Leipzig Python User Group - Archive 2006

First Meeting on February 14, 2006

We met the first time on February 14, 2006 at 8.00 pm at the training center of Python Academy.

At this date the Leipzig Python User Group was founded. It was agreed to hold regular meetings very second Tuesday of the month. Meeting will take place at Python Academy.

There was a presentation by Mike Müller about "Parallel Computing in Python with Pyro" It is available as a PDF-File in English.

The still small group had a intensive discussion. Even though the meeting lasted for four hours there seemed to be so much more to talk about.

The second meeting was scheduled for 16.03.2006.

Second Meeting Thursday, March 16, 2006

We met the second time on March 16 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy.

Since the regular meeting date (second Tuesday of the month) would have been during be the CeBIT we postponed the date for two days.

Stefan Schwarzer gave a very interesting presentation about the application of the web framework CherryPy. The presentation itself was created in CherryPy and can be found at http://www.sschwarzer.com/talks/cherrypy (German).

The user group grew by a few new members who to took part in the discussion very actively. Even after five hours, there seemed to be so many topics still to be discussed. Therefore, the next meeting is expected to interesting again.

This meeting will be April 11 at 8:00 pm at the same place. Andreas Kaiser will talk about wxPython and wax.

Third Meeting Tuesday, April 11, 2006

We met on April 11 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.

Mike Müller talked about rest2web, a Python module for dynamic generation of static websites. The presentation is available in German

Again two new interested people joined the meeting, which offered interesting discussions far after midnight.

The next meeting will on May, 9 2006 with a scheduled talk by Andreas Kaiser about wxPython and wax.

Fourth Meeting, Tuesday May 9, 2006

We met on May 9 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.

Ralf Muschall gave a 'talk about Tkinter'_ and presented an overview on its application.
Again, a new person joined the meeting. The discussion was very interesting, covering linguistics of natural and programming languages. An impromptu demonstration of IPython was very informative.
The next meeting will be June, 13 at the same time and place as usual.

Fifth Meeting, Tuesday June 13, 2006

We met on June 13 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.
Stefan Schwarzer gave his EuroPython-Presentation Speed up your Python code as a "dress rehearsal". Therefore, the presentation was given in English. There was a lively discussion about both content and way of presentation. It provided interesting information for the presenter as well as for the audience. As usual the discussion about Python lasted well into the next day.

The next meeting will be on July 11, 2006 at 8:00 pm. at the same place. Mike Müller will give his EuroPython-Presentation "Python Academy – Teaching Python in Germany".

Sixth Meeting, Tuesday July 11, 2006

We met on July 11 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.
Mike Müller gave his EuroPython-Presentation Python Academy - Teaching Python in Germany. Therefore, the presentation was given in English.

The recent EuroPython provided plenty of material to discuss. The user group found the presentations about version control systems (Bazaar NG and Mercurial). Everybody learned a lot from the discussion about advantages and disadvantages of different systems.

The next meeting will be on August 8, 2006 at 8:00 pm. at the same place. Stefan Schwarzer will present his program ftputil.

Hint: The Date for the meeting was moved to August 16.

Seventh Meeting, Wednesday August 16, 2006

We met on August 16 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.
Stefan Schwarzer gave a very interesting presentation about his Python module ftputil. This module provides a user-friendly interface to FTP client functionality. The interface is modeled after the built-in modules os, os.path and shutil. Therefore, remote files and directories on FTP-servers can be accessed very similarly to local files.

After the discussion we did some workshop preparation. The fine tuning of the program formatting was done as well as printing and folding of fliers. The discussion about how to best run the workshop yielded useful results.

The next meeting will be on October 10. The regular date would be September12, but this day is very close to the workshop, so that in a way the workshop replaces the meeting. On October 10 Mike Müller will give his presentation "Python – the silent success of a programming language". This presentation will be given on October 16 at the technical bookstore Lehmanns in Leipzig and serves as introduction to Python.

Workshop, Friday September 8, 2006

Our workshop replaced our regular September meeting.

Eighth Meeting, Tuesday October 16, 2006

We met on October 10 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany.

Mike Müller gave his presentation "Python – the silent success of a programming language". This presentation will be given on October 16 at the technical bookstore Lehmanns in Leipzig and serves as introduction to Python.

We had a new participant, our first female visitor at the User Group meetings

The next meeting will be on November 14. The topic of the talk will be announced soon.

Ninth Meeting, Tuesday November 14, 2006

We met on November 14 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany. We had an open discussion about Python. One topic was large numbers and their representation in Python. The next meeting will be on December, 12. We will have a small Christmas celebration.

Tenth Meeting, Tuesday Dezember 12, 2006

We met on Dezember 12 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany. We worked on reviewing the articles for the proceedings of our workshop that took place on September 8, 2006. Another topic was Python in scientific applications. The next meeting will be on January 9, 2007. The topic will be announced soon.