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Vancouver Python and Zope User Group

Welcome to the home page of the VanPyZ, the Vancouver Python and Zope User Group.

Monthly meetings are normally held on the first Tuesday of each month.

Mailing List

Join the VanPyZ mailing list to keep up to date with the happenings of the group.

Next Event

November 16th, Hive Vancouver to be determined.

Please see: meetup group.

Location

Mozilla Vancouver

163 West Hastings Street. Suite 209 Vancouver BC

V6B 1H5

Past Event

2011

Wednesday Sept. 14th, 2011 at 7pm

Round table talks, notes

Wednesday May 18th, 2011 at 7pm

Round table talks, notes

2010

Tuesday June 1st, 2010 at 7PM

Andy McKay: Using SMS in the Developing World

RapidSMS is an open source project for messaging, data collection and co-ordination over SMS. It’s used throughout the world for a variety of projects, from fighting child malnutrition and malaria to monitoring elections.

This talk introduces RapidSMS and shows what the library can do. We then cover some of the projects that use it including monitoring children in Malawi and diagnosing children in Kenya. The samples show how the project is used in the real world to make a real difference to people.

This is a talk Andy's going to be giving at OSCON.

Lightning Talks

Tuesday March 9th, 2010 at 7PM

We'll be trying some quick lightning talks. Please come prepared to talk about some small thing (5 minutes). :) Some volunteer topics:

Brett, Trent and others were also at PyCon in February. Brett will give a quick summary and we'll discuss that for a bit. Videos online here: http://pycon.blip.tv/

2009

Storm & PyYAML + flikr API

Tuesday December 1st, 2009

Jamu Kakar: Storm How to use Storm with a focus on some common patterns to common problems

Doug Latornell: PyYAML, flickrapi, and TkInter in a Desktop Image Display App

Active State's PyPM & Mercurial

Wednesday October 7, 2009

At Vancouver HackSpace

Sridhar Ratnakumar will talk about Active State's PyPM. A package manager. See http://pypm.activestate.com/

After Henry Precheur will talk about Mercurial (HG). A distributed revision control tool, like Git. It's written in Python and is more and more popular. The talk will be about the concepts of Mercurial, and some extensions (MQ & Bisect.)

What did you hack this summer?

September 1, 2009

Informal meeting at the Irish Heather at 7PM.

Introduction to MapReduce with Python using Disco

June 2, 2009

Jim Roepcke explains how Google's software for processing massive data sets works, and demos the open source Disco engine using Python.

Python Development Process

Brett Cannon, May 5, 2009

Brett is one of the core Python developers and will explain how the development process for Python works and how you can become a Python contributor.

PyCon Trip Report

Brett Cannon and Doug Latornell, April 7th, 2009

Brett and Doug both attended PyCon, the main annual Python conference, and will be back to tell us what was the coolness, what was the hotness, and how many flavours of Python there are now out in the wild.

Scrambled Eggs: Digesting Python Packaging

Kevin Teague, March 3rd, 2009

There are currently many ways to manage Python-based projects. This talk is a high-level overview of some of the tools present in this space (Distutils, Setuptools, Buildout, VirtualEnv, Py2App, PyPI, Package Indexes) and will attempt to explain the different use-cases that each tool is attempting to solve.

Unit Testing in Python

Henry Prêcheur: February 3, 2009

What is testing? Why testing? How Unittest works with example(s). How Doctest works with example(s). Integration of Unittest & Doctest in your project

slides

What I did (with Python) over the holidays

General discussion of web frameworks, cloud computing, 3D, parsing, robotics and more. Summary of this discussion can be found here.

2008

Parsing and building languages with PyMeta

Tom Marsell: October 7, 2008

Tom will be presenting PyMeta, a new parsing tool based on research from the Viewpoints Research Institute. PyMeta is a version of the VPRI OMeta (PDF) language ported to Python by Allen Short. Time: 7-8:30 PM (Then we generally go out for drinks and conversation afterwards)

Python 2.6/3.0

Brett Cannon: September 2, 2008

I am going to try to cover all the new features in both Python 2.6 and 3.0 (both slated to be released the first week of October). It will be an interactive presentation so feel free to bring any questions that you might have (although, if time doesn't allow it, I can answer questions after the meeting as well).

First looks at Google App Engine

Paul Prescod: May 6, 2008

Google App Engine is Google's attempt to make cloud computing a reality. With App Engine, developers can upload Python Web applications and have them run on Google infrastructure. "For free" you get code and data replication, failover and nearly infinite scalability (given that you adhere to certain programming rules). On the other hand, the current release of App Engine is very limited in its functionality and quotas and long-term features/pricing are unknown. At this talk we'll drill down and discuss what's right with App Engine, what's wrong with it and how it is likely to evolve.

April Fools Programming in Python

Apr 1, 2008

April Fools Programming in Python: forging functions, counterfeiting classes, mocking methods etc.