[Chicago] Video

[Carl Karsten]

I got it working, but could use a code review of my uploader:

https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/dj/scripts/rax_uploader.py

This line bothers me:
pyrax.set_setting("identity_type", "rackspace")

maybe that should be right under the import pyrax?


if you want to write a line of code ...
I generally leave this code alone until I get an error, then I try to
figure out what I need to debug it
but if you can give me a head start, that may come in handy some day ;)

    except Exception as e:

            print e
            # self.ret_text = "rax error: %s" % ( e.body )


Does rackspace have something setup for testing so that someone can
run this code with minimal server side setup?  currently it requires
someone (Sheila) getting the  rackspace account setup and creating a
user account for me, I log in and create a container for testing
called testing, get my api keys, copy/paste them into the code, and
now I can run it.    This is fine for production, but if I am handing
it off to someone to test, they will get annoyed and the test will
likely just show that they screwed up the server setup and that is why
they gave up trying to help ;/



On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> > We love video, but I got some concerns that the live streaming issues
>>> > can be
>>> > disappointing if people are actually wanting to participate.
>>>
>>> Sure, it's probably disappointing, but you're getting a free stream of
>>> the meeting to your house, put on by volunteers. Dropping it entirely
>>> seems like the last solution to the problem. Would funding help? Would
>>> technology contributions help?
>>
>>
>> Rackspace has given us (volunteers who run and help with pyvideo. basically
>> Will, Carl and me right now) an account, and I think streaming python user
>> groups could fall in the category of things that the account can be used for
>> (I could ask). Right now we run part of this on ec2 and I think funds have
>> only seriously been a problem when we forgot to turn something off and
>> incurred $500.
>>
>> Follow up with Carl, Tim, Roman (anyone else?) for what technology
>> contributions would be helpful. I'm ignorant for what they'd really want. I
>> know I think it would be a handy idea if someone wrote some operational
>> stuff to help. It would be nice to be able to run a script to deploy some
>> streaming stuff and have it ready to go.
>
> One thing I can certainly help with is code, especially as it pertains
> to Rackspace things. I wasn't around when it happened, but I saw Carl
> asking some pyrax questions in #rackspace. My job is helping our
> customers, so feel free to contact me with any specifics and I'll help
> where I can.
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Carl K