The Winnipeg Python Users Group
Welcome! We are about 60 Python users in and around Winnipeg, Manitoba.
We formed in 2005 and for 3+ years we met monthly to listen to a presentation, learn from each other's experience programming in Python, or occasionally work on a project together. Since February 2009 we have not been meeting as regularly. Time will tell if this means we're dormant, taking a break, or just functioning as a mailing list of Python users in Winnipeg. We have members at all levels of experience from expert to novice, and our discussions aren't tied to any particular operating system or platform - so all are welcome. There is no charge to attend the meetings or join the group.
We encourage you to join our mailing list. The traffic is low and it provides a point for connection to Winnipeg Python users for events, job offers, etc. There are archives.
Meeting Times and Location
Meetings have traditionally been held the fourth Wednesday of the month from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 or 9:30 p.m. downtown, but we may try alternating between downtown and the U of M.
For meetings at Epic, the address is 167 Sherbrook, parking on the street or in the lot at the back, website http://Epic.ca.
Future Meetings
Date
Location
Topic
Presenter/Facilitator
Presentation File
7:30 p.m., Mar 23, 2011
Epic
Bo-Keep
Mark Jenkins
Past Meetings
Date
Topic
Presenter
Presentation File
Jan 17, 2006
Teaching Programming with Python
Stuart Williams
Feb 22, 2006
Recent Code and List Comprehensions
Mark Jenkins
Apr 26, 2006
Code review of text based game
Mike Pfaiffer
Jun 28, 2006
Wrapping C Libraries
Mark Jenkins
Jul 26, 2006
LdapFS.py sprint
Scott Balneaves
Oct 25, 2006
Beer
Various
Nov 22, 2006
Python IDEs
Various Artists
Jan 24, 2007
Some Beautiful and Ugly Code
Stuart Williams
Feb 28, 2007
GUI Development with Glade
Scott Balneaves
Mar 28, 2007
Django Tutorial
Syd Wiedman
Apr 25, 2007
Topic Planning
Group
May 23, 2007
Python for System Administrators
Scott Balneaves
Sep 26, 2007
Python Introduction, Decorators, and Protest Bag Searches
Stuart, Mark, Scott
Oct 24, 2007
Lightning Talks - How we've used Python recently
various
Nov 28, 2007
Misc: virtualenv, nose, optparse
Jason Hildebrand
Jan 23, 2008
Python 101
Stuart Williams
Feb 27, 2008
Python 102
Stuart Williams
Apr 23, 2008
What's new in Python 3000
Various Artists
Nov 26, 2008
win32 python module for MS-Office Automation
Stuart Williams
Jan 28, 2009
Python Scripting in the Enterprise
Stuart Williams
Feb 25, 2009
Future-proof Python 2.6 code for Python 3.0
Stuart Williams
Mar 25, 2009
No meeting
Apr 22, 2009
Cancelled
Sep 22, 2010
University of Manitoba, 356 Parker
Introductions and Planning
Topic Ideas
The following are possible future topics.
- Visual Python
- Zope and Plone
- replacing shell scripts
- scientific computing
- Python for system administrators
- MS-Windows automation with Python
IDE's such as LEO, PyDev (Eclipse), Stani's Python Editor
- quick intro to Python for programmers
Web framework like Django or TurboGears
GUI framework like Kiwi
- Python for Java programmers
- Python bake-off: python vs. other languages head to head
- Python's potential in the enterprise
- Basic tutorial on Python
- Batteries included: A tour of the python libraries
- Distributing python programs using setuptools
- Extending Python with C
- Test-driven design and development with Python
- Python in Ubuntu
IronPython, .NET, and Context Menus
- Google App Engine
- Jython
- Jython, Groovy, and JRuby comparison
- Python bindings for gnucash