RocPy Meet up 9/16

This is a post about the Roc.py meet up on last Tuesday (9/16). RocPy is a Rochester Python User Group who often actively contribute to many open-sourced projects.

The meeting I attended was “an open course on open source about openshift”. Many technologies behind the scene were introduced including how Flask, YAML and OpenShift work plus how the group is using GitHub to keep track of their code.

Additionally, a list of readings were introduced to us who recently just started HFOSS activities. I found many of them to be not only helpful but also interesting. “The Python I Would Like To See” – written by Armin Ronacher was the most interesting one to me. Without talking too much into the design / logic used by Python, the bright point I picked up is the reason why people would to join open sourced projects. This is because they know that the project is not perfect and they want to contribute as much as they can to improve it. Same idea was also introduced during the RocPy meet up - which was quite impressive to me.

Here're some other readings I found to be quite useful for FOSS beginners that are also introduced during the meet up:

• Unpythonic Python
• Distributing a Python command line application
• Full Stack Python
• Math evolution and dirty tricks

Even though I did not understand a decent amount of topics they're talking about, but it is still interesting to me and brings up my memories about Python since I haven't used the language for a long time. I'm looking forward to attend more of the RocPy meeting in the future.