[ChiPy-announce] ChiPy at ITA Thu May 13, 7p

[Carl Karsten]

ChiPy
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When: 7 PM Thursday May 13, 2010
Where: ITA

This will be our Best Meeting Ever!

Topics
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 1. 7:00 How to contribute to Python (Brian Curtin)
 2. 7:45 Pizza (Imaginary Landscape)
 3. 8:00 Building the Python Interpreter and Going for Speed (William Scullin)
 4. 8:45 Book Giveaway (O'Reilly)


Details
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1. How to contribute to Python
Brian Curtin
http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/
 covers an interesting topic (to me), and I think it would be cool to
show an example of how to contribute a fix to Python. My idea is to go
from start-to-finish finding a bug in Python, checking out the source,
fixing the bug, making a patch, signing up on the tracker, then
submitting the patch. A documentation fix would probably be
easiest/quickest, but I could look around the bug tracker and keep a
really small standard library bug in my back pocket so we can fix some
actual code.



2. Pizza
Imaginary Landscape
Local Python shop wants to make sure we don't pass out from
starvation.  Return the favor by visiting http://chicagopython.com



3. Building the Python Interpreter and Going for Speed
William Scullin
A summary of
lessons learned by building CPython with non-gnu compilers on x86 and
non-x86 platforms. We've got some fun, and actually sort of depressing
data learned from trying to scale out a python science code to 32,768
cores. None of it is a surprise, but it's got some interesting
implications for large distributed applications of all stripes that if
I'm lucky, someone will stand up and point out the obvious solutions.





4. Book Giveaway
O'Reilly
Take notes and be ready to answer questions - correct answer gets you a book.




Location
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Illinois Technology Association (ITA)
200 S. Wacker Drive
15th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

312.435.2805
http://www.illinoistech.org

Metra: exit on Adams St, walk East across the bridge, first door on the right.

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