From alistair.broomhead at gmail.com Sat Oct 3 16:36:15 2015 From: alistair.broomhead at gmail.com (Alistair Broomhead) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:36:15 +0000 Subject: [python-uk] London Python Project Nights Message-ID: Hi all, After a long summer break, we're back this month. The first session of this season will be help on Wednesday the 14th of October at the Skimlinks office. Details and ticketing are here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-python-project-nights-tickets-17763813043?aff=email Last season was good fun and we got some great work done on a variety of projects, including Romaine and PyGame Zero. If you're itching to get working on something check out the link above, and we'll look forward to seeing you there! Al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sal at stodge.org Sun Oct 4 21:57:29 2015 From: sal at stodge.org (Salim Fadhley) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:57:29 +0000 Subject: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board Message-ID: If you are posting job ads to this mailing list, please also consider posting to the Free Python Job Board. Unlike this mailing list, we *always* want to know about what jobs you have available. http://pythonjobs.github.io/ The neat thing about this site - you make additions/changes by doing a GitHub pull request. Behind the scenes we test your submission and then use it to recompile the static site. It's a super low-maintenance system that I hope will help a few people find rewarding jobs. Sal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andy at reportlab.com Sun Oct 4 23:34:21 2015 From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 22:34:21 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Salim, Hyde looks very impressive. I've been helping a few small communities build sites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages, where the page generation is done by GitHub after you commit. Do you mind me asking what does this for Hyde? Is some agent running somewhere else which updates all the pages and commits the lot after each job is committed? - Andy From stestagg at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 23:49:07 2015 From: stestagg at gmail.com (Stestagg) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:49:07 +0000 Subject: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Andy The code's all in the repository! :) We hook into the travis build system to do this, with some simple scripts. On the post-merge-to-main branch travis run, if the tests pass, then it pushes the built site files to a separate github repository which is hosted as a github pages site. This uses the travis secret key functionality, meaning that anyone can merge-request to the jobs site, but control of the templates, build logic, etc, is held in a more restricted repo. I was meaning to write up our repo/code structure at some point, so may do this when I'm back from holidays. Steve On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:39 PM Andy Robinson wrote: > Salim, Hyde looks very impressive. > > I've been helping a few small communities build sites with Jekyll and > GitHub Pages, where the page generation is done by GitHub after you > commit. Do you mind me asking what does this for Hyde? Is some agent > running somewhere else which updates all the pages and commits the lot > after each job is committed? > > - Andy > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andy at reportlab.com Mon Oct 5 08:44:27 2015 From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 07:44:27 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Aha! Having used Github pages, I had just peeked at the 'pythonjobs.github.io' repo - the output - and not the 'jobs' one which I now realise is the source. So under travis, GitHub repos can access parallel repos - they are just in the directory next door - and even push to them? Cool. Some very nice patterns here. I love the ContextLog. I just hope nobody abuses this to use GitHub for large scale batch processing, as I could imagine them clamping down. - Andy On 4 October 2015 at 22:49, Stestagg wrote: > Hi Andy > > The code's all in the repository! :) > > We hook into the travis build system to do this, with some simple scripts. > On the post-merge-to-main branch travis run, if the tests pass, then it > pushes the built site files to a separate github repository which is hosted > as a github pages site. This uses the travis secret key functionality, > meaning that anyone can merge-request to the jobs site, but control of the > templates, build logic, etc, is held in a more restricted repo. > > I was meaning to write up our repo/code structure at some point, so may do > this when I'm back from holidays. > > Steve > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:39 PM Andy Robinson wrote: >> >> Salim, Hyde looks very impressive. >> >> I've been helping a few small communities build sites with Jekyll and >> GitHub Pages, where the page generation is done by GitHub after you >> commit. Do you mind me asking what does this for Hyde? Is some agent >> running somewhere else which updates all the pages and commits the lot >> after each job is committed? >> >> - Andy >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > From alistair.broomhead at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 15:44:48 2015 From: alistair.broomhead at gmail.com (Alistair Broomhead) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:44:48 +0000 Subject: [python-uk] London Python Project Nights In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just a quick bump, seeing as I know many of us don't check this as much over the weekend: On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:36 Alistair Broomhead wrote: > Hi all, > > After a long summer break, we're back this month. The first session of > this season will be help on Wednesday the 14th of October at the Skimlinks > office. Details and ticketing are here: > http://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-python-project-nights-tickets-17763813043?aff=email > > Last season was good fun and we got some great work done on a variety of > projects, including Romaine and PyGame Zero. If you're itching to get > working on something check out the link above, and we'll look forward to > seeing you there! > > Al > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From akumria at acm.org Tue Oct 13 18:56:49 2015 From: akumria at acm.org (Anand Kumria) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:56:49 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] London Django Meetup - Oct 2015 Message-ID: <561D37D1.2090108@acm.org> Hi guys, As usual, we have another monthly meetup. For those of you who haven't been before, or in a long-time, we have moved to CodeNode. https://skillsmatter.com/locations/264-skills-matter-codenode Our meetup this month has two speakers: - Marc Tamlyn, What's new on Django 1.9 - James Pacileo, Gaming on Django If you'd like to come along, please sign-up at: http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Django-Meetup-Group/events/224716213/ Regards, Anand -- ?Don?t be sad because it?s over. Smile because it happened.? ? Dr. Seuss From daniele at vurt.org Sun Oct 18 13:28:06 2015 From: daniele at vurt.org (Daniele Procida) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:28:06 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] PyCon Namibia 2016 Message-ID: <20151018112806.925500410@mail.wservices.ch> Hi everyone. You may have already heard about PyCon Namibia 2016. We have a website: ... an email list: ... a Twitter feed: In the next few days we'll publish a call for papers and details of funding availble for international travellers who'd like to attend, and launch ticket sales. Daniele From ntoll at ntoll.org Tue Oct 20 09:50:39 2015 From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:50:39 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit Message-ID: <5625F24F.6000709@ntoll.org> Hi Folks, Some great news. We've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. Damien's announcement can be found here: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 I've created a "story so far" blog post here: http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit The source code is here: https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython I've posted it to Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417919 An upvote would be appreciated!!!! Happy to answer questions. N. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cory > On 20 Oct 2015, at 08:50, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Some great news. > > We've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC > micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be > a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. > > Damien's announcement can be found here: > > http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 > > I've created a "story so far" blog post here: > > http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit > > The source code is here: > > https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython > > I've posted it to Hacker News here: > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417919 > > An upvote would be appreciated!!!! > > Happy to answer questions. > > N. > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From ntoll at ntoll.org Tue Oct 20 09:55:25 2015 From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:55:25 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit In-Reply-To: <96B9B9A5-F4F0-4462-AD56-94D84B472A32@gmail.com> References: <5625F24F.6000709@ntoll.org> <96B9B9A5-F4F0-4462-AD56-94D84B472A32@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5625F36D.4040108@ntoll.org> Aha... I didn't realise. What Cory said... :-) N. On 20/10/15 08:53, Cory Benfield (Lukasa) wrote: > Dear all, > > Please don?t click on Nick?s link directly and up vote from there: Hacker News will see that as vote spamming and will remove the link. Instead, please go to the ?New? page of Hacker News and vote it up from there. > > Cory > >> On 20 Oct 2015, at 08:50, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Some great news. >> >> We've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC >> micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be >> a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. >> >> Damien's announcement can be found here: >> >> http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 >> >> I've created a "story so far" blog post here: >> >> http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit >> >> The source code is here: >> >> https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython >> >> I've posted it to Hacker News here: >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417919 >> >> An upvote would be appreciated!!!! >> >> Happy to answer questions. >> >> N. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From ntoll at ntoll.org Tue Oct 20 11:22:16 2015 From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:22:16 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit In-Reply-To: <96B9B9A5-F4F0-4462-AD56-94D84B472A32@gmail.com> References: <5625F24F.6000709@ntoll.org> <96B9B9A5-F4F0-4462-AD56-94D84B472A32@gmail.com> Message-ID: <562607C8.2090600@ntoll.org> Here's the Slashdot submission to upvote (please): http://slashdot.org/submission/5120051/micropython-on-the-bbc-microbit We've made the HN front page! Yay! :-) N. On 20/10/15 08:53, Cory Benfield (Lukasa) wrote: > Dear all, > > Please don?t click on Nick?s link directly and up vote from there: Hacker News will see that as vote spamming and will remove the link. Instead, please go to the ?New? page of Hacker News and vote it up from there. > > Cory > >> On 20 Oct 2015, at 08:50, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Some great news. >> >> We've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC >> micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be >> a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. >> >> Damien's announcement can be found here: >> >> http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 >> >> I've created a "story so far" blog post here: >> >> http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit >> >> The source code is here: >> >> https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython >> >> I've posted it to Hacker News here: >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417919 >> >> An upvote would be appreciated!!!! >> >> Happy to answer questions. >> >> N. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > pyconuk mailing list > pyconuk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyconuk > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sparks.m at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 12:32:07 2015 From: sparks.m at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:32:07 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Open Sourcing MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit In-Reply-To: References: <5625F24F.6000709@ntoll.org> Message-ID: Hi, On 20 October 2015 at 11:11, Jurgis Pralgauskis < jurgis.pralgauskis at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > an alternative to TouchDevelop could be Blockly > , as it currently has translation > to Python, > example > https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/code/index.html#982hb3 > > (it has various adaptations, for example - turtle graphics > https://trinket.io/blocks ) > > While touch develop is also open source, there *is* a "blocks" interface in the micro:bit platform - which under the hood is blockly. The reason for both is because some schools use one, other schools use the other, etc. (The prototype micro:bit system used in schools trials in January this year used blockly as the front end, and the python generation interface, and it looks like - from the source - that this has been used as the basis for the blocks interface.) That said, having worked with blockly I personally think it's great, and provides the potential for a "graphical python" interface. (ie same semantic model, generates text and converts from text back to blockly) Integrating blockly with skulpt or brython seems a relatively simple task for anyone wanting to play. Anyway, the great thing about the micro-python implementation is that it avoids the need for all the stuff I needed to do for the prototype, and allows off-line use by definition :-) I also (still) think it's absolutely astonishing that Damien managed to port python to the micro:bit - it's an absolutely tiny device - just 16K RAM, so getting this much python in such little runtime space is an amazing feat :-) Regards, Michael. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sophie.hendley at digvis.co.uk Wed Oct 21 17:08:46 2015 From: sophie.hendley at digvis.co.uk (Sophie Hendley) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:08:46 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Greenfield and exciting stuff! Message-ID: Hey All, > > I try not to send out to many of these as I don't want to annoy people > with what might be viewed as "recruiter spam". 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