Off to Dallas

It was a great piece of chance that lead me to submit a couple of talk proposals to Pycon TX 2007. I’ve been working on using Python Eggs for NDG and one of my collegues noticed a request on the python mailing list for someone to give an Eggs talk. What better way to consolidate my knowledge of the technology than to present on it?

Those visitors from the PyCon website might like to pick up a recent presentation on Eggs I gave to my department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: see this wiki page. My audience was a broad mixture of scientific software developers (some in Python, some not) and members of the BADC who need to know what direction NDG is going. For PyCon I’ll have to refactor this considerably. I had originally designed the two talks to be part of a series of 3 but it now looks like there isn’t an egg-specific advanced talk (although #46 seems to include some eggs material).

Also see the tarball of the demo I gave at the end. With ez_setup.py and a few lines of shell script I was able to create an OpeNDAP server with WMS and KML output (mainly thanks to pydap). Ending a presentation with Google Earth is always a good bet.

Browsing through the accepted PyCon talks I can see it’s going to be well worth the trip. For a start Roberto De Almeida will be giving a talk on pydap and Dr. Travis E Oliphant will be talking about NumPy so there’s instant overlap with Geophysical applications. I’m also looking forward to hearing about IronPython, WSGI and Zope 3. Finally who could miss Guido’s key note?

Ah well! I guess there’s no escaping becoming a fully fledged Python geek groopie now.