Montreal Python

Reminder : Introduction to Python Workshop

Author : Davin Baragiotta

18 01 2012

Check it out!
The Introduction to Python Workshop is next Wednesday!

Date : Wednesday, 2012 January 25th at 6:00 PM
Place : McGill, Arts building, room 260

Bring your laptop and try to have Python and iPython installed before the workshop.
Installation procedures and all the information on this workshop are on the workshop’s wiki page :
Workshop 2012-01-25 : Introduction to Python.
If you have problems with the installation, Montréal-Python team will be able to help you at the very beginning of the workshop.

A workshop in French with similar content will be held at UQAM the previous Monday.
All the information on the workshop in French at UQAM:
Atelier 2012-01-23 : Introduction à Python.

Be there or be square!

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Montréal-Python 27 : Khaki Knickers

Author : Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

17 01 2012

Pythonistas, grab your pants firmly! We’re really happy to announce the first Montréal-Python monthly event of 2012 : Knickers Khaki.

After the flaws of the stock market these recent years, we’re in right to ask :

What’s Python place in this maelstrom?
Does our favourite language can change the world and help us keep our AAA rating?
Into wich company or startup invest?

We’ll may not answer all these questions but we’re proud to invite you on January 30th, at Montréal-Python 27, Finance special edition.

The meeting will be held at UQAM, room SH-R810, Sherbrooke building on 200 Sherbrooke West.

Here’s the program of the evening :

6:00 PM : Opening
6:20 PM : Annoucements
6:30 PM : First salvo (Flash presentations)
6:50 PM : Pause
7:00 PM : Main presentations
9:00 PM : End of evening at Bénélux

Our presenters will be :

Flash (5 mins)

Greg Whiteside (Betabrokers), « Email as an API for simulated stock trading »
Josh Nursing, « Le web sémantique en finance avec Python »

Short (10mins)

Marc Boucher (Caisse de dépot et de placements), « Gestion d’actifs avec Python »

Normal (20 mins)

Hugues Demers (BullBear), « Un outil d’analyse des nouvelles de matières premières »
Alok Mohindra, « A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Big Data & Finance for Pythonistas »

Long (45mins)

Taavi Burns (Freshbooks), « Evolving an Internal Web Service »

The event is free and open to all. Snacks will be provided and yes, there will be again some free beer…

As always, we are really proud to have the support of our sponsors, willing to get involved in the Python community. Thanks to all of them:

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Python Workshops : Winter 2012 series

Author : Davin Baragiotta

13 01 2012

You’re dreaming to feel Python leather on your keyboard?
You already know its legendary softness and now want to feel the gentle power of its grasp?

Pythonista in the egg, moulting or already moving :
the Winter 2012 series of Python workshops has arrived!

This semester, Montréal-Python is offering one workshop a month :

January : Introduction Workshop to Python
February : Python Workshop : more advanced notions and use of Twitter API
March : Django Workshop : building a Python web app
April : Advanced Workshop : integration of libraries and a guest star!

The content of these workshops has been forged collaboratively by professional trainers, practionners and academics from the community. Animated by our champions, they are offered in French at UQAM and English at McGill. They’re open to all : only minimal knowledge of programming is required (e.g.: to know what a variable is). You also need to bring a laptop to follow the exercises.

These workshops are independent : to attend one, no need to attend the formers. But to progress on the Pythonic Way, to follow them all is better than following one. When to start? “Now is better than never.” — Zen of Python

INTRODUCTION WORKSHOP TO PYTHON