On 13/09/12 16:12, Safe Hammad wrote: > Hi All, > > Once again we're careering toward a Python Northwest talks meeting on > Thursday 20th September. I'm sure many of you have been thinking to > yourselves, "What can I talk about at the next meeting?" Judging by > the lively conversation in the watering hole after last meeting, I'm > know there's plenty to talk about! > > Several of us are probably planning to attend PyCon UK later this > month. Perhaps you're one of the main speakers, or more likely, > perhaps you're toying with the idea of giving a five minute lightning > talk. What better forum to practise your talk on than the friendly > Pythoneers of the Northwest :) Sadly I won't be making PyCon UK this year, but I've had a few ideas for talks recently...
> > If you'd like to speak this month but you're not sure what about, then > maybe you'd like to explore what's new in Python 3.3 and tell the rest > of the group. Or maybe there's a "killer" library you find yourself > using in most projects. Any other suggestions? As a result of some spare time projects there's a few things I could whip up a 5-10 minute talk for. Anyone feel free to let me know if any sound vaguely interesting: * Python's optcomplete package (aka "the best thing since bash programmable completions"). Musings on optcomplete, why it rocks, and why it also needs some love (or "why you probably shouldn't look at the code"). * GTK vs Qt4 (or "Glade vs. Qt4 Designer" or "battle of the Python GUI frameworks" or "why I still prefer command lines"...) * Generating PDFs the old fashioned way (aka "how to generate LaTeX easily"). Shameless self-promotion of a little spin-off from my ElementTreeFactory stuff which does a similar thing for LaTeX * Experiences with making a code base compatible with both Python 2 & 3 (so far without using Six!) (or "a good reason to ditch compatibility with everything before Python 2.6") * Unit testing GUIs (well ... PyQt based GUIs anyway ... because that's all I've done ...) I could probably do something on graphing frameworks - mostly matplotlib but I've been playing with Qwt a bit recently after discovering it via Veusz. For that matter, I could do something on writing Veusz plugins, but it's a bit of a niche product (mostly for scientists). Cheers, Dave. -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
