Scott is going to share with us how to extend Python via C/C++.

We need Scott to confirm this but I believe he is going to begin with basic inclusion of Python.h, and then move up to more abstracted methods of extension, such as stub generation tools.

I could conceivably provide examples in Perl and Java for comparison, if required.

Ian will give a short presentation and lead a discussion about building custom Django forms with non-trivial validation code.
Formset usage will also be covered.

Scott may be presenting a talk on extensions in C.

Andrzej might show up with some hardware for his home energy dashboard project.

Brenda will present a short introduction to the Byteflow blogging software, which makes use of Django.

Scott is going to enlighten us on sphinx, a Python documentation tool suite based on reStructured Text.

I am going to give a quick overview of Python's multiprocessing module and how I am currently using it to provide a Twisted-based web service.

Ian is going to tell us about what's coming in Django 1.1 appearing on a mirror near you soon.

If you are using the standard database-backed session store, and are making use of transactions, there is an issue that you can run into in Django if you are managing your transactions manually.

I will outline and problem, and a few solutions, including the one I chose.

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python

Ian will talk about Urwid's new High colour support and new main event loops including Twisted and GTK.

See topic. :)

Having worked with Django in the front-end and the back-end, I ran into concurrency issues very quickly. I'll quickly go over how I solved them using PostgreSQL as the database, via transactions and locking.

It is an early solution, so your comments are welcome to help me improve it, as I am by no means a PostgreSQL expert.

I've been using Git now for a while, and I am working on a talk internal to the company that I work for to introduce them to it. I'd like to try out the public parts of the talk on the OPAG group, and provide some comparisons to Mercurial, since I did introduce Hg a while back.

If there is a Bazaar expert about, I wouldn't mind some comparison there either.

While Django is a wonderful framework for web applications, often back-end work must be done to keep those applications running. I will introduce some techniques that I am using to work with the Django models directly from back-end Python scripts to perform maintenance, and automate some tasks in my current project.

While nothing special is required of any web framework to make use of AJAX-based features, Django is actually well-suited to supporting AJAX. While it won't write your code for you, thanks to frameworks like Prototype, it's really not difficult to make use of AJAX in a variety of ways.

I will demonstrate some of what I've done so far in this respect.

Peter will give an overview of the new features in Python 3.0.

• Metaclasses in Python 3000
• Function Annotations
• Extended Iterable Unpacking
  
• Advanced String Formatting
• Class Decorators

From the Scapy website:

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more.

Peter will give an overview of Scapy.

I've developed a very small sketching application for a tablet PC. The first prototype was grown using wx, the second and current prototype was re-written in pygtk. In this talk I'll try to describe some of the differences I've noticed.

At Mitel, I work full-time on a Linux server and its applications, the configuration of which is handled via a web interface.

I am in the process of migrating the existing Perl framework to one using Python and Django, and I plan to talk about the challenges I've had so far, and the solutions I've come up with, in having to push Django into a legacy environment such as this, as opposed to a brand new site.

Andrew Francis will discuss how he used Stackless Python and the Twisted Network Framework in the construction of his Python-based WS-BPEL (Web Services - Business Process Execution Language) processor "Stagehand."

I will give an overview of how the OPAG website was rebuilt to use Django.

I hope to cover:

• installation of Django (quickly)
• configuration for development inside an SCM system (I used Mercurial)
• use different databases in development and deployment
• deployment with mod_python