Our next Python meetup will be hosted by NorCom. Here is the plan:

18:30 Doors open, snacks, drinks

19:00 Christoph Neutzel: "Replace Haystack with Elasticsearch_dsl: Fullfill your advanced needs"

Often Python/Django programmers start using Elasticsearch via Haystack. Picking Haystack is made easy by build-in forms, paginators and also the similarity to Querysets. After realizing the limits of Haystack a programmer has to think about switching in order to fulfill his advanced needs. With Elasticsearch_dsl he gets his desired benefits (current version, full access to all features etc) and actually he doesn’t have to do so much complex work to achieve this switch.
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Christoph is a Sen. Product Engineer at Pure Labs. He completed a degree in Computer Science of the Chemnitz University of Technology.

19:40 Siddhant Goel: "Managing personal finances using Python"

Keeping track of finances is something every does (or if not, then should be doing). At the end of the day, you'll have a better idea of where your money is coming from and going. There are proprietary tools available to do that, but I'll instead talk about a model that suits software developers a little bit better. This talk will introduce the concept of plain text accounting and double entry book-keeping. We'll then talk about how to implement such a flow using Beancount, which provides an entire suite of tools written in Python to help you manage your financial life from plain text files.

20:10 Lightning talk by Andreas Pawlik

20:30 Drinks & Networking

Feel free to make a lightning talk! It's just up to 5 minutes and a good opportunity to train before doing a real full-slot talk. No need to sign up, just come and do it!