From daniele at vurt.org  Sun Dec  1 15:05:07 2013
From: daniele at vurt.org (Daniele Procida)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 14:05:07 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Django Weekend Cardiff - call for papers
Message-ID: <20131201140507.1050324687@smtp.modern-world.net>

Django Weekend Cardiff <https://djangoweekend.org> - the first-ever Django conference in the UK -  will  take place from the 7th to the 9th February 2014, for three days of talks, tutorials, code sprints and clinics.
 
The conference is Django-focused, but all aspects of Python fall within its remit.

We invite members of the Python/Django communities to submit their talk and other proposals for the event: <https://djangoweekend.org/programme/>.

Talks
-----

Do you have something to share with the rest of the community? Proposals on any subject are welcomed, at any level of technical expertise. Tell us about your experiments, discoveries, solutions, achievements and other adventures.

<http://tinyurl.com/djangoweekendpapers>

The deadline for proposals is the end of Monday 6th January 2014, GMT. Feel free to submit more than one!

Workshops & tutorials
---------------------

The first day of this event will be dedicated to tutorials, workshops and demonstrations, some of which will be open the wider public.

Can you lead a tutorial, on a Python or Django topic? Can you demonstrate the power of Django to people who don't know about it? Do you have an application or product or service that you'd like to showcase?

Just let us know: <info at djangoweekend.org>. We're open to all kinds of suggestions, and especially ideas we haven't even thought of.

Sprints & clinics
-----------------

No Django or Python event would be complete without code sprints. There'll be a Django sprint, led by at least a couple of core Django developers.

We'd like to get as many people as possible to stay for the sprints, and particularly new people who haven't taken part before. To encourage people to join in:

* we'll be supporting the sprints with a "Don't be afraid to commit" workshop on the tutorials day, aimed specially at those who would like to take part but aren't sure they have the skills - yet

* we'll be holding code clinics alongside the sprints, where you can put your questions or problems to a Python or Django expert

A particular clinic might run for minutes 45 or an hour or so. If you like to offer a clinic on a particular subject, or even a general one, please get in touch: <info at djangoweekend.org>. We'd love to hear from you.

On behalf of Django Weekend Cardiff,

Daniele



From breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk  Mon Dec  2 23:19:55 2013
From: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk (Mark Lawrence)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:19:55 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] New group?
Message-ID: <l7j122$vi$1@ger.gmane.org>

Good evening,

I think I'm correct in saying that the nearest groups to me are London, 
Brighton, Reading or Bristol, as I'm literally on the south coast on the 
Dorset/Hampshire border.  If I'm right would there be any interest in 
forming a local group based around Upstart Newtown aka Bournemouth or 
maybe Southampton?

Failing that I could always start my own one man group.  As I live in 
the district of Mudeford this would obviously have to be called MudPy or 
MudePy :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence


From walker_s at hotmail.co.uk  Tue Dec  3 13:28:13 2013
From: walker_s at hotmail.co.uk (Sandy)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:28:13 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Micropython for microcontrollers
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP347914E9F566F34B64BEA22B8D50@phx.gbl>

Had this pointed out to me yesterday, and controlling robotics with a python interactive shell seemed too cool to pass up.
Http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers

So, a step towards making a real Iron Python?

S

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From ntoll at ntoll.org  Tue Dec  3 14:09:33 2013
From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:09:33 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Micropython for microcontrollers
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On 03/12/13 12:28, Sandy wrote:
> Had this pointed out to me yesterday, and controlling robotics with
> a python interactive shell seemed too cool to pass up. 
> Http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers
>
>  So, a step towards making a real Iron Python?
> 
> S
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing
> list python-uk at python.org 
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
> 

It's already been done...

http://thesandtrap.com/products/snake-eyes-python-xld-iron-head

:-P

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Dec  3 15:40:44 2013
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:40:44 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] New group?
In-Reply-To: <l7j122$vi$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <l7j122$vi$1@ger.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <529DED6C.3020000@timgolden.me.uk>

On 02/12/2013 22:19, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I think I'm correct in saying that the nearest groups to me are London,
> Brighton, Reading or Bristol, as I'm literally on the south coast on the
> Dorset/Hampshire border.  If I'm right would there be any interest in
> forming a local group based around Upstart Newtown aka Bournemouth or
> maybe Southampton?
> 
> Failing that I could always start my own one man group.  As I live in
> the district of Mudeford this would obviously have to be called MudPy or
> MudePy :)


I'm based in West London, so a regular meetup in Dorset is really a bit
too far. But I'd be very happy to travel in that direction for a one-off
or occasional drink or something, to meet other Hants/Dorset Pythonistas
(or even just Mark).

TJG

From funthyme at gmail.com  Tue Dec  3 19:06:51 2013
From: funthyme at gmail.com (John Pinner)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:06:51 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] New group?
In-Reply-To: <529DED6C.3020000@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <l7j122$vi$1@ger.gmane.org>
	<529DED6C.3020000@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <CAB-vKOQ09dje-NmCAWWLpHoYN0fJcb6WRAcb+kVmAOe_7u_g9w@mail.gmail.com>

Hey ho,

On 3 December 2013 14:40, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 22:19, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> I think I'm correct in saying that the nearest groups to me are London,
>> Brighton, Reading or Bristol, as I'm literally on the south coast on the
>> Dorset/Hampshire border.  If I'm right would there be any interest in
>> forming a local group based around Upstart Newtown aka Bournemouth or
>> maybe Southampton?
>>
>> Failing that I could always start my own one man group.  As I live in
>> the district of Mudeford this would obviously have to be called MudPy or
>> MudePy :)
>
>
> I'm based in West London, so a regular meetup in Dorset is really a bit
> too far.

Ditto, but location.replace( 'Dorset', 'Brum' )

> But I'd be very happy to travel in that direction for a one-off
> or occasional drink or something, to meet other Hants/Dorset Pythonistas
> (or even just Mark).

As it happens, I'm working in Chichester this week, and could meet for
a chat and a pint, say on Thursday.

best wishes,

John
--

From michael at grazebrook.com  Tue Dec  3 23:55:22 2013
From: michael at grazebrook.com (Michael Grazebrook)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:55:22 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Micropython for microcontrollers
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP347914E9F566F34B64BEA22B8D50@phx.gbl>
References: <BLU0-SMTP347914E9F566F34B64BEA22B8D50@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <529E615A.8080809@grazebrook.com>

Thanks. Just signed up for one.

I'm doing a bluetooth related development and what Damien's creating is 
exactly what I wanted - but couldn't find - when I started the project. 
The Nordic Semiconductor bluetooth module is a system-on-chip with 
enough memory to run this and also based around an ARM core.

On 03/12/2013 12:28, Sandy wrote:
> Had this pointed out to me yesterday, and controlling robotics with a 
> python interactive shell seemed too cool to pass up.
> Http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers
>
> So, a step towards making a real Iron Python?
>
> S


From george at ghickman.co.uk  Wed Dec  4 09:53:09 2013
From: george at ghickman.co.uk (George Hickman)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:53:09 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Oxford Python: Wheels
Message-ID: <20131204085309.GO3776@icarium.local>

Hello all,

Tomorrow evening Oxford Python will be having a Wheel themed meeting.
Rather than do talks on the subject we'd like to promote discussion
around the topic and attempt to fill in any blanks we can.

Details are on Meetup:

http://www.meetup.com/oxfordpython/events/151212952/

Follow on Twitter for any last minute updates:

https://twitter.com/oxfordpython

Hope to see you there!
George

From harry.percival at gmail.com  Sun Dec  8 14:26:19 2013
From: harry.percival at gmail.com (Harry Percival)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 13:26:19 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Robots from the Dojo
Message-ID: <CACFvh9_W+UDz8C-ZuFVa63C11rNgo-=Li3fUOHnKxqVnSzd79g@mail.gmail.com>

For anyone that attended the London Python Dojo last week, here's the code
for all the robots:  https://github.com/hjwp/ldnpydojorobots

For anyone that didn't, check out http://robotgame.org/  (site is currently
down, sadly, but i'm sure will be back up soon).  It's a fun site where you
program a robot AI in Python, and then you can submit it for a deathmatch
of a team of your robots against someone else's...

(while trying to find info about why the site was down, i found out it has
its own subreddit.  cool.  http://www.reddit.com/r/robotgame)

(i accidentally the test kit. If anyone has a copy and wants to add it to
the repo, pull request away, then ppl can have a play even while the site
is down...)

*Oh, incidentally, I can't remember if I mentioned during the Dojo, but I'm
writing a book, it's nearing completion, and I'm just dying to get a few
more people to read it and suggest improvements before it ships off to be
printed.  More info at http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com
<http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com>.  There is, and always will be, a
complete, free, CC-licensed version available.*

-- 
------------------------------
Harry J.W. Percival
------------------------------
Twitter: @hjwp
Mobile:  +44 (0) 78877 02511
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From a.grandi at gmail.com  Mon Dec  9 11:34:47 2013
From: a.grandi at gmail.com (a.grandi at gmail.com)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:34:47 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Robots from the Dojo
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The site is not just "down", it's been shut down:

Well, that was a fun journey, but my role in it ends here. Due to
server costs of both money and time, I've decided to pass on the
project to anyone who wants to take it up. The source code for the
server can be found here:

    http://robotgame.org/static/robot.tar.gz

The game was always open-sourced anyway (/brandonhsiao/rgkit on
Github), so if you want to build your own server, that's cool too.
You'll probably do a better job than I did.

That was a fun month of my life, but I've decided to move on to other
projects. The IRC channel is now down, of course, but you can still
find robot gamers at /r/robotgame.

Thanks in particular to everyone who hung out in the IRC channel for
making the experience far more fun than I had expected.




On 8 December 2013 13:26, Harry Percival <harry.percival at gmail.com> wrote:

> For anyone that attended the London Python Dojo last week, here's the code
> for all the robots:  https://github.com/hjwp/ldnpydojorobots
>
> For anyone that didn't, check out http://robotgame.org/  (site is
> currently down, sadly, but i'm sure will be back up soon).  It's a fun site
> where you program a robot AI in Python, and then you can submit it for a
> deathmatch of a team of your robots against someone else's...
>
> (while trying to find info about why the site was down, i found out it has
> its own subreddit.  cool.  http://www.reddit.com/r/robotgame)
>
> (i accidentally the test kit. If anyone has a copy and wants to add it to
> the repo, pull request away, then ppl can have a play even while the site
> is down...)
>
> *Oh, incidentally, I can't remember if I mentioned during the Dojo, but
> I'm writing a book, it's nearing completion, and I'm just dying to get a
> few more people to read it and suggest improvements before it ships off to
> be printed.  More info at http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com
> <http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com>.  There is, and always will be, a
> complete, free, CC-licensed version available.*
>
> --
> ------------------------------
> Harry J.W. Percival
> ------------------------------
> Twitter: @hjwp
> Mobile:  +44 (0) 78877 02511
> Skype:         harry.percival
>



-- 
Andrea Grandi -  Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador / Nokia Developer
Champion
website: http://www.andreagrandi.it
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From tibs at tibsnjoan.co.uk  Tue Dec 10 20:36:04 2013
From: tibs at tibsnjoan.co.uk (Tony Ibbs)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:36:04 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Next CamPUG meeting: Tue 7th Jan 2014
Message-ID: <613D4258-CB3A-4727-B0A9-44DB7AA21E22@tibsnjoan.co.uk>

As posted to our google group:

The next Cambridge Python User Group meeting will be Tuesday 7th January, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub.

This will be a talks meeting. As always, advance notice of any talks will be warmly welcomed

Meetings after that will be:

	? Tuesday 4th February, a doing stuff meeting
	? Tuesday 4th March, another talks meeting
	? Tuesday 1st April, a doing stuff meeting

I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas (or other festival) and a Happy New Year,
Tibs

From daniele at vurt.org  Tue Dec 17 19:52:37 2013
From: daniele at vurt.org (Daniele Procida)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:52:37 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Free Python and Django tutorials at Django Weekend
	Cardiff
Message-ID: <20131217185237.219285675@smtp.ntlworld.com>

All tutorials are free and open to anyone - not just conference attendees - and will be held on 7th February 2014, as part of Django Weekend Cardiff.

You'll be able to register for these (and others, as they are confirmed) soon.


Test-driven web development with Python (Harry Percival)
<https://djangoweekend.org/event/test-driven-development/>
For programmers who need to get started - or who need to get better - with automated testing, using Python, Selenium, Django, JavaScript and more.


Tornado and Friends (Wes Mason)
<https://djangoweekend.org/event/tornado-and-friends/>
Tornado is a battle tested, pythonic and blazing fast asynchronous web server/framework; in this workshop we'll create a Tornado application and integrate it with Django.


Getting started with Django (Peter Inglesby) 
<https://djangoweekend.org/event/getting-started-django/> 
A hands-on tutorial to guide you through your first steps with Django by building a simple web application.
Venue: Cardiff University Main Building


Don't be afraid to commit (Daniele Procida)
<https://djangoweekend.org/event/afraid-to-commit/> 
A workshop/tutorial for Python/Django developers who would like to contribute more to the projects they use, but need more grounding in some of the tools required.


Regards,

Daniele


From daniele at vurt.org  Fri Dec 20 10:09:11 2013
From: daniele at vurt.org (Daniele Procida)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:09:11 +0000
Subject: [python-uk] Django Weekend Cardiff
Message-ID: <20131220090911.1388925464@smtp.ntlworld.com>

As you may already be aware, tickets for Django Weekend Cardiff <http://djangoweekend.org> sold out in three weeks.

If you were hoping to attend, please add your name to the waitlist as soon as possible: 

<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/django-weekend-cardiff-tickets-9387106087?aff=waitlist>

We know a lot of people are disappointed, and we are considering our options for moving the event to a larger venue. 

This is going to involve quite a lot of extra work, and it has budget implications too.

The more people who have signed up to the waitlist, the stronger the case for we have for doing that.

Another way to help make it easier for us is to step forward as a sponsor. Our sponsors are not a luxury or an extra, they are making the event possible. 

To give you an idea of what sponsorship means:

ticket price: ?60
cost of meals and refreshments per attendee: considerably more than ?60

The difference between the two is just one of the things that sponsorship covers.

In short, having more attendees requires more sponsorship in order to maintain the same quality of experience.

Please keep an eye on our website for updates.

Many thanks for all the interest and support for this event from around the world.

Daniele