SyPy - Feb09 - "Video distro with Plumi+Plone" / "Make Python Apps Start Fast"

Welcome to 2009, unofficial year of the python.

To make up for the slow start we're having a double presentation 5th feb at google. 

Start time: 6:45 - *note earlier time*
Notes: RSVP using anyvite, be outside the elevators at 6:30 sharp and google people will escort you up. We will come back for late commers but if you are really late ring Dylan on 0421477460.

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"FOSS online video distro technologies, using Plumi and the Plone CMS framework." - Andrew Nicholson

Bio - Andy Nicholson is a free software hacker and new media activist.

He is currently part of the EngageMedia collective, and consultant computer engineer. EngageMedia is producing the free and open source software project, Plumi (http://www.plumi.org) - a video sharing web application, which runs http://engagemedia.org and others.

... http://www.anat.org.au/members/802

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"Make Python Apps Start Fast" - Andrew Bennetts

Command line programs such as version control tools need to run quickly so that they do not disrupt the user's work. Anything more than a heartbeat and the user gets impatient and distracted. Programming in Python is typically much easier than C/C++, but making a Python program load and execute quickly can be a challenge. This talk explains how Bazaar, a GPL-licenced distributed version control system written in Python, can execute commands like “bzr status” in as little as 100ms on my fairly modest laptop even though it has roughly 120000 lines of Python source code. This talk will cover tools and techniques for both analysing and fixing causes of long startups for Python.

Bio - Andrew Bennetts is a Software Developer for Canonical Ltd. Andrew works on Bazaar, a GPL-licensed version control tool written in Python. He has been a professional Python programmer since 2001. The last four of those years he's worked for Canonical, building tools to help open source developers collaborate. He's also a long-time contributor to Twisted, the asynchronous networking framework.

.... http://wiki.osdcsydney.info/program/talk46