From jim at well.com  Wed Jul  9 16:37:06 2008
From: jim at well.com (jim)
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:37:06 -0700
Subject: [PyOP] Baypiggies meets this Thursday,
	7/10: P2P BitTorrent Data Mining	by Niall O'Higgins
Message-ID: <1215614226.6319.160.camel@ubuntu>



bayPIGgies meeting Thursday 7/10: 
P2P/BitTorrent data mining with Python and C
by Niall O'Higgins 

The BitTorrent protocol is estimated to account for 18-35% of traffic 
on the Internet. This talk will give an introduction to the protocol, 
why it has been so effective compared to other P2P systems, and what 
its limitations are. We will then cover what features make Python an 
excellent tool to power large scale data mining and analysis of P2P 
networks. Finally, we will present some results of the quantitive 
analysis of BitTorrent conducted by the Peer-to-Peer Research 
Institute. 

http://p2presearch.com/ 
http://niallohiggins.com 

Newbie Nugget: Our first Newbie Nugget, a short presentation 
on a Python feature, specially for programmers new to Python, 
by Daryl Spitzer. 


Location: Google Campus 
Building 42, the Seville room (second floor) 
check in at the lobby in bldg 43 

bayPIGgies meeting information: 
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone

* Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings
(no later than close of business on Wednesday.) 


Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, 
any first-minute announcements. 

..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................

Newbie Nugget by Daryl Spitzer 

..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................

The Talk 

..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up 
individually on the announcements and other topics of 
interest.


..... Thursday, August 14 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Steven Knight on SCons