Boulder Python, January 2017

Please RSVP on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-python-meetup-tickets-30863653017

6:30pm, beginner's track: Vince will give an intro on Python Decorators, "Bring Out the Inner Beauty of Drab Functions"

7:00pm, reserved time for our Sponsors, meetup announcements, hiring announcements.

7:15pm, regular talks:

Todd will be giving a talk about Python and IoT

There's one spot open if anyone's interested in giving a 15-min talk otherwise we'll end early for this month.

--- 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")