We will be having our regular PyGTA meeting at our regular time (7:15 on
the 19th) and place (Linux Caffe) this month. Please note that *next*
month (June 2009) we'll be meeting on the 17th (a Wednesday) as our
speaker for June is not available on Tuesdays. Linux Caffe is at the
corner of Grace and Harbord streets, 1 block South of Christie subway
station.
Tuesday, May 19th:
Software Liability Round Table (Open Discussion)
Proposals are afoot in the EU to make companies liable for the
software they write. What would you need to accept liability for
the software you write? Would you be willing to contribute software
to an Open Source project if you could be sued when someone else
broke it? What level of warranty would you be willing to give for
your software ("Money Back" or "Damages" or "Damages and Loss of
Bussiness")? Is liability even a good idea? Would it stifle
innovation? Would it be workable for your business?
What benefits would you get out of warranties? Is there a service
or testing methodology you feel would let you provide warranties
better/cheaper/faster than others? Would an exception raised to the
user constitute a "money back" event? Or would you have to fail to
repair the software? Does "repairing" include making your software
work with changing dependencies? What contracts or requirements
would you need to be comfortable being a contract software developer?
Wednesday, June 17th:
Behdad Esfahbod will be presenting on how to use the Cairo rendering
library from Python. Cairo is a vector graphics library that allows
for targetting multiple graphical back-ends including OpenGL,
X-windows, OSX Quartz, Win32, PDF, PNG etceteras. It is used in the
Firefox and WebKit engines as well as the GTK library.
Note the change in day-of-week!
Tuesday, July 21st (tentative):
Robert Jackiewicz of the Toronto Plone User's group will be
presenting the zc.buildout package. Buildout is a tool for creating
redistributable Python applications which is used extensively by the
Zope and Plone communities. It is a "recipe" based engine for
reproducing a set of modules and application code onto a number of
machines.
http://www.pygta.org/
Enjoy yourselves,
Mike
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Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
http://www.vrplumber.com
http://blog.vrplumber.com
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