Mailman 3 February 2019 - Pycon-openspaces

Re: [Pycon-openspaces] Volunteer co-chair for Open Spaces
by Anna Ossowski 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Thanks Joel! We’ve had a few other folks reach out so we’ll be in touch with our decision by the end of February. —— You are appreciated. You are enough. You matter. You are not alone. > On Feb 11, 2019, at 10:01 PM, Joel Garza <joel.garza(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, Anna. > > I do try to attend PyCon each year and except for 2017 have done so since 2013. So, yes, I do plan to attend 2020 and 2021. > > I participated in several open spaces at PyCon 2018, more than I had in prior years, and really enjoyed it. While some talks are certainly not to be missed live, I found attending open spaces a significant reason I enjoyed the conference even more, having the chance to interact with more people. > > Kind regards, > > Joel Garza > > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 2:51 PM Anna Ossowski <annabell.ossowski(a)gmail.com <mailto:annabell.ossowski@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Thank you for your note! > > Maybe you can answer a few questions: > > * Are you planning to attend PyCon US 2020 + 2021? > * Are you familiar with the Open Spaces concept? > > Warm regards, > Anna > > —— > You are appreciated. > You are enough. > You matter. > You are not alone. > > > >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:33 PM, Joel Garza <joel.garza(a)gmail.com <mailto:joel.garza@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hey! >> >> I am interested in assisting with open spaces this year. Please let me know how I can help. >> >> I’ve already registered for the conference. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Joel Garza >> _______________________________________________ >> Pycon-openspaces mailing list >> Pycon-openspaces(a)python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces@python.org> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces> >

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Re: [Pycon-openspaces] Sugar Labs Activity Open Space
by Anna Ossowski 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi there, This sounds good! When were you thinking about hosting the Open Space? Please let me know date and time and I’ll add it to the website. Warm regards, Anna —— You are appreciated. You are enough. You matter. You are not alone. > On Feb 12, 2019, at 2:36 PM, IQRA MUHAMMAD <iqra.muhammad15(a)ce.ceme.edu.pk> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Please see the description for sugar labs below: > SugarLabs <https://sugarlabs.org/> is a volunteer-driven member project of , (a non-profit foundation to produce and distribute and support the use of free software). > Originally part of the One Laptop Per Child project, Sugar Labs coordinates volunteers <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved> around the world who are passionate about providing educational opportunities to children through the Sugar Learning Platform. > Sugar Labs as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications. > > <>Education Goals > > Sugar is useful only to the extent it is used by the learning community. Thus, Sugar Labs is working with educators around the world to focus on these learning challenges: > > To make Sugar and Sugar activities freely and readily available to learners everywhere > To explore and share best practices > To provide a forum for discussion and support for technology for learning > > <>Technical Goals > > Sugar supports the notions that learners should “share by default” and be able to “explore, express, debug, and critique.” Thus Sugar puts an emphasis on “activities” rather than “applications.” The foundation will focus on solving the challenges that are relevant to these aspects of the interface, namely: > > To make it “simple” to share Sugar activities. This will require an architecture that allows discovery of activities. > To create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be “simple” to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine—removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible. > To make it “simple” to write Sugar activities. This necessitates stable APIs and example code that uses these APIs. > To make Sugar activities even more secure. Our principal user community is comprised of children; they must be protected from malware, phishing, botnets, > > > Regards, > > >

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Re: [Pycon-openspaces] PyCon US Open Spaces Co-Chair
by Kaelen Medeiros 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi! My name is Kaelen Medeiros and I recently registered for PyCon 2019! I’m so excited to be attending, and fortuitously I also saw the tweet about the Open Spaces co-coordinator position. I’ve helped organize two different conferences in the past, one in tech, including the ChickTech Chicago-led ACT-W conference in 2017. While I’m very involved in R and the R community, as a multi-lingual data science, I’d like to give back to the Python community as well. The PyCon Open Spaces role seemed like a good fit for me. I helped organize a conference in 2011 while in undergrad where I was the hospitality chair, and essentially organized spaces around different LGBTQ identities that is analogous enough to the Open Spaces concept at PyCon that I felt compelled to reach out. I currently answer emails for the R-Ladies Community Slack, and I have enough website updating skills I’m sure I could be useful there as well. I’d love to be considered as a co-organizer, and can be reached at this email with any questions. Best, Kaelen Kaelen Medeiros kaelenmedeiros(a)gmail.com

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Sugar Labs Activity Open Space
by IQRA MUHAMMAD 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi! I want to have a space of Sugar Labs Project arranged among open spaces. Is it possible to reserve one? Regards, Iqra Muhammad

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Volunteer co-chair for Open Spaces
by Joel Garza 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Hey! I am interested in assisting with open spaces this year. Please let me know how I can help. I’ve already registered for the conference. Thanks! Joel Garza

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Re: [Pycon-openspaces] Open Spaces co-chair opportunity
by Anna Ossowski 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Thank you for letting us know, Samantha! —— You are appreciated. You are enough. You matter. You are not alone. > On Feb 9, 2019, at 3:04 PM, Samantha Yeargin <slyeargin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Y'all, I looked at the 2020 dates and I already have a commitment, so I'm going to quietly bow out. If the co-chairs you select need any backup, I'm happy to support them on a committee! > > ––––––––––––––– > Samantha Yeargin > m: (615) 210-6072 > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:50 PM Trey Hunner <trey(a)truthful.technology> wrote: > Hi Samantha, > > Marketing the open spaces to the community is actually one of the things I'd like to see us improve on again this year. > > Like Anna, I'd be happy to chat but am also traveling next week so will need to wait until February 18. If you'd like to book a time to chat with me about this, feel free to do so here: https://calendly.com/treyhunner/book/02-18-2019 <https://calendly.com/treyhunner/book/02-18-2019> > > Thanks! :) > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 6:59 PM Samantha Yeargin <slyeargin(a)gmail.com <mailto:slyeargin@gmail.com>> wrote: > I have been to PyCon US before - I attended last year - and am familiar with the Open Spaces concept. I have not yet purchased a ticket to this year's conference (repairs on a 60+ year old house have gotten in the way) but it is on the agenda for this month. I had not previously planned beyond that but if I had a commitment I would. > > ––––––––––––––– > Samantha Yeargin > m: (615) 210-6072 > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:40 AM Anna Ossowski <annabell.ossowski(a)gmail.com <mailto:annabell.ossowski@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Samantha, > > Thank you for your note! > I’d be happy to do a call with you to chat about it, however I am fully booked this week and traveling next week so it would have to wait till Feb 18. Maybe Trey has time to get in touch with you a bit sooner. > > Maybe you can answer a few questions: > > * Are you planning to attend PyCon US 2019/2020/2021? > * Have you been to PyCon US before? > * Are you familiar with the Open Spaces concept? > > Warm regards, > Anna > > —— > You are appreciated. > You are enough. > You matter. > You are not alone. > > > >> On Feb 6, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Samantha Yeargin <slyeargin(a)gmail.com <mailto:slyeargin@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi there! >> >> I'm a software engineer based in Nashville, TN, working mostly in Python for the last two years at Campaign Monitor (née Emma). I'm currently the marketing co-chair for PyTennessee and previously had an eight-year career in marketing which included event planning, as well as regular local non-technology volunteering experience that includes event planning. I'd be interested in talking with y'all further about whether I might be a good fit. I don't have a full résumé on my work laptop, but my LinkedIn profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthay/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthay/> >> >> ––––––––––––––– >> Samantha Yeargin >> m: (615) 210-6072 >> _______________________________________________ >> Pycon-openspaces mailing list >> Pycon-openspaces(a)python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces@python.org> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces> > > _______________________________________________ > Pycon-openspaces mailing list > Pycon-openspaces(a)python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces> > > > -- > Trey Hunner > Truthful Technology, LLC <http:///> > <https://truthful.technology/>

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Intersted in helping with open spaces
by Wickes, Elizabeth 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Hi! I am interested in helping with the open spaces effort this year. I have attended PyCon twice (2014 and 2018). Last year I spent nearly the entire conference within open spaces, attending only three talks during the conference. I am active within the Python Education space and helping to cochair the Python Education Summit this year. The 2018 education summit was great, but the education conversations during the conference proper really only existed within the open spaces. They were vital for me and I was able to make several great connections and really shore up some important projects/relationships during the open spaces. I would likely not have pushed to attend PyCon 2019 without knowing that open spaces were happening again. I am eager to see this continue, and understand that the care and upkeep of the open spaces boards and information are vital to keeping it sustainable during the conference. I will be attending PyCon this year, arriving on Wednesday to attend the education summit on Thursday, and then departing on Monday. So I will be around all day fri/sat/Sun to help with this effort. I have done this sort of work in the past and find it a nice way to have some quiet time during the conference while still being a productive use of my time. I used to deep clean the office white board once a week to unpack from difficult projects, for example. I have support and plans to attend PyCon in future years as well, and would be interested in discussing a future chair role if it is deemed a good fit. I think I’ve hit all the info that you have requested, but happy to answer any follow up questions as needed. Thanks for your efforts to keep PyCon awesome and universally valuable! Elizabeth Wickes -- Elizabeth Wickes Lecturer, School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 329 Information Sciences Building 501 East Daniel Street, MC-493 Champaign, IL 61820-6211

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PyCon US Open Spaces Co-Chair Volunteer Opportunity
by Andrey Smelter 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

My name is Andrey Smelter, I learned about volunteering opportunity for Open Spaces at PyCon. I saw a twitter message from Anna Ossowski and Trey Hunner ( https://twitter.com/OssAnna16/status/1093176750715023362) with call for volunteers. I have attended PyTennessee 2018 last year and met both Trey and Anna there. I also attended PyCon 2018 last year and enjoyed it a lot as well as went to multiple Open Spaces sessions following advice from several blog posts (including https://treyhunner.com/2018/04/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-first-pycon/). I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. I use Python on a daily basis to write and maintain scientific software for the lab that I work for, and for some system administration and for fun as well. Here are my GitHub and LinkedIn profiles if you want to learn more what I do: * GitHub: https://github.com/andreysmelter * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreysmelter/ I am planning to addend PyCon this year and submitted an abstract for the poster session. After attending my first PyCon 2018 last year I thought that I should do volunteering for PyCon and after seeing call for volunteers for Open Spaces I thought it is a great opportunity to get more involved and do something awesome for the Python Community. I remember a lot of people were taking pictures of the Open Spaces board to see what sessions are scheduled. I thought it would be nice to through some simple automation into it: * Create google spreadsheet with available times and rooms. * Create a dedicated twitter account for open sessions if it is not already exists. * Use one of the available python libraries that interact with google spreadsheet (e.g. https://github.com/xflr6/gsheets, https://github.com/nithinmurali/pygsheets) * Have a python script that goes over the upcoming Open Sessions and tweets room number, time and topic. I am happy to help with all tasks specified in the call for volunteer document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cl8eejx6C8rNgSwCvW6ozgt-1F2zQ7NpH1Qr982… Thank you! -Andrey

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Getting ready for 2019!
by Ewa Jodlowska 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hi Open Spaces committee - I hope everyone is having a great 2019! Firstly, I'd like to introduce you all to our newest team member for PyCon, Jackie Augustine. Jackie will be shadowing me for 2019 and afterwards will be your go-to person for anything PyCon related. Additionally, as we inch closer to PyCon 2019, I'd like to confirm this year's committee. Hobson Lane - Chair for 2019 Zak Kent - Co-Chair Trey Hunner - Co-Chair If this is still accurate or has changed, let us know! If anyone knows of new folks that are interested in learning the process, we can add them to this mailing list group as well. Talk to you all soon, Ewa

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Open spaces cochair
by Reuven M. Lerner 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hi! I'd love to join the open spaces team. I attended PyCon for the first time in 2018. I think that I spent about 70% of my time in open spaces. They were, hands down, the best part of PyCon. (The other 30% was divided evenly between chatting with people and, oh yeah, going to talks.) I've been using Python since about 1993, opened my consulting business in 1995, and have been a full-time Python trainer (in person and online, at http://store.lerner.co.il) for a good number of years now. I write a monthly column in Linux Journal (with quite a bit of Python stuff), have a weekly Python-oriented newsletter ("Better developers") with 10k readers, and also do a lot of work with trainers -- via a weekly newsletter, a new podcast, and coaching. I'd love to help open spaces run well, and even run better than before. And I definitely plan to attend future PyCons. More information about me is at http://lerner.co.il/ . Let me know if you want to chat, or if you want to know more! Reuven -- Reuven M. Lerner, PhD -- Training in Python and Data science Mobile: +972-54-496-8405 * http://lerner.co.il Skype / WeChat: ReuvenLerner * @reuvenmlerner Free, weekly Python tips at: http://lerner.co.il/newsletter

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