We’ll be running another Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) this year!

CPOSC is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year it will be on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg.

The Call for Participation is now open and we are looking for speakers. If you or someone you know would be interested in speaking, please encourage them to send in a talk proposal.

Details about the conference can be found at cposc.org and there’s also a Speaker FAQ with more details. The deadline to submit talk proposals is July 10, 2009.

Please spread the word, and hopefully we’ll see you in October!

Anyway, I found a blog post called Discovering ‘bzr push’ that was actually quite helpful for a newb like me. Along with the printable reference card, I think I’ll pick this up rather quickly.

Also, feel free to mock/abuse me for using bzr instead of hg in the comments.

Some of the slides that make use of build-in/out transitions exported to single images, so it doesn’t show each step. For example, in the Web Frameworks slide I included shout-outs to Rails, Django, Merb, Pylons, and TurboGears… but you’ll only see Rails.

If I get motivated, I’ll export it to Flash and upload it.

I was originally going to order The Definitive Guide to Django, but the rather poor reviews of it scared me away. Same with the warnings of typos and errors in the Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours book.

According to the Wikipedia page, PACKT is an interesting company. Check them out.

Guido, who brought you out of the land of Visual Basic, out of the land of slavery, spake all these words to thee…

Check out the twelve commandments for Beautiful Python code.

We have a date and a venue, so now we are currently looking for interesting speakers. I’d personally like to line up some more cool Python related talks (especially Django/Pylons related ones). If you would be interested in speaking, or know someone else who might be, please contact us.

More information is available in the announcement post and the Call for Participation page. The deadline for proposals is July 11, 2008.

Thanks!

Django Pluggables: “One of Django’s great strengths lie in its abundant library of 3rd party “pluggable” applications. Need a blog? Grab a few pluggable apps to get you off your feet. The only problem is… they’re so hard to find and keep track of. That’s what we’re here for. We do the work of making sure you’re keeping your pluggables up-to-date.”

Django Snippets: “…a site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful “snippets” of reusable code.”

Here’s a talk from PyCon 2008 about scripting SPSS with Python:

BTW, at Lafayette we used Mathematica which is no spring chicken either. It’s twenty years old this year.