Thirty Forth Meeting, Tuesday January 13, 2009

We had divers topics. We will have a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage again. Furthermore, we talked about web development and version control.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

Thirty Fifth Meeting, Tuesday February 10, 2009

Stefan Schwarzer introduced the doctest-module. He used his LinuxUser article from December 2008 for this. It is amazing how simple testing can be. We prepared our poster for the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage on March 14th and 15th 2009.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Julian Moritz will talk about Possibilities of natural language processing of websites using Django. Stefan Schwarzer will present about Mercurial.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Thirty Sixth Meeting, Tuesday March 10, 2009

Julian Moritz talked about Possibilities of natural language processing with Django. We got some interesting inside into a field that was new to all of us.

Stefan Schwarzer rehearsed his Presentation about Mercurial for the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. We gave some useful tips for improving his presentation.

We planned our booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, April, 2009. This is one week earlier than our usual second Tuesday of the month due to Easter vacations.

Thirty Seventh Meeting, Tuesday April 7, 2009

This meeting was one week before the regular second Tuesday of the month because of the Easter vacation.

There were three new visitors.

We evaluated our presentation at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage and came up with some resolutions for the meeting next year.

One topic of the discussion was PyCon 2009.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

Thirty Eighth Meeting, Tuesday May 12, 2009

Markus Zapke-Gründemann gave an interesting talk about the EuroDjangoCon that took part in Prague, Czech Republic from 4 - 8 May, 2009. The slides of his presentation give a short overview of most of the talks.

For more details, you can look at the slides of the actual presentations and mindmaps summarizing their content.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

Thirty Ninth Meeting, Tuesday June 9, 2009

Kai Diefenbach (iqplusplus Erfurt) gave an interesting presentation about LFS, the Lightning Fast Shop. LFS is an online shop based on Python, Django and jQuery released under the BSD licence.

First he gave an overview of LFS: used technologies, development status, planned releases, existing and future features. Then he showed a live demo of the shop. There were many, interested questions and we had an intensive discussion.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

Fortieth Meeting, Tuesday July 14, 2009

Stefan Schwarzer talked about EuroPython 2009. This was the biggest EuroPython so far: 450 attendees, There were 15 tutorials (4 parallel at a time) and 80 presentations (6 parallel at a time). Obviously, the organizers did not expect that many people since the venue was really crowed.

There were a bunch of interesting keynotes. The focus of the scheduled presentations was mainly on web development Python implementations, testing, and community. There was open space besides the scheduled talks (called unconference). The next EuroPython will be again in Birmingham. The EuroPython 2011 might be in Germany.

As always, we had interesting discussions. This time we talked mainly about Python as replacement or addition to shell scripts.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, August 11, 2009.

Forty First Meeting, Tuesday August 11, 2009

We talked about EuroSciPy 2009. Three of us attended the conference. There were many interesting talks about the use of Python for science.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Zapke-Gründemann will present about the Micro Web Framework Bottle.

Forty Second Meeting, Tuesday September 8, 2009

Zapke-Gründemann gave a talk about the Micro Web Framework Bottle. It is very useful for simple applications or prototypes. His presentation is a goo introduction to the topic.

Stefan Schwarzer presented results for performance measurements with Python, NumPy and extensions in Fortran. This trigger a lively discussion.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

Forty Third Meeting, Tuesday Oktober 13, 2009

We had a few new people showing up. Since most of them hadn't done a lot with Python a lively discussion over the advantages of Python developed. Python basics were explained with interactive examples.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. There will be reports from the RuPy conference.

Forty Forth Meeting, Tuesday November 10, 2009

Unfortunately, none of the RuPy attendees made to the meeting Therefore, we didn't have their reports. We made do with the slides of presentations from RuPy we found online. After all, we learned some interesting things about PyPy.

The next meeting will be December 1. This one week earlier than the usual second Tuesday of the month. Christmas shows its presence.

Forty Fifth Meeting, Tuesday December 1, 2009

This time we got the reports from the RuPy attendees originally scheduled for last meeting. It seems to have been a really interesting conference. Python and Ruby have enough in common to make such a conference work.

The next meeting will be January 12, 2010. Markus Zapke-Gründemann will introduce the modules xml.sax and xml.sax.handler. They are useful for fast processing of large amounts of XML data.