From brad at allendev.com Mon Feb 25 02:52:50 2008 From: brad at allendev.com (Brad Allen) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:52:50 -0600 Subject: [Texas] [dfwPython] [Fwd: [python-advocacy] Python camping in Argentina] Message-ID: >Delivered-To: brad at allendev.com >X-Original-To: dfwpython at dfwpython.org >Delivered-To: dfwpython-post at timecastle.net >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:53:46 -0600 >From: Jeff Rush >To: dfwpython >X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 >OpenPGP: id=AA9D62B9 >Subject: [dfwPython] [Fwd: [python-advocacy] Python camping in Argentina] >X-BeenThere: dfwpython at dfwpython.org >List-Id: Discussion about Python in DFW >List-Unsubscribe: , > >List-Archive: >List-Post: >List-Help: >List-Subscribe: , > >Sender: dfwpython-bounces at dfwpython.org > >We should have something like this in Dallas - >part indoors, part outdoors in nice weather >someplace. > >-Jeff > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [python-advocacy] Python camping in Argentina >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:57:19 -0200 >From: Facundo Batista >To: python-list at python.org, advocacy at python.org > >Hi! > >This post is to tell you about a Python event we had the last weekend. > >It was a Python camping, in Los Cocos, C?rdoba, Argentina. More than >20 Python developers, some experienced, some new ones, joined together >in a center where we made a lot of activities during four whole days: > >- We had a mini python bug day, closing 4 or 5 issues, but more >important, two new developers know how the full process is. > >- Worked heavily on a PyAr project, CDPedia, that aims to release a >part of the wikipedia (spanish pages, for example, ;) ) to be queried >off line, distributable in a CD. The project, when finished, will give >you the way to construct these CDs or DVDs with the subselection of >the wikipedia that you want, with installers for different operating >systems, full text searches, and everything, :) > >- Made a framework for handling Scenes, Layers, sprites movements, and >menues in pyglet, thinking in PyWeek. > >- Worked with behaviour trees and perceptrons, for AI modeling (yes, >with Python). > >- Made a translation of Trac to spanish, aiming to include it in a >Trac branch that will handle localizations. > >- Had a Python Argentina formal meeting. > >- Worked on a Rubick cube game in pyglet. > >And of course, we lunched and dinner all together, played games, >climbed a mountain (carrying the Python Argentina flag to the top, see >the photos), and have a lot, lot of fun. > >All the photos, here: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/54757453 at N00/sets/72157603938876036/ > >Regards, > >-- >. Facundo > >Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ >PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ >_______________________________________________ >Advocacy mailing list >Advocacy at python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy >_______________________________________________ >dfwPython mailing list >dfwPython at dfwpython.org >http://dfwpython.org/mailman/listinfo/dfwpython