SeaPIG meeting 2011-09-08, 7-9pm 13 attendees
Mike Orr gave a recap of the SeaPIG Organizers meeting which was held September 1. The goal of the newly formed organizers group is to set a baseline so that the monthly meetings are organized smoothly without putting too much work on any one person. Beyond this base capability, additional functionality of SeaPIG can be explored (new types of get togethers, improved online rsvp capabilities, etc.)
Planning for future meetings - Oscar will speak on Blender at the October meeting. Nat may be able to get us a room at UW.
Introductions and spontaneous software demos:
Toby - ODesk R&D group - interested in deployment solutions
Paul & Atai - from Splunk (splunk.com) which has just opened a Seattle R&D office and is hiring Python programmers. Paul & Atai gave a demo of Splunk. Schemaless with query setup done at search time. The web frontend is done with CherryPy.
Ron & Colleen - from CollegeBrain (helps prospective students find the right school). Interested in deployment solutions. Using FanDjango, FacePy (comment from Kevin about deployment: Fabric is a Pythonic solution. Chef+Puppet provides a useful non-python turnkey solution.)
Kevin - image asset management. Has started SeaPyMon, a regular code gathering.
Nat - working on masters degree at UW & works at Nintendo. organizing SEAHOP the puzzle hunt (seahop.net)
Oscar - Blender guy. SeaBUG is Seattle Blender Users Group. Unlike some other free software Blender is almost as capable as the commercial tools available. Oscar presented a demo of Blender which is highly useful even as a general purpose Python shell. Oscar plans to give a talk on Blender at the October SeaPIG meeting.
Mark - has new Python job
At 8:30 (not 8:00 as planned) the meeting relocated to the Elysian which was crowded but was able to put a table together for us. We lost some people in the transition though.