Northwest Python Day 2009
NWPD09 was a great success!
On January 31, 20009, we held what is hopefully the first annual Northwest Python Day. It was held in the Gates Commons (6th floor) of the Paul G Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Thanks, UW for hosting.
We filled the room with 50 or so people, had 7 30 minute format presentations, and two lightning talk sessions.
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)
The Presentations
(Authors: please attach a copy of your presentation, if you can.)
ChrisBarker: (10 AM) Making a local web application look like a desktop application using wxPython
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
A summary of the lighnting talks:
Morning Session
- Intro to Py3k: James Thiele
Afternoon Session
The wxPython FloatCanvas: Chris Barker
A quick intro to some of the features of a wxPython 2-d object graphics library: http://http://morticia.cs.dal.ca/FloatCanvas/
Attendees
These folks were there:
Please list your name here:
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) -- who?
- 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)
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)
AsimJalis (Redmond, WA)
Reference
Pre-event Announcement page: NorthwestPythonDay
Previous event planning and notes are at NorthwestPythonSprint.