Northwest Python Day
Northwest Python Day 2009 was a great success!
Please see: Northwest Python Day 2010 for information about this year's mini conference.
Here: Northwest Python Day 2009 is a page with a description and links to folks' talks.
The university has just sent out word that heat to the building will be turned off at noon on 01/31 for emergency repairs. Please remember to bundle up!
The Northwest Python Day will take place Saturday 31 January 2009, 9am-5pm, in the Gates Commons (6th floor) of the Paul G Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle (http://www.cs.washington.edu/building/). Directions are available at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html Subscribe to the MailingList for last minute information.
No registration required, event is free. Just show up.
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The event is free but on-campus parking is $6-8. Lots C-17 and C-15 are closest at $6; the Central Garage is $8. Parking is free if you arrive after noon. For lunch there are numerous restaurants on the nearby Ave (University Way NE). The HUB cafeteria will be closed.
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Morning/afternoon snacks are potluck style. If you can, please bring a little something to share. We'll be attempting to brew coffee onsite, but no guarantees.
Agenda
- 9:00-9:30 - Morning coffee and snacks (potluck) / intro
- 9:30-10:00 - Lightning talks (5 5-minute talks + 5 min buffer)
- 10:00-11:30 - Scheduled talks (3 30-minute talks)
- 11:30-1:30 - Lunch (We'll probably walk to nearby restaurants)
- 1:30-2:00 - Lightning talks (5 5-minute talks + 5 min buffer)
- 2:00-4:45 - Scheduled talks (5 30-minute talks + 15 min break)
- 4:45-5:00 - Closing
- Evening - social activity (location TBD)
Talk Schedule
ChrisBarker: (10 AM) Making a local web application look like a desktop application using wxPython
- Web applications provide many advantages over traditional desktop apps, but there are still times when users need to run an application without a network connection. A Browser Interface, Local Server (BILS) application provides a way to present your users with exactly the same interface as the web app, using a single code base, while the app runs on entirely on the local machine. We will discuss a number of options available for and shortcomings of developing a BILS app, and present the example of NOAA's CAMEO Chemicals, a Pylons-based web app wrapped in a wxPython interface for desktop use.
Joshua D. Drake: (10:30 AM) Configuring Replicator forPostgreSQL (Because every Python developer should use PostgreSQL)
JustinCappos: (11 AM) Using a Python-based VM to build an open community for resource sharing on the Internet -- Will feature a live demo! (prefer to present in a morning slot)
Mark McWiggins: (2 PM) How to incinerate money with C++(or C# or Java) -- and how to stop. A review of the evidence to convince a rational capitalist manager to consider Python or another higher level language.
William Stein: (2:30 PM) Sage -- Python-Based Open Source Mathematical Software; my slides
Robert Bradshaw (actually Craig Citro): (3:45 PM) An introduction to Cython, a Python-to-C compiler.
TedLeung: (4:15 PM) Can speak on Sun's Python/Jython interests and current status. (prefer an afternoon slot)
Lightning talks
Lightning talks are unscheduled 5-minute talks. You can demonstrate your Python software, recruit collaborators for a project, advertise your commercial Python product or job openings, rant about the worst thing in Python, tell a joke, etc. Time slots will be allocated at the beginning of the day.
Attendees
Please list your name here if you're planning to attend. If your plans change, please remove your name.
BrianDorsey (Seattle)
MikeOrr (Seattle)
BrianGershon (Seattle)
JohnDeRosa (Seattle, Queen Anne)
AndrewBurkhalter (Seattle)
BrianLane (Port Orchard)
TedLeung (Bainbridge Island)
JesseSnyder (Seattle)
GeorgeReilly (Seattle)
AndrewBeyer (Seattle)
JustinCappos (Seattle)
MikeHansen (Seattle)
JonDugan (Seattle)
EricHanchrow (Seattle)
IvanBeschastnikh (Seattle)
ChrisBarker (Seattle)
JamesThiele (Seattle)
BrianZimmer (Bainbridge Island)
DanHelfman (Seattle)
JamesMakela (Tacoma)
AndrewIttner (Bellevue)
AndyMcKay (Vancouver, BC)
Joshua D. Drake (White Salmon, WA)
JayFlaming (Seattle)
ZacharyAcreman (Seattle)
- Five Lexis Nexis Employees (Seattle)
- Ted Pollari (Tacoma)
RaganWebber (Seattle
RandolphFritz (UW, Seattle)
JohannHeller (Seattle)
AdrianKlaver (Bellingham,WA)
- Chris Fulford (Seattle, WA)
NimretSandhu ( Kirkland, WA) 75% chance of attending
- Ben Racine (Seattle, WA)
- Derek Simkowiak (Lynnwood, WA)
- Anthony Floyd (Vancouver, BC)
- Yuhui Huang (Redmond, WA)
JeffSandys (Shoreline, WA)
DavidGlick (Seattle)
- John Chu (Seattle, WA)
AdamLowry (Portland, OR)
- Michelle Rowley (Portland, OR)
- Daniel Bjerre (Seattle)
- Jason Kirtland (Portland, OR)
- David Goldsmith (Olympia; if I can get a ride)
CaseyDurfee (Seattle)
- Emilio Mayorga (Seattle)
SkeeterMurphy (Vancouver, WA)
- Lacey Powers (Portland, OR)
- Larry Price (Eugene, OR)
Mark McWiggins (Issaquah, WA)
- Jonathan Blocksom (Vienna, VA)
- Miles Van Pelt (Seattle, WA)
- Jim White (Seattle, WA)
- Registration closed. The room is full.
Reference
Previous event planning and notes are at NorthwestPythonSprint.
If anyone is interested in a backchannel, I started #seapig on irc.freenode.net - AdamLowry