What TriZPUG Does:

Meet 

Next TriZPUG Meeting: Thursday, October 25, 7pm at Caktus Consulting Group, 209 Lloyd St., Suite 110, Carrboro. Let's recap PyCarolinas possibly with a reprise of some of our favorite talks from the conference. To announce a talk for this meeting, send an email with your topic to the TriZPUG email list. As always, spontaneous lightning talks of ten minutes or less on other topics are also welcome. Anything you've learned about Python, no matter how trivial, can be a lightning talk. There's plenty of parking at Caktus and we can walk to nearby after-meeting watering holes.

Read more about TriZPUG monthly meetings.

Collaborate 

Next TriZPUG Carrboro Project Night: Wednesday, October 10, 6pm at Caktus Consulting Group, 209 Lloyd St., Suite 110, Carrboro. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded my like minded python lovers? Join us for our monthly hack night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time.

See past TriZPUG collaborative events.

Mail 

Join our suitably Python powered mailing list hosted on Python.org to be notified of TriZPUG happenings and ongoing discussions. The list is also mirrored on the wonderful Gmane service in a variety of formats (news, RSS, blog, etc.).

Chat 

Try out our IRC channel. New to IRC? Look at our IRC help.

Blog 

TriZPUG members' blogs are aggregated at Planet TriZPUG. If you a) participate in TriZPUG, b) have a blog that is at least sometimes about Python, and c) would like your blog aggregated on Planet TriZPUG, then please send your blog feed's URL to info@trizpug.org.

Advise 

We have some advice for budding pythonistas. It was recently updated to reflect new developments.

Sponsor 

TriZPUG sponsored the No-Fun ZopeSkel BBQ Sprint.

TriZPUG sponsored the 2008 and 2006 Plone Conferences.

Train 

TriZPUG members at Caktus Consulting Group are presenting their second Django Bootcamp on Saturday January 12 and Sunday January 13, 2013. This event is a two day beginners course for learning the basics of building a Django web application. Designed for developers with basic programming experience, this course provided the essentials needed to build and develop a simple Django application in a hands-on and interactive setting. The training focused on the construction of a crossword drill application to illustrate Django’s architecture and ecosystem.

TriZPUG developed the highly successful PyCamp boot camp program for Python user group outreach, now in its seventh year. Along the way we've taken PyCamp to Seattle, Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles, Houston, Penn State and Washington DC. PyCamp will be the official Python training program for PyOhio 2013 on the campus of Ohio State University, July 22-28, 2013.

TriZPUG hosted the first large-scale Zope community event in the western hemisphere with participation from five continents.

TriZPUG sponsored the first ever Plone Bootcamp, the largest Plone training meeting in the world to date. 2009 marked the fifth year TriZPUG sponsored Plone Bootcamps.

Over 1000 people on six continents have been to TriZPUG boot camps!

To keep informed about future TriZPUG PyCamps and Zope community events, subscribe to the TriZPUG email list.

2008 PyCampers and Advanced Plone Bootcampers get together to shout about their new skills.

Plone Boot Campers for 2008 got an all new updated program based on buildout.

TriZPUG hosted to first international Zope conference.

TriZPUG helped the new Houston ZPUG raise $1800 in startup funds.

2006 PyCampers are ecstatic about functional programming with Python.

The world's first Plone Bootcamp was hosted by TriZPUG in January 2005.

The March 2006 TriZPUG Plone Bootcamp was a whoop-it-up affair!

The August 2007 TriZPUG Plone Bootcamp was the largest ever held.

TriZPUG hosted its first Advanced Plone Bootcamp in the August 2007 heat wave.

Acknowledgments 

The TriZPUG logo was contributed by Ben Best and Rob Lineberger. The Camp 5, PyCamp and 2006 Plone Bootcamp 2 logos were contributed by Rob Lineberger and the Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center. The 2005 Plone Bootcamp 1 logo was contributed by Jim Allman (Interrobang Digital Media) and Tom Bryan. TriZPUG was co-founded by Tom Bryan and Geoff Davis. Our NCSU facilitators are Josh Johnson, Chris Fox, and Alex Kesling. Our Duke facilitators are Mike Revoir and Ben Donnelly. Our Durham SplatSpace facilitators are Mark Corzine and Justis Peters. Our RTP facilitator is Kurt Grandis. Our Carrboro facilitators are Calvin Spealman, Mark Lavin, Tobias McNulty, and Colin Copeland. TriZPUG.org is hosted by Chris Calloway, our UNC facilitator. Nathan Rice is also a UNC facilitator. The TriZPUG email list is hosted by Python.org and administered by Chris Calloway and Mark Biggers. The TriZPUG IRC channel is operated by Chris Calloway, Mark Biggers, and Brad Crittenden. For the first six years of TriZPUG's existence, the TriZPUG email list was hosted by Starship Python and administered by Tom Bryan. TriZPUG owes a great debt to many volunteers too numerous to list here. Special thanks to Casey Emerson, Dave Powell, Veda Williams, Robert Petrusz, Paul Smith, Alex Ray, Stephan Altmueller, Thomas Wilson, Sean Semone, Frank DiMauro, Charlie Hitlin, Walter Martin, Edmund Moseley, Carol Ludwig, Steve Corey, Hiawatha Demby, Kevin Morgan, Cheryl Jerozal, Scott Morningstar, Mali Ozbay, Josten Ma, Steven Butterworth, Michael Miller, Cris Ewing, Andy McKay, Philipp Von Weitershausen, Whit Morriss, Jacqueline Arasi, Chris McDonough, Tres Seaver, and especially Joel Burton.