Europython 2006

Session

Business and Applications

4 Jul 2006, 09:00

CERN, Geneva

29. Achieving High Performance In Mercurial

Bryan O'Sullivan (Mercurial)

04/07/2006, 09:00

Business and Applications

Mercurial is a distributed revision control system designed for performance and scalability. Although written in Python, it is faster than most other revision control tools. This paper discusses the techniques used in Mercurial to achieve such high performance, and compares its performance on common operations with three other revision control systems: CVS, Subversion, and Perforce. It...

37. Developing MailManager

Mr Campbell Kevin (Logicalware)

04/07/2006, 09:35

Business and Applications

MailManager is an email response management product written in Python. It is built on top of Zope and runs against an SQL database. The source code is freely available under the GPL. MailManager is sold to customers either as a web based application, an appliance server, or via support contracts. Additionally, customers often pay for modifications of the software, which are normally...

42. Snaking the Web

Mr Markus Franz (Metager2, SuMa-eV)

04/07/2006, 10:10

Business and Applications

Two research projects of NEC and the University of Hannover could not be realized because of technology faults. With Python a 18 year old student from Germany solved the problems and created a new-class metasearch engine for the WWW. The development process with problems like high-volumes of data, web crawling, performances iusses and other topics was easy with Python like with no other...

60. LiSoG - Linux Solution Group. Connect real users, technology, applications and businesses.

Mr Niels Mache (struktur AG)

04/07/2006, 11:00

Business and Applications

The Linux Solution Group (www.lisog.org) is a cooperation platform for companies and authorities with a strong interest in doing business or running applications based on Linux and Open Source. Members of the LiSoG range from global enterprises like IBM, Novell and Red Hat to small businesses, authorities and users. The session will explain the goals and targets of the LiSoG...

71. ZEA Partner network explained

Mr Xavier Heymans (Zea Partners)

04/07/2006, 11:35

The partnership of Zea (www.zeapartners.org) is focused on growing open source and open source business by pooling resources for collective action as promotion and projects. With 20 partner companies in 11 countries, ZEA provides a broad reach of expertise in content management. The ZEA network currently totals a combined staff of over 150 employees and a turnover in excess of € 9...

82. Introducing python into industrial environment applications

Fabio Pliger (SIA s.r.l.)

04/07/2006, 12:10

Business and Applications

Two years have passed since the company I work for (SIA) decided to use Python to develop applications. Most of those applications are for pharmaceutical companies with high industrial and production needs. So, I would like to talk about why we have chosen python, about the main problems using Python with industrial SCADA frameworks and also about some results and tips. To wrap it...

121. "What not how" - Questionnaire development with Zope & Python

Mr Charlie Clark

04/07/2006, 14:00

Business and Applications

Computers are well-suited for routine, recurring tasks such as data entry. In fields such as medicine effective use can lead to considerable improvements in productivity and patient care if doctors spend less time asking routine questions. As part of a research project at the University of Aberdeen I have been investigating possible systems. Any system should require as little maintenance...

87. On the usage of Python in the CERN Document Server's digital library and conference management tools

Mr Jean-Yves Le Meur (CERN), Mr Thomas Baron (CERN)

04/07/2006, 14:35

Business and Applications

Python has been intensively used at CERN since 2001 by the CERN Document Server team to provide services in two areas: - Digital document management within the CDS Invenio application, running on top of MySQL DB - Digital conference management within the CDS Indico application, running on top of a ZOPE DB; and currently used to run EuroPython 06! In this presentation, after...

95. TinyERP: opensource enterprise management software

Mr Gaëtan de Menten (Tiny SPRL)

04/07/2006, 15:10

Business and Applications

Tiny ERP is a complete ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) package. Its main features include accounting (analytic and financial), production management (MRP), stock management, sales and purchases management, and much more. Technical features include flexible workflows, an object relational mapping (on top of PostgreSQL), a dynamically built GUI,...