Last night's Front Range Pythoneers meeting drew at least 16 attendees, which is great. (We had 20 last month, but 6 of them were employees of Churchill Navigation who hosted the meeting.) We were all very encouraged to see such healthy interest in Python. We had eager hobbyists, academic and scientific researchers, and corporate coders.

I gave my "XRC and wxPython" talk which went well. Sean Reifschneider from Fort Collins talked about "Python and VIM: Two great tastes that go great together" and managed to make that interesting. Fernando Perez talked briefly about IPython1 and we changed our code sprint date to April 28th: .. code sprint: http://python.meetup.com/180/calendar/5520017/

I mentioned that the boulder-oracle-sprint branch of Django now fails only 6 of 100 test cases, and that three of those failures may be spurious. Front Range Pythoneers owns this code, but apparently that means me so far. Basically, I'm looking for one person to help me refactor a big patch to trunk so that it's not as ugly as it is now and hence might be accepted. No one at the meeting jumped at this, but if any of you have a free day on an upcoming weekend, let me know.

We met at bivio.com, and there was lots of beer and pizza courtesy of our friends Eric Dobbs, Jim Baker, and Rob Nagler of bivio.

On a tangent, Hewlett-Packard just shelled out big bucks to buy a Django-based startup of 9 people, Tabblo.com. That's nice to see.