Boulder Python, February 2017

Please make sure to RSVP on Eventbrite (Twitter requires this): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-python-meetup-tickets-31695353656

6:30pm, Beginner's Track

"Learning some simple Python while building a Flask web application" by Ian Douglas (https://twitter.com/iandouglas736) 7:00pm, Sponsor shout-outs, meetup announcements, hiring announcements.

7:15pm, Intermediate/Advanced Talks:

"Scraping comic images" by Wahhab Baldwin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wahhab-baldwin-0a963027) "Python Gotchas, Tips and Tricks" by Ben Cordova (https://twitter.com/bencordova) Join the conversation! We hang out in #meetup-python and #help-python on the Denver Devs Slack Community (https://join.denverdevs.org/).

We're always looking for future speakers. Contact Ian, Scott or Erin if you're interested.

If you're having trouble coming up with a talk, here's a few topics/ideas we'd like to incorporate:

• 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")