[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek last call

2010-03-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi everyone,

PyWeek starts on Sunday at 00:00:00 UTC (don't forget that the clocks
change!). We have a team consisting of myself, Neil Perry and Daniel
Bell and we're on launchpad (http://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010), if
anyone else would like to join us, now is the time! There's a
scratchpad page at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010 we're we are
collecting our ideas. If you want to join us then join the launchpad
team and register at http://pyweek.org and ask me to add you to the
ubuntu-uk team. We might have some stiff competition from the London
Python Code Dojo team, who have 6 members so far (I've been meaning to
go to the code dojo on several occasions but never found the time,
London's just a bit too much effort to get to), but I'm sure we can
beat them with a bit of dedication!

I'll be hanging out on IRC in #ubuntu-uk all next week in the evenings
if you want to see how it's going.

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
 On 10 March 2010 10:00, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
 to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
 Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
 might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
 been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
 spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
 else interested?

 Thanks,
 Tom


Good to see we've got some interest in this. I've now created a team
at http://pyweek.org/e/ubuntu-uk/ so if you want to join you'll need
to register as a user and then send me your username so I can add you
to the team. It would be good to have a trial run before the
competition to see how we can collaborate. If anyone's got any ideas
that would be good, IRC, Gobby, a wiki etc. I was thinking of putting
up a small wiki page for people to give their availability. I'm only
available in the evenings for example.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Alan Pope
On 14 March 2010 20:11, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:
 Good to see we've got some interest in this. I've now created a team
 at http://pyweek.org/e/ubuntu-uk/ so if you want to join you'll need
 to register as a user and then send me your username so I can add you
 to the team. It would be good to have a trial run before the
 competition to see how we can collaborate. If anyone's got any ideas
 that would be good, IRC, Gobby, a wiki etc. I was thinking of putting
 up a small wiki page for people to give their availability. I'm only
 available in the evenings for example.

Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser
based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;)

http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/

If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new
document, just share the URL with people and you're off and running.

If you want a friendly-named pad then add the page name on the end like this:-

http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

..and it will prompt for new page creation. Then pass that URL around.

Massive thanks to Dave Walker for setting it up and maintaining it.

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 March 2010 20:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:

 Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser
 based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;)

 http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/

 If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new
 document, just share the URL with people and you're off and running.

 If you want a friendly-named pad then add the page name on the end like this:-

 http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

This page now exists. In terms of actually writing the code, I guess
we could have pages like: pyweek2010_main, pyweek2010_library etc.
given that we'll probably want more than one source file.


 ..and it will prompt for new page creation. Then pass that URL around.

As you suggested: http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010


 Massive thanks to Dave Walker for setting it up and maintaining it.

Indeed :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Daniel Bell
Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
of the code (a good advantage of the distributed version control) and use
the code-review and merge tools within launchpad to merge our changes into
the branch.

On 14 March 2010 21:14, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 14 March 2010 20:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
 
  Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser
  based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;)
 
  http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/
 
  If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new
  document, just share the URL with people and you're off and running.
 
  If you want a friendly-named pad then add the page name on the end like
 this:-
 
  http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

 This page now exists. In terms of actually writing the code, I guess
 we could have pages like: pyweek2010_main, pyweek2010_library etc.
 given that we'll probably want more than one source file.

 
  ..and it will prompt for new page creation. Then pass that URL around.

 As you suggested: http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

 
  Massive thanks to Dave Walker for setting it up and maintaining it.
 
 Indeed :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell daniel.b...@saraclan.com wrote:
 Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
 an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
 etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
 of the code (a good advantage of the distributed version control) and use
 the code-review and merge tools within launchpad to merge our changes into
 the branch.

Ok there's now a pyweek team on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010
and a pyweek project: https://launchpad.net/pyweek2010 (note the
subtle differences in URL.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Alan Pope
On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell daniel.b...@saraclan.com wrote:
 Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
 an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
 etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
 of the code (a good advantage of the distributed version control) and use
 the code-review and merge tools within launchpad to merge our changes into
 the branch.

Indeed, I wasn't suggesting coding directly in etherpad, more using it
as a tool in the arsenal.

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Bell
Also would like to add my interest here. I've been learning Python in my
spare time and would love to get involved in Pyweek. It just so happens that
we are on holiday from University that week, so count me in!

On 10 March 2010 10:00, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
 to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
 Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
 might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
 been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
 spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
 else interested?

 Thanks,
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[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi,

PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
else interested?

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Bagnall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi,

 PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
 to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
 Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
 might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
 been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
 spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
 else interested?

 Thanks,
 Tom

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 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/


My Python's a little rusty having not programmed anything bigger than small
automation scripts for a couple of years, but this sounds like a good way to
brush up and learn some new skills. Definitely interested.

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Simon Wears
Looks interesting. I might have to go learn Python for this, as it'll help
my portfolio.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Matthew Daubney wrote:
 Next year though I'll make a concerted effort to pitch in!

   

No need to wait until next year, it happens twice a year. The next one 
should be in September (by which time I'll have more time to contribute 
more myself).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-11 Thread gord

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:54 +, Alan Pope wrote:
 I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
 first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
 artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
 documentation roles to fill. 

I'd sure like to help, I have quite a bit of experience with
SDL/Opengl/GLSL, mostly in C and its been quite a while since i wrote
anything in python that wasn't some sort of quick system script but i
know enough to jump back into it with a library reference handy ;). 

i can't do graphics for crap though (making them in blender/gimp or
whatever), if we can get a graphics guy on board (2d/3d) we should
easily be able to make *something* in a week at least ;).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Daubney
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Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
 For information, I just found this message on the Pygame mailling list:
 
  Original Message 
 Subject: PyWeek 6 is coming!
 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:11:34 +1100
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general,gmane.comp.python.pygame
 
 PyWeek 6 will run from 00:00 UTC on March 30th through to 00:00 UTC on 
 April
 6th.
 
 Registration is NOT OPEN YET. It will open on Friday 2008/02/29.
 
 If you're new (or even coming back again) please have a look at the 
 rules and
 help pages at http://www.pyweek.org/
 
 The PyWeek challenge:
 
1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an
   individual or in a team,
2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,
3. Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and
   expertise,
4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and
5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)
 
 Entries must be developed in Python during the challenge, and must 
 incorporate
 some theme decided at the start of the challenge.
 
 

Bah, I'd offer what assistance I could, but I'm away for that week
(don't get back until the 14th of April)

Next year though I'll make a concerted effort to pitch in!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
For information, I just found this message on the Pygame mailling list:

 Original Message 
Subject: PyWeek 6 is coming!
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:11:34 +1100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general,gmane.comp.python.pygame

PyWeek 6 will run from 00:00 UTC on March 30th through to 00:00 UTC on 
April
6th.

Registration is NOT OPEN YET. It will open on Friday 2008/02/29.

If you're new (or even coming back again) please have a look at the 
rules and
help pages at http://www.pyweek.org/

The PyWeek challenge:

   1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an
  individual or in a team,
   2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,
   3. Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and
  expertise,
   4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and
   5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)

Entries must be developed in Python during the challenge, and must 
incorporate
some theme decided at the start of the challenge.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote:
 Hi all,

 Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

 I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
 up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
 to put heads together and work on an entry.

 For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
 a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
 development of a game in Python.

 It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
 development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
 necessary bits and bobs.

 I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
 first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
 artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
 documentation roles to fill. 

 Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
 game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
 see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
 get done when we pull together. :)

 For more details check out their site and look back through some
 previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.

 http://pyweek.org/ - Site
 http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
 http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
 http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules

 The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
 - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
 http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/

 Anyone else interested?

 Cheers,
 Al.
   
I've wanted to enter PyWeek for 2 years now, but it always passes me by. 
Unfortunately this year will probably be the same as I have an 
experiment scheduled to start 31st March. It has been delayed by 2 
months already, and there's a good chance it will be delayed further. 
Pencil me in, and I'll see what availability I have nearer the time. I 
learnt python 5 years ago, and have programmed bits and bobs in it ever 
since. I have also written one or two half games in PyGame, but nothing 
complete or even promising.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-04 Thread Josh Blacker
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
 Alan Pope wrote:
   
 Hi all,

 Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

 I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
 up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
 to put heads together and work on an entry.

 For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
 a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
 development of a game in Python.

 It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
 development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
 necessary bits and bobs.

 I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
 first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
 artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
 documentation roles to fill. 

 Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
 game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
 see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
 get done when we pull together. :)

 For more details check out their site and look back through some
 previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.

 http://pyweek.org/ - Site
 http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
 http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
 http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules

 The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
 - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
 http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/

 Anyone else interested?

 Cheers,
 Al.
   
 
 I've wanted to enter PyWeek for 2 years now, but it always passes me by. 
 Unfortunately this year will probably be the same as I have an 
 experiment scheduled to start 31st March. It has been delayed by 2 
 months already, and there's a good chance it will be delayed further. 
 Pencil me in, and I'll see what availability I have nearer the time. I 
 learnt python 5 years ago, and have programmed bits and bobs in it ever 
 since. I have also written one or two half games in PyGame, but nothing 
 complete or even promising.

 Tom

   
If there end up being enough programmers, I'm more than happy to lend a 
hand with testing, documentation etc, having no 'real' skills whatsoever.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-04 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:54:02PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
 Anyone else interested?

Not sure how much free time I'll have that week but I'm certainly
interested. 



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[ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi all,

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
to put heads together and work on an entry.

For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
development of a game in Python.

It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
necessary bits and bobs.

I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
documentation roles to fill. 

Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
get done when we pull together. :)

For more details check out their site and look back through some
previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.

http://pyweek.org/ - Site
http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules

The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
- http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/

Anyone else interested?

Cheers,
Al.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-02 Thread Joshua Scotton
I'd be willing to join in with the programming.
I started python last year and this would great fun.

Josh

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:54 +, Alan Pope wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Hope everyone's having a good weekend.
 
 I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
 up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
 to put heads together and work on an entry.
 
 For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
 a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
 development of a game in Python.
 
 It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
 development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
 necessary bits and bobs.
 
 I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
 first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
 artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
 documentation roles to fill. 
 
 Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
 game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
 see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
 get done when we pull together. :)
 
 For more details check out their site and look back through some
 previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.
 
 http://pyweek.org/ - Site
 http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
 http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
 http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules
 
 The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
 - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
 http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/
 
 Anyone else interested?
 
 Cheers,
 Al.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-02 Thread Ronnie Tucker
Alan Pope wrote:
 Hi all,

 Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

 I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
 up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
 to put heads together and work on an entry.

 For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
 a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
 development of a game in Python.

 It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
 development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
 necessary bits and bobs.

 I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
 first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
 artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
 documentation roles to fill. 

 Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
 game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
 see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
 get done when we pull together. :)

 For more details check out their site and look back through some
 previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.

 http://pyweek.org/ - Site
 http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
 http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
 http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules

 The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
 - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
 http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/

 Anyone else interested?

 Cheers,
 Al.
   
I'd certainly be willing to provide graphics using GIMP if you need any. 
Not done bitmap graphics in a while but I was a whizz with DPaint on my 
Amiga A500  :D

That Rooftop Garden idea is awesome, just goes to show that a good game 
CAN come from a kinda 'technology demo'.  :)


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