Hi, I'd thought I'd send out a quick summary of yesterday's Northwest Python Day. It was the first time I attended this event, and I enjoyed it very much. Special thanks to Mike Orr, as well as the sponsors, and, of course, everybody who attended.
I didn't take detailed notes of the talks, but it did appear that some major themes emerged, and it is interesting to know what's on the mind of folks in the Greater Seattle Python community. Themes I noticed: GIS/mapping software (so cool that Python is leading the charge) testing (lots of different approaches) peer-to-peer (I think this only came up in one talk, but it is a profound alternative to cloud computing) security (with respect to backups and installation) Python compared to other languages (JS, Ruby, and LISP in particular) Twitter Amazon/Microsoft/Google (both good and bad things were said, of course) Python advocacy (of course!) web frameworks (Django, WebHelpers, and web.py were all mentioned) Let me know if I left anything out. I plan on hacking on some open source code today at 2pm or so, at Zoka in Green Lake. If anybody is interested in meeting up, let me know via email. I have a couple different projects I'm working on, if you are looking for inspiration, or I am willing to help with probably just about anything you are working on, especially if it involves some of the topics above. It would also be fun to just work on our own individual projects and just bounce ideas off each other.
