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This month’s Honolulu Coders meeting will take place on Wednesday April
30th from 6pm to 8pm.

Honolulu-coders mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/honolulu-coders/
Join the honolulu coders community:
http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu/community/sign_up
Member’s web page: http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu/workspace/5

********** LOCATION INFORMATION **********

This month’s meeting will be held in the POST building, room 302, at the
University of Hawaii Manoa campus.

http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/vtour?Manoa=l=POST?

UoH parking information is here:

http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/visitorParking.html

********** MEETING AGENDA **********

The meeting’s agenda is as follows:

6:00pm - 6:45pm “Python 3000, Django & Google App Engine” Talk by
Michael Bishop

6:45pm - 7:00pm Discussion

7:00pm - 7:15pm Pizza Break sponsored by Ikayzo http://www.ikayzo.com/

7:15pm - 8.00pm Open Ruby Workshop by Sam Joseph

The talk abstract and speaker biography are as follows:

Talk Title: Python 3000, Django & Google App Engine

Talk Abstract:

Michael just returned from PyCon 2008 held in Chicago and says that
there was so much going on there that he barely had time to sleep. He’ll
share what he learned about Python 3000 — what’s the big deal, what we
should expect and how to prepare. Next, he’ll show off Django - the
Python web framework. Finally, a video about Google’s App Engine. Q&A
will be done throughout the talk with open discussion at the end.

Talk Biography:

Michael Bishop is a life-long student, consultant and FOSS advocate.
Open Ruby workshop:

Join Sam Joseph as he plays around with the Ruby and Rails. Bring along
your Ruby programming questions and we can scratch our heads together
If you’re really unlucky he’ll show you his new linklens code

Info: Tue, 15 April 2008 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm - University of Hawaii,
Manoa Campus, Marine Sciences Building Auditorium, Room# 114 - $8 for
pizza and soft drink (optional)

Note: We will start promptly at 6:00pm with introductory material and a
Q&A session

Speaker: Michael Bishop

Bio: Michael is a lifelong student of technology and Free/Open Source
Software

Presentation: Michael just returned from PyCon 2008 held in Chicago and
says that there was so much going on there that he barely had time to
sleep. He’ll spend the first part of his presentation walking us through
some of the best parts of the conference. Then he’ll be talking about
Python 3000 — what’s the big deal, what we should expect and how to
prepare. Finally, he’ll be showing off a bit of Python and Django - the
Python web framework.

For those of you who haven’t been exposed to the programming language
Python, this will be an excellent way to find out from a skilled
educator how this simple (to learn and to maintain) yet powerful Object
Oriented programming language can be easily and freely installed on
Windows, Mac and Linux computers and help you to be more productive and
have fun at the same time!

Directions to the event:
Take Dole Street Koko Head bound (East) and turn Mauka (toward the
mountains) on East West Rd. Take the first possible left turn onto an
unnamed access road and park in Lot #11. If there is a guard in the
kiosk there, just mention that you’re there to attend the “Open Source
Pizza” presentation.

A campus map can be found at http://manoa.hawaii.edu/map/uhmmap.pdf The
Marine Sciences Building and parking lot with Entrance Kiosk are at C4
on that map.

For further infomation, please contact Ron Fox at 589-5172.