From jeffh at dundeemt.com Wed Sep 5 04:53:49 2007 From: jeffh at dundeemt.com (Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:53:49 -0500 Subject: [omaha] ANN: Omaha Python Users Group - Monthly Meeting -- Sep 5, 7pm Message-ID: <5aaed53f0709041953r5712e2b4p8fa8b028f9b9fe5d@mail.gmail.com> Hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday. The next meeting is upon us already. August 1, 2007 - 7pm Topics: + Lightning Talks + Group Project - pyorhythms + Group Q and A session Location: Clancy's East 7128 Pacific Street (72nd & Pacific) Omaha, NE Refreshments: It's Clancy's -- so food and drink will be available. Door Prize(s)?: Beautiful Code, Oram & Wilson I look forward to seeing all of you there. -- Jeff Hinrichs From jeffh at dundeemt.com Wed Sep 5 13:54:52 2007 From: jeffh at dundeemt.com (Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:54:52 -0500 Subject: [omaha] ANN: Omaha Python Users Group - Monthly Meeting -- Sep 5, 7pm (revised) Message-ID: <5aaed53f0709050454i2c42a63rfeaf6e7784230d72@mail.gmail.com> Hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday. The next meeting is upon us already. September 5, 2007 - 7pm Topics: + Lightning Talks + Group Project - pyorhythms + Group Q and A session Location: Clancy's East 7128 Pacific Street (72nd & Pacific) Omaha, NE Refreshments: It's Clancy's -- so food and drink will be available. Door Prize(s)?: Beautiful Code, Oram & Wilson I look forward to seeing all of you there. -- Jeff Hinrichs In my previous post I incorrectly stated Aug 1 in the body. That was clearly incorrect and helpfully pointed out by a list member. ;) I did get the edit to the wiki correct but missed it in the email, http://wiki.python.org/moin/OmahaPythonUserGroup From brad at iridiumdesign.com Wed Sep 5 23:29:57 2007 From: brad at iridiumdesign.com (Brad Siegfreid) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:29:57 -0500 Subject: [omaha] ANN: Omaha Python Users Group - Monthly Meeting -- Sep 5, 7pm (revised) In-Reply-To: <5aaed53f0709050454i2c42a63rfeaf6e7784230d72@mail.gmail.com> References: <5aaed53f0709050454i2c42a63rfeaf6e7784230d72@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4ED9134C-332A-4076-8EF8-2D527459E1FE@iridiumdesign.com> My free time for this evening just disappeared. Maybe you can post a summary of what's going on with pyorhythms. I'll see you guys in October. Brad From jeffh at dundeemt.com Thu Sep 6 00:36:11 2007 From: jeffh at dundeemt.com (Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:36:11 -0500 Subject: [omaha] ANN: Omaha Python Users Group - Monthly Meeting -- Sep 5, 7pm (revised) In-Reply-To: <4ED9134C-332A-4076-8EF8-2D527459E1FE@iridiumdesign.com> References: <5aaed53f0709050454i2c42a63rfeaf6e7784230d72@mail.gmail.com> <4ED9134C-332A-4076-8EF8-2D527459E1FE@iridiumdesign.com> Message-ID: <5aaed53f0709051536v1392992apf07cb312904b3ffc@mail.gmail.com> Sorry to hear that you won't make it. I'll post a summary of the meeting. -jeff On 9/5/07, Brad Siegfreid wrote: > My free time for this evening just disappeared. Maybe you can post a > summary of what's going on with pyorhythms. I'll see you guys in > October. > > Brad > > _______________________________________________ > Omaha Python Users Group mailing list > Omaha at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/omaha > http://www.OmahaPython.org > From jeffh at dundeemt.com Thu Sep 6 07:18:26 2007 From: jeffh at dundeemt.com (Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:18:26 -0500 Subject: [omaha] Sept 5th - Meeting Highlights Message-ID: <5aaed53f0709052218p682062a3k615b6d34de0b0132@mail.gmail.com> Well we've managed to maintain a new meeting attendance level. There were 6 of us again tonight at the meeting, 5 alumni and 1 new attendee. The meeting started out with some introductions and talk about Py3K alpha. We then turned to talk about the various python implementations C, Iron, Jython and ActiveState's. Talk then turned to available windowing options and what exactly was built-in for python as opposed to 3rd party libraries. PythonCard, http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/, is the project I was trying to recall. While not a windowing kit -- it is based on wxPython, it offers a nice entry point in to building a client GUI for a python project for those new to python and GUI kits. There were some random topics brought up and answered as we munched on some quite good pizza. We then broke out some code for the pyorhythms, http://code.google.com/p/pyorhythms/, group project. We talked about how the imports had been laid out, the over all structure of the program and a number of questions from those new to python were asked. What are those triple commented things (docstrings, http://www.diveintopython.org/getting_to_know_python/documenting_functions.html) how are they used, etc. We then talked about the use of map statements and what was going to happen to them in Py3K. Someone asked what does reduce do, and I didn't have an answer then as I hadn't used it before, but have one now "reduce(function, sequence)" returns a single value constructed by calling the binary function function on the first two items of the sequence, then on the result and the next item, and so on. For example, to compute the sum of the numbers 1 through 10: >>> def add(x,y): return x+y ... >>> reduce(add, range(1, 11)) 55 see http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION007130000000000000000 I did a live demonstration of pyorhythms and there was some pleasant smiles and nods at seeing how well pylab, http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/, graphed everything. At the end of the meeting we handed out the door prize, "Beautiful Code." After the meeting some of stuck around and pondered the architecture of the google file system,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System, why doesn't google offer a google apps appliance? and the possible ramifications of Grand Central, http://grandcentral.com/home, and the rumored google phone, http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_6803112. For those of you who couldn't attend we hope to see you next month (Brad et al) -- Jeff Hinrichs From jay at jays.net Wed Sep 19 16:44:13 2007 From: jay at jays.net (Jay Hannah) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:44:13 -0500 Subject: [omaha] Meetings @ UNO PKI? Message-ID: <88E5FA3A-B06D-415F-B580-A0CBAE128BD5@jays.net> I'm on staff and a student @ UNO PKI. I don't know if I have the power to sponsor, but one of my instructors, John Clark, said yesterday that he would be willing to sponsor the Omaha Python Users group meetings being held at UNO PKI. UNO PKI: http://www.pki.nebraska.edu/whatispki/map.php PKI has awesome facilities for 30 or fewer attendees. Dynamic Language Users Group (and, Omaha Perl Mongers, piggy-backing) meet here monthly. I recommend asking for Room 269, just like DynaLUG. It has wireless Internet, a projector, and 30 PCs on the Internet. I you're interested I recommend the group leader email John soonish while he still remembers me asking about it. :) http://arioch.unomaha.edu/~jclark/ Cheers, j From JeffH at delasco.com Wed Sep 19 17:05:26 2007 From: JeffH at delasco.com (Jeff Hinrichs) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:05:26 -0500 Subject: [omaha] Meetings @ UNO PKI? In-Reply-To: <88E5FA3A-B06D-415F-B580-A0CBAE128BD5@jays.net> Message-ID: <94BC3D204A17734681830A69CBF99993DF7C92@lilo.delasco.pri> Jay, Much appreciated. I'll email him today. Thanks, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: omaha-bounces at python.org [mailto:omaha-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Jay Hannah Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:44 AM To: Omaha Python Users Group Subject: [omaha] Meetings @ UNO PKI? I'm on staff and a student @ UNO PKI. I don't know if I have the power to sponsor, but one of my instructors, John Clark, said yesterday that he would be willing to sponsor the Omaha Python Users group meetings being held at UNO PKI. UNO PKI: http://www.pki.nebraska.edu/whatispki/map.php PKI has awesome facilities for 30 or fewer attendees. Dynamic Language Users Group (and, Omaha Perl Mongers, piggy-backing) meet here monthly. I recommend asking for Room 269, just like DynaLUG. It has wireless Internet, a projector, and 30 PCs on the Internet. I you're interested I recommend the group leader email John soonish while he still remembers me asking about it. :) http://arioch.unomaha.edu/~jclark/ Cheers, j _______________________________________________ Omaha Python Users Group mailing list Omaha at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/omaha http://www.OmahaPython.org