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PyCon US 2020 Call for Proposal deadline is December 20, 2019 AoE! If you have a talk, poster or education summit idea, don't wait, submit your proposals this week! To submit your proposal start by creating an account on us.pycon.org/2020 . Details on submitting a proposal can be found here .   Remember that you can edit or update a previously submitted proposal until the deadline by accessing the submission on your dashboard . December 20, 2019: Deadline to submit a PyCon Talk proposal, Poster proposal, Education Summit proposal, and Las PyCon Charlas proposal January 3, 2020: Deadline to submit Hatchery proposals January 17, 2020: Deadline to submit Startup Row  applications  January 31, 2020: Deadline to submit applications for Financial aid PyCon US 2020 Conference Registration Our Early Bird tickets are going quickly. If you are hoping to purchase your Student, Individual, or Corporate ticket at our discounted rate, then your ti...

Teachers, educators, and Pythonistas: come and share your projects, experiences, and tools of the trade as you teach coding and Python to your students. The Annual Python Education Summit is being held at PyCon 2020, taking place on Thursday April 16th . Our Call for Proposals is open until December 20th, 2019 , and we want to hear from you! See https://us.pycon.org/2020/speaking/edusummit/ for more details. In 2020, the Summit has three sessions: Keynotes and selected talks (morning) Mini-sprints - collaborative sessions to create meaningful educational content together (afternoon) Lightning Talks! Between the two sessions We are inviting submissions for all three sessions. What we look for in Education Summit talks are ideas, experiences, and best practices on how teachers and programmers have implemented instruction in their schools, communities,books,tutorials and other educational places by using Python. Have you implemented a program that you've bee...

We are excited to announce the opening of PyCon US 2020 registration.  The registration site has been updated, tweaked, and tested all in the effort to provide you a seamless experience. The new system will allow you to access, view, and add to your current registration. You can book and view hotel reservations and request changes if needed right through your dashboard. Where do I go to register? Head over to  us.pycon.org  and create an account.  Once you are logged in access the registration page via your dashboard. Registration costs The early bird pricing is $550 for corporate, $350 for individuals, and $100 for students. Once we sell the first 800 tickets, regular prices will go into effect. Regular pricing will be $700 for corporate, $400 for individuals, and $125 for students. PyCon will take place April 14-23, 2020 in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference starts with 2 days of Tutorials, Education Summit and Sponsor Workshops. Followed by 3 days of key...

Tutorial Proposal Deadline is this Friday, November 22, 2019 If you have been considering submitting a proposal, don’t hesitate, don’t wait, now is the time to submit your proposal! How to Get Started? First, sign up for an  account   Once you are logged in proceed to your account dashboard and create a speaker profile. At this point, you can submit tutorials, fill in the fields as follows: Title Give your tutorial a name that accurately describes the tutorial’s focus to potential students. Description A high-level description of the tutorial, limited to ~400 characters. The description is used to describe your tutorial online should it be selected. So we ask that you make it brief. Audience At what level of Python and other topic-specific experience or expertise is the tutorial aiming for? ‘Advanced’, ‘Intermediate’, and ‘Beginner’ mean something different to everyone. Feel free to include additional detail regarding the sort of background expected, as...

Call for Proposal deadlines are fast approaching.  PyCon US is looking for speakers of all experience levels and backgrounds to contribute to our conference program. We want you and your ideas at PyCon US! Be sure to create your account on us.pycon.org/2020  in order to access all the submission forms. More information about speaking at PyCon can be found  here . Tutorials Tutorial proposals are due November 22, 2019. We're looking for tutorials that can grow this community at any level. Tutorials that will advance Python, advance this community, and shape the future are preferred. More details about tutorial proposals and submission can be found  here . Talks Talks , Charlas , Poster , and Education Summit proposals are due December 20, 2019 . Education Summit will be held Thursday April 16. Talks and Charlas are the part of the main conference schedule for Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19.  Poster session will be held on Sunday, April ...

Another year, another PyCon US, another opportunity for early-stage startups to show off how they use Python on Startup Row. Every PyCon since 2011, the Python Software Foundation has given qualifying early-stage startups complimentary access to the best of what PyCon has to offer. If you’re one of those “apply first and read things later” sorts of folks, first create an account and then click here to get started ! It should only take a few minutes to register and confirm your user account, and then to fill out the form. Applications are due by January 17, 2020! Startup Row at PyCon US is the PSF’s way of giving back to the startup ecosystem, and your opportunity to connect with the thousands of developers, data scientists, researchers, students, and enthusiasts who come to PyCon US each year. Does your startup qualify? Here are the criteria: You use Python somewhere in your tech or business stack (open source, proprietary, data science, machine learning, orchestration, marke...

The PyCon US Hatchery Program has become a fundamental part of how PyCon as a conference adapts to best serve the Python community as it grows and changes with time. Initially we wanted to gauge community interest for this type of program, and since launching in 2018 we have learned more about what kind of events the community might propose. At the end of the inaugural program, we accepted the PyCon Charlas as our first Hatchery event which has grown into a permanent track offered at PyCon US. PyCon US 2019 presented 3 new hatchery programs, Mentored Sprints, the Maintainers Summit, and the Art of Python. This year we are hoping to continue that growth, and are encouraging more organizers to propose their event ideas. If you are intrigued by the idea of proposing a hatchery event you may also want to look at Sumana Harihareswara's excellent write ups of both the motivation and execution of the Art of Python. The long-term goals of this program are to support and grow sus...

PyCon US 2020 is opening applications for Financial Aid today, and we’ll be accepting them through January 31, 2020. To apply, first set up an account on the site, and then you will be able to fill out the application through your dashboard . The financial aid program aims to bring many folks to PyCon by limiting the maximum grant amount per person; in that way, we can offer support to more people based on individual need. The financial aid program reimburses direct travel costs including transportation, hotel, and childcare, as well as offering discounted or waived registration tickets. For complete details, see our FAQ , and contact pycon-aid@python.org with further questions. The Python Software Foundation & PyLadies make Financial Aid possible. This year, the Python Software Foundation is contributing $130,000 USD towards financial aid and PyLadies will contribute as much as they can based on the contributions they get throughout 2019. For more information about...

The time is upon us again! PyCon 2020’s Call for Proposals has officially opened for talks, tutorials, posters, education summit, and charlas. PyCon is made by you, so we need you to share what you’re working on, how you’re working on it, what you’ve learned, what you’re learning, and so much more. Please make note of important deadlines for submissions: Tutorial proposals are due November 22, 2019. Talk, Charlas, Poster, and Education Summit proposals are due December 20, 2019. We need beginner, intermediate, and advanced proposals on all sorts of topics as well as beginner, intermediate, and advanced speakers to present talks. You don’t need to be a 20-year veteran who has spoken at dozens of conferences. On all fronts, we need all types of people. That’s what this community is comprised of, so that’s what this conference’s schedule should be made from. Who can help you with your proposal Outside of our program committee, a great source ...

After 2 successful years in Cleveland, OH, PyCon 2020 and PyCon 2021 will be moving to Pittsburgh, PA! Head over to us.pycon.org/2020 to check out the look for PyCon 2020. Our bold design includes the Roberto Clemente Bridge, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge, which spans the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Steelmark, was originally created for United States Steel Corporation to promote the attributes of steel: yellow lightens your work; orange brightens your leisure; and blue widens your world. The PPG Building, is a complex in downtown Pittsburgh, consisting of six buildings within three city blocks and five and a half acres. Named for its anchor tenant, PPG Industries, who initiated the project for its headquarters, the buildings are all of matching glass design consisting of 19,750 pieces of glass. Also included in the design are a fun snake, terminal window, and hardware related items. Sponsor Opportunities Sponsors help keep PyCon affordab...

PyCon 2019 Transparency Report The PyCon Code of Conduct sets standards for how our community interacts with others during the conference. A Code of Conduct without appropriate reporting and response procedures is difficult to enforce transparently, and furthermore a lack of transparency in the outcomes of Code of Conduct incidents leaves the community without knowledge of how or if the organizers worked to resolve incidents. In our efforts to continue to improve how PyCon handles CoC incidents, staff, volunteers and community members participated in a CoC training prior to PyCon 2019. In having more people trained we provided a more thorough process for reporting and responses. With that in mind, we have prepared the following to help the community understand what kind of incidents we received reports about and how the PyCon staff responded. Overview Reports This year, PyCon Staff and Incident Responders were notified of 11 incidents. For summary purposes we categorized e...

PyCon is here and so are the PyCon Sprints (May 6 - 9). For those who have not heard of OR attended the Sprints, we want to invite you to attend! The PyCon Sprints are a time set aside for you and the developers of your favorite tools to work TOGETHER to make those tools better: fix bugs, add features, and improve documentation. It is also a place for you to invite others to work on your project. There are a number of initiatives at PyCon every year to help ensure that the Sprints go off without a hitch. Sat : Mentored Sprints ( New this year, registration required, currently sold out ) Sun : Sprint Leader presentations/ project descriptions Sun : "Intro to Sprints" workshop Mon-Thu : the Sprints ! What can you expect at each of these events? Mentored Sprints (Saturday) : These are new this year and are a chance for attendees from groups traditionally underrepresented in the open source community to have hands-on support in a welcoming environment during their...

Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser Thank you to everyone who has donated to our past fundraisers! Donations, memberships, and sponsorships support sprints, meetups, community events, Python documentation, fiscal sponsorships, software development, and community projects. We can’t do any of this without your financial contributions. We’ve just launched a new fundraiser for 2019! Please donate today and help us meet our goal of $60,000 by May 22nd! Your donations have IMPACT! The PSF awarded $118,543 in financial aid to 143 PyCon attendees in 2018 $324,000 was paid in grants in 2018 to recipients in 51 different countries Donations and fundraisers resulted in $489,152 of revenue. This represents 15% of our total 2018 revenue.  PSF and PyCon sponsors contributed over $1,071K in revenue! We understand the need for transparency and hope to help our community and stakeholders find necessary information about the PSF in a single place. We’re proud to launch our first...

Introducing Facebook and Instagram PyCon 2019 Principal Sponsors! Facebook and Instagram have been big supporters of the Python language through sponsored development of PyTorch and Pyre. This year the PSF is proud to have Facebook and Instagram as Principal Sponsors of our foundation and PyCon 2019 in Cleveland. They want to share the variety of ways they're not only using Python but how they’ve implemented it in creating, teaching, and developing their programs. We spoke with them to find out more about their recent efforts in the Python community, and here’s what they had to share regarding the integration of Python in their systems by team. Facebook Production Engineering

 There are engineers within Facebook that are 100% focused on maintaining the Python infrastructure of the other developers that use Python. There's a whole category of software written at Facebook that's basically like the glue that holds all the other software together. The vast majority o...

The PyCon staff is saddened to hear that one of our sponsors, DataCamp, had an incident where one of their employees was sexually harassed. We were also distressed to find it was unclear if Datacamp had addressed this incident with the seriousness it requires. PyCon and the Python Software Foundation take this issue seriously and we want to emphasize---for Datacamp and everyone---that such behavior is not tolerated at PyCon or any Python Software Foundation affiliated event. The Python community must hold itself to a higher standard. We would like to reemphasize our values of inclusiveness and a willingness to act on behalf of the vulnerable members of our community as written in the Python Software Foundation code of conduct , and our guidelines, as written up in the PyCon code of conduct . The Python Software Foundation Board, Python Software Foundation Executive Director, and myself have taken time to discuss the situation taking into account the concerns of our community, pub...

A big welcome and thank you to Capital One for joining the PSF as a Principal sponsor! Capital One is also a PyCon 2019 Principal sponsor and is excited to share a few things with attendees, including a deeper look at their intelligent virtual assistant, Eno. Eno’s NLP models were built in-house with Python. Eno is a key component of the customer experience at Capital One, proactively looking out for customers and their money. Eno notifies customers about unusual transactions or duplicate charges, helping to spot fraud in its tracks. It also sends bill reminders and makes paying your bill as easy as sending a text or emoji; plus, its new virtual card capabilities let customers shop online without using their real credit card number. The benefits they’ve seen by developing Eno with Python are numerous: fast time to market, the ability to prototype and iterate quickly, ease of integration with machine learning frameworks, and extensive support for everything we need (like Kafka an...

Introducing our 2019 Keystone Sponsor: Microsoft! Our top sponsors — companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in PyCon and its community — not only use Python for their own development but also offer Python as a crucial tool for their own customers. That is certainly true of PyCon’s Keystone Sponsor this year. I recently caught up with the Python Team at Microsoft to talk about how they're using Python and was excited to hear what they had to say. Q: Is your organization using Python in any surprising ways? Yes, and in many surprising ways! To mention just three examples: We have large swaths of data scientists whose jobs rely around Jupyter Notebooks. This includes our security analysis team , which is constantly working to identify new security threats and protecting literally billions of users of Windows, Office, and our cloud services for consumers and businesses—every day. Python is an important part of the CI/CD pipelines that are executed thousand...

We are all very excited that, once again, PyCon will sell out.  Time is running out so act fast if you are planning to attend, there are 60 tickets left as of April 12th at 11:00am central time. Time is moving fast! Things to remember: Hotels: PyCon Hotel Blocks are sold out, we suggest using online hotel booking sites to search for the best options near the Huntington Convention Center Hotel changes and cancellations should be made by contacting the hotels directly.   Hotel cancellations should be made directly with the individual properties 48 hours prior to arrival to avoid a one night cancellation charge Dietary Restrictions: If you indicated 'dietary allergy' when registering and have not provided specifics, please email pycon-reg@python.org with your dietary restrictions. Registration Cancellation Deadline: April 19th is the final date to submit an email requesting a conference registration cancellation for the $50.00 ($25.00 for students) can...

We are excited to be finalizing plans for PyCon 2019.  In our continued efforts to provide you as much information ahead of the conference as possible, we would like to inform you of the planned meals. We are excited to share with you some new features, please visit the website using the button below. Introducing the new menu page on the PyCon website! This page lists all menu items being offered for each meal. As we get closer to the conference we will try to list more detailed ingredients, allowing you to be informed prior to each day. Tutorial Days, May 1st and 2nd  Lunch:  will be buffet style providing VGN(Vegan), VEG(Vegetarian), and AVG(Avoid Gluten) options. Kosher and Allergy Needs:  Location details will be posted on the webpage when available. Conference Days, May 3rd and May 4th Breakfast:  buffet style, providing VGN(Vegan), VEG(Vegetarian), and AVG(Avoid Gluten) option.  Lunch:  we are excited to be offering ...