What TriZPUG Does:

Meet

Next TriZPUG Meeting: Thursday July 22, 7pm at Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, where parking is plentiful and free. Gary Bishop, Professor of Computer Science for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill develops free software for people with special needs. Gary will talk about the work he and his students are doing to enable people with disabilities. He will briefly cover several Python applications and libraries they have developed and then focus on how they are using Python as the back end of their UNC Open Web project.

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 one of the several nearby taverns, to be decided at the meeting.

Read more about TriZPUG monthly meetings.

Collaborate

TriZPUG hosts Python Hack Nights for your collaborative coding pleasure.

TriZPUG hosts Python Dojo for improving your code fu.

TriZPUG Djangonauts hosted Django 1.2 release sprints Saturday and Sunday December 11-12, 2009 and Saturday and Sunday March 20-21, 2010.

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.

TriZPUG hosted the largest Zope sprint in the world to date March 14-17, 2007.

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.

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. New to IRC? Look at our IRC help.

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.

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 is hosting at least two PyCamps in 2010: Los Angeles PyCamp June 14-18, 2010; and Penn State Mini-PyCamp May 24-26, 2010. TriZPUG developed the highly successful PyCamp boot camp program for Python user group outreach, now in its fifth year. Along the way we've taken PyCamp to Budapest, Houston, and Washington, DC. Plans are in the works for Boston and Seattle.

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

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

Over 750 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 MetaMetrics facilitator is Kurt Grandis. 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.