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Chris Calloway | 1 Dec 2008 17:27
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[Fwd: CS oppurtunity for development in West Africa]

I'm forwarding this to you from our friend Jonah Bossewitch at Columbia 
as I know there are a lot of you on this list active in the field of 
public health.

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Subject: CS oppurtunity for development in West Africa
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:56:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonah Bossewitch
To: Chris Calloway

This is an interesting position that you or someone you know may be 
interested in.

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Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the Department of 
Computer Science of the University of Southern Maine, the Ghana Health 
Service, and the Grameen Foundation have formed a partnership for health 
information systems development.  To be known as the Ghana Health 
Information Systems Development (GHISD) Initiative, the project will 
develop, test, and scale up technology for health information 
management.  In particular, GHISD will test whether the adaptation of 
existing mobile phone technology can help address these problems by 
significantly easing information capture for community-based health care 
workers and providing a mechanism for communication between front-line 
health care workers and their supervisors. Little is known about the 
feasibility of utilizing mobile phone technology for reforming routine 
health information operations and even less is known about the use of 
information systems as a tool for reforming community health care worker 
efficiency and health service effectiveness. Filling these critical 
knowledge gaps, the project will test whether promising technology can
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Ed Van Duinen | 3 Dec 2008 22:06
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UNC Carolina Population Center is looking for Plone programmers

The UNC Carolina Population Center (CPC) is looking for two Plone 
programmers to come join our team. The CPC is a great place to work -- 
interesting and challenging projects, friendly staff, and convenient 
access to Franklin St. for lunch and more. If you are a qualified 
Zope/Plone/Python/web programmer who is interested in a fulltime, 
permanent position at UNC, please consider one of the following:

Applications Analyst Journey (0056145)
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The primary responsibility of this Web Programmer is to develop and 
maintain complex, web-based applications in the Plone content management 
system. These applications involve management information systems (e.g., 
research project reporting, tracking, and financial management tools), 
knowledge management systems, and distance learning systems. A strong 
technical knowledge is required to implement these products in an 
efficient, user-friendly, and programmer sustainable manner. In addition 
to programming tasks, the Web Programmer will also take a lead on 
project management functions for the project's programmer team project 
by working with the team, project staff, and faculty investigators to 
identify the programming goals for the project and by tracking the 
agreed to deliverables. The Web Programmer must be able to consult with 
and communicate effectively with project staff to determine 
requirements, priorities, and desired timelines and work independently 
with minimal instruction.

Read more at https://s4.its.unc.edu/RAMS4/details.do?reqId=0811280&type=S

Applications Analyst Contributing (0058842)
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Stephan Altmueller | 4 Dec 2008 16:12
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Second Plone Jam on Friday Dec 05 <at> Howell Hall Room 04

Hi !

Sorry for any cross listings !

We are going to have our second Plone Jam this Friday at Howell Hall.
We are taking another attempt to work on Plone LDAP/ONYEN integration.

All the Ethernet ports in that room are working now so we'll have reliable
Internet !

Please bring a (long) Ethernet cable, we have some though !

See here for more information:

    http://plonedev.unc.edu/unc-plone-jams/unc-plone-jam-002

Hope to see you there !

  -- Stephan

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Stephan Altmueller
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OASIS - Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phone: 919-448-5936
Email: stephan_altmueller@...
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Chris Calloway | 4 Dec 2008 18:06
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Python 3 released

Nine years in the making, Python 3 was released late last night:

http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/

What's new:

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

What is special about this release, the first backwards incompatible  
release of Python, are the things it did *not* change in order to,  
above all, keep Python as simple as possible:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3099/

See you tomorrow at the Jam.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Chris Calloway | 4 Dec 2008 18:29
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Re: Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting

Oh, yeah, and there's a meeting tonight at Duke where Phillip is going to talk
about something interesting:

http://trizpug.org/Members/mrevoir/novdec-08-mtg

Cheers, Chris
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Philip Semanchuk | 4 Dec 2008 18:38

Re: Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting


On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:

> Oh, yeah, and there's a meeting tonight at Duke where Phillip is  
> going to talk
> about something interesting:
>
> http://trizpug.org/Members/mrevoir/novdec-08-mtg

And I've got a little bonus to what's mentioned there.

See you all at 7

Philip
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Chris Calloway | 4 Dec 2008 21:02
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Re: Nov / Dec TriZPUG Meeting

Philip Semanchuk <philip <at> ...> writes:
> And I've got a little bonus to what's mentioned there.

Door prizes, too!

Cheers, Chris
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Josh Johnson | 5 Dec 2008 14:50
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Links from tonight's meeting

I've been keeping a running list of links and stuff mentioned during 
tonight's meeting. Enjoy!

Links from the intros:
Chris Rossi's project to sell music to benefit Cy Rawls: 
http://www.cytunes.org/ (Be sure to come out to the CyTunes launch party 
at Local 506! (next Friday, 12/12, 9pm, FREEEEE)

IPC Stuff
Global Interpreter Lock (why IPC instead of ITC) 
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/api/threads.html

Philip's POSIX IPC implementation: http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc
Monty Python sketch that was his inspiration for naming his example 
code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIJvcWkVcs
Philip's System V IPC implementation: http://semanchuk.com/philip/sysv_ipc/

Info on the "classic" shm module that Philip has adopted: 
http://nikitathespider.com/python/shm/

Some other alternatives Philip mentioned during his talk:
http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/
http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html

A past endeavor of Philip's that contains some articles and code related 
to IPC:
http://nikitathespider.com/

The definition of a Semaphore (looking at the disambiguation speaks to 
the origins of the term):
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Josh Johnson | 5 Dec 2008 17:32
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Re: Links from tonight's meeting

Also, Chris hooked me up with the issue tracker for content rules, so we 
can start thinking about what we want to work on during the MLK weekend 
sprint!

http://dev.plone.org/plone/search?q=contentrules&ticket=on

JJ

Josh Johnson wrote:
> I've been keeping a running list of links and stuff mentioned during 
> tonight's meeting. Enjoy!
>
> Links from the intros:
> Chris Rossi's project to sell music to benefit Cy Rawls: 
> http://www.cytunes.org/ (Be sure to come out to the CyTunes launch 
> party at Local 506! (next Friday, 12/12, 9pm, FREEEEE)
>
> IPC Stuff
> Global Interpreter Lock (why IPC instead of ITC) 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/api/threads.html
>
> Philip's POSIX IPC implementation: http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc
> Monty Python sketch that was his inspiration for naming his example 
> code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIJvcWkVcs
> Philip's System V IPC implementation: 
> http://semanchuk.com/philip/sysv_ipc/
>
> Info on the "classic" shm module that Philip has adopted: 
> http://nikitathespider.com/python/shm/
>
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Scott Hicks | 6 Dec 2008 02:34
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jump start needed

Hi,


I wanted to send out a message to see if anyone in Trizpug would be gracious enough to answer a few questions and/or provide a little help to get me started with Python.  I recently took the plunge and bought a new MacBook Pro.  So, I am also learning the Mac OSx environment.  Here's is what I am interested in:

* Getting a python development environment setup correctly on the Mac.  I would like to start with 3.0 since I am new, but do not yet see a Mac image available yet on Python.org
* I have purchased TextMate and would like to learn tips and tricks of that editor 
* I have a particular project in mind.  Pretty simple html parsing / processing and reading and writing to an sqlite database (database is complete).  I have looked at and played around with HTMLParser, urllib, and other libraries such as twill.  They all seem to do the same job and I am not sure which one would best suit my needs.  Eventually, I want to get into driving Selenium Grid with Python.

I realize it is the holiday season and I do not want to get started until January.  Hopefully, Python 3 will be available for the Mac by then.

If anyone is willing to help me out, it would be much appreciated.  I will make sure Santa is extra nice to you.....

Thanks,

Scott Hicks


<div>
<p>Hi,<br></p>
<div><br></div>
<div>I wanted to send out a message to see if anyone in Trizpug would be gracious enough to answer a few questions and/or provide a little help to get me started with Python. &nbsp;I recently took the plunge and bought a new MacBook Pro. &nbsp;So, I am also learning the Mac OSx environment. &nbsp;Here's is what I am interested in:</div>

<div><br></div>
<div>* Getting a python development environment setup correctly on the Mac. &nbsp;I would like to start with 3.0 since I am new, but do not yet see a Mac image available yet on Python.org</div>
<div>* I have purchased TextMate and would like to learn tips and tricks of that editor&nbsp;</div>

<div>* I have a particular project in mind. &nbsp;Pretty simple html parsing / processing and reading and writing to an sqlite database (database is complete). &nbsp;I have looked at and played around with HTMLParser, urllib, and other libraries such as twill. &nbsp;They all seem to do the same job and I am not sure which one would best suit my needs. &nbsp;Eventually, I want to get into driving Selenium Grid with Python.</div>

<div><br></div>
<div>I realize it is the holiday season and I do not want to get started until January. &nbsp;Hopefully, Python 3 will be available for the Mac by then.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>If anyone is willing to help me out, it would be much appreciated. &nbsp;I will make sure Santa is extra nice to you.....</div>

<div><br></div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Scott Hicks</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
</div>
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