Montreal Python

Montréal-Python 15 is delayed by a week. The new date is 2010-07-26.

Summer is going strong with lots of good opportunities for terraces but we know that beer always feel better after accomplishing something great. This is why we will have a fifth sprint on the Python packaging system next Monday, 2010-07-05.

The sprint will be at Brasseurs Numériques, 1124 Marie-Anne, suite 11,
starting at 6h30 pm and going as long as there are hackers standing.

Bring your own laptop or make an arrangement for pairing on the mailing list beforehand. Attendance is limited to 12 persons so please RSVP on the wiki.

update: We thank the Python Software Foundation for supporting our sprinting effort by supplying food and drinks. You probably recall that not long ago, the PSF announced that it would start a sprint sponsorship program. Montréal-Python is honored to be the first recipient of the program.

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.

update: the event is delayed by one week. The new date is 2010-07-26.

Montréal-Python 15 will take place in room SH-3420 of UQAM on 2010-07-26. This is in the Sherbrooke building. It will be a scaling and deployment themed edition.

Here is our schedule for the evening:

• 18h00: Opening
• 18h20: Announcements
• 18h30: Flash presentations
• 19h00: Break
• 19h20: Main presentations
• 20h30: Discussions and refreshments at Benelux

Our flash presenters are going to be:

• Pierre Thibault on ipython
• Dimitry Zolotaryov on dealing with remote API calls
• Derek Mounce on A way-too-short introduction to a new Web framework for Python
• Simon Law on Startup Mistakes in Cloud Deployment
• Wesley Bouarab on skeedy.com

Our main presenter is going to be Stéphane Jolicoeur and he’s going to talk about the architecture of NFB.ca, a platform with open and pythonic roots.

He is going to describe what he and his team at the National Film Board of Canada had to do in order to accommodate the massive increase in traffic that they received after deploying their new Django-powered website.

Technical Lead at the Web department of the National Film Board of Canada, Stéphane Jolicoeur is the architect and the lead implementer of the NFB.ca website.

Montréal-Python 15 is our last meeting of the summer; after a well-deserved break, we’ll be back in September.

Thanks to our sponsors for making Montréal-Python 15 possible:

• UQAM
• Benelux
• Savoir-faire Linux
• Ecometrica
• Apress

Montréal-Python 14 will take place at UQAM, on Monday 2010-06-14 in room SH-3420 of the Sherbrooke building. The SH building is located at 200 Sherbrooke west, Place-des-Arts metro station.

We are happy to annouce the list of flash presentations for
Montréal-Python 14 this Monday:

• Jeremy Barnes on Recoset
• Chris Hart on the business value of Python
• Michael Lenczner and Daniel Drouet on Ajah
• Sébastien Pierre on FFunction

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  
  

At last, you can go watch the videos of the Montréal-Python presentations, including the lightning talks, on the dedicated presentations page.

So far, we have:

• Montréal-Python 1 David Goodger on Polyform Puzzler
• Montréal-Python 2 Cyril Robert on Scripting Asterisk with Python and Yannick Gingras on a live demo of PyQt and PyOpenGL
• Montréal-Python 7 Olivier Bélanger on Ounk, an environment for musical scripting
• Montréal-Python 8 Alexandre Vassalotti on Developing extension modules for CPython
• Montréal-Python 9 Andrew Francis on Stackless Python
• Montréal-Python 10 Chris Steel on Web2py

Each video is linked to a page on the Montréal-Python wiki to give the opportunity to presenters and attendees to gather interesting material about the presentation, such as the slides, example code, and related links.

Now we need your feedback on the videos; Theora is quite easy to deal with but H264 is a lot more tricky to transcode properly. If you have trouble enjoying our videos, let us know.

The Python Software Foundation is announcing a new sprint sponsorship programme :
Announcing: Python Sprint Sponsorship.

Montreal Python’s short yet intense sprint experience  gathered pythonistas of all levels in contributing to Python’s ecosystem in different ways, such as Django documentation’s translation, Packaging and Turbogears2.

Sprint sponsorship is good news that should enable us to do more sprints on a wider range of topics.

Andrew Francis, who did the main presentation at Montréal-Python 13, will be presenting at EuroPython. His talk on Implementing Go’s Select will be a slightly shorter version of the one that he did at Montréal-Python. It’s good to see fellow Montréalers presenting at large international conferences.