelux.

Join your fellow Pythonistas to wish Yannick a fantastic adventure and solidify his belief that Montréal Python is an amazing usergroup capable of amazing things.
See you there !

Python is a powerful agile language that surprises us by its suppleness and the ease with which we can use it to solve complex problems in just a few lines of code.

This month, we are exploring unexpected and unconventional uses of Python across many domains. We are inviting you all to Inadvertent Indentation, Monday Movember 21st at UQAM, in room SH-R810 of the Sherbrooke Pavillion.

The even is free and even thought we will not serve a four course meal, snacks will be provided. Rumor has it that there could also be some free beer.

Here is our schedule for the night:

• 18h00: Opening
• 18h20: Announcements
• 18h30: First salvo
• 19h10: Pause
• 19h25: Second salvo
• 20h30: Discussions and refreshments at Benelux

Our ingenious presenters will be:

Flash Presentations

• Dominic Savoie, “Functional Python Programming with Moka”
• Geoff Salmon, “Python in a Stereo – Handling Music and its metadata in a plug computer”

Presentation

• Angelique Mannella and Antoine Reversat, “Building a mobile application using pyside on Meego”
• Alastair Porter, “Audio fingerprinting and metadata correction with Python”
• Andrew Hankinson, “Optical Music Recognition”
• Marc Tardif, “The Design and Implementation of a Launchpad microservice”
• Jean-Lou Dupont, “Message Switch” pour une architecture “Design by Actor”

Finally, a big thanks to our generous Sponsors:

• Ludia
• iWeb
• Benelux
• UQAM
• Le Site
• Savoir-Faire Linux

We invite you to participate to the hackathon with Montréal-Python, even if you have not already registered or not.

We are hosting a preliminary meeting next Monday, the 14th of November, at L’Escalier near metro Berri-Uqam (http://g.co/maps/t792h), from 7pm to 9pm.

Will will organise teams and find common subjects everyone wants to work on. A few interesting ideas have already been proposed for Montréal-Ouvert here: https://mtlouvert.uservoice.com/forums/137103-hackathon-donn-es-ouvertes-montr-al-19-novembre

Also, if you plan on going to the hackathon, please make sure you have registered yourself with Montreal-Ouvert on eventbright here: http://montrealouvert.eventbrite.com/

See you guys on Monday,

Montréal-Python and UQAM’s Association générale des étudiants et étudiantes en informatique  (AGEEI, the student union of CS students) are proud to announce their very first French open attendance Python workshop.

You do not need to know any Python since this is going to be an Introduction to Python session.

Our MC for the evening is going to be Davin Baragiotta, vice-president of Montréal-Python and coordonator of information systems at Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF).

The event is going to feature two parts:

• The first part is going to bring us up to speed with the syntax, core data types, main modules of the standard library, and the intractive shell.
• In the second part Davin will dive deep with a practical application of Python: building a Jabber bot.

The workshop is going to take place in room SH-R810 of the Shebrooke building of UQAM on November 17 from 6h30 PM to 9h PM.

AGEEI will provide pizza and refreshments.

Thank you to our sponsors Ludia and Savoir-faire Linux to help us creating this event!

All you have to bring is your curious brain, your sense of humour, and your laptop computer.

If you have some spare time, you can also get your system ready by installing Python 2.7 from the following site: http://www.python.org/download/

Ubuntu users are lucky here because all what they have to do is: sudo apt-get install python (if it’s not installed already).

If  you don’t have time to do the setup of if get lost,  DON’T PANIC.  We’ll be there starting at 5h30 PM, and we’ll help you get everything up and running.

To register, you simply have to sign up for free on the guestlist: http://guestli.st/76584