Kurtiss is the CTO and Co-founder of PlayHaven, an organization dedicated to helping game developers sell more games, vis-a-vis the judicious application of Python. Kurtiss has been waxing Pythonic since before anyone gave a flip about Ruby. You can find him on twitter as @kurtiss.

Talks

“Tornado: Rocking the non-blocking Web”
Py Web SF #12 – 2010-07-27 [Slideshare.net slides | Shrapnel Torndado helper source]

Almir Karic is a freelance python hacker and sys admin who enjoys working with shiny new technologies. Startup fan, yes they are confused, dis-organized and always short on time, but fun! His website is almirkaric.com and you can find him on twitter as @redduck666.

Talks

“Tragedy: a Python ORM for the Cassandra database”
Py Web SF #11 – 2010-06-29

Andreas is the co-founder and CTO of Snaptic. Snaptic develops web and mobile applications that make it simple to capture, organize, and share information on the go and keep it connected in the cloud. Snaptic is the leader in note-taking and geo-tagging applications in the Android Market with over 2.5 million active installs and numerous integrations with many of the market’s top applications.

Talks

“Integrating Mobile with the Web”
Py Web SF #10 – 2010-05-18 [ HTML slides for: Python on Android, Integrating Mobile with the Web ]

Eugene is an open source evangelist who specializes in the
design and implementation of mission-critical, high-availability large
scale systems. In the last two years, he and his team designed and
built several 100% SOA and cloud systems for various Forbes top 25
companies globally. As chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and
the ISD Technology Council, he led the official adoption of Linux and
other open source technologies at Walmart Stores Information Systems
Division. He continues to design high performance systems for major
companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

His website is http://eugeneciurana.com.

Talks

“Jython in Enterprise Applications Case Study”
Py Web SF #9 – 2010-03-30 [ PDF Slides ]

Bram Cohen is the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, and wrote the Python implementation in 2001-2003.

His website is http://bramcohen.com/.

Talks

“New Python Logging Framwork”
Py Web SF #8 – 2010-02-23
Source to Bram’s Python Object logger.

Marius isn’t working on trying to make local information useful to all.

His website is http://monkey.org/~marius.

Talks

“Building GeoAPI.com with Python Web Technologies” [ PDF Slides ]
Py Web SF #7 – 2010-01-21

Shannon -jj Behrens is the moderator for the Bay Area Python Interest Group. One of these days, he hopes to take a break from learning new, fringe languages long enough to implement a successful one of his own.

His website is jjinux.blogspot.com.

Talks

Py Web SF #6 – 2009-12-08
“Concurrency in Python” [HTML slides]

Ben Bangert is Senior Web Architect at Stanford Law School. He is also a well known developer of the Pylons Python Web application framework. Notably, he is the author of widely used Beaker cache/session middleware, and Routes URL routing middleware.

His website is groovie.org and you can follow him on Twitter at @benbangert.

Talks

Py Web SF #5 – 2009-10-20
“Pylons + expert tips” [PDF slides]

Almir is a lead backend hacker at Hitpost.com an early stage sports startup, you can find more about him at almirkaric.com or follow him on Twitter @redduck666.

Talks

Py Web SF #5 – 2009-10-20
“Google App Engine Quirks” [OO.org Slides]

Jamie Taylor is the Minister of Information at Metaweb Technologies, where he tends to Data Gardening and Community Building. His interest in large scale, non-relational data stores grew while managing Enterprise Software projects which used Dynamic Object patterns in his role as CTO and VP Engineering at DETERMINE Software (now a part of Selectica.) He was the founder of one of San Francisco’s first ISP’s and has a Ph.D. from Harvard.

Talks

Py Web SF #4 – 2009-09-29
“Borrowing from the Semantic Web to make your data more flexible”
[Slides and more]

Whether you are working on a Web 2.0 mashup or an Enterprise application, using semantic technologies can greatly simplify your data management and integration efforts. Whether you think the Semantic Web will or won’t materialize, its incubation over the last decade has produced a number of useful tools and techniques for making data as flexible as Python. This talk will cover the basics of semantic data, the methods for working with it and will look at some of the tools you can use with Python for leveraging semantic data in your own projects.