Montréal-Python 36: Trigonometric Tergiversation

Author : rory

29 03 2013

Montréal-Python crew is back from PyCon! We’re inviting you to Montréal-Python 36: Trigonometric Tergiversation, our monthly presentations evening organised by the Python community in Montreal. Come meet us on Monday, the 8th of April, 2013 at UQÀM. We are immensely honored to host a broad array of speakers from as far away as Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Here is the lineup:

  • Guillaume Pratte – La performance d’une API en temps réel avec Graphite
  • Kamal Marhubi – Lording over your minions with salt

    Salt is a remote execution and configuration management tool written in Python. This talk will be an introduction to salt, focusing on the configuration management aspects. I’ll talk about using it with Vagrant as an alternative to Chef or Puppet. I’ll also demo using it to build up and control a machine on EC2 (network allowing).

  • Dan Callahan – The End of Passwords: Authentication with Mozilla Persona

    Mozilla wants to kill the password and save the open web. This talk explores the “how” and “why” of Mozilla Persona, a decentralized, cross-browser authentication system. Expect live coding, demos, and a deep dive into the architecture behind Persona.

Our regular features, Module of the Month by Rory Geoghegan and Person of the Month by Éric Araujo, will also be part of the program.

Location:

UQÀM Pavillon Sherbrooke, room SH-2620, 200 Sherbrook West. http://www.uqam.ca/campus/pavillons/sh.htm http://goo.gl/maps/76IKD

Schedule:

  • 6:00pm — Doors open
  • 6:30pm — Presentations start
  • 7:30pm — Break
  • 7:45pm — Second round of presentations
  • 8:30pm — One free beer offered at the Bénélux just across the street

We’d like to thank our sponsors for their continued support:

  • UQÀM http://uqam.ca/
  • Bénélux http://www.brasseriebenelux.com/
  • Outbox http://www.outboxtechnology.com/
  • Ludia http://www.ludia.com/
  • Savoir-Faire Linux http://www.savoirfairelinux.com/
  • Caravan http://caravan.coop/
  • iWeb http://iweb.com/

See you on the 8th for a great evening!



Workshop for Women

Author : Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

7 03 2013

We are organizing another Python workshop in Montréal, this time for women and friends! We are still following the Boston Python Workshop model.

Details on https://openhatch.org/wiki/Montreal_Python_Workshop

Date & Location: March 29 & 30 at Notman House, Montréal

Organizers: Montréal-Python, with Julia Evans & Marianne Corvellec teaching

Audience: People who identify as women or their friends, i.e., you can come if you are a woman or are invited by a woman

Goal:

  • Have participants come out of the workshop
  • knowing some of the basics of Python
  • with a clear idea of how to continue learning Programming
  • feeling like the Montréal Python community is supportive :)

Please register here



Python Night 3

Author : George Peristerakis

26 02 2013
Following  the great success of the two previous python night, Montreal Python is  organizing a Python Night III on March 7th at Caravan. Just like our  previous night the format is laid back with something for beginners and  experts. Beers and pizza are provided so all you need is your laptop.
Projects:
If you have any projects you would like to work on please post them on the mailing list montrealpython@googlegroups.com. If you don’t have any ideas, don’t worry we have ideas of projects to work on too.
Suggestions:
  • Data analysis of the Bixi data
  • Music discovery in different feeds
When:
Thursday 7th of March 2013 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where:
Caravan, 5334 de Gaspé, office #1204 (Montréal) http://goo.gl/maps/OAmyb
We would like to thank Caravan for hosting our event!


Intro to Python Workshop March 1st and 2nd

Author : Éric Araujo

25 02 2013

Please see the French version of this post.



Montréal-Python 35: Serpentine Symbology

Author : Éric Araujo

18 02 2013

Python meets science at UQÀM on the 25th of February for our 35th monthly mini-conference, nicknamed Serpentine Symbology. We’re immensely honored to host a broad array of speakers on diverse topics:

  • Jonathan Villemaire-Krajden: Using NLTK
  • Mahtab Ghamsari-Esfahani: PyBrain, a modular machine learning library for Python
  • Marianne Corvellec: Transforming Lena with scikit-image
  • Julia Evans: Intro to Pandas with IPython notebook
  • Pablo Duboue: Hunter Gatherer, a 1-click search summarizer
  • Derek Ruths: Using Python for large scale network analysis
  • Dan Mazur: Python for high performance and scientific computing

Our regular features, Module of the Month by Rory Geoghegan and Person of the Month by yours truly, will also be part of the program. I’m particularly pleased to see the participation of Python ladies slowly increasing in our events and organization team.

Location: UQÀM Pavillon Sherbrooke, room SH-2420, 200 Sherbrooke West.

Schedule:

  • 6:00pm — Doors open
  • 6:30pm — Presentations start
  • 7:30pm — Break
  • 7:45pm — Second round of presentations
  • 8:30pm — Free beer offered at the Bénélux just across the street

We’d like to thank our sponsors for their continued support:

See you next Monday for a great evening!



Intro to Python Workshop Feb 22-23

Author : Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

15 02 2013

We are conducting a free workshop for non-programmers to learn programming. If you have zero experience programming computers, this is the workshop for you. If you have very limited experience, or experience from long ago, you’ll fit right in too.

When and where

Date: Feb 22-23, 2013 (Friday evening + all day Saturday, attending both is required)
Location: Notman House, 51 Sherbrooke St W
Language: English (there will be a French workshop on March 1-2, follow the blog or mailing list to see the announcement)
Registration: Attendance is limited, please read the detailed program on OpenHatch and register on Eventbrite using the link given on that page.



Montréal-Python 35: Serpentine Symbology — Call for Speakers

Author : Éric Araujo

6 02 2013

We are inviting speakers from the scientific community to take part in our Python mini-conference on the 25th of February between 6pm and 9pm.

If you can demonstrate a cool Python library or tool that you use in or develop for your work, talk about success and stories in using Python with other languages or tools, discuss the human issues between developers, scientific users and management, or any other topic related to Python and science that you think interesting, we’d love to hear from you!  Talks can be in French or English and will get a slot of 5, 20 or 45 minutes.  

To submit a proposal, please send an email with title, duration, short abstract and relevant links to mtlpyteam@googlegroups.com.  If you have an idea but you’re not sure, feel free to ask us.



Python Night 2 Wrap-up

Author : Mathieu Leduc-Hamel

29 01 2013

This second edition of the Montréal-Python Python Night was a great success! We’ve managed to work with the Python community, contribute some stuff and have a lot of fun.

People present were working on quite different stuff, in particular:



Python Night 2

Author : Éric Araujo

24 01 2013

After the great success of the first Python Night in December, we’re making it a monthly event! A Python night is a very simple event where people meet up to work on different projects and generally mess around with Python code. Everyone is welcome, any skill level, even if you just learnt Python at the Workshop last Wednesday. We will encourage people to help each other and we’ll also have dedicated coaches.

Unlike a sprint, there isn’t one main project that everybody hacks on. You can work on your own project, help someone else with their project, or find something adapted to your interests. In case you need inspiration, here’s some stuff you can work on:

  • Learn Python The Hard Way: a detailed Python tutorial
  • Montréal-Python website: We are re-writing our website using Pelican
  • Build your first Django website: go through the Django tutorial and build something, with help if you need it
  • Vélobstacles: a website allowing Montreal cyclists to report an accident or an obstacle that gets in the way of safety

When:
Monday January the 28th 2013 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Where:
Caravan, 5334 de Gaspé, office #1204 (Montréal)

Attending:
Please register on Eventbrite

This initiative is inspired by the numerous and widely successful project nights organized by the Boston Python user group. Those pleasant evenings allow Pythonistas of all backgrounds to gather together to share their experience, while working on projects they care about.

We would like to thank Caravan for hosting our event!



Introduction to Python

Author : George Peristerakis

16 01 2013

On Wednesday, January 23, Montréal-Python and Concordia University, are inviting anyone with an interest in learning Python programming to join our workshop.

No experience required, the workshop is geared towards newcomers of all sorts.
At the end, you will learn how to:
- manipulate text
- crunch numbers
- apply simple logic
- write simple scripts to automate simple tasks
The workshop will be held at Concordia’s EV building room 2.184 at 6:30pm.
The address is 1515 St. Catherine W. corner Guy.
Prerequisites: Please bring your laptop or pair up with someone who has one.
To learn more about the technical setup, you can visit the Workshop page : http://montrealpython.org/r/projects/workshops/wiki/2013-01-23.
If you need help setting up, we will be in the room 30 minutes before  the workshop to help you set up your environment with everything you  need to start programming.
See you there!