The June PyGameSF meet up will be at the Sycip conference room on the fourth floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

The May PyGameSF meet up will be at the Sycip conference room on the fourth floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

The April PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Colin Bean: Complex visualization with Pyglet and NumPy. An introduction to how complex numbers can be visualized ad 2D geometry, how geometric transformations can be described as operations on complex numbers, and how basic complex functions can produce visually striking results. Visualization code will be provided using Pyglet and NumPy. The material is based on Tristan Needham’s book “Visual Complex Analysis”.
• Harry Tormey: Mobile games to make you move around. Obesity has been cited as a contributing factor to approximately 100,000–400,000 deaths per year in the USA alone. To help address this problem the company I work for is having a competition to create an Android app that inspires and tracks physical movement using our API’s. The grand prize for this competition : An all expenses paid trip to TED Global 2010. I will be demoing an example open source exercise tracking Android app and an accompanying pylons based web stack which displays information captured via the phone. Talk will cover: An introduction to Android, mobile data capture techniques and displaying information captured from the phone via a python based web backend using the Snaptic API.

Just a quick update to say that their has been a mixup with the room booking at the library. This month’s meet up will take place in the Sycip room on the fourth floor of the library.

The March PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Patrick Stinson: Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine. Topics will include separation and communication between the application and scripting engine, why Python is “safe” for audio work including empirical performance metrics, and caveats related to multithreaded processing as performance requirements increase. I will share my experiences using the standard CPython implementation to research and develop a state-of-the-art scripting engine for the Play professional sampling engine (http://www.soundsonline.com).
• Shandy Brown : Structuring Your Game’s Code. One approach to designing video games with a focus on rapid development and networked multiplayer capabilities. Shandy Brown will highlight key ideas in his tutorial. Fundamental topics such as event-based design, defining your game model, and separating the model and the view will be covered.

The February PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Shandy Brown : Structuring Your Game’s Code. One approach to designing video games with a focus on rapid development and networked multiplayer capabilities. Shandy Brown will highlight key ideas in his tutorial. Fundamental topics such as event-based design, defining your game model, and separating the model and the view will be covered.
• Warren Stringer: Tr3: A Tablet Ontology. Warren will be demonstrating Tr3 (pronounced tree), a media performance ontology that connects Human gestures to device interfaces, such as the iPad. Tr3 was designed for the novice, programmer, and designer. A novice will use Tr3 to orchestrate interactive media. A programmer will use Tr3 to wrap real-time APIs around their preferred language. A designer will use Tr3 to iterate through many user interfaces. Tr3 was started in 1998, as a patch bay for a synthesizer that used a variety of input devices to create visual music. The favorite device is a tablet, which was put in the hands of all age groups with universally mesmerizing results. Tr3 has been re-written to focus on multi-touch surfaces. Tr3 consists of a namespace, auto-scaled types, tree decorators, event observers, recordable sessions, code wrapper, ontology viewer, and a plug-in architecture for selling performances. An overview can be found here. Since this is a PyGame group, Warren will be demonstrating how Python reads in theTr3 definition and spits out a language parser in either Python or C++. Depending on availability, Warren will demonstrate a Tr3 wrapping a tablet based visual music synthesizer.

The January PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Tim Thompson: the NthControl. For musical and visual performers, new touchscreen netbooks (Asus T91MT) and USB-connected touchscreens (Mimo 720-S) can augment the ubiquitous slider/knob/button box by providing a completely software-driven interface that avoids the bulk and distraction of a laptop interface. Tim has been experimenting in this area and will share his experience so far, including a demonstration of a python-based display/controller (NthControl) he is developing for upcoming musical/visual performances.
• Casey Duncan: Grease. Introducing Grease, a new open-source game engine for developing 2D games in Python. Grease is an component-based entity system with support for data-driven game development. Grease is designed from the ground-up for simplicity, rapid development and high-performance. It is intended to be fully interoperable with both pygame and pyglet, providing pluggable services for sprite and vector rendering, post-processing effects, physics, particle effects, event-driven logic scripting and eventually network support. Grease is in the early stages of development, Casey hopes to get input on the design and architecture, as well as encourage folks to contribute so they can use it for their own projects.

Just letting everyone know that their will be no PyGameSF meet up till January next year. Happy holidays.

The October PyGameSF meet up will be at the PALEY (not the STONG) conference room on the third floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Shannon -jj Behrens, How to Blow Up Helicopters Using Pygame. The talk will consists of a summary of some of the libraries and tricks JJ used for his two PyWeek entries. It will be covering topics such as PGU, generator-based animations, and state machine based levels.
• Harry Tormey, Who is it? This talk will cover the in’s and outs of working with Facbook and pylons while giving an update on a social network game I am currently working on. (This talk will cover a lot of the material skipped over in the August presentation)

The September PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are:

• Brad Busse, Harry Tormey, Keith Nemitz: “If we did do Pyweek9, here’s how and what happened”. An overview of the pyweek
  experience, what works what doesn’t and why.
• Niall O’Higgins: “OAuth and OpenID: A Python Hacker’s Guide.” Niall gives an overview of his experiences working with both OAuth and
  OpenID.