Auckland Python Meetup

1. How UX Can Improve Your Python Project — Charlotte & Grant Paton-Simpson
2. Xenolab: Rasp Pi Carnivorous Plant Monitor — Alain

📌 You will need to register your ticket at
https://events.python.nz/m-akl-2510/

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Python talks! Python people! Discussions from how to start learning Python through to debugging your robot pirate spaceship avionics controller library.
If all goes well there will also be pizza and drinks.

• We meet every first Monday of a month at 6pm.
• 📌 Space is limited at the venue, so please only register (it's free) if you really intend to come.
  Also, as we will aim to provide some food and drinks, this will help us manage amounts and avoid waste. Thank you!
• Join our Slack channel `#meetup-auckland` on the Python New Zealand Slack to stay up to date, interact with others or help with upcoming events.
• Python New Zealand's Code of Conduct applies to all Python New Zealand events and participants agree to abide by it.

Maybe you?
All presentations are by members of our Python community - people like yourself!
First time speakers are absolutely welcome.
If you'd like to present at one of the next meetups, please fill out this form and we will help schedule you in.

1. How UX Can Improve Your Python Project — Charlotte & Grant Paton-Simpson
Making code for other people to use is hard work. We have to think about bugs, performance, integration, maintainability, and much more.
Making user-friendly code is just one of the many priorities competing for time. In the case of the SOFA Stats Python library, user experience is not a nice-to-have. To be successful, SOFA Stats needs to reach beyond the Python community and be usable by people with very modest technical skills. Which is where UX makes a valuable contribution. UX has a systematic hyper-focus on the people the code is intended for, and how to provide them with the best possible experience.
For this project, four persona were identified: students, educators, developers, and code contributors. Clarity about target
users is crucial to avoid the natural tendency to develop software for people like ourselves. Charlotte and Grant will talk will explain how UX techniques were used, and what changed in the SOFA Stats library as a result. Maybe you will be inspired to use UX to improve your own project.

2. Xenolab: Rasp Pi Carnivorous Plant Monitor — Alain
The Xenolab Rasp Pi Monitor is a semi-autonomous biosurveillance module engineered for the precise care and observation of exotic carnivorous flora.