PGHPython

April 25th: Show and Tell and Code

Hey gang!

As you know, even-numbered months are “do something” months. We like to reserve these meetings for getting social, writing code, and having fun.

This month, we’re going to have a project show and tell, of sorts. Bring something you’ve been working on, and share it with the group. Ask questions, share ideas. This meeting is up to you guys.

No project is too big or too small. Building a pghpy website? Bring it! Doing something sciencey like folding proteins? Show it off! Just getting started and want to learn more of the language? Sounds good, we’re all here to help!

It’s all happening next Wednesday at 7pm at Vivisimo!

Next Meeting: March 28th, 2012: PyCon Recap and Image Compositing

Our next meeting will be held at Vivisimo in Squirrel Hill at 7pm on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012.

We will start off with a recap of PyCon 2012 by Tim Lesher. We will follow that up with a presentation on image compositing by Todd Koons.

We will be looking for ideas for our next meetup. Something active or social. We will also be seeking presenters for May.

Back Tomorrow!

The Pittsburgh Python User Group is back tomorrow, January 25th, at 7pm at Vivisimo in Squirrel Hill. We will be doing some planning for the new year. Everyone is welcome. This is a great opportunity to get involved and make this year even better than last.

November 29th Meeting

Our final meeting of the year is Wednesday, November 29th. We will be having some open discussions about Python, and our goals for next year. We are also getting pizza.

Everyone is welcome, and we will be at Vivisimo at 7pm, as usual.

October 26th Meeting Information

The October meeting is here. There has been a lot of interest in the talk that Matt Zwier has been trying to give for what seems like most of the year. This month, we’ll finally hear what he has to say. Here is the description he gave me:

A while ago, Josh Adelman asked me to talk about a scientific computing project I’ve been working on at the University of Pittsburgh. The main topics would be SQL vs. HDF5 storage of data, MPI vs. ZeroMQ messaging vs. hand-coded TCP/IP to distribute work over large numbers (512 - 4096) of cores, and lessons learned about how to write efficient numerical analysis routines in Python.

Chad Whitacre has also started developing some ideas for a new pghypython.org. He and I will lead a discussion on this effort, and we will hopefully come up with more great ideas about where to take the site.

This meeting will be held on October 26th, at 7 PM at Vivisimo.