ANN: TRILUG Meeting This Week, Hosted/Sponsored by WebAssign

Hi all,
I know a lot of us are on the same mailing lists, but I wanted to make
sure everyone knew that the TRILUG meeting this week will be sponsored
by WebAssign, where I'm working these days.

Details: http://trilug.org/2012-02-09/tnc

The topic involves open standards for network security - it should be
very interesting.

Lots of folks from the company will be there (including myself) -- did
I mention WebAssign is hiring?

Thanks,
JJ

WAT

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Websites

You may or not have noticed yesterday that trizpug.org sites (www, trac, 
svn, planet, etc.) were unavailable. There was a hard drive failure. Our 
excellent providers at server4you.com had it fixed within three hours of 
my filing a ticket.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

ANN: Node.js Vs Twisted

I mentioned this at the meeting last week.

I've posted this on my blog:
http://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/node-js-vs-twisted-a-scrum-tool-built-in-both-introductions-first-opnions/,
first in a series.

Project resources:
    Code: https://github.com/jjmojojjmojo/Node.js-Vs-Twisted
    Docs: http://jjmojojjmojo.github.com/Node.js-Vs-Twisted

Comments, questions, suggestions, etc always welcome.

Thanks,
JJ

OT: Correction...

After the meeting on Thursday in Chapel Hill, I was talking up 5 Guys for hamburgers. I must not have been in my
right mind, because I forgot about Joe's Joint, my most favorite-est place in CH.

Open late, cheap, really tasty and consistent.

JJ 
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

TriZPUG reminder - meeting this Thursday

Just a friendly reminder to everyone on behalf of Chris Calloway,

When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6pm

Where: Classroom G201, Murray Hall, campus of UNC-CH, 101 South Rd,
Chapel Hill (http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/mascparkingmap.pdf)

I will be giving a presentation on symbolic programming in Python:

* Elaboration of what exactly symbolic programming is, as well as some
history for the uninitiated.
* Benefits and features of symbolic programming.
* Current approaches, using my projects Elementwise
(https://github.com/nathan-rice/Elementwise) and Constraints as case
studies.
* How you can implement language level support for symbolic
programming using PyPy.

I will also be giving a very short lightning talk where I compare and
contrast Flask with other popular approaches, such as Django, Pyramid,
etc.

If you would like to give a short lightning talk about pretty much
anything Python related, you are welcome to do so.  The best way to
learn is to teach others.

Nathan Rice

TriZPUG January 2012 Meeting: Your Talk Goes Here

http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/jan-12-mtg

When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6pm

Where: Classroom G201, Murray Hall, campus of UNC-CH, 101 South Rd, 
Chapel Hill (http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/mascparkingmap.pdf)

What: To announce a talk for this meeting, send an email with your topic 
to the TriZPUG email list. As always, spontaneous lightning talks of ten 
minutes or less on other topics are also welcome. Anything you've 
learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk. 
Note: this meeting starts at 6pm as the doors to the building 
automatically lock at 7pm. Parking is available in the lot beside the 
building for those who show up early.

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Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Fwd: [TriLUG] January 12 meeting - Open Source Business Intelligence Tools

Lookiong For A Substitute Python Teacher At Chapel Hill Chinese School For 6 Weeks In Jan - Feb

I received the following request from Wen Gong, a TriZPUG member via 
meetup.com. Contact Wen directly if you can help:

Hi Chris,
I started teaching python to kids (mid-high school) since last Fall at 
Chapel Hill Chinese school (http://www.csch-nc.org).

Time: 5-5:50 pm Saturday
Place: McDougle Middle School
900 Old Fayetteville Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7935

Due to a family emergency, I will not be able to teach for next 6 weeks 
in Jan 7 - Feb 18
Can you post this message to your group and help locate a substitute 
teacher in Chapel Hill area?

Anyone who is interested can contact me at wen.g.gong@...
The substitute teacher will be paid at $25 per class.

Thanks,
Wen

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Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

PyCon 2012 News - Tutorials, Talks, and Tickets

We are now 75 days away from PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara — it's hard to think about how quickly time has flown
since PyCon 2011! We've lined up some great keynote and plenary speakers, announced the tutorial and talk
selections, opened ticket sales, and have expanded financial aid opportunities. The community and our
amazing array of sponsors have helped us break several records already, so we hope you're as excited about
PyCon 2012 as we are. The conference runs March 7-15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

The keynote speakers include Y Combinator investor Paul Graham and Mozilla's Head of Developer
Engagement, Stormy Peters. Both of them bring interesting experience to the table, and they're both
captivating speakers. Speaking of captivating, Dave Beazley was announced on the plenary track, with
more to be added in the coming weeks. Guido — our Benevolent Dictator For Life — will also be joining the
line up!

With 483 tutorial, talk, and poster proposals submitted this year, the program committee had their hands
full paring that list down to 95 talks, 32 tutorials, and 36 posters (which we're still accepting). In the
little time since we made these announcements we've heard a lot of excitement. You can see the tutorial
selections at https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/lists/tutorials/, with talks available at https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/lists/talks/.

Tickets are now available with early bird rates available until January 10, 2012 at
https://us.pycon.org/2012/registration. Tutorial and admission prices continue unchanged; if
you've been following along the last few years, these rates are the same as they have been for several
years. Our team's dedication to keeping PyCon cost-effective, community driven, and grassroots
continues thanks to the hard work and support of the team and sponsors (https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/).

If financial assistance would make PyCon a possibility for you, we encourage you to apply to this year's
expanded assistance program. With a deadline of January 7, 2012 (extended from January 2) and a new
web-based application, the financial aid committee aims to make the trip, lodging, and a ticket a
possibility for everyone. Thanks to a new partnership with the PyLadies organization, we're able to
provide grants to women in the community who are interested in experiencing the conference. For full
details see https://us.pycon.org/2012/assistance.

For more information about PyCon 2012, see our site at https://us.pycon.org/2012/. We also publish news
on our blog: http://pycon.blogspot.com/.

Jesse Noller - Chairman
jnoller@...

Brian Curtin - Publicity Coordinator
brian@...

[newbie] packaging and distribution

How to package/distribute a python environment? Specifically:

My group has a proposal which seems feasible, but that would involve a
set of remote users of varying computeracy. Our code would require some
packages from EPD Free, plus a few more from `enpkg`. (No other
frameworks or web apps involved: this is all client-side.) The code is
not a problem (famous last words  but we don't have much resource for
support, notably for install handholding. So we'd like to be able to say

+ To install, just download and run <magic here/>

and have it Just Work, rather than

- To install,

- 1 Ensure you have a python version >= <whatever/>.

- 2 Install EPD from <wherever/>.

- 3 Install these packages by running `enpkg <package_name/>`:
-   ...

What is best practice for accomplishing this sort of thing with minimum pain/effort?

TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@...>