September 2005 Meeting

Thursday, September 15th at 7pm, ConstruxMeetingLocation.

Attendance

(Place names next to people who introduce topic.)

What we talked about:

BaitdProgram
Incident News: a Quixote site (http://www.incidentnews.gov/) -- Quixote with MySQL backend,
- Looking at SQLite for stand-alone
Jon is using SQLObject and says good things about it
West side meeting locations (DanEverhart)
Doug: Idea for SSH reflector and S/KEY proxy service
Cool interviewing technique (no jobs currently)
damn small linux -- mini-CD, USB key, QEMU
Jon: Quixote exhibitor registration framework for SC05 supercomputing conference (here in Seattle in November)
BitlBee -- IM to IRC gateway
- screen, SSH, emacs, mutt, etc.
- email/webmail servers, distributable (not IMP, Horde)
West-side location (no more Literacy Source)
- Doug: office space (BoA plaza, 800 5th Ave, 38th floor)
- Mike: downtown library
- Also start thinking about Eastside (Construx moving May)
Seapig history
- When was Seapig founded? October 15, 2001, by AdamFeuer, SteveHowell, MikeOrr -- see SeaPig wiki page
- See O'Reilly article from Nov 2001
- Note mascot
Auth frameworks
- mod_auth_pgsql -- just authentication, no user framework
- Cryptomaton auth framework (Doug to fill in later)
- Use two authentication schemes (.htpasswd or database auth) at the same time
mod_scgi -- Recommended by Mike and Jon
- Also: mod_fastcgi, mod_python
PyCon 2006 -- near Dallas
Presentation sw
- Magicpoint
- slide.el
SciPy 05 conference -- scientific Python, next week in Pasadena
Plone, CMS Matrix, CMS Watch, Mike's PyCon 2002 article