The third day of the PyCon conference (Sunday) was also a lot of fun. Let’s spend a bit of time talking about what happened! If you missed it, see the previous article in this series, PyCon 2023 – The Second Day of the Conference (Saturday) More Keynotes The final keynotes happen on Sunday. The first …
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PyCon is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, I’ve been trying to figure out how many of them I have attended. I think I have been to eight of the conferences. Anyway, PyCon is happening in Salt Lake City, Utah this year. Let’s talk about the highlights of the conference so far! PyCon Talks There …
Day 3 of PyCon 2018 began with a keynote from one of the longtime core developers of Python, Brett Cannon. He spoke on the struggles of working in open source and how we should treat each other with kindness throughout the process. I completely agreed with all his points as the negativity I see sometimes …
Day two of PyCon 2018 was kicked off with a few lightning talks. Next up were the keynotes. The first keynote was given by Ying Li from Docker. She spent her keynote talking about good security practices in the web and used a children’s book to illustrate her topic. It was kind of a fun …
PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio kicked off their first conference day with an introduction from one of Cleveland’s natives, Ernest W. Durbin III. Then we moved on to the keynote of the morning which was given by Dan Callahan from Mozilla. He talked about tooling and how Python currently doesn’t have a big presence on …
The PyCon 2017 videos are already available on Youtube. Here are some highlights: The Vanderplas Keynote Raymond Hettinger’s “Modern Python Dictionaries — A confluence of a dozen great ideas” Brett Cannon’s “What’s New in Python 3.6?” And there’s much more here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg/feed
The second day of the PyCon 2017 conference was kicked off by breakfast with people from NASA and Pixar, among others, followed by several lightning talks. I didn’t see them all, but they were kind of fun. Then they moved on to the day’s first keynote by Lisa Guo & Hui Ding from Instagram. I …
This is my first PyCon in 6 years. My last being in Atlanta. This year, PyCon is in Portland, OR. My first conference day I managed to miss the morning talks due to rooms getting overly full. So I ended up on the hallway track instead and got to speak with various members of the …
If you’re like me, you missed PyCon North America 2014 this year. It happened last weekend. While the main conference days are over, the code sprints are still running. Anyway, for those of you who missed PyCon, they have released a bunch of videos on pyvideo! Every year, they seem to get the videos out …
Not sure how I missed this, but PyCon 2013 is already open for proposals, which means if you like to talk about Python, now’s your chance to show your chops! You can propose a talk, a tutorial or a poster. Head on over to their prospectus for more information. PyCon is a lot of fun …
The PyCon USA talk videos are finally starting to come online. You can check them out here: http://pyvideo.org/category/17/pycon-us-2012. I’m wondering why they chose this over the miro site that they’ve been using for the last few years. Maybe someone in the know can comment on that. I noticed the streams I linked to seemed to …
For those of you who didn’t know, Convore is out and it looks like Disqus is in: https://pycon.disqus.com/ I thought Convore was pretty interesting last year, although there were some minor issues. I’ll be interested to hear what people think of the disqus system compared to convore though.
I saw on Twitter that you can watch a Livestream of PyCon here: http://streamti.me/ It seems to work and there’s even a Twitter feed along the bottom of the site. Check it out if you didn’t make it either!
In case you didn’t realize it, PyCon has officially started today in Santa Clara, CA. Sadly my organization was too slow footed to secure a ticket for me, so I won’t be there to report on what’s going on this year. Instead, I’ll try to post links to other people’s blogs so you can get …
On Sunday, March 13th, the final official PyCon conference day occurred (there were sprint days that followed, of course). Anyway, they had three interesting plenaries to help lead us into that day’s talks. Read on to find out what they were about. The Threadless Plenary Chris McAvoy, VP of Technology at Threadless in Chicago gave …
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