== Meeting: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 == * Time: 6-8 PM
* Location: Churchill Navigation, in their spiffy new office at 100 Arapahoe Ave, Suite 10, all the way at the end, in Boulder, Colorado. There is abundant parking. * Tom Churchill and Vinny Fiano will demo Churchill Navigation's earth-rendering engine (which looks like Google Earth, only apparently even better and faster ;) ). Vinny (their main Python guy) will explain how they built the glue logic (and why they decided against SWIG) and perhaps some of the implications of using Python as a scripting language in a real-time (60 fps) environment, and the techniques we employed to keep the graphics pipeline from stalling when making an expensive call into their engine from Python. * Brian Granger from Tech-X will help us think more deeply about concurrent Python programming, especially as seen in a new version of IPython. * BoulderSprint. We had a great sprint on Jython, focusing on design. Momentum is really building, Jython might actually get the love that Charles Oliver Nutter of JRuby proposed. More interestingly, there's a chance for people in the dynamic language community to work together on JVM implementations. We will talk about the next sprint to be held on Saturday, February 3. We will have food & drink available. Hope to see you there! For more information: http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
