[EuroPython] Collaborating on Pythyonic parallelism

2009-07-02 Thread Russel Winder
After my session on Tuesday and my comments in David Jones' session yesterday some people have come up to me to indicate that there is a feeling that a collaborative effort to extend and improve Python's support for parallelism would be a good thing. There are already a couple of libraries present

[EuroPython] turtle module - mailbox problem

2009-07-02 Thread Gregor Lingl
Hi, At the end of my talk on the turtle module yesterday I asked those interested in communicating about the turtle module to send me an email to [email protected]. Unfortunately just at that time my email box turned out to be full - so you probably got a "quota exceeded" error. Embarassing! I've fi

[EuroPython] Additional TiddlyWeb Information

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Dent
Sorry for the spam but: I've been told that my lack of slides in yesterday's lightning talk for TiddlyWeb meant I failed to deliver its unique selling point or secret sauce so it's been suggested that I point to the slides: http://tws5.peermore.com/wiki/recipes/do/tiddlers.s5 Those a

[EuroPython] Sprint venue

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
http://wiki.europython.eu/Sprints currently says this about the sprint venue: "After the Conference, Friday 3rd July for two days, at the CBSO Centre, Berkley Street - 7 minutes walk from the Conservatoire and 3 minutes from the Premier Inn. " I've heard rumours that the plans have changed

Re: [EuroPython] Kamaelia Open Space?

2009-07-02 Thread Spike
Heya, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:06:52PM +0100, Michael Sparks wrote: > Hi, > > > I've had a few people mention that wished they'd been able to make the > tutorial on sunday, but weren't arriving until later, and want to > gauge if there's interest from anyone in attending an open space > sessio

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython Gallery

2009-07-02 Thread Łukasz Langa
Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-06-30, o godz. 23:56, przez John Pinner:Upload your pix, best photograph capturing the spirit of EuroPython 2009 wins a prize. How do you determine the author? :> -- Best regards,Łukasz LangaSenior Developertel: +48 791 080 144skype: lukaszlanga __

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython Gallery

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Scholz
Łukasz Langa wrote: > > Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-06-30, o godz. 23:56, przez John Pinner: > >> Upload your pix, best photograph capturing the spirit of EuroPython >> 2009 wins a prize. May I also remind people not to forget to upload their photos on flickr and/or facebook (or any other add

[EuroPython] Making the sllides available

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
John keeps saying that this is a community conference and if we're missing something, it's because we haven't done it. What do I need to do to make talk slides downloadable from the conference timetable page? Marius Gedminas -- Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. signatu

Re: [EuroPython] Sprint venue

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:14:05AM +0100, Marius Gedminas wrote: > http://wiki.europython.eu/Sprints currently says this about the sprint > venue: > > "After the Conference, Friday 3rd July for two days, at the CBSO > Centre, Berkley Street - 7 minutes walk from the Conservatoire and 3 > min

[EuroPython] Help need with little c++/swig problem

2009-07-02 Thread Ralph Heinkel
Hi there, is there anybody around today/tomorrow with a little bit more insight into swig than I have? I have an abstract c++ class, wrapped into swig. I get an subclass of it in python, make an instance of it, and pass it to another c++ function (also wrapped in swig) which accepts instance

Re: [EuroPython] Help need with little c++/swig problem

2009-07-02 Thread Pascal Chambon
It sounds to me like a problem with C++->python polymorphism, i.e you need to use Swig's "director" feature. I'm available this evening and tomorrow, if help needed ; shall we meet in the open-spacfe (band room) after teh clusing of teh conference ? ++ Pascal Ralph Heinkel a écrit : Hi there,

[EuroPython] pyjamas-desktop now working with hulahop (XUL / gecko)

2009-07-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
folks, hi, as promised i've managed to get pyjamas-desktop to work with python-hulahop as well as pywebkitgtk. the reasons for this are quite simple: apple's intransigence over accepting the glib/gobject bindings to webkit are holding everything up. now, you can do "apt-get install hulahop python

[EuroPython] Pub tonight?

2009-07-02 Thread Orestis Markou
I'm wondering if people who will stay around fo the sprints have any plans for drinks/food/hacking tonight? Orestis -- orestis.gr ___ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython

[EuroPython] Bletchley Park

2009-07-02 Thread Domma, Achim
Hi, as we stay at Birmingham until Sunday morning, we will have a trip to Bletchley Park tomorrow. Anybody interested in joining us? cheers, Achim ___ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython

[EuroPython] Information about my pygame-fenix library.

2009-07-02 Thread Fiona Burrows
Hey all, I gave a lightning talk about my game library called pygame-fenix. However I neglected to tell people how to get to it. (do'h) A few people had approached me asking where they could find it. So since I'm not at the sprints this weekend I'll leave info here for anyone else who didn't g

[EuroPython] Underpass warning.

2009-07-02 Thread Alan Kennedy
Hi all, I'm staying at the Etap hotel, and have walked through the underpass (i.e. tunnel under the road) in front of the hotel each evening on the way home from the Europython venue. This evening, about 10 minutes after I arrived back at the hotel, some poor man was assaulted in the same underpa