ConFoo and PyCon: end of early bird is near

PyCon and ConFoo published their schedule recently and now is probably the time to decide where you're going to go because you have until next week to benefit from the early bird rate at both conferences. If you don't want to miss Raymond Hettinger showing us how to have Fun …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Startup Camp 7

Startup Camp 7 is going to take place on January 20th at Théâtre Telus. Startup Camp is always a good place to learn about what it is to start an Internet business and to meet the high profile entrepreneurs. Maybe you will find someone to join you in this great …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Packaging Sprint #11

The core Python packaging team is going to be sprinting on distutils2 from Thursday 2011-01-27 to Sunday 2011-01-30. We don't want to be left behind so we plan to join them with a gathering on Saturday 2011-01-29. We expect to be hacking between 11h AM and 8h PM. The location …

Category: Packaging
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Montréal-Python January 5-à-7

Our original plans for January were to have the meeting on the 17th but booking a room in a university at the beginning of the semester is a non-trivial task, not quite unlike renewing an expired passport at Complex Guy-Favreau. Facing the grim prospect of not drinking beer with Pythonistas, …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Libre Graphics Meeting 2011

João Bueno wrote to let us know the Libre Graphics Meeting will be back in Montréal in 2011. In the past, Libre Graphics Meeting always featured a healthy dose of Python. Indeed, essentially all the modern graphic tools on a GNU/Linux desktop are scriptable in Python, if not written in …

Category: Conferences
13 years ago

Author Yannick

PyCon: the list of selected talks is online

A day or so after ConFoo, PyCon finally unveiled its list of selected talks. With talks such as API Design: Lessons Learned by Raymond Hettinger and Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ by Zed Shaw, PyCon 2011 is going to be a very inspiring event. And on the topic of building …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Open Data Hackathon on 2011-01-29

Montréal-Ouvert is organizing a hackathon on open data on Saturday 2011-01-29. This is a great opportunity to showcase how Python can be use for rapid application development.

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Google AppEngine Hackathon in January

Year One Labs will be hosting a hackathon on Google App Engine on 2011-01-22. With Sean Lynch, an App Engine project manager on-site, it should be a fun time. More infos on the Year One Labs website.

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick

Flash Prentations for MP-17

Montréal-Python 17 (code name Apotropaic Archeologist) is next Monday and we have the pleasure to announce the list of flash presentations: Maxime Dupuis on a playlist generator in Python Alok Mohindra on Django debuging strategies Jean Schurger on XMPP and Mercurial Janina Szkut on RESTful API with Django Simon Law …

Category: Montréal Python
13 years ago

Author Yannick