Some of us grad students at UCSD who use primarily Python for our scientific research have created a user group, UCSD Scientific Python User Group. If you’re interested, check out the github account and add yourself to the google group:

• Github: https://github.com/ucsd-scientific-python/user-group
• Google groups: ucsd-scientific-python@googlegroups.com (add yourself here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ucsd-scientific-python)