Hi Steve, I'm working on a new project in Python. I'll come by Zoka @ 2. See you there.
Ingy On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Steve Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > >
