Notes from PySIG, 24-Jan-2008

[Ted Roche]

Seven people made it to the January 2008 meeting of the Python Special
Interest Group, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the
Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Bill Sconce showed how to scrape data from the Sos web site using 
Beautiful Soup, and shared many tales of the interesting recount vote. 
We should all be pleased at how well and transparently New Hampshire's 
democracy works. Many states could learn from us.

Kent Johnson did a yeoman's job of hauling along a set of Python books 
that rivaled or perhaps exceeded those brought by Bill Sconce. There was 
much interesting discussion about the pros and cons of the various 
books, and everyone got to browse through them. Kent also showed off his 
Asus Eee laptop which, yes, can run Python and to prove it, he posted 
the infamous 60-line-Django app and several attendees worked on it.

Bill F. showed off his Nokia N810. What a sweet little machine that is! 
And yes, it runs Python.

Thanks to Bill Sconce for organizing the meeting and hauling his red
wagon full of books, projector, cables et al, to Alex Hewitt for
assisting (and providing milk this month), to Kent Johnson for bringing
his extensive Python Library, the Amoskeag Business Incubator for
hosting, and all for their participation.