From gavin.jackson at gmail.com Tue Jul 1 12:54:14 2014 From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:54:14 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] No meeting this month Message-ID: Hi all, My gosh, it has gotten cold in Canberra! Sorry - doesn't look like we have a presenter lined up this week. Please let me know if you are interested in presenting next month (August 7th) send me an email! Quick Note: pycon.au registrations are now open (1-5 August, Brisbane): http://2014.pycon-au.org/ Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chrisjrn at gmail.com Thu Jul 3 02:12:38 2014 From: chrisjrn at gmail.com (Chris Neugebauer) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:12:38 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] PyCon Australia 2014 registration deadlines and first keynote announced! Message-ID: With just under a month to go before the conference kicks off, we've got a couple of important announcements to make about PyCon Australia 2014 in Brisbane in early August. First up, there's less than a week left to register if you'd like to be guaranteed one of our fantastic conference t-shirts! Our order goes to the printers at the end of next week, so you'll need to register by Wednesday 9 July to get a t-shirt. Register now at http://2014.pycon-au.org/register/prices Next up, we're absolutely thrilled to announce that Katie Cunningham will deliver a keynote at Pycon Australia 2014. Katie lives and breathes Python, Django and Open Source. A true champion for diversity and inclusivity, she nurtures PyLadies in her hometown of Washington DC as well as co-founding Young Coders. Accessibility is very close to Katie?s heart and she defines it simply as "all of the data and all of the functionality for all of the users." In her talk, Katie will debunk some common misconceptions surrounding accessibility, the tools, compliance, impact on the audience and examine effort vs. cost considerations. Katie adds, "Accessibility is one of the least understood areas of modern UI/UX, most often resulting in a below-par experience for users with different needs. Myths and delusions about creating an accessible interface are everywhere and it's time we change that." Find out more about Katie and her keynote at http://2014.pycon-au.org/media/news/46 We can't wait to hear from Katie in Brisbane in August! === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fifth PyCon Australia will be held on August 1--5, 2014 in Brisbane, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2014, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, Red Hat, and Eventbrite; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Netbox Blue. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. From gavin.jackson at gmail.com Tue Jul 8 02:25:54 2014 From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:25:54 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] August speaker needed! Message-ID: Hi guys, We are currently looking for speaker(s) for the next CPUG meeting (Thursday August 7th at 6pm). Let me know if you are keen to present next month - possible themes include scientific computing, geospatial development or security? Alternately, if anyone is attending pycon at the end of the month, would you be interested in going through some of the interesting presentations you attended (like last year)? Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chrisjrn at gmail.com Wed Jul 9 02:40:10 2014 From: chrisjrn at gmail.com (Chris Neugebauer) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:40:10 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] PyCon Australia 2014's second keynote: Dr James R. Curran! Message-ID: Last week, we announced our t-shirt order deadline (that's today, Wednesday 9 July, in case you were wondering), our call for volunteers (http://2014.pycon-au.org/media/news/47), and our first keynote speaker, Katie Cunningham. Now it's time for an even bigger announcement: It is with great excitement that we announce the second of our keynote speakers: Dr James R. Curran, Associate Professor and ARC Australian Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. There?s a lot of people in the Australian Python community who got their start in Python through James? activities: He has taught Python to thousands of school students and teachers since version 1.5.1 (1999), and for over 10 years he has been involved in a wide range of high school outreach activities, primarily through the National Computer Science School (http://www.ncss.edu.au). In his talk, ?Python for every child in Australia?, Dr Curran casts his eyes over an important opportunity to bring Python into classrooms all over Australia. The once in a generation ?Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies?curriculum presents an opportunity to teach computer science and programming to Australian school children from Year 3 to Year 10. James argues that the very future of Australian computing is at stake, and that the Python community has an exciting part to play in shaping that future. Aside from his Python outreach work, James is a computer scientist at the University of Sydney, researching computational linguistics with a focus on statistical approaches to syntactic and semantic natural language processing on web-scale datasets. We are excited to hear Dr Curran?s keynote address and see his vision for the future of Python in Australian schools. Will you be there? Registrations for PyCon Australia 2014 are already open and tickets going at alarming rate (the good kind of alarming). Book your conference ticket today! http://2014.pycon-au.org/register/prices === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fifth PyCon Australia will be held on August 1--5, 2014 in Brisbane, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2014, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, Red Hat, and Eventbrite; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Netbox Blue. For full details of our sponsors, see our website -- --Christopher Neugebauer Jabber: chrisjrn at gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter: @chrisjrn From gavin.jackson at gmail.com Tue Jul 15 06:05:59 2014 From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:05:59 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] August Meeting - Jonah Sullivan, Using python to automate geoprocessing Message-ID: Hi all, next CPUG meeting has been confirmed! Thu, 7 August, 18:00 John Dedman G35 (the Neumann room) at ANU *Title:* Using python to automate geoprocessing *Abstract:* There are a few open-source geoprocessing libraries (GDAL, GRASS, QGIS) most government agencies use ArcGIS, which supports Python 2.7 (with no plans to move to version 3). Nearly all of the capabilities of ArcGIS can be invoked through scripting, and even some capabilities that are not available through the GUI (multiprocessing). I'll be talking about what works and what doesn't work when automating workflows using python scripting. *Speaker Bio:* Jonah Sullivan Geospatial Analyst at Geoscience Australia. Specialising in LiDAR and point cloud data. Python user for less than 5 years.? PS Don't forget to sign up to the G+ community to keep abreast of upcoming events and discussions within the Canberra Python community. Also, please contribute news, articles, interesting packages: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103339628935802168974 Looking for a September speaker(s) - contact me if you are keen! Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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People Bank 7-9 Moore St Canberra ACT 2601 Australia https://goo.gl/maps/gOapW Starting with our meeting next month (6pm Thursday 6th August), all future meetings will be held here. There will be a door bell located at the entrance, ring that and someone will let you in! Next months meeting details are here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cadq1c6sfl329mqokh9b76js6to Please pass this location change info on to your fellow python friends and colleagues!? Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gavin.jackson at gmail.com Wed Jul 23 07:38:32 2014 From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:38:32 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] New meeting location (and sponsorship!) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry, I made a mistake - the next meeting is 6pm on *7th* August at People Bank Offices! Cheers, Gav {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Gavin Jackson wrote: > Hi all, > > With the impending renovations at JD G35, David Smith from Peoplebank has > kindly offered to host our CPUG meetings at the Peoplebank boardroom in > civic. He has also been kind enough to provide Pizza and Beer! > > For many years Peoplebank have generously supported local user groups here > in Canberra (including the Canberra Java Users Group). > > Peoplebank are situated in Civic, so should be quite convenient for ANU > folk, and being more central should attract more people from within the > city. > > People Bank > 7-9 Moore St > Canberra ACT 2601 > Australia > > https://goo.gl/maps/gOapW > > Starting with our meeting next month (6pm Thursday 6th August), all future > meetings will be held here. There will be a door bell located at the > entrance, ring that and someone will let you in! > > Next months meeting details are here: > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cadq1c6sfl329mqokh9b76js6to > > > Please pass this location change info on to your fellow python friends and > colleagues!? > > > Cheers, > Gav > > {e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980 > {skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net > {g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clinton.roy at gmail.com Tue Jul 22 12:03:40 2014 From: clinton.roy at gmail.com (Clinton Roy) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:03:40 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] PyCon Australia 2014's dinner speaker: Paul Gampe! Message-ID: Before we introduce our important dinner speaker, we just want to make sure you know about our DjangoGirls workshop, a free programming workshop for women running during the conference sprints ( http://2014.pycon-au.org/media/news/51) We'll have some other workshops to announce later in the week, stay tuned. Now for the main course (no, we don't have a comedy sponsor) Netwhois. logfilerotate. logfileradius. What do these three things have in common? They were all written in Perl by Paul Gampe to solve problems faced by ISPs in the 90s. Those are problems he would know about, being the man who connected Japan to the internet. Paul Gampe?s dinner talk is entitled ?The Rise and Fall of Perl: Lessons for Python from an old Perl guy?. Paul will share war stories from his long career in open source software, illustrating how Perl got big by being the language of choice for solving a wide range of software problems. Paul believes that Python now fills that role, and sounds a cautionary note, warning that ?If you forget where you came from, you might wind up like Java?. He will also draw on experience gained through his involvement with Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA), especially in preparing a response to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership. Paul knows first-hand about the need to be ever vigilant of the complexity of these multilateral agreements that have immense challenges for an economy such as Australia?s, which needs to preserve the existing flexibilities and freedoms Australians enjoy under our own legal frameworks. Paul Gampe currently directs information management, security, applications and software development, communications technology and service management for Australia?s leading Data-Centre-as-a-Service (DCaaS) provider, NEXTDC Limited. Before that, Paul was Vice President of World-Wide Engineering Services and Operations for Red Hat, where he directed a global function delivering software engineering services and pioneered development of Red Hat?s Asian language products. You might have seen him at linux.conf.au talking about how to make money from open source software. Registrations for PyCon Australia 2014 are open and tickets going strong ). Book your conference ticket today! http://2014.pycon-au.org/register/prices === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fifth PyCon Australia will be held on August 1--5, 2014 in Brisbane, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2014, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, Red Hat, and Eventbrite; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Netbox Blue. For full details of our sponsors, see our website -- Clinton Roy ``Chief'' ``Organiser'' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tom at eastman.net.nz Wed Jul 23 10:03:03 2014 From: tom at eastman.net.nz (Tom Eastman) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:03:03 +1200 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Kiwi PyCon 2014 Registrations Now Open! Message-ID: <53CF6C37.9020508@eastman.net.nz> The New Zealand Python User Group and the Kiwi PyCon team are delighted to announce the opening of registrations for Kiwi PyCon 2014. Kiwi PyCon is an annual conference aimed at promoting and educating people about the Python programming language. It is entirely organised by the New Zealand Python User Group (NZPUG). Kiwi PyCon 2014 will be held on the weekend of 13-14 September in Wellington, New Zealand. Here is a link to the registration page. http://kiwi.pycon.org/registration/ If you've attended a Kiwi PyCon before, you'll already be familiar with our pricing structure, but this year we're introducing an additional tier. So here's a breakdown of all the ticket prices and what they get you. Conference tickets (Saturday and Sunday) ---------------------------------------- All tickets include both days of the main conference, the Kiwi PyCon 2014 T-Shirt (register soon to make sure you get your preferred size), and food during the conference (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea). Please help us to make the conference as good as it can be - [register](https://register.nzpug.org/event-1712963) early! Early registration helps us to make sure we're getting all our figures right for running the conference, and you (the attendees) end up with a better event as a result. Regular ticket -------------- $100. Our basic ticket price remains the same as ever at one hundred dollars. Unwaged / Student ticket ------------------------ $60. For students and those of you not in employment, these tickets give you the full Kiwi PyCon experience at a more affordable price. Contributor ticket ------------------ $300. This is our new tier this year, for those of you who can afford it -- perhaps your company is sending you? Contributor tickets help to fund Kiwi PyCon for everyone, they make it possible for us to offer more unwaged tickets to support students and others who need help to be able to attend. As a sign of our appreciation we will add your company name to your name tag (if you have one), and we will also put your name or your company logo on a special thank you page on kiwi.pycon.org. Tutorials (Friday) ------------------ The tickets for the Friday tutorials will go on sale very soon, we're just hammering out a few extra details before we go live with them. We have four fantastic tutorials lined up this year, but spaces are very limited (16 attendees per session) so please do make sure you check back for more details as they get announced over the next few days - we'll do another post soon with some more information about the tutorial sessions, and a date and time that the ticket sales will go live (so you don't miss out). In order to cover the room hire and projector hire charges for the tutorials this year, there will be a small cost to attend a tutorial ($15 per tutorial) separate from the main conference ticket prices. From tom at eastman.net.nz Thu Jul 24 10:14:16 2014 From: tom at eastman.net.nz (Tom Eastman) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:14:16 +1200 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Kiwi PyCon 2014: Childcare Survey Message-ID: <53D0C058.70109@eastman.net.nz> Good evening everyone :-) It's great to see the sales start for this year's Kiwi PyCon, let's keep it up! Head over to http://kiwi.pycon.org/registration/ and sign up! We are in the process of finalizing our speaker selection, and I'm more excited about it than I've ever been. We have some amazingly cool talks lining up! However, on to the matter at hand: We are investigating the possibility of offering on-site childcare during the main part of the conference for those of you who need it. This will be a first for Kiwi PyCon and while we're keen to be able to make things easier for those of you with children, we still have some homework to do to see if this is going to be feasible for us to offer. We've prepared a survey to help us gauge how many of you would use such a service if it were made available to you. Please head over to... http://goo.gl/foCD77 ... and fill out the survey if this is a service you would be interested in or would benefit from. Thanks for your time! Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From tom at eastman.net.nz Fri Jul 25 09:40:42 2014 From: tom at eastman.net.nz (Tom Eastman) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:40:42 +1200 Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Kiwi PyCon 2014: Accommodation Message-ID: <53D209FA.2010401@eastman.net.nz> Kiwi PyCon 2014 is being held in Newtown, Wellington on the weekend of 13-14 September, with four tutorials being held on Friday the 12th. Tickets are selling! We think it would be awesome if you got some too! http://kiwi.pycon.org/registration/ The Kiwi PyCon website now has a page detailing some accommodation options for the weekend of the conference. http://kiwi.pycon.org/accommodation/ I would urge you to check out the accommodation options, you see, on the weekend of Kiwi PyCon, some inconsiderate fellow went and scheduled an All Black vs South Africa test match. For this reason, we strongly advise you to book your accommodation soon. The talks and tutorial schedule is being finalized as I write this and we hope to announce it soon. It's looking great! It's going to be an amazing conference, and Wellington is going to be simply *roaring* on the weekend of 13 September. You are not going to want to miss it! Cheers, Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The following is the brief overview -- check the website for more details! In the meantime: Get registering, and don't forget to book your accommodation soon! Python and the Pydata ecosystem for data analysis - Nicolas Fauchereau ====================================================================== This tutorial will present the essential libraries and workflows used to create insights from data using Python. It will cover data ingestion and munging, simple statistical analysis and more sophisticated statistical modelling, as well as machine learning. It will also provide an overview of the python visualisation stack, from Matplotlib to javascript-based (D3) libraries. Introduction to Web Security - Hugh Davenport ============================================= This tutorial will give attendees an introduction to Web Security. You will learn the many types of vulnerabilities, how easy it is to make use of a vulnerability, and most importantly how to protect against the vulnerabilities. You'll need open mind with the willingness to learn, and to have all that you have learnt so far burst in a bubble. We will go into detail about the OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities. The focus will be on how easy it is to exploit these vulnerabilities, as well as how easy it is to fix them. The tutorial will focus on common issues with web applications using the Python language, and Python frameworks such as Django, Pyramid, Flask, etc. Dive into understanding human language with Python - Alyona Medelyan ==================================================================== Whenever your data is text and you need to analyze it, you are likely to need Natural Language Processing algorithms that help make sense of human language. They will help you answer questions like: Who is the author of this text? What is his or her attitude? What is it about? What facts does it mention? Do I have similar texts like this one already? Where does it belong to? 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