[HLUG] Conferences: GUADEC, PyCON

[Jeff Tupholme]

I'll probably go along. I'm using Python a lot but I've gradually  
drifted into it so I think I have something to learn about the state  
of the art! The whole weekend is about £100 including accommodation.


Jeff


On 8 Jul 2007, at 8:42pm, tundish wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> @Julian: Did you get any response to your post about GUADEC?
> Are you still planning to go?
>
> @Everyone: There's another, tangentially relevant event coming up in
> Birmingham soon; the very first UK Python conference, on the 8th/9th
> September at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
>
> For those who don't know, Python is one of those dynamically bound
> scripting languages (see also Perl and Ruby). It actually runs on both
> Windows and Linux, but being open source, it's been heavily adopted  
> into
>  most Linux distributions and often plays a role in system
> administration, package management, etc. Python is a great choice  
> for an
> application of any size.
>
> It happens to be my favourite programming language at the moment  
> and I'm
> seriously thinking of going to the conference. Does anyone fancy  
> coming
> along?
>
> "Early bird" registration closes at the end of this month, so  
> you've got
> a fortnight to decide. You can find all the details here at
> http://www.pyconuk.org/
>
> By the way, if you want to have a play with Python, you might be  
> able to
> help debug some of my code! I've just released a message broker under
> the GPL; it's written entirely in Python. You can find it here:
> http://www.thuswise.org/sprinkle/index.html
>
> If anyone can spare the time, please try downloading and testing the
> application. Every bug squished is one step further towards getting  
> Free
> Software in use with UK business.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.