5th Singapore Python User Group Meeting

Planned Programme

Topic : Python Games Development in 60 minutes (Mini Sprint)
Instructor : Morgan Heijdemann
Synopsis : 
This is a mini sprint (hands-on) on Python programming in games for beginners (yes!) or advanced programmers. By the end, you will see how fast and capable python is for developing games. We assure you that it willl be fun.
IMPORTANT
Pre-requisites : Bring your laptop computer for this mini sprint. 
Installations :  Please have python 2.5/2.6 and pyglet 1.1.3 installed. (http://www.pyglet.org/download.html)

Topic : Python Programming on Your Browser
Speaker : Liew Beng Keat
Synopsis :
This talk introduces IronPython, a Python implementation that runs on the .NET framework and Mono. Silverlight is a browser plug-in, which has CoreCLR and DLR, through which it is possible to create dynamic applications and natively script the browser with Python.

Title : PyCon APAC - Call for Papers (Stand up Singapore!) 
Presenter : Maurice Ling
Synopsis :
As the host of PyCon APAC, the Singapore Python community will be taking the lead on paper submissions. Maurice will be sharing on our conference programme and number of papers being planned for and what we hope from our local community. (PS : We have exciting news on our invited keynotes as well)

Title : PUGS Website - Connecting our Community
Presenter : Abhaya Shenoy
Synopsis :
Abhaya will present PUGS effort to communicate with our local Python community with work done in setting up our web presence at http://www.pugs.org.sg (which is still under construction at the point of writing this).

Title : Lightning Talks
Speaker : Open Invitation to All
Synopsis :
All (personal) projects that you have done using Python. If you've never given a talk before, lightning talks are a good place to start. You don't need to make slides, but if you do, you only need to make three.