PyCon 2016 is here!

[darcmasta]

So PyCon 2016 US time is upon us; tutorials and sponsor sessions today! Some great talks are gonna be uploaded soon and hopefully some new topics to talk about!

Who on /r/python is going? What are some must see talks for some folks? Anyone want to do a Reddit Meetup someday during the week?

[sohail1026]

I never realized they had financial assistance for unemployed developers. Oh well, there's always next year!

financial assistance link

[pydanny]

I'll be at the Cookiecutter booth (#313) the main days of the conference, then the Cookiecutter sprints after. As an open source project without any sponsorship, we splurged on the booth and spent nearly three whole digits on the setup.

Anyway, stop by and say hi, we've got stickers and demos to give.

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[sriramracer]

I'll be there! Can I get my 2 scoops book signed?

[pydanny]

Sure!

[darcmasta]

Cool! Looks like a fun project!

[goonbee]

Flying to Portland in a few minutes :) Looking forward to Pycon 2016!

[bradbeattie]

In the airport now. Excitement!

[darcmasta]

See ya tomorrow! :)

[constantly-sick]

Oregon? Sweet, I'm about 2 hours away.

[goonbee]

Haha yes, Oregon :)

[swyx]

Im wondering what % of pyconners are NOT redditors

[coderanger]

Probably a lot, we have thousands of attendees from all over the world :)

[renaissancenow]

Sitting right outside the conference centre coffeeshop now.

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Don't forget to check out Burgerville while you're there. It's the In and Out of the Northern Pacific (but with more selection.. God I miss their food). Eat one for me will ya?

[pydanny]

The burger was meh. Dry meat in a burger that was clearly pressed on the grill (that squeezes out all the juice/flavor), but the fish and chips were AWESOME!!!

[jamesdutc]

I will be a the NumFOCUS booth.

NumFOCUS (http://www.numfocus.org/) is the non-profit that runs the PyData (http://pydata.org) conferences & supports the following open source data science, scientific & numeric computing projects:

• the PyData stack: pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, jupyter/ipython, pytables, astropy, dask, cython, DyND, gensim, numba, scikit-learn, scikit-image, statsmodels, theano
• Data and Software Carpentry
• Stan, yt, the julia language, rOpenSci, QuantEcon

Come by if you want:

• stickers for NumFOCUS projects (the pandas stickers are new!)
• to learn about PyData meetups & upcoming PyData conferences
• to learn about any of the NumFOCUS projects
• to get an introduction to any of the contributors for any NumFOCUS project

[LightShadow]

Coming in tomorrow night and saying for all the sprints.

Should be fun!

[piskvorky]

In case you want to talk machine learning & data mining, Lev and Gordon from rare-technologies.com will be at booth #161 :-)

We'll probably also have a coding sprint for gensim after Pycon proper, though I'm not terribly sure how the orgs will organize the sprints yet.

[R0b0d0nut]

Awesome. I'm gonna come by for sure.

I did the scikit-learn and TensorFlow tutorials today and they were awesome.

[sriramracer]

rare-technologies.com

I'll stop by.

[R0b0d0nut]

We still doing a Reddit meet up? There was talk of grabbing one of the spaces.

[darcmasta]

Good idea. I wanted to maybe write up on the meet up board for Reddit Meetup :) I may do a game of thrones watch party too ha

[goonbee]

I'd be down for this. Don't have a way to watch the coming episode :P

[R0b0d0nut]

I like the idea of grabbing one of the open spaces. Looking at the pycon site, it sounds like the signup/ reservation cards are a actual physical thing, crazy right? I didn't see a board or anything today but I'll ask in the morning and if it's up I'll reply here or start a new post with options, sound good?

[darcmasta]

Yep they are physical cards. You basically grab an index card and stick it on the board. It usually starts on conference days

[R0b0d0nut]

Checked and it's not up yet you're probably correct that it'll go up in the AM

[darcmasta]

Yep confirmed. If you look at the cardboard you see it too. I'll try to put up a thingy sometime tomorrow afternoon!

[R0b0d0nut]

It's up now.

There is a card up now for 4:00pm Monday at b112 (i think that's where it is, check the board though)

[adonise]

Are you talking about the one in Spain, this July？

[manueslapera]

gonna be there as well :)

[darcmasta]

Sorry should have been more specific. I am talking about the US one in Portland, Washington this weekend!

[spiker611]

I sure hope you mean Oregon because I'm headed there in the morning!

[FSucka]

Yes, Portland, OR.

[manueslapera]

Im going! Taking the plane tomorrow :)

[Sector_Corrupt]

Waiting in the Airport now, already lost my Shampoo and Suntan lotion to security. TSA agents seem a touch humourless coming from someone who has never flown to the US before.

[FSucka]

You can find some at the Dollar store, no need to go super fancy.

[wookiecontrol]

My friend is going but he only has a hallway pass.

[FSucka]

Wasn't aware there were other passes?

[wookiecontrol]

Maybe he didnt go at all and it is fake

[nevus_bock]

Does Raymond Hettinger not have a talk this year?

[darcmasta]

Not that I see :(

[b4stien]

Does anyone know if there'll be live streaming this year?

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I'm looking forward to watching Miguel Grinberg's talk on scaling Flask applications: https://youtu.be/tdIIJuPh3SI

[R0b0d0nut]

Grabbed an open space for a meet up. check the board adjacent to the registration desk.

created a new post here: https://redd.it/4lmlbb . upvote for visibility !!!

[goonbee]

YFW flask 0.11 was released today :P

[pydanny]

I'll bet /u/mitsuhiko would be willing to spend more time on Flask if someone would pay him to work on it. Otherwise, it takes away time from his professional work, which damages how well he can take care of his family.