Class for Women: Introduction to Programming with Python

We are excited to announce the first ever Introduction to Programming with Python class held in Montréal on May 3rd, 2011. This class is intended for women, and is open to all, not just programmers. The class is, as the title suggests, of an introductory nature, and will consist of …

Category: Tutorials/Workshops
13 years ago

Author Janina

Flash Presentations: Delicate Decadence

Under the theme of creation and entertainment with Python, Delicate Decadence, the next Montréal-Python event will take place next Monday, April 11th. It will be a great occasion to listen to and to meet some of the most energetic and creative presenters that we have in Montréal, makers. Among the …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Mathieu

Montréal's Hackreduce got it right

Reposted from http://blog.simonmathieu.com What a weekend! This Saturday, 60 hackers, including myself got a pretty unique opportunity. We were given a cluster of 100 machines, 400 cores, to do with what we please. The event is called HackReduce, the goal was simply to give large amounts of computational power to …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Christian

McGill Python Workshop

On Wednesday March 23rd was held the first of what is sure to be a series of Python workshops held at McGill University. Organized by Professor Derek Ruths and I of Ruths Research (http://ruthsresearch.org), the workshop attracted more than 80 attendees, most of them students from McGill University. The purpose …

Category: Tutorials/Workshops
13 years ago

Author Mathieu

Say hello to Python Korea!

Right after PyCon (victory!), I went to Seoul. Before leaving, I figured "Hey, they may have a Seoul-Python or something!", so I looked around, and found a forum: python.kr. I posted a message there introducing myself and asking if anyone wanted to meet to discuss our favorite language. I got …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Cyril

Montréal-Python 20 on 2011-04-11

Montréal returns glorious from Atlanta, and yes, PyCon is coming to town in 2014 and 2015. It's time to gather and exchange, celebrate and shout out loud our pride at this April's meeting, Montréal-Python 20: Delicate Decadence. This meeting will be held at the famous SH-R810, UQAM Sherbrooke Building. Art, …

Category: Event
13 years ago

Author Mathieu

Welcome Back Beer with our Home Brewed PyCon Delegation

We've never really waited after a special occasion to share the pleasure of getting together in front of a good beer from Montréal. But with all the good news brought back from Atlanta, it's more than ever the time to see if our burst of enthusiasm will add to Montréal's …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Davin

PyCon 2014 and 2015: in Montréal

As most of you know, we have been working pretty hard during the last few months to get PyCon in Montréal. The Python Software Foundation held, today the 13th of March 2011 at PyCon 2011, a Site Selection Meeting to choose the host city for PyCon 2014 and 2015... It's …

Category: Conferences
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Flash Presentations: Collectivized Cucumber

On next Monday, the 28 of February, it's our next event, the Collectivized Cucumber. It will be the occasion to see ones of the greatest speakers of Montreal. On the Flash side we will have, again this time, a special Interview and multiple Flash speakers: Flash Interview: Yannick Gingras and …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Mathieu

PyCon / ConFoo dress rehearsal

Notman House a brand new hub of the local startup world, is just getting started and even though its air conditioning is not quite functional yet, that won't stop us. The expert pythonistas from Montréal who are going to talk at ConFoo and at PyCon are going to do a …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Davin