May 2004 Meeting

Thursday, May 13, 2004 at 7 PM, ConstruxMeetingLocation.

Proposed Topics

What do people think about Prothon?
Report from LinuxFest.
Sprint promotion and planning.
What do people think about Stackless Python? LionKimbro
- Is this a good way to run a ComponentBus architecture?

What we talked about:

What do people think about Prothon?
Report from LinuxFest.
Sprint promotion and planning.
What do people think about Stackless Python? LionKimbro
- Is this a good way to run a ComponentBus architecture?
Pyro - proxying remote objects - they also have an event server
RPC stuff in general - XML-RPC, Pryo, jabber, twisted perspective broker
Gui packages
- first wxPython
- interface builders? (fill in names here) boaConstructor
- xrc: http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/XrcStartingPoints
- fill in EasyDialogs
- text based shell dialogs on unixy boxes: dialog
linuxfest
Kirby's talk
Seattle meeting place (Brian)
- Library (downtown?)
- Phinney ridge association
parser generators in python
jabber in python? clients exist - some people are writing servers.
sandboxed python ??
teaching python using paired-programming.
localnames
shorewall - script for setting up iptables to make a firewall easier.
- two good recommendations
add link to setup sshd on windows from Brady
modpubsub - info notification