Xapian discuss - Aug 2006 - Xapian presentation

I'm preparing a Xapian/python talk for Barcamp London (so the talk may
not actually happen, depending on interest). Are there any specific
things people think I should cover? The audience will (I suspect)
largely be people with reasonable python, but probably no knowledge of
Xapian or indeed search/IR. The plan is (if I have time) to
demonstrate building out a tiny web service for indexing and
searching - is that too ambitious?

James

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  James Aylett                                                  xapian.org
  james@tartarus.org                               uncertaintydivision.org

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:49:13PM +0100, James Aylett
wrote:
> I'm preparing a Xapian/python talk for Barcamp London (so the talk may
> not actually happen, depending on interest). Are there any specific
> things people think I should cover? The audience will (I suspect)
> largely be people with reasonable python, but probably no knowledge of
> Xapian or indeed search/IR. The plan is (if I have time) to
> demonstrate building out a tiny web service for indexing and
> searching - is that too ambitious?
That shouldn't be too ambitious.  Something like building an index of
Shakespeare's complete works, or something similarly small, so that you can
perform the indexing during the talk, would be ideal.  When's the talk
likely to happen, if it does?

In related news, I'm likely to be giving a Xapian talk for the British
Computer Society in November.  This will probably be a less technical one
than the one you're giving, though I've not yet thought in detail about
what to cover.

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Richard