Boulder Python, December 2016

More details to come.

You must RSVP on EventBrite for Twitter's meetup space: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-python-meetup-december-2016-tickets-29462619488

6:30pm, beginner's track:
Joe Mann, introduction to software testing in Python.

7:00pm onward:
Meet & Greet
Reserved time for our Sponsors, meetup announcements, hiring announcements.
Regular talks:
Scott Vitale, Using Celery to process API calls in Django
(rescheduled to January) John Dennison, Python and Kafka
Vincent Buscarello, Flask and Django as compliments

We need to vacate Twitter's space by 8:30pm.

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We can always use more volunteers to share a 15min-20min talk at future meetups. Contact Ian or Erin ASAP.

We have many people who are very interested in hearing about the following topics:

• data processing (pandas, jupyter)
• data visualization, plotting
• personal projects that other attendees are building
• desktop app development (Qt, wxWidgets, Kivy, etc)
• framework-specific topics (Flask, Django, Mezzanine)
• hosting platforms (App Engine/GCP, Azure, Heroku, etc)
• development tools, advanced setups
• testing tools (mocking libraries, Splinter/Selenium, etc)
• package-specific talks (sqlalchemy, cartopy, etc)
• web scraping (Requests, BeautifulSoup, etc)
• parallel processing
• lessons learned
• IoT, Raspberry Pi, etc
• automation topics like Mechanize, Ansible, Fabric
• socket programming
• static web site generators
• devops/sysadmin/monitoring with Python
• math-related topics such as SciPy, encryption
• database-related topics
• integrations with UI front end (handling ajax, jwt, etc)
• effective project mgmt using GitHub
• alternate Python versions (micropython, PyPy, cython)
• this vs that topics (ie, "Flask vs Falcon")