- James, Kevin, Mike, Jonathan
- Python meeting scheduling. Jonathan will check if it can be at Office Nomads every month. Doesn't have to be on 2nd Thursday necessarily.
PyCon is March 9-3/17 which conflicts with 2nd Thursday
- Other python events coming up? OSCon has Python track (July 25-29, Portland)
- discussion of Abaqus engineering software which uses Python for scripting
- fabric.py - a useful package for deployment over ssh
- Mike recently released pyramid_sqla package - SQLAlchemy interface to the framework
Pylons is becoming Pyramid - merge with TurboGears, BFG etc.
- Discussion of how to parallelize dictionary lookup operations on a cluster
- Celery - distributed task queue
0MQ (zeromq.org) is an interesting library for socket programming... see the introduction at http://nichol.as/zeromq-an-introduction