January Meeting

Via Brandon Rhodes:

This month's Python Atlanta meeting is this Thursday, January 8th:

And, I have exciting news - the chairman of the Python Software Foundation himself, Steve Holden, will be our main speaker! He will kick off our new year by giving us his own State of the Union address: in "The State of the Python Community", he will talk about the Python community, its strengths, and its weaknesses. He will not only answer your questions about how to stay connected to the wider Python community, but will be asking *you* questions about how the community can be more accessible and serve you better!

Our other talk should also be great: ifPeople founder Christopher Johnson will answer the question "Why People Choose Plone" by talking about how his customers benefit from Plone, Python's flagship CMS (content management system). He will discuss how it integrates with other web-enabled services like Salesforce, and what it is like to install and theme a Plone site for the first time.

If you are very interested in Plone, note that the Atlanta Plone group meets at the ifPeople offices this Wednesday at 5:30pm for beer, slide presentations, and talk about their favorite CMS!

Feel free to either meet up with us early at the Howell Mill Figo Pasta at 6pm (email Brandon if you're coming so that he can get a head count), or just show up at the main meeting at 7:30pm at the GTRI Food Processing Technology Building for the presentations. Here are the meeting details, where you can RSVP and get directions.

See you on Thursday!

Nov. 8th meeting: GUI Showdown

The next meeting is November 8th at 7:30 at Turner. This month's theme is graphical user interface toolkits. The presenters will be offering a series of 10 minute Lightning talks so we have a good overview of a variety of toolkits.

7:15-7:30 Meet at Turner Lobby.

7:30-7:45 Opening Remarks and setup.

7:45-~9:00 Series of 10 Minute Lightning talks on GUI toolkits:

• PyGTK 2.0: Jeremy Jones
• WXPython: We need someone!
• PyGlet: Drew Smathers
• PyQt: We need someone!
• Divmod Nevow Athena: Cary Hull
• Tkinter: Bernard Matthews
• Python/Cocoa/Leopard: Noah Gift

Door Prize For Best Presentation! There will be a Door Prize for the best presentation, by way of vote. The door prize will be a copy of, Making Things Talk, thanks to O'Reilly.

9:00-? General Discussion & Coding Sessions

Make sure you head over to the meetup.com page and RSVP if you're coming, so your name is added to the security list for Turner.

PyAtl Meeting Notes, Thursday, Oct. 11th: Zope Technologies

First Presentation:

Derek Richardson gave a presentation on Plone 3. He talked about some of the features of Plone 3 and how to correctly configure a new Plone 3 site. We also briefly talked about moving the PyAtl website to Plone.

Second Presentation:

Drew Smathers gave a talk on the Zope 3 Component Architecture, and also talked about Grok

Nov Meeting Plans:

Toby Ho suggested a GUI showdown, and everyone liked the idea. The format for the November
meeting will be:

Small Roundtable Discussion depending on the number of GUI Presenters.
Multiple, 10 Minute Lightening Talks, as many as we can squeeze in and get out by 9PM.

Here is a list of Python GUIs, from the Python wiki:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

Presenters So Far:

Cary Hull: Pyglet
Jeremy Jones: PyGTK 2.0
Noah Gift: Cocoa/Python/Leopard

We probably have room for 3-5 more 10 minute presentations, here are my suggestions

Suggestions for potential presenters:

Toby since you brought it up, are you going to volunteer?

TkInter: Bernard?
WXPython:
PyQT
PyKDE
Jython: Howard?

Miscellaneous Happenings:

LinkedIn Group:

Thanks to another great suggestion by Doug Hellmann, we now have a Linked In PyAtl Group. Please feel free to invite yourself and I will approve the queue:

Here is the invitation link:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/37441/61EE145B3728

PyAtl Blog:

I will be making a few changes on the main website as we prepare to eventually move to Plone, but in the meantime, in the spirit of "something is better than nothing". We have a blogger account that any and all members of PyAtl can contribute to.

PyAtl Community Blog


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-Noah