From kevin at glazenburg.com Tue Dec 20 00:17:37 2011 From: kevin at glazenburg.com (Kevin) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:17:37 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] web based IRC Message-ID: Hello, I noticed your post about lightirc, I'm help people out at the support channel for lightirc. As stated on the website: * When you can't connect to a server and the client shows a security sandbox violation message, the server the IRCd is running on does not allow connections from a Flash client. Due to the socket security policy Adobe introduced with Flash Player 9,0,124 you are forced to have a daemon that delivers a crossdomain.xml to allow establishing a connection. It is not a restriction of lightIRC, but one of Adobe Flash!* This means you can't even *open* a connection to the irc server if it doesn't have a flash policy deamon. This means you can't be sure it's not blocked by your company firewall, unless you test it on a server that runs a flash policy deamon. If you're looking for a irc client that isn't blocked by your company firewall, I advise using Mibbit (www.mibbit.com), using irssi trough a ssh server or portforwarding trough a ssh server. You could also look into Lightirc Proxy ( http://redmine.lightirc.com/projects/proxy). If you need any other information, I'd be happy to help. :) Kind regards, Kevin Glazenburg Silly dutch disclaimer: ***************************************************************************** De informatie uit dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Gebruik door anderen is verboden. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging en verstrekking van informatie aan derden is niet toegestaan. Aan de inhoud van dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. ***************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian at python.org Fri Dec 23 03:05:24 2011 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:05:24 -0600 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] PyCon 2012 News - Tutorials, Talks, and Tickets Message-ID: <4EF3E1E4.7000405@python.org> We are now 75 days away from PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara ? it's hard to think about how quickly time has flown since PyCon 2011! We've lined up some great keynote and plenary speakers, announced the tutorial and talk selections, opened ticket sales, and have expanded financial aid opportunities. The community and our amazing array of sponsors have helped us break several records already, so we hope you're as excited about PyCon 2012 as we are. The conference runs March 7-15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The keynote speakers include Y Combinator investor Paul Graham and Mozilla's Head of Developer Engagement, Stormy Peters. Both of them bring interesting experience to the table, and they're both captivating speakers. Speaking of captivating, Dave Beazley was announced on the plenary track, with more to be added in the coming weeks. Guido ? our Benevolent Dictator For Life ? will also be joining the line up! With 483 tutorial, talk, and poster proposals submitted this year, the program committee had their hands full paring that list down to 95 talks, 32 tutorials, and 36 posters (which we're still accepting). In the little time since we made these announcements we've heard a lot of excitement. You can see the tutorial selections at https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/lists/tutorials/, with talks available at https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/lists/talks/. Tickets are now available with early bird rates available until January 10, 2012 at https://us.pycon.org/2012/registration. Tutorial and admission prices continue unchanged; if you've been following along the last few years, these rates are the same as they have been for several years. Our team's dedication to keeping PyCon cost-effective, community driven, and grassroots continues thanks to the hard work and support of the team and sponsors (https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/). If financial assistance would make PyCon a possibility for you, we encourage you to apply to this year's expanded assistance program. With a deadline of January 7, 2012 (extended from January 2) and a new web-based application, the financial aid committee aims to make the trip, lodging, and a ticket a possibility for everyone. Thanks to a new partnership with the PyLadies organization, we're able to provide grants to women in the community who are interested in experiencing the conference. For full details see https://us.pycon.org/2012/assistance. For more information about PyCon 2012, see our site at https://us.pycon.org/2012/. We also publish news on our blog: http://pycon.blogspot.com/. Jesse Noller - Chairman jnoller at python.org Brian Curtin - Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org