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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

PYPTUG Monthly meeting "Seeking Exotics" May 30th

Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (May 30th 2017) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.

What

Meeting will start at 6:00pm.

We will open on an Intro to PYPTUG and on how to get started with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.

Main Talk: "Seeking Exotics"

by Francois Dion, Data Scientist, Inmar Inc.

Abstract:

Medicare payments, UPC code descriptions, fertility rate and fires. All of it is data, some of which is erroneous and some of which is anomalous. Seeking Exotics introduces the audience to the world of outliers and anomaly detection through the use of metrics, visualizations and open source machine learning tools.

Lightning talks!

We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.

When

Tuesday, May 30th 2017Meeting starts at 6:00PM

Where

Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:
Manchester Hall

room: Manchester 241

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Map this

And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:

"Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit."

Mailing List

Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.

RSVP on meetup:

meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/238568416/

Friday, February 17, 2017

PYPTUG Monthly Meeting Feb. 28th (new python stuff, c, c++ and fortran)

Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (February 28th 2017) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.

What

Meeting will start at 6:00pm.

We will open on an Intro to PYPTUG and on how to get started with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.

We will cover briefly some of the new features found in Python 3.6 (and maybe one or two in Python 3.5 you might not have discovered yet).

Then on to the main talk. Philip Semanchuk will help us to be polyglot programmers.

Main Talk: Python, C, C++, and Fortran Relationship Status: It’s Not That Complicated

by Philip Semanchuk of PySpoken LLC

Bio:

I started writing BASIC on a TRS-80 and have been building software ever since using everything from C to Visual Basic to Python. For the past several years, I’ve been a freelancer focused on Python, especially where it meets C and other compiled languages but also for Django work. Some of my clients are Fortune 50 companies and others have just a handful of employees.
In the past, I have given talks at PyCarolinas, PyOhio, PyData, and the Triangle Python Users Group. This is my first opportunity to speak to the Python Piedmont Triad UG, and I’m grateful for the invitation.
Currently I’m using Python to perform etymology-focused lexical analysis. It’s a subject I know very little about, so I’m glad NLTK exists to hold my hand! Later this year I hope to use Python to collect data from a photovoltaic solar system that’s installed where I live.

You can learn more about me at http://PySpoken.com where I also have a blog (http://blog.PySpoken.com)

Abstract:

One of Python’s strengths is that it can use code written in compiled languages like C, Fortran and C++.

This talk gives an overview of your many options for getting Python to call and exchange data with code written in a compiled language. The goal is to make attendees aware of choices they may not know they have, and when to prefer one over another.

Lightning talks!

Some are already lined up.

When

Tuesday, February 28th 2017
Meeting starts at 6:00PM

Where

Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:

Manchester Hall
room: Manchester 241

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Map this

And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:

Mailing List

Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.

RSVP on meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/237328563/

Friday, September 11, 2015

Coming to our senses for Project Night Winston Salem - Sept 16th

Raspberry Pi Sense Hat, that is.

Continuing the UAV quadcopter project. We have an assembled frame, one frame ready to be assembled, we have micro sd cards ready to be flashed with different distros (we need to choose).

I also have a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat on hand! (see:https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-sense-hat-headgear-for-the-terminally-curious/) It is an amazing piece of tech, available for only $30 and it includes a gyro, compass, accelerometer, air pressure sensor, humidity and temperature and even a tiny joystick and 8x8 RGD led matrix. But wait, there is more, if you call in the next 5 minutes... :)

Seriously, there is more, an atmel microcontroller (an arduino basically) that is wired through i2c. And that can be reprogrammed on the fly from the raspberry pi... Which is basically the architecture we wanted to design for controlling the UAV!

If your interest doesn't lie in UAVs:

Do you have a project you want to show off? Or do you need a second set of eyes on your code? Would you like to hack on an open source project? Perhaps you need help getting a module on a specific platform? Don't have a project but would like to help others or to learn more Python?
Whatever the case may be, project nights are your opportunity to get some help or to help others, so bring your laptop (or Raspberry Pi or whatever device that can run Python) and let's get things going

As always, plenty of projects to work on, mentoring available and interesting conversations.

When

This meeting will be on Wednesday, September 16 at 6pm in the Dash room at Inmar:

Where

Inmar

635 Vine St,
Room 1130H "Dash"
Winston-Salem, NC

RSVP

http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/224796370/

Friday, October 31, 2014

November Project Night

Winston Salem project night

This event is also on our meetup page:
http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/213803772/

As always, it will be the 3rd Wednesday of the month. That's the 19th of November at 6pm.

When

3rd Wednesday of the month, 6pm
November 19 2014

Where

Inmar

635 Vine St,
Room 1130H "Dash"
Winston-Salem, NC

This will be at the Inmar building in downtown Winston Salem.

What

Don Jennings will also continue our feature of our monthly project nights:

The Newbie Corner

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

PYPTUG Meeting - September 29th

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meeting

Come join PYPTUG at out next meeting (September 29th 2014) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without.

What

Meeting will start at 5:30pm.

We will open on an Intro to PYPTUG and on how to get started with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.

This month we will have two talks!

Talk #1

by Delphine Masse

Title: "Alembic for database version control"

Bio: Delphine is a python software engineer at Inmar working on APIs and B2B applications. Previous to working at Inmar she was developing website solutions for the pharmaceutical industry on LAMP stack with PHP. Her academic background includes computer science and biology and interests range from data mining to UI optimization.

Abstract: Managing databases manually in multiple environments can quickly become a headache. Alembic is a python package that allows to formalize each database change and to apply those changes consistently across multiple environments. I will go over the use of Alembic with MySQL as well as some "gotchas" and how to best handle them.

Talk #2

by Paul Pauca

Title: "Assistive Technologies for the Disabled"

Bio: Dr. Paul Pauca is an Associate Professor at Wake Forest. He is interested in the application of computer science to the benefit of society, particularly in the use of technology to assist the disabled.

Abstract: Dr. Pauca will introduce some of his recent research projects in developing highly affordable modern technology that can bridge the interaction gap between computers and people with physical and cognitive disabilities The goal of his research group is to exploit recent advancements in machine learning, computer vision, and human computer interaction to use the person’s body as the interface between the computer and the brain, thereby reducing or eliminating the limiting effects of conventional interface devices.

Lightning talks!

We might have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.

When

Monday, September 29th 2014
Meeting starts at 5:30PM

Where

Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:

Manchester Hall
room: Manchester 241

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Map this

See also this campus map (PDF) and also the Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)

And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:

Mailing List

Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.

Meetup Group

In order to get a feel for how much food we'll need, we ask that you register your attendance to this meeting on meetup:

http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/ddlvxgysmbmc/

Thursday, January 17, 2013

PYPTUG meeting - January 28th

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meeting

Come join PYPTUG at out next meeting (January 28th 2013) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without.

What

Meeting room will be open at 5:00pm, giving some time to settle down, meet and greet and to talk Python.

We will officially start the meeting at 5:30pm.

After PYPTUG introductions and related news, we will have various presentations. The main talk this month will be of interest for all those who are ASP.NET or C# programmers looking to expand their tool set, and all those who use Windows for Python development or deployment:

CPython with Visual Studio

Will Sams will talk about Python development under Windows, using Python Tools for Visual Studio.

Lightning talks!

Some time is allocated for lightning talks. Already committed for the 28th:

Python(X,Y) - to be confirmed
There and back again: Remote Processes via Paramiko - Ryan Twombly
Real world connections - Don Jennings
Brython: Python Utopia? - Francois Dion

If you want to give one (you can choose a 5 or 10 minutes lightning talk), do let us know as soon as possible on the PYPTUG mailing list (we ask PYPTUG members to also join this list):

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

Some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration.

We'll then wrap up the meeting.

When

Monday, January 28th 2013
Auditorium open at 5pm, meet and greet
Meeting starts 5:30PM until 7:30PM at the latest

Where

Note the change of venue this month, the Kernersville location was not available. It is still close to High Point and Greensboro, near I-40 / US-52:

Winston Salem Southside Library
Auditorium

3185 Buchanan Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
(336) 703-2980

Map this

It is close to the I-40 and Peters Creek (and US-52 too). If you take
the Silas Creek exit on I-40, turn left on Buchanan and go up until
you get to the library on the left. If you are on Peters Creek Pkwy, turn
on Brewer (on the side where Parkland High School is) and veer left on
Buchanan. Library is on the right.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

PYPTUG November meeting hg repository

The November PYPTUG meeting was very nice, and we had a nice location. The conference room was full of antique furniture (chairs, couches, desks, libraries). The laptops and projector didn't even feel out of place, strangely enough.

webpy presentation

web.py - the antiframework framework

The code for this month's PYPTUG meeting (Monday, the 26th of November), is available on bitbucket. More specifically, the code for the web.py talk. This is good background information for those who will attend PyHack Workshop #03 in January.

Solid Hg

Assuming you already have mercurial:

$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/fdion/pyptug

It is in the webpy directory.

The presentation is under pyptug/webpy/diapos (from diapositive, the original word describing what are now known as slides). The file is: presentation.html

Diapositive

In case somebody wants to generate similar slide shows:

It is generated from the file slides.md, which is markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ and then you run it through landslide ( http://adamzap.com/random/landslide.html ) and it'll generate an html file for you. There are other, more advanced programs that do more fancy animations, but this will run pretty much on any browser, and any computer (in other words, it runs on a Raspberry Pi, no problem).

When / if screencasts are available, I'll post them to the blog. I'll check with David if the iPython notebook is on bitbucket, and if so I'll post that link too.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

PYPTUG getting social

We are all very sociable in person. Just come and see for yourself at our next meeting. And we shortened our url so it would be easier to remember.

But, some prefer getting their links through twitter. So, as of today, we are ...

On twitter

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group is now on twitter:
@pyptug

Talk about us with #pyptug

And also on...

Planet.python.org

Your favorite aggregation of all that is python is probably the above. We should now be part of that feed.

Public calendar

We've also made a google calendar available for our events:

PYPTUG GROUP Calendar

Just in time for tomorrow's meeting where we will talk about iPython, web.py and possibly some lightning talks.

What next?

All of that beside our google group / mailing list, and this blog. Did we miss something? Let us know.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

PYPTUG meeting - November 26th

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meeting

Come join PYPTUG at out next meeting (November 26th 2012) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without.

What

Meeting room will be open at 5:30pm, giving some time to settle down, meet and greet. We will start with an introduction to PYPTUG at 5:45pm.

David Mitchell will do an extended presentation on iPython (http://ipython.org)

Some time is allocated for lightning talks. If you want to give one (5 or 10 minutes), do let us know as soon as possible on the PYPTUG mailing list (we ask PYPTUG members to also join this list):

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

Francois Dion will conclude on building Web applications (and other types) with Web.py (http://webpy.org)

When

Monday, November 26th 2012
5:30PM - 7:30PM

Where

We chose a relatively central location for our members:

Kernersville Branch Library
Lower Level Conference Room
130 E. Mountain St.
Kernersville, NC 27284

This is at the corner of Main and Mountain st.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

sysPython Workshop

For the past few weeks we've been working on a workshop for network and system administrators, data center, devops, apps administrators, ops managers, QA, continuous integration and deployment etc. Everything outside of your typical application development.

Make sure you are signed up to our mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

We will announce very soon the place and date. It should be finalized by tuesday, the 6th. Like PyHack, It will be a recurring workshop, with the subjects on rotation.

However, I'd like also to point out that this is a community effort, so get involved. If you would like to participate, offer a "field trip" to your place of employment and do a presentation on a sysPython theme, get in touch. The more content for sysPython, the less rotation we will do.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

PyCarolinas 2012

PyCarolinas 2012 is happening on October 20 and 21st. Mark your calendars!

When:

October 20th-21st

Where:

Kerr Hall

UNC EshelmanSchool of Pharmacy
Chapel Hill, NC
What:
PyCarolinas' website

Friday, August 17, 2012

PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group

Welcome to PYPTUG!

This is the Python programming language user group for the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, USA (PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group, or PYPTUG). This group was informally started in 2011, where meetings were between a few friends around lunch, and code was written on paper napkins. The group got into gear through a presentation at the PyCarolinas conference in 2012, and we've been having monthly meetings

To post to the PYPTUG mailing list, send your email to: pyptug@googlegroups.com

General information about the mailing list is at: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en

This list is moderated, with posting only for members. Discussion has to be on topic, related to Python in some form. Even if you are not planning to attend meetings in person, you are encouraged to join and contribute to the community.

Why PYPTUG

Our goal is to promote and advance computing, electronics and science in general in North Carolina using the Python programming language, and through workshops and project nights where people can learn, get help and mentor others. A secondary goal is to make you, the artist, the engineer, the investor, the manager, the programmer, the scientist, the teacher, better at your job.

Why Python

Short answer? Why not.

Slightly longer answer? It is almost english pseudo code, with barely any symbols to obscure readability. It can pretty much do anything that is possible to do with a computer, plus it scales on both side, for the machine and the human.

At one end of the spectrum, it can be used to teach programming to a young child using a $20 computer without the burden of functional or object orientation and boilerplate code, and at the other end, it can be used on high performance clusters following OO or functional patterns with a very large team of top notch programmers.

And that is the range of your typical visitors at a PYPTUG meeting, from less than 12 years of age, to retired, from artists to hackers, from individuals to teams working in large corporations, with projects ranging from deep sea exploration to beyond the stratosphere, and from recording music to automated buying and selling of stocks.

Hence, why Python.

So come and check us out, every month on the 3rd Wednesday and last Monday. See our meetup page for what is coming up :

http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG.