Montreal Python

One of the great thing with a booming city like Montréal is that we get dynamic companies such as Google improving the synergy of our community by hosting our sprints in bigger rooms and providing food and refreshments.

Our next sprint will be on Django translation on September 22nd, 2010, starting at 18h30. Come and allow us to offer Django to a broader community of developers.

Only one week after that, we’ll host a sprint on the Python packaging system. Come and frantically hack with us to empower Python with the best packaging system out there.

Both sprints will be a Google, 1253 McGill College ave. suite #250.

Attendance is limited to 20 sprinters so don’t forget to RSVP on the wiki.

This 5th Django sprint at the Google office wraps-up on a great conclusion: things are moving forward!
This is 951 new lines translated by our 6 sprinters:

• Davin Baragiotta
• Pior Bartida
• Alexandre Bourget
• Nicolas Cadou
• Yannick Gingras
• George Peristerakis
• Pierre Phaneuf (from Google)

This new effort of translation brings the French translation coverage of the Django 1.2 documentation up to 18%. We estimate that 77% of the French translation has been made by pythonistas of Montréal.

• 11314 lines translated (18%)
• 52731 lines waiting for translation

Of the translated lines,

• 8759 are by Montreal-Python
• 2624 are by the Django-fr team

Their is still a long road ahead but the Montreal-Python team is more and more efficient and we hope to see you at the next sprint.

Thanks a lot to AUF for the food and to Google and especially to Pierre Phaneuf (@pphaneuf) for hosting us during those crazy six hours.

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.

The fourth Django translation sprint was very productive. The group is now experienced and we can at last spend more time strugling with the language than with the tools. Anyone knows a good translation for “file handler”?

We hope to launch a new sprint a few weeks from now; watch the blog or the mailing list for the announcement. Thanks to AUF for the food and the drinks and thanks to Brasseurs Numériques for hosting the event. Congratulation to all the sprinters for their good work:

• Pior Bastida
• Thibault Cohen
• Yannick Gingras
• Benoît Grégoire
• François Lapierre-Messier
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
• Jonathan Marcil
• Cyril Robert
• Jean Schurger

Thanks to everyone who took part in the latest translation sprint of the Django technical documentation of Django on March 31 at Brasseurs Numériques‘ office.

We were seven motivated Pythonistas and we progressed very quickly in this endeavour.

More than that, numerous contacts have been made with the French Django community (Django-fr).  We now try to coordinate a little bit more with them because with the release of Django-1.2 we’ll need to keep up the good work, ideally with more and more people.  So far, we’ve completed the translation 12 files from the documentation.

Another sprint will be organized in the following weeks in the hope that we gather more people and to have fun with this work.

Thanks to the Brasseurs Numériques for their good hospitality.
Thanks to the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie for the food and the drinks.

Congratulation to our sprinters:

• Davin Baragiotta
• Cyril Robert
• François Savard
• Antoine Reversat
• Yannick Gingras
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
• Jean Schurger

Given the popularity of the first and second Django translation sprints, we decided to keep going. The next sprint will be on 2010-03-31 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 participant.

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 mailing list to RSVP. If you can’t join us physically, you can still participate on IRC, on #montreal-python on irc.freenode.net.

The second Django sprint was another clear success. It was a pleasant surprise to have so many volunteer and we filled the Brasseurs Numériques’ office at capacity with 12 sprinters.

Thanks to Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for sponsoring the event and a very special thank to all the sprinters:

• Davin Baragiotta
• Benoit Caron
• Stéphane Duchesneau
• Alexandre Forget
• Yannick Gingras
• Ali Jetha
• Collin Lavoie
• Martin Paquette
• Cyril Robert
• Francois Savard
• Jean Schurger
• Alexandre Vassalotti

We will try to have another translation sprint toward the end of March.

Given 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.

The 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:

• Davin Baragiotta
• Julien Desrosiers
• Alex Gal
• Yannick Gingras
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
• George Peristerakis
• Jean Schurger
• Alexandre Vassalotti