Good news from the free open source software community :
- Debian 7 "Wheezy" has been released
- Debian Québec is born
- Montréal-Python is going to celebrate this!
Ever dreamed of a fully functional and performant Python development workstation? Wanted to become a hacker so you attend Montréal-Python workshop but find yourself spending your time configuring your computer? That's history!
Come to the Debian release party this Saturday, May 11th at UQAM, starting at 12:30. You'll treat yourself to the brand new Debian and we'll set up a Python development environment together, 100% free open source software based, using Debian's packages.
Official announcement of release party organized by Debian Québec (in French) :
- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianQuebec/ReleasePartyWheezy/Invitation
- http://agendadulibre.qc.ca/event/563/
The complete address is : UQAM, Complexe des sciences Pierre-Dansereau, Cœur des Sciences (a.k.a "La Chaufferie"), 175, avenue du Président-Kennedy (COR-700)
- OpenStreetMap: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=coeur+des+sciences
- Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/cDnce
The Montréal-Python icing on the cake: package installation for...
- famous interactive interpreter IPython
- preferred text editor
- source versioning
- virtual environments
- scientific Python
- Python for web development (frameworks, database drivers)
Fresh air that will dilate your bronchi for sure! Be there.
Presentation material here : http://nbviewer.ipython.org/5556234