This month it was my turn to give a talk at the West Yorkshire Python Usergroup. In attendance were Simon Davy, Bernie Czenkusz, Peter Russell, Ed Saxton and myself. The aim of the talk was to present the structure of the Zope Toolkit, its place and role in other frameworks, and to explain the technical details Zope Component Architecture in a balanced and fair way.
Overall I was happy with the talk: people seemed to already have a lot of knowledge about the various topics I was presenting, which made for some good questions and discussion. If I could criticise any of it, I'd say it was probably too long - weighing in at around 1hr 40mins, but perhaps that was because there was a lot of questions. I expected it to be about an hour in total!
To prepare the images for the slides I used Xara on Linux. It's very good for drawing and manipulating vector diagrams and ideal for illustrations. I put the slides together in Open Office Presentation and exported them as a PDF. This worked extremely well and can highly recommend this approach for simple presentations such as mine. I've made them available here.
Looking forward to next month: Peter Russell committed to a talk on the XML and HTML parsing library 'lxml'. Bernie tried to pin some of us down for writing a Python Rag article for March, although I'm not totally sure what the outcome of that was. Simon pitched the idea of setting up a 'WyPy Blog', which we all contribute to regularly. Perhaps Bernie could cherry pick the best of the bunch for his Python Rag magazine?
Friday 22 January 2010
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