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EuroPython 2015 Keynote: Holger Krekel
by M.-A. Lemburg July 4, 2015

July 4, 2015

We are pleased to introduce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2015: Holger Krekel. He will be giving a keynote on Wednesday, July 22. About Holger Krekel ------------------- Holger is a prolific Python developer with a strong interest in communication: “Socially this means engaging and co-organizing neighborhoods and technically it means i am interested in distributed systems and thriving to make available and built better communication machines for other people.” He also is a proud father and loves to dance to “electronic swing” music. Python projects --------------- You will probably know Holger as author of the well-known pytest testing framework and co-founder the PyPy project: “When i discovered Python I was thrilled by its high-level constructs and introspection facilities. I am still thrilled by the idea of dynamically deploying and executing high level programs on the net. In my view, Python and testing are a wonderfully productive combination for writing software. Out of this conviction, I founded and co-developed the PyPy project and maintain the pytest and tox testing tools. I also maintain a number of other projects, among the more popular are execnet for ad-hoc cross-interpreter communication and the py lib. Most of my code you find at bitbucket/hpk42.” The coding culture in almost all his projects consists of test- and documentation-driven development and applying meta programming techniques. The Keynote: Towards a more effective, decentralized web -------------------------------------------------------- In this talk, Holger will discuss the recent rise of immutable state concepts in languages and network protocols: “The advent of hash-based data structures and replication strategies are shaking the client/server web service paradigm which rests on managing mutable state through HTTP. By contrast, building on git, bittorrent and other content addressed data structures provides for a more secure, efficient decentralized communication topology. There are projects, thoughts and talk to create new web standards to bring such technologies to mass deployment and fuel a new wave of decentralization. What can Python bring to the table?” Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://ep2015.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/

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PyCon Ireland 2015 Call for Proposals
by Vicky Twomey-Lee - Python Ireland July 3, 2015

July 3, 2015

Hi All, I am happy to announce that PyCon Ireland will be back in Dublin on* Sat Oct 24 to Sun Oct 25* this year. If you are interested in speaking at the 2-day conference, please submit your proposal via http://python.ie/pycon-2015/call-proposals/. Deadline for talk proposals is *Fri July 31 23:59 (BST)*. If you are interested in running/helping in a workshop or have any enquiries, please email us via contact(a)python.ie. Thanks, /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder) Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Member PSF member <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html> | EuroPython Society <https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society> Board Member Coding Grace <http://codinggrace.com/> co-Founder | GameCraft It <http://gamecraft.it/> co-Founder | WITS <http://witsireland.com/governance/> Board Member

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PyCon HK 2015: Call For Proposals and Sponsorships (CFP & CFS)
by Sammy Fung July 3, 2015

July 3, 2015

Hi Pythoners, PyCon HK will be hosted on 7-8 November (Sat-Sun) at Hong Kong Cyberport, Hong Kong. In 2-day PyCon HK, we will have keynotes and talks on Day 1, and workshops and development sprints on Day 2. We are now calling for proposals (CFP) (talks, workshops, development sprints) till 8/16. Early-Bird Tickets are now on sales at HK$200 (about US$26), and regular tickets are HK$300 (about US$39). We are now also calling for sponsors (CFS) as well. PyCon HK 2015 website: http://2015.pycon.hk -- Yours Sincerely, Sammy Fung President, Open Source Hong Kong. http://opensource.hk

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Nikola v7.6.0 is out!
by Chris Warrick July 2, 2015

July 2, 2015

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.6.0. It fixes some bugs and adds new features. What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/ Key Changes since v7.5.1 ======================== * ``nikola auto`` fixed for Python 3 and while rebuilding * ``nikola auto`` now uses watchdog and supports **Windows** * Support for Jupyter Notebooks: you can now use non-Python ``.ipynb`` files with Nikola (``ipynb@KERNEL`` to pick a kernel) * Added ``nikola new_post -F`` to list available compilers * Better print CSS * Per-post filters via metadata Downloads ========= Get it on GitHub and PyPI: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.6.0 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola/7.6.0 Changes ======= Features - -------- * Translate ``Write your post here.`` to default language (Issue #1621) * Enable ``PRETTY_URLS`` by default on new sites created by the wizard (Issue #1838) * Add ``-F``, ``--available-compilers`` option to ``nikola new_post`` and ``nikola new_page`` (Issue #1837) * Add print CSS to all default themes (Issue #1817) * Support other kernels for ipynb/Jupyter using ``nikola new_post -f ipynb@kernel`` (Issues #1774, #1834) * Add distinct styling for the site footer in bootstrap3 * Bootstrap v3.3.5 (Issue #1828) * Use ``watchdog`` in ``nikola auto`` (Issue #1810) * Add redirection for tags in Wordpress importer (Issue #1168) * Add support for ``html_tidy_withconfig`` to use a ``tidy5.conf`` file (Issue #1795) * Change default tidy5 filters not to drop empty elements (Issue #1795) * Apply per-post filters via metadata (Issue #914) Bugfixes - -------- * Nikola auto was broken in python 3 (Issue #1830) * Read configuration when importing into an existing site (Issue #1823) * Don’t crash on non-UTF-8 files during sitemap generation (Issue #1842) * Unnecessary rebuilds of yearly archives (Issue #1833) * Quietly ignore non-existent files in ``nikola check -l`` (Issue #1831) * Don’t rebuild all tag or category pages when changing tag/category descriptions * Fix crash in wordpress code importer (Issue #1819) * Call correct command in ``nikola auto`` - -- Chris Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVlS45AAoJEHECPb1equoWdKAIAJvDhrG0ppRcuSPQvy/YwNSM Q+jGgaDKOz4S1NjsmbCYTnrwQ0vnEROpx1d9Q6NzsCp7TdfmfHQ3apYytLKdORRY 0+IUCbSq4dxtKSYZBcGAq4751Pp+vrsU1R6hXTRdSdY7JJJ7+Co3coBgvK3pLqSV 9nM1hCfOBkCmrfutTwtQ/4zEEmlY1xSsdm2+1vomlYsJZ8oZxkaFrW6tsy/iMhVA 1qx1MMCpVJb4EzmIdt27ol6dHApABQRXFSL5PUUsVvxjpX7mhi8Emra9b2CdrhsP Z0hHsRMDP4q64qQVpKd/34XUcHjUrlKZR0RHmFWR51XbzAzHeihUeMN50KC9Uio= =IEC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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EuroPython 2015 Keynote: Carrie Anne Philbin
by M.-A. Lemburg July 1, 2015

July 1, 2015

We are pleased to introduce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2015: *Carrie Anne Philbin*. She will be giving her keynote on Thursday, July 23, to start the EuroPython Educational Summit: *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/events/educational-summit/ *** About Carrie Anne Philbin ------------------------- Carrie Anne is leading the education mission for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, but is also known as an award winning secondary Computing & ICT Teacher, Author, YouTuber: * Author of "Adventures in Raspberry Pi", a computing book for teenagers wanting to get started with Raspberry Pi and programming. Winner of Teach Secondary magazine’s Technology & Innovation Best Author award 2014. * Creator of a YouTube video series for teenage girls called "The Geek Gurl Diaries", which has won a Talk Talk Digital Hero Award. The episodes include interviews with women working in technology and hands on computer science based tutorials. * Vice chair of the Computing At Schools (CAS) initiative to get more girls and minority groups into computing, which created a workshop based hack day for teenagers concentrating on delivering good content to include all and "Hack the Curric" bringing academics, educators and industry experts together to create inclusive resources for the new Computing curriculum. In 2012, she became a Google Certified Teacher and KS3 ICT subject Leader at a school in East London. She has a blended and open approach to teaching as can be seen on her website ICT with Miss P. She became a Skype Moment Maker and ambassador for technology. She is an evangelist and often speaks at conferences like BETT, Raspberry Jamboree, YRS, PyCon UK and now EuroPython. The Keynote: Designed for Education: A Python Solution ------------------------------------------------------- The problem of introducing children to programming and computer science has seen growing attention in the past few years. Initiatives like Raspberry Pi, Code Club, code.org, (and many more) have been created to help solve this problem. With the introduction of a national computing curriculum in the UK, teachers have been searching for a text based programming language to help teach computational thinking as a follow on from visual languages like Scratch. The educational community has been served well by Python, benefiting from its straight-forward syntax, large selection of libraries, and supportive community. Education-focused summits are now a major part of most major Python Conferences. Assistance in terms of documentation and training is invaluable, but perhaps there are technical means of improving the experience of those using Python in education. Clearly the needs of teachers and their students are different to those of the seasoned programmer. Children are unlikely to come to their teachers with frustrations about the Global Interpreter Lock! But issues such as usability of IDEs or comprehensibility of error messages are of utmost importance. In this keynote, Carrie Anne will discuss existing barriers to Python becoming the premier language of choice for teaching computer science, and how learning Python could be helped immensely through tooling and further support from the Python developer community. EuroPython Educational Summit ----------------------------- We will have Educational Summit focused talks, trainings, birds of a feather sessions to debate and also Educational Sprints for the building of education focused projects during the weekend. EuroPython 2015 Educational Summit *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/events/educational-summit/ *** In 2012, she became a Google Certified Teacher and KS3 ICT subject Leader at a school in East London. She has a blended and open approach to teaching as can be seen on her website ICT with Miss P. She became a Skype Moment Maker and ambassador for technology. She is an evangelist and often speaks at conferences like BETT, Raspberry Jamboree, YRS, PyCon UK and now EuroPython. The Keynote: Designed for Education: A Python Solution ------------------------------------------------------- The problem of introducing children to programming and computer science has seen growing attention in the past few years. Initiatives like Raspberry Pi, Code Club, code.org, (and many more) have been created to help solve this problem. With the introduction of a national computing curriculum in the UK, teachers have been searching for a text based programming language to help teach computational thinking as a follow on from visual languages like Scratch. The educational community has been served well by Python, benefiting from its straight-forward syntax, large selection of libraries, and supportive community. Education-focused summits are now a major part of most major Python Conferences. Assistance in terms of documentation and training is invaluable, but perhaps there are technical means of improving the experience of those using Python in education. Clearly the needs of teachers and their students are different to those of the seasoned programmer. Children are unlikely to come to their teachers with frustrations about the Global Interpreter Lock! But issues such as usability of IDEs or comprehensibility of error messages are of utmost importance. In this keynote, Carrie Anne will discuss existing barriers to Python becoming the premier language of choice for teaching computer science, and how learning Python could be helped immensely through tooling and further support from the Python developer community. EuroPython Educational Summit ----------------------------- We will have Educational Summit focused talks, trainings, birds of a feather sessions to debate and also Educational Sprints for the building of education focused projects during the weekend. EuroPython 2015 Educational Summit *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/events/educational-summit/ *** Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://ep2015.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/

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