What TriZPUG Does:

Meet

Next TriZPUG Meeting: Thursday, February 25, 7:00pm at a location to be announced soon in Raleigh. If you would like to present at this meeting, please sound off on the mailing list. As always, lightning talks of ten minutes or less are also welcome. Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk. Simply volunteer your lightning talk at the meeting. The after-meeting will be at a nearby taverns, to be decided at the meeting.

TriZPUG meeting locations rotate monthly between either at Duke, Carrboro Creative Coworking, or various locations in Raleigh, depending on what we feel like in any given month, at 7pm usually on the fourth Thursday, with a special holiday meetings on third Thursdays in November and December. There is usually an "after-meeting" at a nearby pub for food, drink, and more conversation. We could probably meet at your place if you feel like having us over. We'll even bring the chips and dip. See the Calendar portlet to the right of this paragraph or our Meetings page for meeting announcements.

Mail

Join our suitably Python powered mailing list hosted on Python.org to be notified of TriZPUG happenings and ongoing discussions. The list is also mirrored on the wonderful Gmane service in a variety of formats (news, RSS, blog, etc.).

Chat

Try out our IRC channel.

Blog

TriZPUG members' blogs are aggregated at Planet TriZPUG. If you a) participate in TriZPUG, b) have a blog that is at least sometimes about Python, and c) would like your blog aggregated on Planet TriZPUG, then please send your blog feed's URL to info@trizpug.org.

Collaborate

TriZPUG forges relationships. Many of our participants end up working together both professionally and informally. Many of our events initiate important new software projects or improve existing ones.

TriZPUG Djangonauts hosted a Django 1.2 release sprint Saturday and Sunday December 11-12, 2009.

TriZPUG hosted a sprint to improve ZopeSkel usability on Friday, October 2 through Monday, October 5, 2009 in Chapel Hill. This followed on TriZPUG's sponsorship of the ZopeSkel sprints at the 2009 Plone Symposium East and the 2008 Plone Conference.

This site is our online clubhouse made with Plone, a Zope and Python-based content management system with which we work a lot. We knock around and try out ideas here.

Advise

We have some advice for budding pythonistas. It was recently updated to reflect new developments.

Sponsor

TriZPUG sponsored the No-Fun ZopeSkel BBQ Sprint.

TriZPUG sponsored the 2008 and 2006 Plone Conferences.

Train

TriZPUG hosted the first large-scale Zope community event in the western hemisphere with participation from four continents.

We sponsored the first ever Plone Bootcamp, the largest Plone training meeting in the world to date. 2009 marks the fifth year TriZPUG has sponsored Plone Bootcamps.

TriZPUG developed the highly successful PyCamp boot camp program for Python user group outreach, now in its fourth year. Along the way we've taken PyCamp to Houston and Toronto.

Over 700 people on six continents have been to TriZPUG boot camps!

To keep informed about future TriZPUG Plone Bootcamps, as well as Plone Bootcamps elswhere in the world, subscribe to the Plone Bootcamps announcement email list. To keep informed about future TriZPUG PyCamps and Zope community events, subscribe to the TriZPUG email list.

2008 PyCampers and Advanced Plone Bootcampers get together to shout about their new skills.

Plone Boot Campers for 2008 got an all new updated program based on buildout.

TriZPUG hosted to first international Zope conference.

TriZPUG helped the new Houston ZPUG raise $1800 in startup funds.

2006 PyCampers are ecstatic about functional programming with Python.

The world's first Plone Bootcamp was hosted by TriZPUG in January 2005.

The March 2006 TriZPUG Plone Bootcamp was a whoop-it-up affair!

The August 2007 TriZPUG Plone Bootcamp was the largest ever held.

TriZPUG hosted its first Advanced Plone Bootcamp in the August 2007 heat wave.

Sponsors

Plone Bootcamps is the premier sponsor of TriZPUG. TriZPUG is proud to have hosted the first Plone Bootcamp. Joel Burton, the trainer for Plone Bootcamps and twice Chair of the Plone Foundation, is perhaps the finest technical instructor on the planet, and the author of the canonical document of Plone development, Building a Humane CMS with Plone. Joel has trained thousands of Plone developers around the world, having logged more than 200 days at the head of the classroom. TriZPUG is pleased to one again host two rounds of Plone Bootcamps in 2008. Subscribe to the low traffic Plone Bootcamps announcement email list to be kept up to the minute about Plone Bootcamps coming to your area.

Acknowledgments

The TriZPUG logo was contributed by Ben Best and Rob Lineberger. The Camp 5, PyCamp and 2006 Plone Bootcamp 2 logos were contributed by Rob Lineberger and the Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center. The 2005 Plone Bootcamp 1 logo was contributed by Jim Allman (Interrobang Digital Media) and Tom Bryan. TriZPUG was co-founded by Tom Bryan and Geoff Davis. Our Raleigh facilitator is Paul Smith. Our Duke facilitators are Mike Revoir and Ben Donnelly. Our Carrboro facilitator is Brad Crittenden. TriZPUG.org is hosted by Chris Calloway, our UNC facilitator. Josh Johnson and Dave Powell are also UNC facilitators. The TriZPUG email list is hosted by Python.org and administered by Chris Calloway, Mark Biggers, and Rob Lineberger. The TriZPUG IRC channel is operated by Chris Calloway, Mark Biggers, and Brad Crittenden. For the first six years of TriZPUG's existence, the TriZPUG email list was hosted by Starship Python and administered by Tom Bryan. TriZPUG owes a great debt to many volunteers too numerous to list here. Special thanks to Robert Petrusz, Alex Kesling, Alex Ray, Stephan Altmueller, Thomas Wilson, Sean Semone, Frank DiMauro, Charlie Hitlin, Walter Martin, Edmund Moseley, Carol Ludwig, Steve Corey, Hiawatha Demby, Kevin Morgan, Cheryl Jerozal, Scott Morningstar, Mali Ozbay, Josten Ma, Steven Butterworth, and especially Joel Burton.