From janssenp at unimelb.edu.au Fri Jan 11 00:16:33 2008 From: janssenp at unimelb.edu.au (Patrick Janssen) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:16:33 +1100 Subject: [melbourne-pug] Research Assistant required Message-ID: Hi all, We are looking for a python programmer to work full time for 3 or 4 months on a project developing visual programming tools. Please email me if you might be interested. Duration: 3 or 4 months Location: University of Melbourne Pay: Research Assistant Grade 2 (AUD 30.72 per hour) Regards Patrick -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Dr Patrick Janssen CRIDA - Critical Research in Digital Architecture Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning The University of Melbourne http://www.crida.net http://www.patrick.janssen.name :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/melbourne-pug/attachments/20080111/94b80b72/attachment.htm From jmoloney at unimelb.edu.au Wed Jan 16 04:56:54 2008 From: jmoloney at unimelb.edu.au (Jules Moloney) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:56:54 +1100 Subject: [melbourne-pug] Python / 3D graphics research assistant Message-ID: <39c99f4f0801151956r17d8dd0ap8462675d0fe0e612@mail.gmail.com> Hi Separate to the previous post by my colleague Patrick Janssen we are looking for a programmer with python / 3D graphics skills for a ARC research project on augmented reality applications for architecture. We will be working with HITLabNZ who have developed a python wrapper for open scene graph / open AR http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/OSGART Contract is full time for first year part time for subsequent two years. Would suit recent graduate with graphics programming background. Best jules -- Jules Moloney http://www.crida.net/ Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design. 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URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/melbourne-pug/attachments/20080116/25ac39cb/attachment.htm From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Fri Jan 25 07:12:02 2008 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:12:02 +1100 Subject: [melbourne-pug] Melbourne BarCamp planned, 23rd Feb Message-ID: BarCampMelbourne 2008 is go! http://barcampmelbourne.org/ 23rd February 2008 in Melbourne CBD *** YOU MUST REGISTER IF YOU INTEND TO COME ************************* * * If you do not register and turn up we could get a * little crowded and you might not get any food! * * http://barcampmelbourne.org/ * ********************************************************************* Described as "an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees", anyone is welcome to come along for free. Everyone is asked to participate by giving a presentation or leading or participating in a discussion, essentially forcing the sharing of ideas and knowledge. You might like to check out the BarCamp web site for more general information. Wikipedia's entry on BarCamp might also be of interest. What to expect? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Turn up for 9am registration and put your name on the list. Talk to people, network. We'll have a welcome / intro type talk at about 9.30am and get into the demos, discussions, talks after that. What to bring? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anything you might need for yourself. We'll have lunch for everyone, but you might want to bring your laptop, computers and other tech stuff that might be cool, interesting, useful in your demo. NOTE: The organisers are not responsible for your equipment or other items you bring. You bring them at your own risk. Where? ~~~~~ BarCamp Melbourne 2008 will be held on the 23rd of February at ThoughtWorks, Level 11, 155 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia Please spread this call for participation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But if you're planning to send it to a list, check the lists this announcement has already been sent to at: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampMelbourne2008Organisation Any questions? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://barcampmelbourne.org/contact/ Sponsors ~~~~~~~~ Events like this aren't usually possible without sponsorship. We'd like to thanks Firesyde (http://firesyde.com/), SitePoint (http://sitepoint.com/) and ThoughtWorks (http://thoughtworks.com/) for their kind support. On behalf of all the organisers, I look forward to seeing you there! Ben Balbo -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ From mauriceling at gmail.com Fri Jan 25 15:07:20 2008 From: mauriceling at gmail.com (Maurice Ling) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:07:20 +0800 Subject: [melbourne-pug] Python distributed computing framework Message-ID: <4799ED18.4030504@acm.org> Hi guys I am trying to look for a simple distributed computing framework where I can use to link up a few PCs via internet (connected using ssh) to run like a cluster. The crux is that new tasks may be added at runtime. Currently, I am looking at PyLinda and rthreads. Does anyone has any comments about these 2 libraries? Cheers maurice From mauriceling at gmail.com Wed Jan 30 14:41:01 2008 From: mauriceling at gmail.com (Maurice Ling) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:41:01 +0800 Subject: [melbourne-pug] Distributed processing library comparison Message-ID: <47A07E6D.9090908@acm.org> Hi I am currently trying to evaluate python-based distributed processing libraries for my own work. However, I will also like to gather some opinions as to which criteria are important. Please feel free to give me suggestions. Thanks maurice