Meeting Notes for Sat, Jan 26, 2008

Attendees: Paul, Jason, David, Sumeer, J., Ralph, Jeff, Julian

Original Schedule

  * 1pm - 2pm Beginner's Hour (Brad will be there to teach anyone who shows up)
  * 2pm - 3pm Open Discussion; we'll probably discuss the new PyCon? schedule, travel plans, etc. 
  * 3pm - 4pm Open Discussion
  * 4pm - 5pm Open Discussion
  * Dinner afterward (attending: Brad, and likely some of the other regulars such as Sumeer, Paul, Jeff, J., and Ralph. Hopefully we can drag along some others as well.)

What Actually Happened

• PyCon? tutorials and schedule
• planning future talks
• brief discussions of Grok, Genshi, Elixir, Storm
• brief discussion of Doom on OLPC and Sugar OS emulator
• discussion on MoinMoin? and namespaces
• Discussion of ffmpeg using Python;
• SDL, PyGame? compared with Pyglet
• brief look at Pyglet example code
• pydoc, epidoc, doxygen, happydoc
• What is nose testing? It's a general purpose test runner.
• SimCity? source release
• Possibility of replacing wiki on dfwpython.org with Trac or MoinMoin?
• Discussion of what's happening with Gentoo, after legal dissolution?
• Group Project-- what would be fun, non-serious, no committment?

    * Pyglet game: Blokus
    * Pyglet game: Elefant Island
    * A New Python Web Framework !!!
    * Trac plugin that plays pong
    * Dominoes Game: Texas 42
    * PyGTK? app: TimePainter?