What TriPython Does:

Meet • Collaborate • Mail • Chat • Blog • Advise • Organize • Sponsor • Train  • Whoop  • Recognize

Meet 

Next TriPython Meeting: Trinket.io, Thursday, July 24, 7pm at Caktus Consulting Group, 209 Lloyd St., Suite 110, Carrboro. Elliot Hauser, CEO of trinket.io, will demonstrate his Interactive Python widget, which enables embedding interactive Python shells into websites via Skuplt. 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. There's plenty of parking at Caktus and we can walk to nearby after-meeting watering holes.

Read more about TriPython monthly meetings.

Collaborate 

Next TriPython Raleigh Project Night: Tuesday, July 1, 6pm at WebAssign, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1791 Varsity Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh. Raleigh Project Night meets on first Tuesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of free after hours parking is available in the upper level of the deck behind WebAssign (turn through the median just before the intersection of Varsity and Main Campus Drives). If the door is locked, call the number posted on the door.

Next TriPython Chapel Hill Project Night: Wednesday, July 16, 6pm at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, Europa Center, Suite 590, 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill. Project Night in the western Triangle transitions from Carrboro to Chapel Hill with larger facilities at RENCI. Chapel Hill Project Night meets on second Wednesdays, although this one is on third Wednesday due to the SciPy conference. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of free after hours parking is available in the RENCI parking deck.

See past TriPython collaborative events.

Mail 

Join our suitably Python-powered mailing list hosted on Python.org to be notified of TriPython 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 

TriPython members' blogs are aggregated at Planet TriPython. If you a) participate in TriPython, b) have a blog that is at least sometimes about Python, and c) would like your blog aggregated on Planet TriPython, 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.

Organize 

TriPython members organized the inaugural Python Conference of the Carolinas. The two day conference spanned two tracks of Python presentations. Plans are now underway for a second PyCarolinas conference.

TriPython organized the first large-scale Zope community event in the western hemisphere with participation from five continents.

Sponsor 

This year TriPython is sponsoring Plone Symposium Midwest and PyOhio.

TriPython sponsored the Emerald Sprint, the Sea Sprint, and the No-Fun ZopeSkel BBQ Sprint.

TriPython sponsored the 2008 and 2006 Plone Conferences.

Train 

TriPython hosted a special Python Web Programming Workshop, August 5-9, 2013 on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This workshop started with Internet sockets and protocols and progressively worked up through several Python web frameworks.

TriPython developed the highly successful PyCamp boot camp program for Python user group outreach, now in its ninth year. Along the way we've taken PyCamp to Seattle, Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles, Houston, Penn State, Oshkosh, and Washington DC. PyCamp will be the official Python training program for PyOhio 2014 on the campus of Ohio State University, July 21-27, 2014 and Plone Symposium Midwest on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, June 13-22, 2013.

TriPython members at Caktus Consulting Group presented their second Django Bootcamp on Saturday January 12 and Sunday January 13, 2013. This event was a two day beginners' course for learning the basics of building a Django web application. Designed for developers with basic programming experience, this course provided the essentials needed to build and develop a simple Django application in a hands-on and interactive setting. The training focused on the construction of a crossword drill application to illustrate Django’s architecture and ecosystem.

TriPython hosted the first ever Plone Bootcamp, the largest Plone training meeting in the world to date. 2009 marked the fifth and final year TriPython sponsored Plone Bootcamps.

Over 2000 people on six continents have been to TriPython boot camps!

To keep informed about future TriPython community training events, subscribe to the TriPython 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.

TriPython hosted the first international Zope conference.

TriPython 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 TriPython in January 2005.

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

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

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

Acknowledgments 

The TriPython logo was contributed by Jim Allman. 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. TriPython was co-founded by Tom Bryan and Geoff Davis. Our WebAssign facilitator is Steve Gambino. Our Bull City Coworking facilitator is Robert Petrusz. Our Carrboro facilitators are Calvin Spealman, Caleb Smith, Mark Lavin, Tobias McNulty, Colin Copeland, and Victor Rocha. TriPython.org is hosted by Chris Calloway, our UNC facilitator. Nathan Rice is also a UNC facilitator. The TriPython email list is hosted by Python.org and administered by Chris Calloway and Mark Biggers. The TriPython IRC channel is operated by Chris Calloway, Mark Biggers, and Brad Crittenden. For the first six years of TriPython's existence, the TriPython email list was hosted by Starship Python and administered by Tom Bryan. The PyCarolinas 2012 Conference was organized by Calvin Spealman with Kurt Grandis, Chris Calloway, Rebecca Lovewell, and Andrew Thompson. The PyCarolinas 2012 logo was designed by Julia Elman courtesy of Caktus Group. TriPython owes a great debt to many volunteers too numerous to list here. Special thanks to Josh Johnson, Alex Kesling, Chris Fox, Mike Revoir, Ben Donnelly, Mark Corzine, Justis Peters, J.C. Sackett, Casey Emerson, Dave Powell, Veda Williams, Paul Smith, 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, Michael Miller, Cris Ewing, S. Morris Rose, Fulvio Casali, Andy McKay, Philipp Von Weitershausen, Whit Morriss, Jacqueline Arasi, Chris McDonough, Tres Seaver, and especially Joel Burton.