Signup for PyCon Dinners led by Jessica McKellar and Brandon Rhodes!
While the cost of PyCon includes breakfast and lunch as well as coffee and snacks, dinner is on your own, and for good reason. It's Montréal! Get out and enjoy the city, find some good food and drink,...
View ArticlePyCon 2015: Call for On-Site Volunteers
Got a couple of hours to give? PyCon is organized and run by volunteers from the Python community. This year we're looking for over 300 on-site volunteer hours to help make sure everything runs...
View ArticleSignup for Sponsor Tutorials!
Our Sponsor Tutorial schedule has come together and we've opened registration on Eventbrite! Running Wednesday and Thursday April 8-9, these free tutorials are offered by several of our generous...
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PyCon 2015 - Explore Montreal
Explore MontréalSponsored by Caktus GroupPyCon 2015 is in the center of an exciting city full of great food, culture, and history. It would be a shame to not check it out while you're in town!In...
View ArticleGet ready for Lightning Talks and Open Spaces!
While the majority of the greater PyCon schedule consists of events that we've had calls for proposals for, there are two other big pieces to the weekend that are organized on-site in Montréal:...
View ArticleMore Sponsor Workshops announced!
As we previously wrote, signup for our free Sponsor Workshops is open and the schedule has now been completed! While registration isn't required, it helps us plan for room sizes and for drinks and...
View ArticleFourth annual 5K Fun Run benefitting Autism Speaks
We're really happy to be holding our fourth annual 5K Charity Fun Run on Saturday April 11 at 7 AM, before day two of PyCon kicks off. The event was introduced in Santa Clara and has been fun for...
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For Microsoft, Python support extends far beyond Windows installers
You might have known that Python's 1.0 release came at the start of 1994, but did you know Microsoft shipped its Merchant Server 1.0 product built on Python only a few years later in 1996? Microsoft,...
View ArticlePyCon schedule on Guidebook!
There's a lot going on at PyCon this year. If you've paid for tutorials, you have those to keep track of. Then there's the free sponsor tutorials. Then there's 95 talks going on in 5 parallel tracks....
View ArticleCome to the Opening Reception on Thursday!
Come celebrate with us as we kickoff the weekend with snacks and drinks at our Opening Reception in the expo hall, Thursday from 6-9 PM. Whether you spent the day in tutorials or you just got in town...
View ArticlePyCon is here!
Before we get under way, https://us.pycon.org/2015/onsite/ is your go-to for all things once you're at PyCon. Here are some important details and things coming up.WiFi: SSID is "PyCon 2015" and upon...
View ArticleUpdate on the PSF Elections - new election starting
Due to some procedural problems with the current election for the Board of the Python Software Foundation, the Foundation has taken some steps to make sure that the elections are freely open for...
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PyCon JP 2015 Call for Proposals
The annual PyCon JP 2015 will be held at Plaza Heisei in Tokyo. The schedule is as below.Tutorial: 2015 October 9(Fri)Conference: 2015 October 10(Sat)-11(Sun)Development Sprints: 2015 October 12(Mon /...
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PyCon JP 2015 Registration Open
We are pleased to announce availability of PyCon JP 2015 tickets. PyCon JP 2015 is the biggest Python event in Japan, consisting of keynotes, talks, dev sprints and tutorials (paid separately). As with...
View ArticleSign up today or Tuesday to be a Launch Day sponsor
The long months of summer are finally at an end — for those of us in northern climes — and this Wednesday, on the first day of Autumn, the new PyCon website for Portland 2016 will launch!The conference...
View ArticleThank you to our Launch-Day sponsors
The new PyCon 2016 website is now live! The conference volunteers have worked hard to include all of the essential details about the schedule, venue, and hotels ahead of the Call for Proposals next...
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PyConZA 2015: 1 & 2 October, Johannesburg
South Africa’s fourth PyCon kicks off in just three days' time in Johannesburg!The conference takes place at the Witwatersrand University on the 1 & 2 October, with sprints at JoziHub on the 3...
View ArticleWe have issued our Call For Proposals
Have you ever dreamed of speaking in front of a conference crowd?Or of teaching a several-hour PyCon tutorial, that gives you the opportunity to lead an audience deep into the details of a technology...
View ArticleRegistration and Financial Aid are now open!
PyCon’s Registration and Financial Aid forms are now open! Their soft launch a few days ago revealed a form formatting problem on some Firefox versions, but the issue is now resolved and registration...
View ArticleWhy proposals are due so many months before PyCon
“Why does PyCon make us submit proposals six whole months before the conference? They expect us to start thinking of topics for PyCon 2016 while it is still 2015!”To be honest, I used to ask the same...
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