What TriZPUG Does:

Meet

Next TriZPUG Meeting: Elementwise/Flask, Thursday, December 26, 6:00pm in Classroom G201, Murray Hall, campus of UNC-CH, 101 South Rd, Chapel Hill. Nathan Rice of UNC will talk about Elementwise, his vectorized function, method, and operator support for Python iterables and will also give an overview of the micro-framework Flask and the similarities and differences of Flask relative to Django and Pyramid. As always, spontaneous lightning talks of ten minutes or less on other topics are also welcome. Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk. Note: this meeting starts at 6pm as the doors to the building automatically lock at 7pm. Parking is available in the lot beside the building for those who show up early.

Read more about TriZPUG monthly meetings.

Collaborate

TriZPUG hosts collaborative events such as sprints, jams, hack nights, and dojos for your coding pleasure.

TriZPUG Djangonauts hosted Django release sprints Saturday and Sunday, November 12-13, 2011, Saturday and Sunday March 20-21, 2010, and 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.

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. Our events have many initiated important Python software projects too numerous to list anymore.

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 presenting Seattle PyCamp, August 29-September 2, 2011. TriZPUG developed the highly successful PyCamp boot camp program for Python user group outreach, now in its sixth year. Along the way we've taken PyCamp to Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington DC, and State College PA.

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 sponsored Plone Bootcamps.

Over 1000 people on six continents have been to TriZPUG boot camps!

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.

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.