PyCon Asia Pacific 2010 represents a conference dedicated to the Python programming language in Asia-Pacific and hosted for the first time in Singapore. The event will be held on 9 to 11 June 2010 at Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Singapore Management University (SMU), where the first day will be tutorials on python and django moving to next two days of conference. If you are interested to attend this event, you can check out the event here. For registration (if you want to get the early bird discounts), you can check it out here. Read more

The Singapore Python Group is organizing the 6th Singapore Python User Group Meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan 14, 2010, from 7:30pm – 9:30pm in Room 2.2, SMU, SIS (School of Information Systems). Here are the topics which will be discussed in the coming meeting: Read more

Last Saturday on 22 August 2009, GeekCamp finally took place at the Yahoo! Asia office in Suntec City, Singapore. It drew between 80 to 100 people from 9 am to 7pm. It was organized by an enthusiastic community of geeks who develop for the web or engaged in some form of scientific research related to computing. While scrambling across topics on cloud computing, web and mobile development from Ruby, Python-Django, Android and iPhone, it has an almost full fledged view that it’s an event totally designed for technologists. Given that there are many developer communities in Singapore but with very few members (with no critical mass, maybe the PHP User Group or ASP developers), this is a good event to aggregate them together so that we all can share ideas. Here are some reasons why we need more of these GeekCamps in Singapore: Read more

unConference Singapore 2009 saw a turn out of about 400 people, with a 85-15 male-female ratio (what else, did you think it was the other way round? I had actually thought female representation would be slightly smaller). It had certainly grown in size from last year, more than doubling its number of attendees. Read more
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