Hi all,
The finalists for the 2016 Women in Open Source award were recently
announced, and I'd like to congratulate a couple of folks whose
contributions to the Python community were amongst their reasons for
being nominated: Jessica McKellar & Carrie Anne Philbin.
If you'd like to vote for this year's award, or just read the
inspiring nominations for each of the finalists, head over to
http://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
Regards,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
Hello all,
As a Gold Sponsor, Python Software Foundation is entitled to 3
complimentary tickets to PyCon PH February 27-28, 2016.
http://pycon.python.ph/ <http://pycon.python.ph/>
If you have an interest in attending and can manage transportation on your
own, please email me directly for more information: betsy(a)python.org.
Cheers,
Betsy
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Betsy Waliszewski
Python Software Foundation
Event Coordinator / Administrator
@betswaliszewski
We have opened up the early-bird sales today and tickets are selling
fast. The first 100 early-bird tickets, we have available, will be
gone in less than an hour. If you want to benefit from reduced ticket
prices too, please register soon.
Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular ticket
sales will start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.
*** https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/registration/ ***
More Information and Ticket Shop
PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are
less than two weeks left:
https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/call-for-proposals/
With gravitational regards,
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EuroPython 2016 Team
http://ep2016.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now
calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython
attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket prices
for a short period of time.
Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular sales
start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.
*** https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/registration/ ***
More Information and Ticket Shop
We will be opening the flood gates on Tuesday, 09:00 CET, so set your
alarms to make sure you can secure your ticket. Experience shows that
early bird tickets sell out quickly.
PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are
less than two weeks left:
https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/call-for-proposals/
With gravitational regards,
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EuroPython 2016 Team
http://ep2016.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming
from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how
you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization.
EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to
hear about your experience.
Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel
may be interested.
*** https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/call-for-proposals/ ***
Submissions will be open until
Sunday, March 6, 23:59:59 CET
For full details, please see the above CFP page. We have many exciting
things waiting for you:
* a PyData satellite event
* new formats (panels, interactive sessions)
* tracks to focus on more specific domains, including a
revival of the EuroPython Business Track
* speaker discounts for more than just talks and trainings
Please note that we are using a shorter CFP period of just 2.5 weeks
this year, since we want to have the list of talks published sooner
than last year.
With gravitational regards,
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EuroPython 2016 Team
http://ep2016.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO
<http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major
prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge
milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of
software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in
day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering
data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2].
Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the
team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.
Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source
believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor
of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits.
We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D.
Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with
cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through
2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor,
a common user of Python
refs:
[1]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_co…
[2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png
[3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html
[4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016
website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to
sponsors and getting the website prepared for the launch.
You may have heard about the recent direct observation of
gravitational waves by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory). What you may not know is that Python
helped in analyzing the data, so we now have two things to celebrate:
1. Python’s use in this phenomenal direct proof of Einstein’s
prediction and
2. the launch of our 2016 edition of the EuroPython conference.
So here it is:
*** http://ep2016.europython.eu/ ***
July 17 - 24 2016
Many thanks go to our launch sponsors who have signed up early to give
us that extra boost in motivation to get the conference and it’s
website set up.
Meet our Launch Sponsors
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* Bilbao Ekintza
* Intel
* UPV/EHU
* Udemy
* Python Software Foundation
* Blue Yonder
* Jet Brains
* Numberly
* Flying Circus
* Limejump
* RedHat
* Vzzual.com
* Django-CMS
* Riverbank
PS: We’d like to thank the EuroPython Web WG for the web site
improvements and our friends at Python Italia for making their code
available.
With gravitational regards,
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EuroPython 2016 Team
http://ep2016.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
Hello everyone,
I would like to announce a new mailing list for the Belgian Python
Users.
This main goal of this mailing list is mainly for the Python Community
of Belgium, Dutch, French and German.
The main language is English, I don’t want to discuss about the
languages, maybe in the future.
So, here is the mailing list: belgium(a)python.org you can subscribe via
this link: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium
Via this mailing list, you could discuss about:
* Python in Belgium
* Organise some events, meetups, AFPyro in Belgium
* Create a great community.
* Help for the PythonFOSDEM in Belgium
* etc…
Hope to see you in this ML.
Thank you so much,
Stephane