Boulder Python, April 2017
Details
Attendees MUST also RSVP via EventBrite for Twitter:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-python-meetup-tickets-33501010424?aff=erelpanelorg
6:30pm, Beginner's Track
Jim Walker, giving a talk on building classes in Python and double-underscore functions we commonly use with them.
6:55pm, Sponsor shout-outs, meetup announcements, hiring announcements, mingle.
7:15pm, Intermediate/Advanced Talks
Emily Freeman, a developer at Wazee Digital is going to give us a talk that's a little different than we usually have at Boulder Python.
"Pythons, vipers, danger noodles. Snakes are known by many names. Come hear how awesome 'nope ropes' are — undulatory locomotion?! — and what they can teach us about engineering."
Neal McBurnett, a Pythonic Data Scientist, is going to give us a talk about "Fire", a tool written by Google to produce command-line capable applications.
We might squeeze in a third talk, TBD.
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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 Manny 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")
