Before the GRPUG meeting on Monday I went to the Calvin College North Hall to meet Joel Adams, the Chair of the Computer Science Department there. When I arrived, an astronomer was in his office with a strange IPython bug. A mathplotlib plot of a 5MB data set run through PyDev seemed correct, but the same script run through IPython introduced several different plot points. They were both run with the same version of Python, on the same PC, and with the same mathplotlib module. I was unable to help, other than point them to the IPython bug page the next day.
Prof Adams showed me a couple of the room available for GRPUG meetings, and I went with the room currently used by the GR-JUG.
I think we had a good first meeting. Besides me, there were four guys from local Linux groups, and three professors from Calvin College in attendance. The beer was good, the food was pretty good, and the noise wasn’t a big problem. Adam was kind enough to bring a projector and screen, so we had some IDE demos. IPython, Komodo Edit, VIM, Geany, Eclipse with PyDev, Python Machine, and one other one I can’t quite remember the name of were demonstrated. It looks like finding a Python IDE to suit your needs is not the problem, it’s just a matter of wading through all the options to find your favorite.
We decided to meet every other week on Monday nights. We will meet at Calvin College in the Science Bldg, Room 382, which the GR-JUG has been nice enough to break in for us. After a presentation or two, we will head over to the Grand Rapids Brewing Company for food, drinks, and socializing.
The next meeting will be Monday, June 29 at 6PM in room 382. Adam will be presenting on the py-xmlrpc module, and if anyone else would like to show something off, let me know.
