From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Fri Jun 2 09:36:39 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 09:36:39 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Ticket prices are now published Message-ID: The PyCon Australia 2017 team is very excited about ticket registration opening in the very near future. We don't want to jinx ourselves as we sort out the final kinks in our system, but we expect early bird tickets to go on sale within the next two weeks. In the meantime, you can find the ticket prices at the Prices & Inclusions page: https://pycon-au.org/attend/ There are a lot of options to consider. This flow chart will hopefully assist in helping you find the right ticket for you: https://pycon-au.org/news/ticket-prices/ === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Mon Jun 5 08:23:06 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 08:23:06 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Welcoming WSP Digital, our first Platinum Sponsor! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The PyCon Australia team is sending out a warm welcome to *WSP Digital * as the first Platinum sponsor for 2017. ????? WSP Digital had this to say: *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.* *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.* *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.* 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! 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 sponsorship prospectus (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 sponsorship at pycon-org.au . === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Tue Jun 6 13:29:40 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:29:40 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] PyCon Australia program sneak-peek Message-ID: *Ticket sales are not yet open*, but we expect them to open within the next week or so. In the mean time, this list of accepted talks may help if your manager needs some convincing as to the relevance of attending PyCon Australia! (Some of these may appear in specialist tracks on Friday.) These are all following the Thursday tutorials on Python 101, testing, build tooling and Bayesian inference and machine learning. - "Horrors of Distributed Systems" by Andrew Godwin - "Hot reloading Python web-servers at scale" by Chenyang Wu - "Python in Primary School" by Emily de la Pena - "How to write a container daemon in Python" by Anthony Shaw - "Covered in Bees! Deploying an app to 6 platforms in 20 minutes" by Russell Keith-Magee - "Concurrency and Parallelism From The Ground Up" by Amber Brown - "Secrets of a WSGI master" by Graham Dumpleton - "Time is an illusion" by Dave Collins - "Teaching Python: Adapting to Diversity" by Margot Phillipps - "Front-end integration testing for back-end developers" by Nick Coghlan - "Messy Sensor Data: A Programmer?s Cleaning Guide" by Xavier Ho - "Passing the Baton: Succession planning for your project" by VM (Vicky) Brasseur - "We're no strangers to VoIP: Building the National Rick Astley Hotline" by Paul '@pjf' Fenwick - "Learn by Doing: Getting Students into FOSS" by Josh Simmons - "Harnessing the APIs you didn't know existed" by Katie Bell - "MicroPython Energy Monitoring" by Joel Stanley - "Visualising data in Python" by Clare Sloggett - "Building the next-generation Conversational AI with Python and Deep Learning" by David Low Jia Wei - "Let's Run Python on a Supercomputer" by David Perry - "Improving Your Documentation: A talk for developers who want to write stuff good" by Charelle Collett - "iPad App Development with Python" by Chris Robinson - "PEP 498: The Monologue" by Mariatta Wijaya Other topics covered include profiling, web service workers, CFFI, Lego Mindstorm robots, gradual typing, microservices, serverless, mocking, asyncio, state machines, authenticaition, security, Python data structures, and so much more! Phew!!! We are so excited to bring you the full schedule in the very near future! The prices page lists all the inclusions with each type of ticket. Employer-paid Professional tickets are $660 (once Early birds are sold out). Additionally, *we invite you or your employer to consider upgrading to a Contributor? ticket*. At $900, it includes all the perks of a Professional ticket along with exposure as a sponsor , and the warm fuzzies of knowing that you are supporting Australia's finest Python conference (and more importantly, its attendees). For the weekend keyboard warriors who are paying their own way, Enthusiast tickets start from $360 (once Early birds are sold out). And if that figure feel like a stretch too, we encourage you to apply for financial assistance . Keep your eye on that page for when applications open; they will close at the end of June. We don't want anyone attending the conference to be so stressed about money that they can't enjoy it. It's just eight weeks to PyCon Australia, so get excited! === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Wed Jun 7 09:50:48 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:50:48 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Corporate concierge ticket service now open Message-ID: Previously available only to elite level sponsors, our corporate concierge ticket service is now open to all volume buyers on the Contributor level. If your company is looking to send 3+ developers to PyCon Australia, we can work with you by offering: - Single-sale, multiple registration: we invoice you once, you get a number of full-discount vouchers to Contributor-level tickets. Individual attendees can register using these vouchers, at their convenience, up to one week before the conference. - Reserved seatings for the tutorials. We will reserve you seats at the tutorials of your choice, so your developers can register even after tutorials are officially sold out. This is a limited time offer for obvious reasons: we expect tutorials to sell out fast! - Your logo as a sponsor! Your company logo will appear on our website, conference screens and banners as a valuable contributor to our conference, at the "Standard" sponsor level. Save yourself from the registration rush, avoid having to juggle a trickle of expensed tickets from your company's employees, and defer personnel decisions until the last minute. Buy the tickets first, name the developer attendees later! The cost of Contributor tickets to PyCon Australia 2017 is $900 per attendee. For more information, please visit pycon-au.org/attend. To take this offer up or for any questions, please email sponsorship at pycon-au.org. See you at the conf! === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Fri Jun 9 17:42:22 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 17:42:22 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Tickets are now on sale! Message-ID: We are delighted to announce that online registration is now open for PyCon Australia 2017. The eighth PyCon Australia is being held in Melbourne, Victoria from August 3rd - 8th at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will draw hundreds of Python developers, enthusiasts and students from Australasia and afar. Starting today, early bird offers are up for grabs. To take advantage of these discounted ticket rates, be among the first to register. Early bird registration starts from $60 for full-time students, $250 for enthusiasts and $495 for professionals. Offers this good won?t last long, so we recommend registering right away. Last year early birds sold out in under 48 hours! Tutorials are also expected to be a strong seller, so if your company is sending 3+ people, please look into our corporate concierge service and get in touch ASAP. ( https://pycon-au.org/news/corporate-concierge-ticket-service-now-open/ ) We strongly encourage attendees to organise their accommodation as early as possible, as demand for cheaper rooms is very strong during the AFL season. PyCon Australia has endeavoured to keep tickets as affordable as possible. Financial assistance is also available (applications opening very soon). We are able to make such offers thanks to our Sponsors and Contributors. To begin the registration process, and find out more about each level of ticket, visit https://pycon-au.org/attend To jump straight to the order form, visit https://pycon-au.org/tickets/register Important dates: - 9 June: Registration opens - Limited numbers of ?early bird? prices available - Some time very soon: financial assistance applications open - 30 June: Last day to apply for financial assistance - 3 July: Last day to order conference t-shirts - 3 August: PyCon Australia 2017 begins! === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Fri Jun 16 22:59:56 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:59:56 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Financial assistance applications are now open Message-ID: PyCon Australia offers a generous financial assistance programme, so that some attendees and speakers have some -- or in rare cases, all -- of their expenses such as flight, hotel and admission provided to them from the conference budget. We strongly encourages people to apply for financial assistance -- even if we can?t cover all of your expenses, we will give you free or discounted admission based on need. Essentially, the financial assistance programme is the PyCon Outreach programme -- it's the community holding up the community and making itself accessible at this major event through these financial grants. It is the very spirit of the conference: make the information, knowledge, friendships and connection available to everyone. The generous contribution of the Python Software Foundation has helped us in offering this programme. Financial assistance is core to the mission of the PSF -- The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. Applications close on Friday 30 June 2017 and you will receive a response by 4 July. However applications will be approved progressively so please apply early and your application may be approved early. For details about what can be covered and a link to the application form, make your way to https://pycon-au.org/about/fin_assist/ ! === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. 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List of talks: https://pycon-au.org/schedule/list/ Tickets: https://pycon-au.org/attend/ Financial assistance: https://pycon-au.org/about/fin_assist/ * Subject to change without notice, etc. === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.We are happy to announce that the full* list of talks to be given at PyCon Australia 2017 is now available! We are working on having the schedule published within the next few days as well. Tickets are now on sale and applications for financial assistance are open until 30 June. * Subject to change without notice, etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Fri Jun 30 17:15:07 2017 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:15:07 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Updates - Financial assistance, t-shirts, catering Message-ID: Hello fellow PyConAU travellers, here's a few updates. *Financial assistance applications are due today* *(30th June)*. See here for details: https://pycon-au.org/about/fin_assist/ *Registrations must be paid by Monday (3rd July) to secure a t-shirt.* This is so we have enough time for ordering and shipping. There is a free t-shirt included in some ticket options but these orders must still be finalised in time. https://pycon-au.org/attend/ This year there is* no conference dinner but there will be a catered lunch*. (The text below, but with links: https://2017.pycon-au.org/news/catering-update-no-dinner-yes-lunch/ ) In past years there has been a Saturday night dinner. Based on feedback from last year, we decided that a catered lunch would be more valuable to attendees than the formally organised dinner. Catering provided at the conference is as follows: * Thursday 3rd August (tutorials) - morning tea and afternoon tea. Tea/coffee station available during the day. *Lunch not provided* * Friday 4th August (Specialist Tracks) - morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea. Tea/coffee station available during the day. * Saturday 5th August (main conference + Django Girls workshop) - morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea. Tea/coffee station available during the day. * Sunday 6th August (main conference) - morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea. Tea/coffee station available during the day * Monday 7th August (sprints) - lunch. Tea/coffee station available during the day. * Tuesday 8th August (sprints) - Tea/coffee station available during the day. *Lunch not provided* Food will also be provided for any children in the conference childcare on Friday/Saturday/Sunday. In the attendee profile form there is a field for "Food allergies, intolerances, or dietary restrictions". Please ensure you have completed this correctly so that we can cater for you. Don't put in a 'joke' answer here, it just makes you look clueless and inconsiderate. If you want to take a break and grab your own lunch, there are many options near the main venue MCEC (Thursday-Sunday). The Sprints (Monday-Tuesday) venue is almost finalised and will be announced soon, but the options we are considering have plenty of food options nearby too. If you have any questions about food or anything else, be sure to get in touch. Otherwise, grab your ticket and we look forward to welcoming you in August! === About PyCon Australia === 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. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. 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