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There’s a few snakes that St. Patrick forgot to drive out of Ireland and as it turns out they’ll all Python programmers! This month we get a chance to talk about the upcoming PyCon Ireland event on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of July at Dublin School of English on Wellington Quay, Dublin 2. Around the mic are Python Ireland members Alan Kennedy, Michael Twomey, Vishal Vatsa and Tendayi Mawushe; letting us in on what to expect from PyCon Ireland, as well as a lively discussion around the potential role of Open Source in business and government.

We’d love to hear your opinion, especially if you’ve got some feedback on what you’d like to see in PyCon Ireland. You can leave feedback via the any of following

• Twitter account (codemongrel)
• Post a comment at the thread relating to this episode on the ossdev-ireland googlegroup
• Or simply add a comment to this blog post

Season 2 Episode 3 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

• High Quality Ogg (14 MB)
• Low Quality Ogg (7.3 MB)
• High Quality MP3 (28 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (6.8 MB)

Running time 29:44.

 

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Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com

Show Notes

• EveryBlock.com – A site that allows you to track and discuss what’s new in your neighborhood.
• Behind the scenes of EveryBlock.com – Adrian Holovaty, author of EveryBlock.com and co-author of the Django web framework, takes you under the hood of EveryBlock.com in a US PyCon 2009 Chicago Presentation
• Python.org – The official website of the Python language
• Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses – A blog post by Simon Willis, co-creator of the Django framework, on harnessing people power when shifting through large volumes of data
• Sunlight Foundation – A non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that focuses on the digitization of government data and the creation of tools and Web sites to make that data easily accessible for all citizens, in an effort to make government more transparent and accountable
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS – An article by Udi Dahan exploring how Open Source has in many ways become a safer bet for managers in the .NET world in terms of longevity
• Wikipedia’s Open Source License article – An overview of what an Open Source license is, with links to more detailed comparisons and information on each one
• Open Source and Open Standards at Home – Positioning Ireland as an International Innovation Hub – A submission to the Irish Government’s Innovation Task Force identifying how Open Source can be used to drive innovation within Ireland

Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Episode 6 is go! What? No episode 5? Well, we’ve gone a bit Pulp Fiction this week and given short shrift to doing things in a sequential order. The truth is we were cooking episode 5 last week and then DrupalCamp Belfast came along and was just so fantastic we had to rush an episode dedicated to it out the door!

So what is Drupal? It’s an Open Source content management platform with a strong community focus. We’re lucky enough to have an interview with Drupal Core developer Stella Power about getting into Drupal development along with a summary of some the goings on at the conf. The event took place at NICVA’s HQ and a massive thanks to them and all the organisers who ensured it was a cracking event!

And if you’ve any feedback please send it on via our twitter account (codemongrel) or post a comment below! We’d love to hear your opinion.

Episode 6 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

• High Quality Ogg (5.1 MB)
• Low Quality Ogg (2.9 MB)
• High Quality MP3 (11 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (2.6 MB)

Running time 11:09.

 

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Some credits

• Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com
• Sound Editing Software (Audacity) by the wonderful Audacity development team, available at audacity.sourceforge.net
• Ireland’s awesome Open Source community – just too cool!

Show Notes

• Drupal Project – an Open Source content management platform with a strong community focus
• NICVA – the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, the umbrella body for voluntary and community organisations in Northern Ireland
• Drupal 7 Usability Tests – Examples of Usability Tests on Vimeo that the Drupal is using to improve quality. Easily find Drupal 7 Usability Tests by searching for the ‘d7ux’ tag on Vimeo
• Drupal Documentation Team – The good folks dedicated to keeping Drupal’s documentation clear and concise
• DrupalCamp Belfast – Watch this space for the next event – let’s hope it’s soon!
• Irish Drupal Group – The number one place to catch folks from the ever-expanding Drupal community in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Episode 4 is out the door! This week we caught up with Jaime Hemmett and Justin Kelly in the Longstone bar in Dublin to find out what’s going to be happening at Ireland’s premier Open Source Software unconferenece – OSS Barcamp! Unfortunately we picked footie night to record the episode so you may hear some Celtic and Arsenal chanting from the plasma tv’s dotted around the pub – it all adds to the atmosphere!

 
A sincere apology to anyone who is finding that the podcast feed is downloading all four formats (high/low oggs/mp3s) at once. We promised we would fix this before releasing another episode but haven’t gotten the time yet. Never trust a software developer to give a realistic time estimate We will try to do this before the next episode. (Promise!).

And please let us know if you’ve any other other feedback via our twitter account (codemongrel) or post a comment below! We’d love to find out what you like or dislike (shock horror!) about the show.

Episode 4 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

• High Quality Ogg (7 MB)
• Low Quality Ogg (3.9 MB)
• High Quality MP3 (14.6 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (3.7 MB)

Running time 16:06.

 

You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.

Some credits

• Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com
• Sound Editing Software (Audacity) by the wonderful Audacity development team, available at audacity.sourceforge.net
• The wonderful Open Source community based in Dublin – you rock!

Show Notes

• OSS Barcamp (Schedule) – Ireland’s favourite Open Source event

Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.