From whykay at gmail.com Fri Jul 1 14:35:33 2011 From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:35:33 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Early Bird for PyCon Ireland extended for another 2 weeks Message-ID: Hi All, PyCon Ireland Early bird (?50) offer has been extended till Sunday, 13th July. You can register here: https://secure.python.ie/pycon-ireland-2011/ Interested in giving a talk? You can submit your talks here: http://www.python.ie/pyconireland/callfor/#paper Interested in sponsoring PyCon Ireland 2011? Register interest here: http://www.python.ie/pyconireland/callfor/#sponsor More information: http://python.ie/pyconireland/ Cheers, /// Vicky Lee (PyCon Ireland 2011 Committee) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From miles at assyrian.org.uk Wed Jul 20 14:55:47 2011 From: miles at assyrian.org.uk (Miles Gould) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:55:47 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Dynamic Languages Conference 2011 In-Reply-To: <4E00FFCC.6070006@shadowcat.co.uk> References: <4E00FFCC.6070006@shadowcat.co.uk> Message-ID: Hi everyone, I tried to send this to the list at the time, but I appear to have failed because I can't find it in the list archives. Anyway, registrations are still open, and hopefully some of you will be interested... Miles ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Keating Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:32 PM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Dynamic Languages Conference 2011 To: northwestengland.pm at lists.scsys.co.uk The Dynamic Languages Conference has officially opened its website to registrations at http://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk. The Dynamic Languages Conference (26th-27th August) is a new, free of charge, event held in Edinburgh to coincide with the parent festival, the Turing Festival (http://www.turingfestival.com, 26th-28th August) which is the European Festival of Digital Culture and Technology (EFDCT), an official part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world's greatest cultural and artistic event. Dynamic Languages Conference has been sponsored by a number of organisations. The conference is aimed at bringing the Open Source Dynamic Languages together at one event where they can discuss in an open forum and compare the various methods they employ to achieve similar goals. We welcome people from any of the Dynamic Languages such as Perl, Ruby (including the Rails community), Python, PhP, Javascript etc., our goal is inclusion and sharing of experience and approach. This year we are seeking speakers to talk on one of two subjects: Dynamic Language and Application Development for the Internet which will be the Friday track; Dynamic Languages and System Administration which is the Saturday Track. This event, Dynamic Languages, is free though you will need to register to obtain a ticket to the whole of the event. The parent festival (Turing Festival) which runs over the same period has also launched its site and invites people to attend for a modest fee. We are seeking speakers to attend the festival and they can also register and submit talks through our website at http://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk. There will be guest speakers talking at both the Dynamic Languages and Turing Festival. We are pleased to announce that the well known Richard Stallman will be our guest of honour and will speak at both the Dynamic Languages and the Turing Festival event. If you do not have an Act account already please use the new user link to register for this event, Act only keeps your details for conference registration with other Act events it is not used for any other purpose or passed to a third party, you can then submit a talk or make your conference schedule when we publish. The closing date for talks is Friday 29th July and the Schedule will be released on Monday 8th August. The Dynamic Languages event will be held in the magnificent Surgeon's Hall on the Friday (26th August), and the Informatics Building on the Saturday (27th August). The Dynamic Languages event has been originally organised by members of the Glasgow and NorthWestEngland Perl Mongers groups though we are seeking help/support from any other open source language group, if you are a member of such a group, or a leader then we would be happy to hear from you and to work with you to invite your community to this event. We are still seeking keynote speakers who may be able to gain sponsorship to the event. Please submit this to all mailing lists, user groups or message boards that you know of or to any interested parties. If you have an idea for a small event to be run in conjunction to this event, such as a hackathon or BoF then please contact Mark or Marco who will be happy to try and work with you to achieve this. More information about The Turing Festival Creative Destruction Digital Technology And The Death And Rebirth Of Culture And Society Edinburgh in August is where the cream of European technical and digital talent will come together with the world?s largest Arts Festival to thrash out the issues at the heart of our cultural and economic future. The world is being remade in front of our eyes ? this is your chance to take part in that struggle. The Turing Festival brings together a wealth of knowledge, talent and ideas to capitalise on the opportunities posed by the internet and look at what the future holds for the creative, digital and cultural sectors. This festival is for entrepreneurs, developers, managers, creative thinkers, geeks, technologists and evangelists to discuss, debate, learn and predict the future of the web. Running alongside the world renowned Edinburgh International Festival and Guardian Media Festival, the Turing Festival offers a weekend of interactive gatherings and conferences with industry leading professionals who will challenge your business ideas and leave you wanting more! Organised by Interactive Scotland, Edinburgh City Council and Edinburgh Science Triangle, the Turing Festival has been developed to raise the international awareness of Scotland?s indigenous talent in developing and designing software, hardware, mobile, computing, gaming, music, ?lm, TV and internet services, content applications or platforms. -- Mark Keating BA (Hons), Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder. Managing Director: http://www.shadow.cat For more that I do visit: http://www.mdk.me From alex at alexbird.co.uk Sat Jul 23 12:01:34 2011 From: alex at alexbird.co.uk (Alex Bird) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:01:34 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Possible move to Mathers next month In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It can get pretty full, but I'm up for trying it. Also, free buffet. Alex -- Sent from my fur lined mountain lair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dougal85 at gmail.com Sat Jul 23 18:14:54 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:14:54 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Possible move to Mathers next month In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <75C3E00FBC5B4DB9A055221697C2B288@gmail.com> Given that nothing has been organised on this front I think we'll stick to the normal plan for Tuesday. I'll be sending out an email to confirm this today/tomorrow. Amazingly I'm going to be there for a change :) Dougal -- Dougal Matthews www.dougalmatthews.com (http://www.dougalmatthews.com/) www.twitter.com/d0ugal (http://www.twitter.com/d0ugal) On Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 11:01, Alex Bird wrote: > It can get pretty full, but I'm up for trying it. Also, free buffet. > Alex > > -- > Sent from my fur lined mountain lair > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org (mailto:Edinburgh at python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh From mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk Sat Jul 23 18:33:08 2011 From: mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk (Mark Smith) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:33:08 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Possible move to Mathers next month In-Reply-To: <75C3E00FBC5B4DB9A055221697C2B288@gmail.com> References: <75C3E00FBC5B4DB9A055221697C2B288@gmail.com> Message-ID: Yeah, sorry guys, I totally forgot about this. I'll contact them to arrange this for next month. --Mark On Jul 23, 2011 5:15 PM, "Dougal Matthews" wrote: > Given that nothing has been organised on this front I think we'll stick to the normal plan for Tuesday. > > I'll be sending out an email to confirm this today/tomorrow. > > Amazingly I'm going to be there for a change :) > > Dougal > > -- > Dougal Matthews > > www.dougalmatthews.com (http://www.dougalmatthews.com/) > www.twitter.com/d0ugal (http://www.twitter.com/d0ugal) > > On Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 11:01, Alex Bird wrote: > >> It can get pretty full, but I'm up for trying it. 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From dougal85 at gmail.com Sun Jul 24 11:59:29 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:59:29 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Python Edinburgh Pub Meetup on Tuesday Message-ID: Hi All, Here is the plan for Tuesday (spoiler: its the same as usual) 18:30 - around 19:30: Bert's Bar[1] around 19:30 - late: Teuchters[2] There will be a printout of the Python logo on the table to allow any newcomers to find us. This is the first meetup I've managed to make for quite a while. Looking forward to seeing you all there. Dougal [1]: http://www.bertsbar.co.uk/berts-bar/home/berts-bar-edinburgh.html [2]: http://www.aroomin.co.uk/teuchters/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dougal85 at gmail.com Mon Jul 25 13:38:41 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:38:41 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] PyCon UK 2011 - 24th to 25th September 2011 - Conference Announcement and Booking details In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: (Copied from the pyconuk list) The UK's official Python conference returns. It is aimed at everyone in the Python community, of all skill levels, from beginners to core developers. The conference will be held on the 24th to 25th September 2011, in the TechnoCentre Coventry (CV1 2TT). The conference is not-for-profit and community-run by volunteers. It is your conference so you can give a talk, lead a workshop or help with publicity - see our wiki for more details. In particular, it would help a lot if you can forward this announcement to your Python-using friends and colleagues and relevant mailing lists, or link to our website on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and so on. Booking is open now. The ticket cost for the weekend is ?95 which includes access to all sessions, lunches, refreshments, the exclusive PyCon UK T-shirt and the unmissable conference dinner (Concession rate is ?75). For more details and to book, please visit our website at http://pyconuk.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at sneeu.com Mon Jul 25 15:05:24 2011 From: john at sneeu.com (John Sutherland) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:05:24 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] PyCon UK 2011 - 24th to 25th September 2011 - Conference Announcement and Booking details In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Who?s planning on going? I don?t know that I can swing dconstruct and PyConUK ? J. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Dougal Matthews wrote: > (Copied from the pyconuk list) > The UK's official Python conference returns. It is aimed at everyone > in the Python community, of all skill levels, from beginners to core > developers. > > The conference will be held on the 24th to 25th September 2011, in the > TechnoCentre Coventry (CV1 2TT). > > The conference is not-for-profit and community-run by volunteers. It > is your conference so you can give a talk, lead a workshop or help > with publicity - see our wiki for more details. > > In particular, it would help a lot if you can forward this > announcement to your Python-using friends and colleagues and relevant > mailing lists, or link to our website on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ > and so on. > > Booking is open now. The ticket cost for the weekend is ?95 which > includes access to all sessions, lunches, refreshments, the exclusive > PyCon UK T-shirt and the unmissable conference dinner (Concession rate > is ?75). > > For more details and to book, please visit our website at > http://pyconuk.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > > -- sneeu.com "A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary" ? Jef Raskin. From dougal85 at gmail.com Mon Jul 25 16:40:15 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:40:15 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] PyCon UK 2011 - 24th to 25th September 2011 - Conference Announcement and Booking details In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6C079363D2A044A5B7538598E2CF5489@gmail.com> I'm probably 75% likely to go. Just been working out how it will fit in with other things going on at the time. I'm also waiting to see what other details appear, there isn't much organised yet by the looks of things. Dougal On Monday, 25 July 2011 at 14:05, John Sutherland wrote: > Who?s planning on going? > > I don?t know that I can swing dconstruct and PyConUK ? > > J. > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Dougal Matthews wrote: > > (Copied from the pyconuk list) > > The UK's official Python conference returns. It is aimed at everyone > > in the Python community, of all skill levels, from beginners to core > > developers. > > > > The conference will be held on the 24th to 25th September 2011, in the > > TechnoCentre Coventry (CV1 2TT). > > > > The conference is not-for-profit and community-run by volunteers. It > > is your conference so you can give a talk, lead a workshop or help > > with publicity - see our wiki for more details. > > > > In particular, it would help a lot if you can forward this > > announcement to your Python-using friends and colleagues and relevant > > mailing lists, or link to our website on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ > > and so on. > > > > Booking is open now. The ticket cost for the weekend is ?95 which > > includes access to all sessions, lunches, refreshments, the exclusive > > PyCon UK T-shirt and the unmissable conference dinner (Concession rate > > is ?75). > > > > For more details and to book, please visit our website at > > http://pyconuk.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Edinburgh mailing list > > Edinburgh at python.org (mailto:Edinburgh at python.org) > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > > > > -- > sneeu.com (http://sneeu.com) > "A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is > strictly necessary" ? Jef Raskin. > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org (mailto:Edinburgh at python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh From whykay at gmail.com Sat Jul 30 12:07:48 2011 From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:07:48 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] [PyCon Ireland 2011] Announcing our first keynote speaker Message-ID: Hi All, We are delighted to announce our first keynote speaker, Damien Marshall. Damien Marshall works with Demonware as a Team Lead in Title Development. In this role he works on developing the technologies that power the online components of some of the worlds biggest games, such as Call of Duty. He holds a Phd in Electronic Engineering from NUI Maynooth, where he specialised in the study of data management mechanisms for online games. Prior to working at Demonware, Damien worked as a lecturer on the Computer Games Development course at IT Carlow and also lectured on the Electronic Engineering course at NUI Maynooth. Damien will discuss how Python is a crucial component to the success of Demonware. Using case studies of services developed for shipped games, he will explain how and why Demonware first embraced Python as one its core technologies, and how Demonware continues to use it to develop services that can scale to handle tens of thousands of requests per second with millisecond request response times. Registration is still open: https://secure.python.ie/pycon-ireland-2011/ More information: http://python.ie/pyconireland/ Cheers, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: