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4th Singapore Python User Group Meeting
SMU School of Information Systems NSR 2.1
What
When Jul 16, 2009
from 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Where SMU School of Information Systems NSR 2.1
We’ve got exciting topics lined up for our coming meeting. Mark out your diary guys!
Planned Program
Topic : DigiBanner : An Interactive Multi-Screen Network Application
Speaker : Morgan Heijdemann
Synopsis :
In this talk, Morgan will demonstrate the capabilities of Python in delivering a desktop realtime application. It shows the use of sockets (client/server), (queued) threading, the power of pickle, pyglet and the integration of wiiMotes. …

If any of you use mibbit to access freenode, you should already know by now that Freenode blocks Mibbit.
Until the ban is lifted, you may wish to access #linuxnus using the webchat powered by qwebirc

Whew! Has this been a long time coming, or what?
It’s taken a while, but linuxNUS is proud to bring to you yet another episode of the linuxNUS Podcast!
Episode 1: Birth of the Alliance (shownotes ) awaits your download!
In this espisode, we catch up with a few of the founding members of the Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA), and find out more about how the Alliance aims to help consolidate the open source community in Singapore. We also talk about FOSA’s flagship event, Software Freedom Day (SFD). The 2009 edition …

This Saturday, linuxNUS is going to have another hackfest. The last time we had one, projects involving Java, PHP, Python and even Mobile Processing were being worked on by all the different people who attended. Ideas were tossed around, and conversations about iPhone, Android and open source events in Singapore were in full swing, among others. See the photos!
What’s a hackfest about, you ask? Well, anything a geek wants, a geek gets. Power, Wi-Fi, good coffee… no rules, no expectations, except have a good time and hack away.
Keep watching this …

linuxNUS has partnered with e27 to bring you a special discount for the unConference. Sign up with us , to get 20% off the current prevailing price of entrance tickets to the unConference. What’s more, if you sign up at any time before 8 May 2009, Friday, you’ll only pay SGD 40, instead of SGD 56 (without the discount, tickets are going at SGD 50 before 8 May, and SGD 70 after). Sign up at the link above, or use the discount code "e27_linuxnus " when you purchase tickets …

The codeandroid guys now have their very own IRC channel on Freenode. linuxNUS is pleased to be hosting the logs for #codeandroid.
The following is a message from their FB group:
Dear developers,
We have set up our IRC channel at #CodeAndroid on irc.freenode.net where developers can discuss and help each other out in development. Please do join us in our discussion. We will also be offering support for the upcoming ITSC’s CodeXtreme competition in June/July through livechat on the channel, so if you are a participant do stay tuned. Thank you.
Cheers
From CodeAndroid …