ChiPy (Special) Meeting, Tuesday 14th 5:30 pm.

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NOTE: This is a special meeting on next Tuesday in addition to our
normal Thursday meeting. Attend both, if you can. 

Tuesday. November 14 2006. 5:30 pm. 

Topics
--

Ed Leaf on Dabo is an open-source framework for developing desktop
(i.e., rich client) applications in Python. 

Details
===

Dabo is an open-source framework for developing desktop (i.e., rich
client) applications in Python. Its primary target is the group of
developers who come from a background in the proprietary
Microsoft-centric tools, such as Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, but it
also targets Delphi, Filemaker, and other desktop application
development systems who want rich client applications that run
unmodified on Windows, Linux and OS X.

The focus of the talk will be on the visual tools available in Dabo to
help you quickly develop serious database applications in Python. Parts
of the talk will also be directed toward existing wxPython developers
who love the results of working with that UI toolkit, but who hate the
non-Pythonic interface. 


Location


Monadnock Building at 53 W. Jackson in downtown Chicago: 
Conference Room 826.

Alternatively, if we need more space, we will relocate to the restaurant
on the first floor: http://www.cavanaughschicago.com. We will leave a
note with the gaurd in case we relocate.

RSVP to carl at personnelware.com  

Stay tuned to the mailing list for more details. 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago


About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

ChiPy website: 
ChiPy Mailing List: 
Python website: 

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ChiPy Monthly Meeting, Thursday 7:00 pm.

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Thursday November 9 2006. 7:00 pm.

This may be our best meeting yet. This is our regular Thurs. meeting. In
addition stay tuned for a special meeting to welcome Ed Leafe 
http://chipy.org/EdOnDabo.

Please ping the list to tell us what you want to address in your
lightning talk. Lets try to get one talk from each brave soul for about
5 minutes
a piece.

Topics
--

- Python Mock Library - fawad
- Web log generation and parsing
- lightning talks

Location


Daisychain - 2159 W 21st Pl, Chicago il 60608 http://www.dai5ychain.net/
map - http://tinyurl.com/ybdcxb

About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

ChiPy website: 
ChiPy Mailing List: 
Python website: 

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Chicago Python User Group Thurs October 12, 2006

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Thurs. October 12th, 2006. 7pm.

This will be our best meeting, yet.

David Beasley http://www.dabeaz.com, software developer, writer, and
jazz musician will present on PLY. It's 100% Python and very cool. Do
not miss this one!

Topics
--

* PLY (Python Lex Yacc) David Beazley
* Performance Python (without PyPy) Michael Tobis

Location


Performics 
180 N. Lasalle 12th floor. Chicago
RSVP (for building security) by Tuesday night to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with subject "RSVP Chipy"

After the storm
---

A group may be heading off to catch the snake's tail end of
Tech-cocktail 2 after the meeting and open discussion. We are not
affilated with Tech-cocktail 2, so you must also RSVP



About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

ChiPy website: 
ChiPy Mailing List: 
Python website: 

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Zenoss Version 0.22.3 Available

[Drew Bray]

09-18-2006

Announcing Zenoss Version 0.22.3

All,

Version 0.22.3 of Zenoss is available for download. Version 0.22.3 is  
a dot release of version 0.22.0, which added several new features,  
including:

* Support for Nagios Plugins (zenagios)
* Addition of a GUI for the selection of Alerting Rules
* Adds Email alerts with configurable body text
* Automated maintenance windows
* Allows the assignment of users to the systems they manage

Zenoss Version 0.22.3 provides several minor bug fixes and  
enhancements, including:

* Use of latin-1 encoding when calling xml-rpc
* Improved handling of Unicode items
* Repaired bad zenagios heartbeat timeout
* Corrected zenagios unpack of config (component and eventKey were  
backward)
* Take off newline when reading configfile values
* Fixed additional date-time zone problems

Download Links:
* Source: http://www.zenoss.org/download/latest/src
* Zenwin: http://www.zenoss.org/download/latest/zenwin
* Documentation: http://www.zenoss.org/download/latest/docs
* Release Notes: http://www.zenoss.org/download/latest/relnotes

Project Blurb:
Zenoss is Python-based, network/systems monitoring application that  
offers a single integrated package for end to end monitoring  
(discovery, configuration, availability, performance, events, alerts)  
of resources across the stack (servers, applications, networks,  
environment, etc...).

Zenoss was recognized as one of the "Top 10 Open Source Projects to  
Watch" by Network World in August of 2006.  (http://www.zenoss.org/ 
about/news_items/articles/nw-10towatch)

Zenoss is currently hiring talented Zope & Python developers.  Join  
the team!
http://www.zenoss.org/jobs.

Enjoy,

Drew
Project Zenoss
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ANN: ChiPy Thurs. September 14, 2006. 7pm @ Google, Chicago

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Chicago Python User Group
=

Come join us for our best meeting ever!

Topics
--

* Google Code (Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman)
* Trac + Subversion + doctests (Garrett Smith)
* Special method names for operator overloading (Brian Ray)

Location


Google's Chicago office
20 West Kinzie Street, 9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610

Location description:
"18 story glass and steel building on the Northwest corner of Dearborn
and Kinzie."
"Across the street from Harry Carey's"
"Upstairs from Keefer's restaurant"

* Map 

Enter via the lobby on the South side of the building, between Keefer's
restaurant and Keefer's cafe.

Street (meter) parking is kinda sorta available in the area. Garage and
lot parking is also available Southwest and East of our building.

 1. The closest "L" stop is Grand on the Red Line and Clark/Lake on the
 "Blue/Green/Orange/Brown/Purple Line". (All are about an 8 minute walk
 from Google)
 2. The closest Metra station is the Ogilvie Transportation Center (in
 the Citibank building) (about 20 minutes walk or take the Riverbus)
 3. The closest River Bus stop is at Michigan Avenue (By the Wrigley
 Building at 2 North Riverside Plaza.
 () ;-)
 4. The nearest helipad is at the mouth of the river, near Navy Pier. 
 Obtain security clearance before landing.

*** A Special Note from Fitz::

  I'm going to need a list of all people attending to give to building
  security, so if you're thinking of coming, please send me your name
  (just to me--use my fitz at google dot com address please).

About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

ChiPy website: 
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ChiPy Chicago Python User Group Meeting Tomorrow

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This will be our best meeting yet! ChiPy's Monthly meeting this Thurs.
August 10, 2006. 7pm. (except for folks who want to help setup at 6:30
and get first dibs on
pizza-compliments of Uncle Roy (Singham))

Topics
--

* Adrian Holovaty's new Django Add-on for quickly publishing websites.
* John Melesky on AppScript
* Sir Galahad on Python 2.5 (beta 3) in a nutshell
* BarCamp review and hangovers
* Lighting talks: MD5, ...

Location


ThoughtWorks' Chicago office
651 West Washington Blvd., 6th floor
Chicago, IL 60661

Location description:
"6 story, brick building on the Southwest corner of Washington Blvd. and
Desplaines St."
"Right next to the 90/94 freeway"
"Across the street from the Social Security building"

* Map 
* "Official" info 

Call jason at 3 1 2 - 3 7 3 . 8 5 5 6 if you get locked out or lost.
(The external doors should be open, but be sure to enter on the "east"
side (Desplaines)

Street (meter) parking is available in the area. Shoot for "free" (no
meters) parking on the South side of the building if you're lucky. And
be sure to feed those meters; Brother Leader Daley collects tons of cash
from meter fines in this area. Garage parking is also available across
the street (technically across the interstate) at the very tall
SkyBridge condo building.

1) The closest "L" stop is Clinton on the "Green Line". (About an 8
minute walk from TW.)
2) The closest Metra station is the Ogilvie Transportation Center (in
the Citibank Building) 2 blocks east of TW. (a 4 minute walk)
3) The closest water taxi stop is at Madison Street Bridge at 2 North
Riverside Plaza. () ;-)
4) I can't find good info on the nearest helipad. Sorry, Mr. Trump.
5) Besides garage parking at SkyBridge across the freeway and meter
parking around the building, there is additional garage parking at the
Presidential Towers at Jefferson & Madison. There are 2 non-garage
parking lots adjacent to our building. (I don't know the lots' "after
5pm" parking rules, though).  Theme: If you're addicted to oil, there
are lots of parking options within a short walk.


About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

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Re: Chicago Python Users Group Thurs May 11 at 7pm

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This will be our best meeting yet! ChiPy's Monthly meeting this Thurs.
May 11, 2006. 7pm.

(except for folks who want to help setup at 6:30 and get first dibs on
pizza)

Location


ThoughtWorks' Chicago office
651 West Washington Blvd., 6th floor
Chicago, IL 60661

Location description:
"6 story, brick building on the Southwest corner of Washington Blvd. and
Desplaines St."
"Right next to the 90/94 freeway"
"Across the street from the Social Security building"

* Map 
* "Official" info 

Call jason at 3 1 2 - 3 7 3 . 8 5 5 6 if you get locked out or lost.
(The external doors should be open, but be sure to enter on the "east"
side (Desplaines)

Street (meter) parking is available in the area. Shoot for "free" (no
meters) parking on the South side of the building if you're lucky. And
be sure to feed those meters; Brother Leader Daley collects tons of cash
from meter fines in this area. Garage parking is also available across
the street (technically across the interstate) at the very tall
SkyBridge condo building.

1) The closest "L" stop is Clinton on the "Green Line". (About an 8
minute walk from TW.)
2) The closest Metra station is the Ogilvie Transportation Center (in
the Citibank Building) 2 blocks east of TW. (a 4 minute walk)
3) The closest water taxi stop is at Madison Street Bridge at 2 North
Riverside Plaza. () ;-)
4) I can't find good info on the nearest helipad. Sorry, Mr. Trump.
5) Besides garage parking at SkyBridge across the freeway and meter
parking around the building, there is additional garage parking at the
Presidential Towers at Jefferson & Madison. There are 2 non-garage
parking lots adjacent to our building. (I don't know the lots' "after
5pm" parking rules, though).  Theme: If you're addicted to oil, there
are lots of parking options within a short walk.


Topics
--

* Selenium-testing-Django -- (Jason Huggins)
* Some lightning talks, crypt ...
* PyCon in Chicago in 2008, bid.


About ChiPy
---

ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

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Chicago Python Users Group Thurs April 13 at 7pm

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Learn, share, and have fun at ChiPy's Monthly meeting this Thurs,
April 13 at 7pm.

This is sure to be our best meeting yet.  Confirm your attendance: 
mtobis aat gmail doot com with "ChiPy April" in your subject line.

Headliners
--

*  httpy -- (Chad Whitacre) a sane and robust HTTP library.


*  SCons -- (Atul) Software construction via Python.


*  testosterone -- (Chad Whitacre) a curses-based testing interface.


Module of the Month
---

 * TBD in the near __future__ 

Location

At the historic Monadnock Building, which in the 1890s was the 
tallest building in the world.

That's 53 W Jackson Blvd, room 826.

Here's a map:



It's right on the blue line, and two blocks from the red line, and 
walking distance to all of the Metra termini.

Cheap parking is a few blocks away at State and Harrison, more 
expensive parking is immediately adjacent on Federal between Jackson 
and Van Buren. Take the Eisenhower all the way in until it turns into 
Congress, and you'll be right in the neighborhood. Turn right on 
State or left on Federal if you are looking for the cheap or the 
convenient recommended parking lots respectively.

***NOTE: PLEASE EMAIL mtobis aat gmail doot com with "ChiPy April" in 
your subject line to confirm your attendance.


About ChiPy
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ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

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Python website: 



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