Posted May 20, 2013, 3:12 p.m.

An update about accommodation. The Burlington Hotel has no rooms that weekend. There are also other hotels nearby, see accommodation section, it's not an extensive list. If you find a hotel that has a good price, please comment in disqus.

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Posted April 26, 2013, 12:50 p.m.
We would like to welcome Lynn Root as our first confirmed keynote speaker for PyCon Ireland 2013. Read more
Posted April 11, 2013, 7:46 p.m.
Official announcement of the dates for PyCon Ireland 2013 (12th - 13th October) and Sprints (14th - 15th October). Call for Sponsors and Speakers. Read more

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Re: Fwd: [python-uk] Python/Django DevOps community and resources

Cool, thanks for sharing :-)
/Jakub

Published: May 20, 2013

Fwd: [python-uk] Python/Django DevOps community and resources

Hi All,

This maybe of interest to some of you. :-)

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland <[link]> co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>
PSF member <[link]>

Published: May 20, 2013

No more rooms at the Burlington Hotel during PyConIE

Hi All,

Unfortunately the conf hotel is full that weekend.
Please check alternative hotels at our accommodation
section<[link]>,
if you have a recommendation, please share via the disqus comments.

Thanks,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland <[link]> co-Chair)

Published: May 20, 2013

Fwd: [coding-grace] A Taste of R

Hi All,

After a succesful Python workshop, we have a another beginners workshop,
and big thanks to Kevin O'Brien and CCT for working with me to make this
happen.

For those geek girls interested in R, Coding Grace has a beginners workshop
on Sat 8th June.
Male friends are welcome as +1's. :-)

Published: May 16, 2013

Re: May 8th Meetup

Hi All,

A friendly reminder of this evening's talks at the Science Gallery @ 18:30.

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland <[link]> co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>

Published: May 8, 2013

May 8th Meetup

Hi All,

I'd like to announce our May meetup.

You can let us know you're coming on our meetup.com page.
[link]
Thank you to Intercom.io for sponsoring it!

Location: Science Gallery ,Pearse St, Dublin 2

-----------
*Talks*
-----------
Title: Building web applications with Flask

Published: May 2, 2013

[ANN] PyCon Ireland 2013 Early Bird Tickets on sale

Hi All,

============================== ============================== ======
CONFERENCE: Sat 12th - Sun 13th October at Burlington Hotel, Dublin
SPRINTS: Mon 14th - Tue 15th October at College of Computer Training (CCT),
Dublin
============================== ============================== ======

Published: April 25, 2013

Call for speakers for May meetup.

Hi All,

If anybody would like to give a talk at our meetup in May, please get in
touch.

Thanks!

--
Diarmuid Bourke / diarmuidbou...@gmail.com
ZenDoc / CTO dbou...@getzendoc.com
Python Ireland / Chairperson diarm...@python.ie

Published: April 22, 2013

Coding Grace's Python for Beginners Workshop

Hi All,

Our first female-friendly coding workshop will be held on Sat 11th May at
CCT <[link]>.
Registration is open: [link]

Places are limited to 20.

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer

Published: April 20, 2013

Re: EuroPython - Who is going?

I'm booked to go to it and I'm staying in the conference hotel, so I'm
willing to share.

K.

--
C�at � G�ibhtheach�in - k...@stereochro.me - [link] - CF9F6473
Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?

Published: April 18, 2013

EuroPython - Who is going?

Hello,

I was wondering if anybody was heading to EuroPython this year who is
looking at staying in the conference hotel?

Give me a shout if you are interested in sharing a room.

Cheers,

--
Diarmuid Bourke / diarmuidbou...@gmail.com
Python Ireland / Chairperson diarm...@python.ie

Published: April 18, 2013

Call for Python Mentors for Coding Grace's Beginner Python workshop

Hi All,

Looking for some help for Coding Grace's Beginner Python
workshop<[link]>.

I would like to see some female mentors helping out. :-)

When: Sat 11th May
Where: CCT <[link]>

Submit your interest via [link].

Published: April 16, 2013

Python Ireland Pub Meetup @ The Black Sheep (Wed 10th Apr, 7pm)

Hi All,

Forgot to send this out, apologies for short notice.

Just to re-iterate again:-

What: Python Ireland Pub Meetup
When: Wed 10th April, 7pm
Where: The Black Sheep

More details:
[link]

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Published: April 9, 2013

Re: [ANN] PyCon Ireland 2013

Hi All,

The Call for Sponsors form is now live at [link]

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>
PSF member <[link]>

Published: April 9, 2013

Re: [ANN] PyCon Ireland 2013

Hi All,

Reminder... Call for sponsors.

Here’s the brochure: [link].

Submissions open tomorrow from 12pm: [link]

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>

Published: April 8, 2013

[ANN] PyCon Ireland 2013

Hi All,

We are pleased to announce that PyCon Ireland will take place in Dublin
this year.

When: Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th October
Where: The Burlington Hotel
(Information on ticket prices, etc. will be announced soon.)

We will also have a two-day sprints held after the conference, this is free

Published: April 3, 2013

Anyone want to talk in next week's meetup?

Hi All,

Any takers?

Also, if there's any topic someone want to hear about, we'll try and find
someone to give a talk about that (or demo).

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>

Published: April 2, 2013

Irish Collegiate Programming Competition

Hi,
For any pythonistas that are in college:

The fourth Irish Collegiate Programming Competition (IrlCPC) will be held
on Saturday the 6th of April in University College Cork. We would like to
invite teams from Irish third level institutions to participate in the
competition.

The competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students. They

Published: March 25, 2013

EU Python Trademark dispute ended

Hi All,

Just catching up on tweets and saw that PSF has officially announced that
they have reached an agreement with Veber.

[link]

Thank to all who sent their companies support for PSF on this issue.

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Published: March 20, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

For the record, I will be going through the Django contribution
process, which is totally Python related. Maybe I'll see a few more of
y'all tomorrow :-)

Regards,

Julie

Published: March 19, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

That would be great, thanks for volunteering! Doors open at 6:30, the
talks should begin at 7pm and so the lightning talks should start
around 7:30pm. (In an ideal world, anyway.)

Cheers,

Julie

Published: March 19, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Hi julie
Thanks for the reply my mistake on posting my mobile number opps I will be
more careful next time.
I would love to do a quick lightning talk if you can fit me in somewhere
that would be really great.
Am I right in thinking people will be meeting up about 7 or so ?

Published: March 19, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Hello Darren,

I don't know if you meant to do so, just for the record you posted
your phone number on the Python Ireland (public) list.

At the moment I think it would be more interesting to have the longer
presentations be on somewhat established projects (as in: the project
has a licence, the code is available, there is ideally a bug tracker

Published: March 19, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

hi julie
are you looking for some stuff to talk about because i could help you out i
know this is a bit short notice but i am trying to write an audio game in
python and i thought it could be a good open source project
what do yo think my number is 0876892134 if you need to call me
darren

Published: March 19, 2013

Last chance to place your ad in Python Brochure

Hi All,

Just received details about the brochure (as well as a preview), and also
the last chance for your company to place an ad in the Python Brochure.

Your will benefit from reaching out to a fantastic audience, including

You can read more about it at
[link]

Published: March 15, 2013

[Reminder] This evenings PythonIE Talks @ Engine Yard (7pm)

Hi All,

Just a friendly reminder of this evening's talks at Engine Yard @ 7pm.

All levels welcome, we have pizzas & beer, and it's free!

Details:
[link]

BTW, if you want to give a lightning talk, feel free to do so this evening.

Cheers,

Published: March 13, 2013

Fwd: OWASP Dublin - March Event

Hi All

Just passing this on for those who are interested.

Cheers,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>
PSF member <[link]>

Published: March 10, 2013

Early Bird Pricing for the largest MongoDB Conference in Europe ends Today!

I thought that some of you would be interested in attending MongoDB London,
the annual conference dedicated to the open source, NoSQL database. This
year we have a track dedicated to new features in 2.4 (text search,
security, and improvements to geo, sharding, and aggregation) as well as
case studies from Telefonica, YouWin, eXo Platform, Server Density, and

Published: March 8, 2013

Call for talks for March 13th

Hi everybody,

We're still looking for speakers for our March meetup. If anybody
would like to give a talk, can you please reply before Wednesday.

If nobody wants to talk then we will arrange a pub meetup. :)

Thanks,
--
Diarmuid Bourke / diarmuidbou...@gmail.com
ZenDoc / CTO dbou...@getzendoc.com

Published: March 1, 2013

Work From Home

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of openings that involve working from home.
tks,
PJ

Published: Feb. 27, 2013

Python Developer Roles in Dublin

Ammeon is an Irish IT company offering managed services, consulting and
application development. We have open roles for python developers of all
levels, please submit your CV to recr...@ammeon.com or apply via our
website:

[link]

Published: Feb. 26, 2013

Anyone want to give a talk in PyIE's March meetup?

Hi All,

Let us know if you want to give a talk at our next meetup: Wed 13th March.

Thanks,

/// Vicky (PyCon Ireland co-Chair)

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>
PSF member <[link]>

Published: Feb. 25, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Hi Julie
Thanks for the info I will try to be there next month
Darren

Published: Feb. 25, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Hey Darren, thanks for the interest. This is a monthly event (3rd
Wednesday), so the next one will be on March 20th. Hope to see you
there!

Julie

Published: Feb. 25, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Hi Julie
Will there be an open source night this Wednesday 27th at TOG?
I have an interesting project that I need a bit of help with and I would
appreciate some advice or help with my idea
Darren

Published: Feb. 25, 2013

new venture

I am looking for experienced professionals to do a 10 month contract in
Dublin. Must have cloud knowledge and either Python or Puppet.

Please contact me if you are interested.

Requirements
• Linux systems knowledge, administration and shell scripting
• Deployment and configuration tools experience (Puppet, Chef, etc)

Published: Feb. 25, 2013

Re: psf are looking for help

Hi All,

Thanks for raising issue again, and thanks to those who have already
responded to PSF's call for action.

Padraic, I don't know the answer to your question, as suggested by Van
Lindberg, maybe you can email him directly (v...@python.org).

I'll pull the PyConIE conf programmes and send them on also.

Published: Feb. 21, 2013

Re: psf are looking for help

Does anyone know if it has to be just companies? If not, we could
probably draft up a letter from the 091 Labs hackerspace as a non-profit
organisation? We've been teaching people Python as a course to get our
members up to speed in at least one common language and that's what
we're writing applications with.

Published: Feb. 21, 2013

Re: psf are looking for help

Yep, we've heard from Google :)

Brian Curtin
Director, Python Software Foundation

Published: Feb. 20, 2013

Re: psf are looking for help

To all in the group: If you work at such a company, then now is the time
for you to give something back for all the great free software you've
gotten over the years.
nothing".

Great quote! I wish I worked for such a company now, but in the past I have
worked for a company for which Python is a very important part of the

Published: Feb. 20, 2013

Re: psf are looking for help

Yeah, I definitely think we should be forwarding any and all materials
about our conferences.

And if anyone is working for a company that uses python, there should be
plenty of job listings, etc, to forward.

To all in the group: If you work at such a company, then now is the time
for you to give something back for all the great free software you've

Published: Feb. 20, 2013

psf are looking for help

Apologies if this has come up before, but a company in the uk are
attempting to trademark Python with regard to all software, services, etc.
One of the things the psf are looking for to try and combat is this:
Do you have, or know of, anything that was published in the EU and uses
"Python" to refer to Python-the-language? Can we get copies, pictures, or

Published: Feb. 20, 2013

ANN: pyftpdlib 1.0.0 released

Hi there guys,
After 1 year of development and refinements I'm pleased to announce a
release of pyftpdlib which appears to be one of the fastest FTP server out
there! See:
[link]
1.0.0 release introduces serious improvements amongst which python 3
support (finally!) and full Unicode support. Here's the major ones.

Published: Feb. 20, 2013

Job at Critsend (remote)

Hi everyone,
I just joined a company called Critsend, which currently focuses on email
deliverability. It's a pretty cool environment for engineers, with a
completely flat hierarchy in a distributed team. It's demanding but it
suits me really well. As they're looking for more people to join, I thought

Published: Feb. 19, 2013

Re: Female Pythonistas wanted

Hi Brian,

Already have, including DevChix as well. :-)

I'm just pushing a call for female speakers here on the Irish list as I
want more local speakers as well, as most speakers on those lists tend to
be US-based. I'll poke PyConUK list as well.

Thanks again, and please do pass the word around if you know of someone who

Published: Feb. 16, 2013

Re: Female Pythonistas wanted

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Vicky Lee - Python Ireland

Vicky - has a call for proposals been posted anywhere for PyCon IE?
You might try engaging the PyLadies group(s). I don't know if there
are any formed in Ireland or really outside of the US, but they have a
pretty strong network. They can certainly help get the word out there.

Published: Feb. 16, 2013

Female Pythonistas wanted

Hi All,

Just shouting out to see if there's any female pythonistas who want to give
a talk at our monthly meetups and/or PyCon Ireland 2013?

Please pass the word around.

Contact me if you are interested or if you have someone in mind that you
want to hear at our meetups/conference.

Thanks,

Published: Feb. 15, 2013

PSF need your help!

Hi All,

Just saw this email via BrightonPy and it looks like PSF needs your help!

Python Trademark at risk in Europe, read more:
[link]

Cheers,

/// Vicky

Python Ireland <[link]> co-Chair / Treasurer
EuroPython Board<[link]>

Published: Feb. 14, 2013

Re: Open-Source Night in Tog

Please use [link]
instead to not see the SSL warning, sorry 'bout this :-)

Julie

Published: Feb. 13, 2013

Open-Source Night in Tog

Hi folks,

We're starting a regular open-source night in Tog (Dublin). The idea
is to bring together experienced open-source contributors and aspiring
contributors and make magic happen.

A bit more info here:
[link] . It
starts on Wednesday next week (Feb 20th), from 6:30pm onwards.

Published: Feb. 13, 2013

Python Ireland meets up on 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Read more about Python Ireland...

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