The only topics I can speak about at this time are the dill serialisation module (a better pickle) and SciPy 2014. Unfortunately I am not as well prepared as I should be but I don't want to cancel.

I do have a high quality talk on time management prepared for a Toastmasters presentation which unfortunately has little to do with Python. It's only about 6 minutes though.

Perhaps we should treat this Friday as a working session. I want to spend some time investigating Jedi integration for Emacs https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jedi/

One thing we could discuss as a group is a project-based intermediate Python workshop.
https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/intermediate-python-workshop-wrap-up/

"The goals are two-fold:

1. Develop and playtest a bunch of novel projects with which intermediate Python programmers can practice their skills. This material would be available online under a permissive license for the whole Python community to reuse and remix.
2. Provide an opportunity for Boston Python Workshop alums and other beginner-to-intermediate programmers to practice together at their own pace with the support of experienced mentors."

Jessica Mckellar runs the very successful Boston Python User Group and has organized some curricula so we could adapt some of her material. http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2013/08/congratulations-to-jessica-mckellar.html