[Opensource] LUV March Meeting - 4 March 2008 - Pyglet / Auction

[Donna Benjamin]

Apologies for cross posts.

Next week's Linux Users of Victoria meeting features a talk on Pyglet,
which may be of interest to those looking at using Python as a
programming language.

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Tuesday 4 March, 7pm sharp at The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge
Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
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cheers
Donna

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From: Peter Lieverdink <me at cafuego.net>
To: luv-announce <luv-announce at luv.asn.au>
Subject: LUV March Meeting - 4 March 2008 - Pyglet / Auction
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:25:24 +1100

Come one come all to the March LUV meeting! Software, hardware, ideas!

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Tuesday 4 March, 7pm sharp at The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge
Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
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In addition to a double length feature talk this month, we will also try
our hand at some fundraising for a charity. Richard Keech will start the
evening with an auction.

* Hardware Charity Auction[1] by Richard Keech

  Richard is auctioning off hardware he no longer needs, with proceeds
going to Climate Positive. We have 62 lots to auction off. The
catalog[2] is available on the LUV website. The auction will start at
7pm sharp, so if you're interested in buying, be on time.

* LUV News by "Mr President", Andrew Chalmers

* pyglet piñata by Alex Holkner and Richard Jones

  Alex and Richard will demonstrate pyglet (http://www.pyglet.org), a
relatively new module for Python for developing graphics/multimedia
applications and games. pyglet allows programs to open multiple windows
on multiple screens, draw in those windows with OpenGL, and play back
audio and video in most formats. Unlike similar libraries available,
pyglet has no external dependencies (such as SDL) and is written
entirely in Python.

  After introducing the major features and uses of pyglet, we'll give a
half-hour tutorial, in which a complete game will be written from
scratch, right before your eyes. We'll also talk about the issues we
encountered in writing a Python-only library for Linux and how they were
resolved, and the benefits and pitfalls of using Python as a
cross-platform development language.

Come join us for dinner after the meeting.


[1] Some of the items are not little. If you plan on buying a larger
item, please make sure you have a way of taking it home on the night.

[2] http://www.luv.asn.au/files/20080304_auction_lots.txt

-- 
Donna Benjamin
Conference Director linux.conf.au 2008 http://www.mel8ourne.org
Board Member Open Source Industry Australia http://www.osia.net.au
Executive Director Creative Contingencies http://www.cc.com.au