<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p>The PyCon Australia team is sending out a warm welcome to <b><a href="http://www.wspdigital.com/" target="_blank">WSP Digital</a></b> as the first Platinum sponsor for 2017. ☺️🌟🍰🎉</p><p>WSP Digital had this to say:<br></p><p><i>WSP Digital is the software engineering division of WSP, a publicly
listed global consulting engineering company with over 40,000 employees
in more than 50 countries. We work with WSP’s other engineering
disciplines and directly with customers to deliver custom web and mobile
applications, systems integration and IoT implementations.</i></p><i>
</i><p><i>Python has been their language of choice for over 6 years - in that
time we've deployed Python code for clients including VicRoads, Qantas,
Myer, Coles, Telstra, BOC, State and Federal Government departments and
many others. We have active projects using Django, Twisted, Celery,
Channels, Pandas and many other open source tools from the Python
community, so we’re very happy to have this opportunity to make a small
contribution in return.</i></p><i>
</i><p><i>Our Melbourne office employs 35 software engineers, business
analysts, test engineers and project managers, including a number of
interns and graduates. We take great pride in providing an environment
that encourages software engineering excellence through collaboration,
informed debate and learning - we believe that our commercial success is
directly related to the quality of what we produce and the talent and
commitment of our team.</i></p><p>It's wonderful to see a business
materially recognise the huge benefit they gain from tools made freely
available by the Python open source community. Open source tools allow
us all to skip most of the infra and get straight to building the
functionality which actually make money for the business!<i><br></i></p><p>There
are several elite sponsorship opportunities available which we are
excited to share with the right companies. Could one of them be you? If
so check out our <a href="https://pycon-au.org/sponsorship.pdf" target="_blank">sponsorship prospectus</a> (pdf). Both elite and standard sponsorships offer on-stage, on-video and
hallway banners as well as complimentary professional-level tickets. For any enquiries or questions, we're at <a href="mailto:sponsorship@pycon-au.org" title="" target="_blank">sponsorship@pycon-org.au</a>.</p><p>=== About PyCon Australia ===<br> <br>PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on.<br> <br>To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at <a href="http://pycon-au.org" target="_blank">http://pycon-au.org</a>, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at <a href="mailto:contact@pycon-au.org" target="_blank">contact@pycon-au.org</a>.<br> <br>PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (<a href="http://www.linux.org.au" target="_blank">www.linux.org.au</a>) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.<br></p><p></p></div></div>