Pythoneers Monthly Meeting: This Wednesday, December 20, in Boulder, Colorado

Important Change: we will be meeting at bivio Software instead of Jill's to better accommodate this month's demos.

This coming Wednesday (December 20) we are having our monthly meeting for the Front Ranage Pythoneers. Come join a lively discussion of Python demos, features, tips & techniques, and directions, both for fun and professional development.

Here are the meeting specifics:

• Date/time: Wednesday, December 20, 6-8 PM
  
• Location: bivio Software, Inc., 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. Google Maps link
• Tom Churchill and Vinny will demo Churchill Navigation's earth-rendering engine (which looks like Google Earth, only apparently even better and faster ;) ). Vinny (their main Python guy) will explain how they built the glue logic (and why they decided against SWIG) and perhaps some of the implications of using Python as a scripting language in a real-time (60 fps) environment, and the techniques we employed to keep the graphics pipeline from stalling when making an expensive call into their engine from Python.
• Brian Granger from Tech-X will help us think more deeply about concurrent Python programming, especially as seen in a new version of IPython he has been working on.
  
• BoulderSprint. Eric Dobbs proposed we adopt Jython, and this looks like we have enough momentum to actually get some useful work done. We will talk about the upcoming sprint to be held on Saturday, January 6.
  

We will have food & drink available. Did I mention the free beer? Hope to see you there.

- Jim