Tonight was our big meeting with WebFilings. You can check out some picture here. I have to admit that the turnout exceeded my expectations. Not only was our room packed, but we had tons of viewers online as well.  

Among the online attendees were Steve Holden, Van Lindberg, and Guido Van Rossum.

WebFilings ended up giving away not 1, not 3 but 5 iPads!

The video of our meeting should be posted shortly here. Also, you can check out all of the example code here.

May Meeting - Thursday, May 10th at 6pm

Please Visit WebFiling's Website and RSVP.

We will be meeting in AMES at WebFilings. WebFilings will be providing Food, Beer, and the chance to win ONE OF THREE iPad3s! There also may be some t-shirts and other swag as well.

Robert Kluin, Beau Lyddon, and Mike Wesner will present about using Python on Google App Engine.

Robert Kluin is a frequent contributor on the AppEngine mailing list and message boards and is extremely active in the community.  He was "knighted" by Google at a recent Google I/O event and is well known by the AppEngine team and community.

Beau Lyddon is a senior developer on the WebFilings server team and is one of our most avid python developers.  He helped lead our move from SVN to GitHub and is a contributor to numerous GitHub projects.

Mike Wesner is a senior architect on the WebFilings server team and was the original architect and author of our Google App Engine platform.  Before WebFilings he also had extensive experience at Netscape / AOL working on the django - python stack and is an avid python developer.

Map to May meeting location

Welcome to the Iowa Python Users Group - Pyowa

We are a general Python group that with members that use python in system administration, web design, database manipulation, plugins, GUI design and more. Those are the topics we will probably focus on the most during meetings. We are also on Twitter and Facebook. Just do a search for the Iowa Python Users Group on Facebook to find us! Check it out!

We are very friendly to new programmers and will continue to be. We have had multiple sessions on beginner's topics and plan to keep that as a part of our meetings. However, as we get more experienced programmers in our midst, some sessions will be more complex than others.

Join our mailing list if you're interested in knowing what's going on in our group.

April Meeting - Thursday, April 12th at 6pm

The Subject: Lightning Talks

Show up with something to talk about, or just come to listen.

The IMT Group will be providing Pizza and Soda for all who attend.

Pyowa + Ruby Brigade Meeting - March 20th

The Subject:

Cloud computing may be many things, but it seems that going away isn't
one of them. Heroku provides an amazingly accessible interface to the
cloud.  You focus on making awesome sites and we will focus on keeping
them up and running.  Whether you are brand new to Heroku and looking
to get started or a grizzled veteran looking to get a peak under the
covers there will be some great info straight from geemus, who single
handedly makes up the Iowa branch of Heroku.

The Author:

geemus (Wesley Beary) [http://github.com/geemus] is an avid Rubyist
and Open source enthusiast. He spends his days improving developer
experience at Heroku and spends much (probably too much) of his free
time working on fog [http://github.com/geemus/fog] and other open
source projects.

Location:

IMT Group
4445 Corporate Drive
West Des Moines, IA