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[Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: S Anand
by PyCon India News 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce S Anand as the fourth Keynote speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Anand ----------- Anand is the co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories. You can find him on Twitter: @sanand0 Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1304020252271849472 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ _______________________________________________ https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon Mailing list guidelines :http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf

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PyCon India 2020: Announcing Workshop and Devsprint tickets
by PyCon India News 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hello everyone, We know a lot of you have been waiting for this eagerly. Don't worry, you don't have to wait anymore! The Workshop and Devsprint tickets for PyCon India is available now on our website. Devsprints -------- PyCon India 2020 Devsprints will happen on 4th and 5th October 2020. You don't need to have a conference ticket to participate in the Devsprints, anyone can buy the tickets. The Devsprint tickets will be free this year. You can find the list of projects on our wiki page. If you are a contributor/maintainer for a project and would like to represent your project in the Devsprints, please refer to our Devsprints page to add your project. Workshops --------- The workshops for this year will be taking place on 4th October 2020. Each workshop is 2.5 hours duration. There are a total of 4 parallel tracks, with two workshops in each track, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. There is only a single ticket for the workshops and you will be able to attend any of the workshops. Attending Workshops and Devsprints --------------------------------------- It is possible to attend workshops and Devsprints. The Devsprints will also be running an extra day than the workshops. So, you can also attend the Devsprints on the second day if you choose to spend your time on October 4th on Workshops. Thanks, Sayan Chowdhury (on behalf of the PyCon India 2020 team)

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PyCon India 2020: The Talk Schedule is Out!
by PyCon India News 13 Sep '20

13 Sep '20

Hi everyone, The PyCon India 2020 talk schedule is out![0] The sheer amount of proposals we received from you all over the last couple of days exceeded all our wildest expectations. The review committee along with all the volunteers worked quite hard to make the deadlines work. The schedule has been released a day before the deadline which signals us that we are on track as we move forward according to the plan. All these efforts go on to accomplish one outcome. An awesome PyCon India keeping you at its epicentre! As we are releasing the talk and keynotes schedule, be sure to look out for the release of workshops and information about many more events in the coming days on Twitter and on our mailing list. Our rehearsal team is working double-time to get all the speakers in top shape for making this year's PyCon India experience amazing for everyone. To check the schedule you can visit the schedule page[1] or the homepage as well. See you, folks, in 18 days! [0] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2020/announce-schedule.html [1] https://in.pycon.org/2020/schedule/ -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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[Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Victor Stinner
by PyCon India News 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello Folks, We are happy to announce Victor Stinner as a Fifth Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020. About Victor Stinner ----------- Victor Stinner is a Python core developer for 9 years. He is paid by Red Hat to maintain Python upstream (python.org) and downstream (RHEL, Fedora). Author of pyperf, faulthandler and tracemalloc modules, he is working on Python performance, security, and stability (member of the Night's Watch, maintain Python CIs: Travis CI, AppVeyor, and the large fleet of buildbot workers). He also mentors Python contributors. You can find him on Twitter: @VictorStinner Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1304384781715603456 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/ _______________________________________________ https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon Mailing list guidelines :http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf

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PyCon India 2020 Keynote: James Powell
by PyCon India News 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce James Powell as the third Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About James ----------- James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of Python. In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide. You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303657849688530944 -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Alolita Sharma
by PyCon India News 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce Alolita Sharma as the second Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Alolita ------------- Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open source strategy and engineering for projects focused on observability and search including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Lucene and Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Alolita is passionate about language technologies that enable everyone to participate in the Web's information revolution. She serves on the board of Unicode Consortium and is an invited expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. She has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and SFLC.in. You can find her on Twitter: @alolita. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties[0] [0] https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303297549978275840 -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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PyCon India 2020: The Schedule Outline
by PyCon India News 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Hi everyone, CFP & Review ------------ The CFP Working Group (WG) did a great job of reaching out to speakers and achieving a good number of talk proposals. The Review Panel WG volunteers worked parallelly to get the proposals as complete as possible as per the guidelines we built before the Subject Matter Expert (SME) aka Talk Reviewers started the process. Thanks to the whole Reviewers team for putting their thought and effort into each talk. As of today, based on the reviews of the proposals, the first set of selected speakers has been created. The team will start reaching out to all these speakers, to prepare the final list. The date for the final schedule to be published still stands at 15th September 2020. Schedule Outline of PyCon India 2020 ------------------------------------ This year, since we have gone online, the number of talks and registration outside India is substantially high. So, the team has decided to start the event at noon and end at 8:00 PM IST. This will help us to accommodate other timezones as well and not moving much from our core time. The schedule outline (all times are in IST): 12:00 - 12:10 - Opening Session of the day 12:15 - 13:15 - Keynote 13:20 - 13:50 - Talk Slot 13:55 - 14:25 - Talk Slot 14:30 - 15:20 - Break / Networking 15:20 - 15:50 - Talk Slot 15:55 - 16:25 - Talk Slot 16:30 - 17:30 - Keynote 17:30 - 17:50 - Break / Networking 17:50 - 18:20 - Talk Slot 18:25 - 18:55 - Talk Slot 19:00 - 20:00 - Keynote 20:00 - 20:05 - Closing session for the day 20:05 - 20:30 - Networking The `Talk Slot`s are 30 min slot which would have talks, lightning talks, and sponsored talks. This will be replicated for all the stages, except for the Keynote slots. This year the team also plans to have 4 parallel tracks, and one track dedicated for just *Advanced* talks. Once the schedule is prepared, an update will be shared detail about how the talks will be placed across the stages/ or sessions. Though this schedule is tentative and what the whole team is following, minor updates might be done to accommodate speakers or sponsors. --- Miscellaneous info ------------------ Tickets ------- The PyCon India 2020 tickets are open but we are selling out fast. So, if you haven't booked the tickets, please head over to the website and get your tickets. We need your help ----------------- This year, we've been very highly active on Zulip[2]. As we move closer to the event, we would like your support and help to make this happen successfully. We have ample work where we need a volunteer, so please join us on Zulip and ping on the main channel. The Promotions WG needs a helping hand, so if you interested please follow the instructions Sponsorship ----------- The Call for Sponsors[3] is open, and we've some good packages with amazing benefits. You can visit the sponsorship page or write to us at sponsor(a)in.pycon.org, and we will revert. Please share the ticket announcement to that it reaches more in the community. https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1298222867935444992 [1] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://in.pycon.org/2020/sponsorship/ -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://yudocaa.in/> On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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PyCon India 2020: The Platform
by PyCon India News 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

Hi everyone, PyCon India 2020 edition would be happening online and of of the biggest challenges the team faced was the platform. We've looked a lot of conference tools, ideas, and way to make the event an amazing one. The main goal in front of us to make the event as interactive as possible and as close to the offline version as possible The team after much review and thought has decided to go with the platform, Hopin[1]. Hopin ----- Hopin is an all-in-one virtual platform, where the primary mode of interaction is audio-video or chat. Over the last few months, a lot of conferences has been organized on the platform and scale at which they are operating is amazing. The platform provides with Stages[2], to present keynotes and talks. Session area for our open spaces, hallways, and any other impromptu sessions that need to be created. It also has an Expo area for the sponsors to interact with the participants, where they can accommodate their mini session. The booths in the Expo are very much like the one in the offline setting. Networking is a good part of Hopin, where you can either do a 1x1 random matching session with folks, or folks can create their private session to replicate the group discussion. Last two things to point is, documentation and support. Documentation of the platform is quite in-depth. BangPypers Talks - Road to PyCon India 2020 -------------------------------------------- The Hopin Platform was finalized a couple of days back, but today the BangPypers team hosted the meetup on the platform. The event was a smooth sailing other a couple of initial hiccups. The event had 4 talks, which went smoothly. A big thanks to the BangPypers team. --- Tickets ------- The PyCon India 2020 tickets are open but we are selling out fast. So, if you haven't booked the tickets, please head over to the website and get your tickets. We need your help -------------------- This year, we've been very highly active on Zulip[2]. As we move closer to the event, we would like your support and help to make this happen successfully. We have ample work where we need a volunteer, so please join us on Zulip and ping on the main channel. Sponsorship ------------ The Call for Sponsors[3] is open, and we've some good packages with amazing benefits. You can visit the sponsorship page or write to us at sponsor(a)in.pycon.org, and we will revert. Please retweet the ticket announcement to that it reaches more in the community. https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1298222867935444992 [1] https://hopin.to/ [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [3] https://in.pycon.org/2020/sponsorship/ -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://yudocaa.in/> On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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