Forty Sixth Meeting, Tuesday January 12, 2010

Markus Zapke-Gründemann introduced the modules xml.sax and xml.sax.handler. They are useful for fast processing of large amounts of XML data. It was an interesting talk about the method of event-oriented parsing with SAX. We enjoyed an exhaustive explanation of the sample program.

The next meeting will be February 9, 2010. Stefan Schwarzer will rehearse his presentation for the Chemnitzer Linux Tage titled "Robustere Python-Programme" (More Robust Python Programs).

Forty Seventh Meeting, Tuesday February 9, 2010

Stefan Schwarzer rehearsed his talk for the Chemnitzer Linux Tage titled Robustere Python-Programme (More Robust Python Programs). There was some constructive feedback. Furthermore, we talked about planned our booth at the Linux-Fest Chemnitzer Linux Tage .

The next meeting will be March 9, 2010. Mike Müller will talk about PyCon 2010.

Forty Eighth Meeting, Tuesday March 9, 2010

Mike Müller summarized what happened at PyCon 2010. The focus was on topics such as different Python implementations such as CPython, Jython, IronPython, and PyPy, web development, migration to Python 3.x, and testing.

The next meeting will be April 13, 2010. We will evaluate our booth at the Linux Fest Chemnitzer Linux Tage and plan improvements for next year.

Forty Ninth Meeting, Tuesday April 13, 2010

Again, there were two new participants. They came from around Jena, a city about one hour away. We intensively discussed several topics. We talked about how to make posters and other materials to present our user group at trade fairs and conferences. We did some early stage planning for a bar camp in Leipzig. This was inspired by the bar camp by the user group in cologne. We should get a decent number of people together. Just counting the regular user group goers in Leipzig and Berlin and some people we know would likely come from cities within 2-hour-traveling distance makes it worthwhile.

The next meeting will be May 11, 2010. Julian Moritz will give a talk about CouchDB.

Fiftieth Meeting, Tuesday May 11, 2010

Julian Moritz gave an interesting talk about CouchDB. Important concept when working with CouchDB are JSON, HTTP, no schema and parallelism as well as using the map-reduce approach for queries. He had to answer many questions of course focusing on the use of CouchDB with Python. This time 13 people showed up. Again we had three newcomers.

The next meeting will be June 1, 2010. Please not. This one week earlier than our regular second Tuesday of the month.

Fifty First Meeting, Tuesday June 1, 2010

Christina Theune of gocept gave a very interesting talk about the ZODB. The co-developer of ZODB povided plenty of background information besides demos about the usage. It became very clear that the ZODB is a real object database not just a "relational database with an object curtain".

The next meeting will be July 13, 2010.

Fifty Second Meeting, Tuesday July 13,2010

Mike Müller talked about the EuroSciPy conference in Paris. The number of attendees has more than tripled since the last conference 2009 in Leipzig, Germany. This shows the increasing interest in Python for scientific an technical purposes.

There were two days filled with tutorials for beginners as well as advanced users about the usage of NumPy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Mayavi or version control, testing and extensions in other languages. The following two days were packed with interesting talks about Python in diverse fields such as mathematics, physics and biology as well as GIS and software tools for the scientific work flow.

The next meeting will be on August 10, 2010.

Fifty Third Meeting, Tuesday August 10, 2010

Stefan Schwarzer gave a short report about EuroPython and Mike Müller summarized OSCON Markus Zapke-Gründemann gave a talk about distribute, pip and virtualenv. We had a lively discussion about this topic that was interesting for everybody.

The next meeting will be on 21. September 2010. This one week later than the usual second Tuesday of the month because of an overlap with the DZUG-conference in Dresden.