Montreal Python

Montréal-Python is proposing you to finally discover, in French this time, your obsessions on Twitter (or those of others) by reading and analysing Twitter feeds with Python. Yes finally, after more than 1 month of waiting in order to support the strike movement at the science faculty of UQAM, the workshop will be held next week.

Since we would not force you to cross the picket line, we’ve asked for help from our friends at Google Montréal: they are inviting us to their offices next Wednesday, April 4th, to continue our Python introduction workshop series.

Our workshops are open to all of you and are absolutely free. No need to have attended the previous ones to come. Only a minimal knowledge of Python is required (example: basic types).

Bring your laptop and try to install Python and ipython before the workshop. If you have any issues, the Montréal-Python team will be there to help you before the event (arrive early)

The installation procedure and all the needed informations about the workshop is in the wiki page of the workshop at :
Atelier 2012-04-04 : Python : notions plus avancées et exploitation de l’API Twitter

Atelier 2012-04-04 : Python : advanced topics and using the Twitter API

• Date : 2012-04-04 6:30pm to 9:00pm
• Place : Google Montréal, 1253 McGill College, Montreal, QC H3B 2Y5

The schedule for the evening :

• 6:00pm Doors opening and technical support
• 6:30pm Begining of the workshop
• 9:00pm End of the evening at Bénélux

Warning, only 30 places are available for this event, don’t wait too long before subscribing!

Subscription : http://montrealpython-atelier-20120404.eventbrite.ca

À la r’voyure!

People get ready, as a welcome back for our delegates at PyCon, mid-March will be electronic and Pythonic. We’re proud to announce for the 19th of March, Montréal-Python 28 : Lithographic Lobotomy, Electronic special issue.

The event will be held in collaboration with Foulab, pure electronic freaks : they’ll give a good show for sure.

The meeting will be at the magnificient Notman House, 51st Sherbrooke West.

Here’s the program of the evening:

• 6:00 PM : Door opening
• 6:20 PM : Announcements
• 6:30 PM : Beginning of the show (Flash presentations)
• 6:50 PM : Pause
• 7:00 PM : Resuming the show (other prenstations)
• 9:00 PM : End of the evening at Bénélux

Our valorous presentors:

• Michel Gallant, “pyserial and how it is used in tweletype”
• Pablo Duboue, “Using freecad for grammatically designing makerbot objects in python”
• Philippe Chretien, “Build your own PyGame wireless controller and play with a web controlled robot!”
• Paul Pereira-Brunner, “MyHDL”

As always, we’re glad to benefit from the support of our sponsors, involved in our Python community.

Thanks to :

• Ludia
• iWeb
• Benelux
• OSMO foundation, Notman House
• Radialpoint
• Savoir-Faire Linux

ConFoo organizes tomorrow a communities cocktail. It’s an opportunity to celebrate with the speakers and the sponsors.

Come tell us what are the advantages and the benefits of your preferred language at the Hilton Bonaventure hotel.

• Where: 900 Gauchetière west.
• When: Thursday, March 1st
• How much: Free

Hope to see you there!

http://confoo.ca/en/news/2012-open-activities

Atelier 2012-02-27 : Python : notions plus avancées et exploitation de l’API Twitter

This workshop in French, planned to be held at UQAM next Monday, is postponed due to the strike voted yesterday by the Association étudiante du secteur des sciences de l’UQAM (AESSUQAM). To show support, Montréal-Python will respect this strike.

The workshop should be postponed in March, the exact date will be soon announced.

However, the workshop in English, tonight at McGill, is maintained.
See : Workshop 2012-02-23 : Python : more advanced notions and use of Twitter API.

Montréal-Python apologies for this situation and thanks you for your comprehension.

See you soon.

Montréal-Python’s team

This month, Montréal-Python (in conjunction with McGill’s Network Dynamics lab) will let you discover your obsessions on Twitter (or others’ obsessions) by reading and analysing Twitter feeds with Python. This second workshop of our Winter 2012 session will be the occasion to discover new Python goodies while playing with data from Twitter.

Our workshops are open to all and absolutely free. No need to have attended the previous one to attend this workshop. Only minimal knowledge of Python is required (e.g: basic types).

Bring your laptop and try to have Python installed before the workshop. If you have trouble with the installation, the Montréal-Python team will be able to help at the very beginning of the workshop.

Installation procedures and all the information on this workshop are on the workshop’s wiki page :
Workshop 2012-02-23 : Python : more advanced notions and use of Twitter API.

Workshop 2012-02-23 : Python : more advanced notions and use of Twitter API.

• Date : 2012-02-23 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Place : 3630 University (Trottier Building) room TR1100
• Instructors: Mathieu Perreault and Prof. Derek Ruths, from the Network Dynamics lab.

Here’s the program for the evening:

• 6:00 PM Workshop
• 9:00 PM End of evening at Bénélux

Places could be limited, register now!
Registration : http://guestlistapp.com/events/90219

A workshop in French with a similar content will be help at UQAM the following Monday.
All the information on the workshop in French at UQAM :
Atelier 2012-02-27 : Python : notions plus avancées et exploitation de l’API Twitter

Be there!

Next Thursday, MTLStartupTalent, will showcase what Montreal has to offer best.

They already have a great selection of startups looking for talent: CakeMail, Ziliko, 2XM Interactive, Crescendo, Pheromone, CrowdtTwist and more.

There’s some very great Pythonisthas out there that we would like to celebrate.

As such:

• are you a talent?
• what amazing things are you doing?
• which achievements are you the most proud of?

In front of a large crowd, come tell us why you are so proud of your preferred language and community. Did you win at a recent Startup Weekend? Is your github project forked by many others? Did you win a design award? Are you a star on Twitter? Do you want to present a weekend project you’re proud of?

We want to celebrate all those small and big achievements that makes Montréal a great city for innovation and creativity. And the Python community is definitely part of it.

Take your ticket at http://mtlstartuptalent.eventbrite.com/ and communicate with us if you would like to share you experience at this event mtlpyteam@googlegroups.com

Hello Montreal hackers

The cloud robotics week-end is happening the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March.

Come hack on robots and web services to create cool projects in robotics. See   http://roboticshackathon.com/ for more information.

We are waiting for you if you would like to create a team Montreal-Python and if you would like to join us for this week-end of hack and programming.

Hacking Health is on February 24 and 25 in Montreal. Our goal is to pair health and technological entrepreneurs so that they can develop solutions to front-line healthcare problems.

By emphasizing hands-on work on small projects which can be tackled in a short period of time, participants can quickly test assumptions, build teams, and generate momentum for promising ideas in healthcare.

There’s a limited number of places and they are leaving very quickly: http://physiqa.wufoo.com/forms/hackers-form/

For more information or to sign up, visit http://www.hackinghealth.ca.

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!

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:

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