Here is a follow-up on Montréal Python 8. By popular demand, we will try and do our best to post the slides and example files online after the event.
Flash presenters at MP8 were:
- Jennifer Bell: visiblegovernment.ca and fixmystreet.ca -- Google Maps API and Geodjango (slides, code)
- Sébastien Pierre: Pamela -- rediscovering the pleasure of hand-written HTML (slides)
- Francis Pieraut: follow-up on Digipy, the real time character recognition system presented at Montreal Python 6 (slides)
- Yannick Gingras: the Setuptools entry-points plugins system (examples)
Our main presenter was Alexandre Vassalotti on developing extension modules for CPython (slides, examples).
As we mentioned at MP8, Montreal Python is teaming up with PHP Québec for the PHP BBQ, which unfortunately we did not have time to rename to something more language agnostic. The BBQ will take place at Parc du Mont-Royal on 2009-08-08 at 13h. There will be a home brewed beer contest between the PHP and the Python master brewers. I will proudly represent the Montréal Python team with a keg of Pythoune Brune, a fruity Belgian dark ale. Please confirm your presence by calling 514-581-8497 to make sure that there is enough food. Admission is only $5.
Montréal-Python will take a break for the rest of the summer. We'll be back on track in mid-September for MP9 with Andrew Francis who is going to do a presentation on Stackless Python. We'll keep you posted as soon as we have the final date and location.
As usual, we are still looking for presenter for both flash and main presentations! Do not hesitate to contact us if you have an idea for a presentation.
Montréal Python would like to thank our sponsors who made MP8 possible:
- gold: Département d'Informatique de l'UQAM
- silver: Pivotal Payments and Savoir-faire Linux
- bronze: O'Reilly and AESS
Thanks again to the presenters and to the attendees. See you at the BBQ.
