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ANN: ChiPy at Spartz Thu November 14, 7:30p


ChiPy
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When: 7:30 PM Thursday November 14, 2013
Where: Spartz

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Topics
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1. Measure It
Peter Fein

measure_it provides timing and counting for iterators (and other code segments).

https://measure_it.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2449/measure-it 
2. What happened at #aaronswhack?
Sheila Miguez

Many python programmers showed up to participate in the Chicago #aaronswhack. Here's a list of what they worked on, and here are pointers to local projects as well as worldwide projects.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2451/what-happened-at-aaronswhack 
3. How Open Source Hardware Will Change the World
Paul Ebreo

What if there was an open source project that changed how we produce the most fundamental apsects of our lives? From the food we eat, to the houses we live in, this project wants to open source the tools we use to obtain what we need to live. Come to the ChiPy meeting to find out the name of the project.
 
 recording release: yes license: CC BY-SA  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2450/how-open-source-hardware-will-change-the-world 
4. CivicLab and Between the Bars
Benjamin Sugar

In this talk, I will present on a slice of the maker movement called "civic making" and a new space that has opened up in Chicago to encourage this type creation, CivicLab.  As an example of "civic making" I will discuss Between the Bars, a paper based blogging platform for those who are incarcerated, built in Django.  I will also discuss our choice in framework and the pros/cons of our approach.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2448/civiclab-and-between-the-bars 
5. PyData Recap Lightning Talk
Jason Wirth

Recap of last weeks PyData conference in NYC. 
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2452/pydata-recap-lightning-talk 
6. Monoids in Python
Philip Doctor

Monoids are largely badly explained, but actually quite beautiful.  I would like to take a brief tour of what a monoid is and how they can help out with mundane every day tasks in python.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2447/monoids-in-python 


Location
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Spartz


About the group
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https://www.chipy.org

Chicago Python User Group known as ChiPy was founded in 2003. We are an active user group organized around the Python.programming language.   Our meetings are open to all of all proficiency and experience levels.