From cbc at unc.edu Fri Oct 1 20:43:41 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:43:41 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Python Search Engine Message-ID: <4CA62BDD.2080402@unc.edu> Maybe I've been living under a rock. But I just found out about this: http://nullege.com/ -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From ogmaciel at gnome.org Fri Oct 1 21:13:11 2010 From: ogmaciel at gnome.org (Og Maciel) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:13:11 +0000 Subject: [TriZPUG] Python Search Engine In-Reply-To: <4CA62BDD.2080402@unc.edu> References: <4CA62BDD.2080402@unc.edu> Message-ID: Sweet!!! -- Og B. Maciel GNOME Foundation Board of Directors omaciel at foresightlinux.org ogmaciel at gnome.org ogmaciel at ubuntu.com GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) From don at donfick.com Sun Oct 3 16:30:19 2010 From: don at donfick.com (Don Fick) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:30:19 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] OT: Website monitoring In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5B0C39C6-F30C-442B-BB0C-7FF4FD25B6EA@donfick.com> I've been happy with Pingdom (http://www.pingdom.com/). Free for monitoring one URL and other $$ options available. Don Fick > > Do any of you have a favorite service for monitoring websites? I > don't need 100% uptime, but I also don't think that I should have to > pay $$ a month to monitor a website. It seems like it should be more > like ??. > > -- > Joseph Tate > Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com > Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Mon Oct 11 17:47:54 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:47:54 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] PyCon 2011 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <4CB331AA.9030705@unc.edu> TriZPUG, The PyCon 2011 Conference will be in Atlanta again March 9-17. A difference in PyCon this year is that attendance will be capped. The cap is 1,500 delegates. Conference days are March 11-13. Tutorial days are March 9-10. Sprint days are March 14-17. The call for talks, tutorials, and posters has gone out: http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/ http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/ http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/proposals/ http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/proposals/tutorials/ http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/posters/cfp/ The talk proposal deadline to submit is November 1. The poster proposal deadline is January 19. This year a new talk type has been introduced, the "extreme" talk. This is a talk with no introduction or explanation of background, just pure technical meat: http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/extreme/ I hope many of you submit proposals. I hope all of you will go. Our club had great attendance last year. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Fri Oct 15 17:31:12 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:31:12 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks Message-ID: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> Thanks to Alex Kesling, and some additional help from Crist?bal Palmer and Justis Peters, we'll be meeting at Red Hat HQ on the NCSU Centennial Campus in Raleigh on Thursday, October 28 at 7pm. We're going to give Red Hat a test drive to see if it would be a good regular location for our Raleigh meetings every third month. Before meeting announcements go out, I'd like to see if anyone would like to call shotgun on any major presentations for the meeting. We can always have lightning talks. But I know there are a few of you out there who have been planning a feature length talk for awhile. So I'm just throwing out the chance to afix your name to the meeting theme for this month. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From brad.crittenden at gmail.com Fri Oct 15 18:09:59 2010 From: brad.crittenden at gmail.com (Bradley A. Crittenden) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:09:59 +0700 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> Message-ID: <6D46CA51-7420-48B8-BC8B-6BBA19862BDE@gmail.com> We have CCC reserved for October. Shall I cancel? On 15-10-2010, at 22:31, Chris Calloway wrote: > Thanks to Alex Kesling, and some additional help from Crist?bal Palm > er and Justis Peters, we'll be meeting at Red Hat HQ on the NCSU Cen > tennial Campus in Raleigh on Thursday, October 28 at 7pm. We're goin > g to give Red Hat a test drive to see if it would be a good regular > location for our Raleigh meetings every third month. > > Before meeting announcements go out, I'd like to see if anyone would > like to call shotgun on any major presentations for the meeting. We > can always have lightning talks. But I know there are a few of you > out there who have been planning a feature length talk for awhile. > So I'm just throwing out the chance to afix your name to the meeting > theme for this month. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway > office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From brad.crittenden at gmail.com Fri Oct 15 18:45:04 2010 From: brad.crittenden at gmail.com (Bradley A. Crittenden) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:45:04 +0700 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> Message-ID: <6C8593F1-2269-47FD-BED4-D66CB8C22624@gmail.com> Dang that "reply to list" setting. Sorry for the noise...and this noise. On Oct 15, 2010, at 22:31, Chris Calloway wrote: > Thanks to Alex Kesling, and some additional help from Crist?bal Palmer and Justis Peters, we'll be meeting at Red Hat HQ on the NCSU Centennial Campus in Raleigh on Thursday, October 28 at 7pm. We're going to give Red Hat a test drive to see if it would be a good regular location for our Raleigh meetings every third month. > > Before meeting announcements go out, I'd like to see if anyone would like to call shotgun on any major presentations for the meeting. We can always have lightning talks. But I know there are a few of you out there who have been planning a feature length talk for awhile. So I'm just throwing out the chance to afix your name to the meeting theme for this month. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway > office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From chris at archimedeanco.com Fri Oct 15 20:58:08 2010 From: chris at archimedeanco.com (Chris Rossi) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:58:08 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> Message-ID: I can probably do something short about some work I've done on repoze.catalog, parsing query strings using the Python ast module, and a few other improvements. Maybe a little longer than a lightning talk but not a feature length talk. Chris On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Chris Calloway wrote: > Thanks to Alex Kesling, and some additional help from Crist?bal Palmer and > Justis Peters, we'll be meeting at Red Hat HQ on the NCSU Centennial Campus > in Raleigh on Thursday, October 28 at 7pm. We're going to give Red Hat a > test drive to see if it would be a good regular location for our Raleigh > meetings every third month. > > Before meeting announcements go out, I'd like to see if anyone would like > to call shotgun on any major presentations for the meeting. We can always > have lightning talks. But I know there are a few of you out there who have > been planning a feature length talk for awhile. So I'm just throwing out the > chance to afix your name to the meeting theme for this month. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway > office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri Oct 15 22:42:38 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:42:38 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4CB8BCBE.3070004@unc.edu> On 10/15/2010 2:58 PM, Chris Rossi wrote: > I can probably do something short about some work I've done on > repoze.catalog, parsing query strings using the Python ast module, and a few > other improvements. Maybe a little longer than a lightning talk but not a > feature length talk. Cool. Could you give a title to this talk and state a description suitable for use on a meeting announcement? Apparently I have screwed up which month goes with which corner of the Triangle we're meeting in. I'm trying to straighten that out with Brad. (bac: I'm pinging you on IRC.) -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From chris at archimedeanco.com Mon Oct 18 16:23:01 2010 From: chris at archimedeanco.com (Chris Rossi) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:23:01 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: <4CB8BCBE.3070004@unc.edu> References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> <4CB8BCBE.3070004@unc.edu> Message-ID: How about: "What's new in repoze.catalog. (What on earth is repoze.catalog?)" A short demonstration of new functionality in repoze.catalog as well as a quick introduction to repoze.catalog for those who aren't aware of what it is or why they might want to use it. Chris On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > On 10/15/2010 2:58 PM, Chris Rossi wrote: > >> I can probably do something short about some work I've done on >> repoze.catalog, parsing query strings using the Python ast module, and a >> few >> other improvements. Maybe a little longer than a lightning talk but not a >> feature length talk. >> > > Cool. Could you give a title to this talk and state a description suitable > for use on a meeting announcement? > > Apparently I have screwed up which month goes with which corner of the > Triangle we're meeting in. I'm trying to straighten that out with Brad. > (bac: I'm pinging you on IRC.) > > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway > office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Mon Oct 18 23:48:34 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:48:34 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] October Meeting Call for Talks In-Reply-To: <6D46CA51-7420-48B8-BC8B-6BBA19862BDE@gmail.com> References: <4CB873C0.4010604@unc.edu> <6D46CA51-7420-48B8-BC8B-6BBA19862BDE@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4CBCC0B2.4060902@unc.edu> On 10/15/2010 12:09 PM, Bradley A. Crittenden wrote: > We have CCC reserved for October. Shall I cancel? Brad is exactly right. I got my months/cities dictionary entirely screwed up. We'll try meeting at Red Hat another time if that's OK. And if it makes a difference as to whether you want to give a talk this month if the meeting is in Carrboro. Besides, it is Oktoberfest at Milltown. :) -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Wed Oct 20 18:53:56 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:53:56 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG October 2010 Meeting: repoze.catalog Message-ID: <4CBF1EA4.1030900@unc.edu> (Note: this meeting is at Carrboro Creative Coworking, not Red Hat HQ. Sorry for the earlier mix up.) http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/oct-10-mtg Next TriZPUG Meeting: Thursday October 28, 7pm at Carrboro Creative Coworking (http://carrborocoworking.com/), 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, where parking is plentiful and free. Chris Rossi (http://archimedeanco.com/) will deliver a short demonstration of new functionality in repoze.catalog (http://static.repoze.org/catalogdocs/), a Python indexing and searching framework, as well as a quick introduction to repoze.catalog for those who aren't aware of what it is or why they might want to use it. As always, lightning talks of ten minutes or less are also welcome. Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk. Simply volunteer your lightning talk at the meeting. The after-meeting will be at Milltown (one block away http://www.yelp.com/biz/milltown-carrboro) for Oktoberfest. Read more about TriZPUG monthly meetings: http://trizpug.org/meetings/ -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Wed Oct 27 18:38:22 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:38:22 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Reminder: TriZPUG October 2010 Meeting: repoze.catalog In-Reply-To: <4CBF1EA4.1030900@unc.edu> References: <4CBF1EA4.1030900@unc.edu> Message-ID: <4CC8557E.8030607@unc.edu> Reminder, meeting tomorrow at CCC: On 10/20/2010 12:53 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > (Note: this meeting is at Carrboro Creative Coworking, not Red Hat HQ. > Sorry for the earlier mix up.) > > http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/oct-10-mtg > > Next TriZPUG Meeting: Thursday October 28, 7pm at Carrboro Creative > Coworking (http://carrborocoworking.com/), 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, > Carrboro, where parking is plentiful and free. > > Chris Rossi (http://archimedeanco.com/) will deliver a short > demonstration of new functionality in repoze.catalog > (http://static.repoze.org/catalogdocs/), a Python indexing and searching > framework, as well as a quick introduction to repoze.catalog for those > who aren't aware of what it is or why they might want to use it. > > As always, lightning talks of ten minutes or less are also welcome. > Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a > lightning talk. Simply volunteer your lightning talk at the meeting. The > after-meeting will be at Milltown (one block away > http://www.yelp.com/biz/milltown-carrboro) for Oktoberfest. > > Read more about TriZPUG monthly meetings: http://trizpug.org/meetings/ > From cbc at unc.edu Fri Oct 29 17:03:20 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:03:20 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] String Searching Message-ID: <4CCAE238.6050201@unc.edu> Thanks for coming out to our laptop-destroying meeting last night. Here's the string matching algorithm visualization site I mentioned at the after-meeting: http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/ I received word yesterday that our November meeting will be at Red Hat HQ in Raleigh on the NCSU Centennial Campus. However, since the fourth Thursday of November falls on Thanksgiving, we will be meeting on the third Thursday instead, November 18. For those of you like me who are bummed not to be at PloneCon, the slides and videos have been going up: http://ploneconf2010.blip.tv/ http://www.slideshare.net/tag/ploneconf2010 I heard there even was a round of Django lightning talks down the street from PloneCon that the Plonistas crashed and even gave talks at: http://django-lightning-talks.eventbrite.com/ https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/fezconsulting.com/ccc?key=0ApUsjKtnXWXFdF9FYzhxTHhLejZ1SmtyaHJsZ3FQMUE&hl=en#gid=0 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From dragonstrider at gmail.com Fri Oct 29 21:39:24 2010 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph Tate) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:39:24 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: Python/Django developer needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This came across the TriLUG list, and thought there might be someone here who is interested. Joseph ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thornburg, Ryan M Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM Subject: [TriLUG] Python/Django developer needed To: "trilug at trilug.org" Request for Proposals: Specifications for Community News Tool Using Python and Django. The School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with funding from the McCormick Foundation, is developing business models and editorial products to help community newspapers transition to the digital age. We are seeking someone who has experience with Python and the Django Web development framework to install a Django application called OpenBlock on a Web server and write a report that details the technical challenges, specifications and scope required for integrating OpenBlock into newspaper websites hosted by TownNews.com. The report would also propose potential alternatives that would be more efficient than using OpenBlock. In order to write the report, the person we hire will need to perform these tasks: 1. Install the OpenBlock application on a server, and become familiar with its codebase. 2. Identify technical specifications for transforming data formats given to students by city and county government into geo-coded data formats optimized for use in OpenBlock. (See http://developer.openblockproject.org/wiki/Ideal%20Feed%20Formats) These technical specs might include the technical specs for building a site scraper (See http://developer.openblockproject.org/wiki/ScraperScripts) to retrieve the data, a feed parser or a program to impute the latitude and longitude of data types that are vaguely described in their original format from the government. 3. Identify high-level technical specifications for integrating an OpenBlock installation with the CSS styles, site navigation and URL structure of the news organizations so that users and search engines perceive the TownNews.com content and the OpenBlock content as a single site. 4. Contribute findings back to the OpenBlock project developers wiki at http://developer.openblockproject.org/wiki We intend to select a candidate by December 1. The project would start immediately upon selection. Please e-mail your proposals ? including a proposed timeline, cost bid, resume, cover-letter and three references -- to Christine Shia at shia AT email DOT unc DOT edu. Please include "Proposal ? OpenBlock RFP" in your subject line. Questions about this RFP can be addressed to Assistant Professor Ryan Thornburg at 919-962-4080 or ryan DOT thornburg AT unc DOT edu. Please include: "Query ? OpenBlock RFP" in your subject line. -- This message was sent to: Joseph Tate To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that address. TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug Unsubscribe or edit options on the web ?: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/dragonstrider%40gmail.com TriLUG FAQ ? ? ? ? ?: http://www.trilug.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com