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November's Python Ireland Talks were a success

Last night's Python talks went really, really well! Thanks to Sean Mc Grath for a great talk on Jython, and Mick for his talk on WSGI. Everyone was so engaging during the talks. Sean's talk went on from around 7:30pm till around 9pm, and Mick went through his slides swiftly, while prodding a few people's buttons along the way. It was Q&A all the way through both talks. And the time honoured tradition of Python Meetup Talks, it's off to the Pembroke pub to wrap up for the night. The attendance was one of the largest this year, around 14/15 people (I think). There were lots of familiar faces, which is great. That Jython talk had something for everyone, pot shots and more neutral views on big companies like Sun, MS and BEA on their take on Python/Jython, for example.

It's nice to see the Python community growing, even though it's little by little. We are planning the next set of talks already for December 13th (Wed), and at least we have WxPython penned down. If anyone is interested to give a talk, drop a note to Python Ireland's mailing list.

By the way, speakers at our talks gets a free Python Ireland t-shirt, just like the one we gave Guido.

Posted by whykay at November 9, 2006 10:33 PM