Mailman 3 March 2019 - PSF-Community

PyCon NA arts festival about the experience of programming
by Sumana Harihareswara 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

As part of PyCon North America 2019, I'm co-leading a one-night arts festival - "The Art of Python", through the Hatchery program https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/artofpython/ - and hope members of our community will consider proposing art to share! We're seeking many types of narrative, performance, and visual art about the experience of programming and making technology -- both Python specifically and programming more generally. I hope we can showcase several different artists, including people who have to gather the courage to share their work publicly for the first time, and whose art explores varied experiences -- including ones that we often don't discuss factually in public, because (for example) they're embarrassing or because we have non-disclosure agreements. And I hope we get a range of tones -- humor, awe, melancholy, anger, joy, and so on. I regret to say that there is no pay involved. The festival will be Friday, May 3rd. The deadline for submissions is February 28th. There's a related effort by !!Con (May 11-12, NYC) to also encourage "not-talks" as submissions -- their CfP is open till March 3rd http://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html , and they offer speaker travel funding and a USD $256 honorarium! So you can propose the same "not-talk" to "The Art of Python" and to !!Con. Please feel free to reply to me off-list if you have questions about art you'd like to share! Thanks, -- Sumana Harihareswara https://changeset.nyc

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T-Minus 11 days until IndyPy Automate Conf - March 22nd
by MaryBeth Okerson 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hi all! IndyPy Automate Conf registration is open! Join us March 22nd for a day of continuing education with Python. Register at: http://bit.ly/IndyPyConf The schedule will feature talks from industry leaders on: * IoT Device Management and Deployment * Python for Microcontrollers * Using PySpark with Databricks Structured Streaming * Automating Your Data Clean Up * Mobile API with Python and Lambda for Serverless * Practicing Safe Selects: Avoiding the Shame & Embarrassment of Sleazy Forecast Model Choice in a Machine Learning World * Simplified Scripts with Google’s Python-Fire Check out the full lineup of speakers here: https://2019.indypy.org/automate/schedule/ Details March 22nd, 2019 - 8am - 5pm Launch Fishers 12175 Visionary Way Fishers, IN 46038 Thank you, MaryBeth Okerson Marketing & Event Coordinator -- Six Feet Up, Inc. Python & Cloud Expert Consulting Direct Line: +1 (317) 861-5948 x605 Email: marybeth(a)sixfeetup.com https://sixfeetup.com

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Announcing PyLondinium 2019
by Pedro Alvarez 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Hello all! Last year we managed to deliver the first edition of the PyLondinium conference. After having more than 200 tickets sold, 60 talk proposals, 28 talks including 4 keynotes, 3 workshops, and all the good feedback from the attendees, we knew we had to do it again next year.. And here we are! We have almost everything ready now, and we want to share all the information with you: - Dates: 14th to 16th of June, 2019 - Venue: Bloomberg's European HQ, London, EC4N 4TQ - CFP[1] is now open, and closes at midnight of April 4th. - Tickets[2] are already on sale. Affordable tickets, and different types to make this conference for everyone. - We have confirmed some keynotes, you can see this and more information in our website[3]. - You can keep up to date by subscribing to our mailing list[4] and/or following us on twitter[5]. If you missed it last year, and want to know what to expect on this edition, you can see all the talks in our YouTube channel[6] And that's all, best regards, Pedro 1: https://www.papercall.io/pylondinium-2019 2: https://www.ticketea.com/entradas-conferencia-pylondinium-2019/ 3: https://pylondinium.org/ 4: http://eepurl.com/ga6KzH 5: https://twitter.com/PyLondinium 6: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHh7vOesookNhYvupCCcJxA -- Pedro Alvarez PyLondinium19 Organization Team

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Back Story on the Guido, Larry Wall, Anders Hejlsberg, and James Gosling benefit event for CSforALL
by Don Sheu 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Just posted this to events. Thought it'd be fun to share with the community. Type of Event: Charitable event benefitting CSforALL. Ruthe Farmer event chair continues the tech inclusion work she started as a senior policy advisor for tech inclusion for Obama as Chief Evangelist of CSforALL. This event started in a conversation between Larry Hastings and PuPPy and PyCascades founder Don Sheu. At PuPPy's fourth anniversary event, for Guido's BDFL retirement, Don proposed to Larry that PuPPy leads a crowdfunding campaign to send Guido and his family on a Cunard cruise that visits over 50 ports of call, twice. Larry responded, Guido would hate that. He hates traveling. Guido likes discussing the intricacies of computing with others who care as much as he does. Don replied, he can do that. The result is that on April 2nd, James Gosling, Anders Hejlsberg, Larry Wall, and Guido will delve deep into language design and computing. Carol Willing will moderate the discussion. No broadcast of the livestream. There are requests out to potential donors to support a broadcast of the livestream. Otherwise being on premises is the only way to watch this historic discussion. bdfl-gift.pspython.com -- Don Sheu 312.880.9389 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My Python user group PuPPy convenes in Seattle every month 2nd Wednesdays https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/251965475/ <http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/> ᐧ

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PSF Members Lunch @ PyCon 2019 (May 4, RSVP needed)
by Ewa Jodlowska 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello PSF members! We will be having our annual PSF Members Lunch at PyCon 2019. Details are below. - *Day/time*: Saturday May 4, 2019, 12:40pm local time - *Location*: Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, Room 25A - *Menu *(may change slightly): - Pre Set Entree: Southern chicken salad with fresh berries & raspberry balsamic, grilled chicken w/ white balsamic vinaigrette - Vegetarian/Vegan/Avoiding Gluten option: Southern salad with grilled tempeh with fresh berries & balsamic vinaigrette - Pre Set Dessert: Flourless chocolate cake and Kahlua-Chocolate mousse. Chocolate ganache drizzle and dutch cocoa - Special dietary meals will be provided for those that request one in the RSVP below. - *RSVP by April 20, 2019*: *https://goo.gl/forms/eE3ltpbu878tDuR23 <https://goo.gl/forms/eE3ltpbu878tDuR23>* Please note that you have to be registered for the conference. - *Agenda*: - PSF Updates including a review of 2018 financials - mingling members If you are planning to attend, please RSVP. Last year we filled up the entire room and had to turn folks away that didn't RSVP. Thank you, Ewa Jodlowska Executive Director Python Software Foundation

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US Congressional hearing on "Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits All Americans"
by Jacqueline Kazil 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Thought this would be of interest to people on this list... Mark Luckie, a former colleague of mine, is providing testimony on Capitol Hill today on "Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits All Americans" to the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. https://www.scribd.com/document/401129204/Written-Testimony-of-Mark-S-Lucki… -Jackie -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil

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Mentored Sprint at PyCon US 2019
by Mariatta 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

*TL;DR:* - When: May 4th, 2019 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Participant sign up form: https://goo.gl/forms/d3Blf8wgxWVoSIgO2 (before March 14) - Mentor/project sign up form: https://goo.gl/forms/YCZP5auVi5ZFtMjg1 (before March 14) One of the accepted PyCon US Hatchery program this year is the "mentored sprint for diverse beginners" program, where the goal is to pair up experienced open source maintainers/contributors with diverse group of new contributors. More details: https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/mentoredsprints/ I’m helping to organize this sprint, along with Tania Allard, Nina Zakharenko, and and Nikoleta Glynatsi. If you are *new to open source, want to get started contributing*, please sign up using this form before March 14: https://goo.gl/forms/d3Blf8wgxWVoSIgO2 It will be helpful for us to know which projects/topic you're interested in, so we can proactively find you the mentor you need. If you *maintain/own an open source project*, or if you *have experience contributing* to an open source project and can help others get started, we would appreciate for you to sign up as a mentor. It doesn't have to be a Python project, it doesn't have to be big. Please sign up using this form before March 14: https://goo.gl/forms/YCZP5auVi5ZFtMjg1 Currently the following projects have signed up. Thank you!!! - CPython - Bowler & asyncio libraries - folium - Tensor Flow Please also check my lightning talk at PyCascades about this topic. On Slide 7 is the topic interest areas from current signups, these are things people are interested to contribute. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yvJKTGbbYCpMQ_CuZ-Vfvc_SiyuYmshLZwk… Thanks! ᐧ

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Maintainers' Summit @ PyCon 2019
by Jacqueline Kazil 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Hello all, Shauna Gordon-McKeon and I are organizing a "Maintainers Summit" event at PyCon this year. The goal is to create a community of practice to help support Python project maintainers socially, technologically, and logistically. I thought some of you might interested in attending. The event is going to be structured through a series of lightning talks and breakout sessions during PyCon. Please consider submitting a lightning talk through our CFP, which closes on March 15th or help us by spreading the word with your various networks and on social media, to help us raise visibility - we want to make sure everyone hears that this event is happening. More info: https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/maintainers/ Tweet to retweet: https://twitter.com/shauna_gm/status/1102029439049846784 - Jackie -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil Chair of Maintainer's Submit PSF Board of Directors

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