From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Sun Aug 7 18:54:18 2016 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 18:54:18 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-chat] PyCon AU related events: Data Carpentry, MelbDjango, PyLadies, Running group Message-ID: It's PyCon Australia week! We trust you are as excited as we are! ? There are a few events happening this week in close association with PyCon AU. Check out the details below: On Wednesday and Thursday, there will be a *Data Carpentry Workshop * at VLSCI (University of Melbourne). This is a hands-on workshop teaching basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. It's well suited to researchers and scientists, but open to anyone (including people not attending the conference). Topics covered will include OpenRefine, SQL, and Pandas. It's free to attend but see the web page to register. Data Carpentry is a sibling organization of Software Carpentry. Where Software Carpentry teaches best practices in software development, the Data Carpentry focus is on the introductory computational skills needed for data management and analysis in all domains of research. We are big fans of Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry at PyCon Australia; last year a Software Carpentry workshop was held alongside PyCon AU in Brisbane, so we are happy to see this tradition continue. Let's pythonify ALL the scientists! On Thursday evening, there will be the *MelbDjango birthday party * to celebrate MelbDjango turning three! That's a huge achievement for any meetup to sustain, let alone the other things they have also done - organising MelbDjango Camp, and MelbDjango Schools to share their knowledge and love for Django to new audiences. Congratulations to Brenton and the Common Code crew -- here's to another three years. ? Finally, on Saturday morning, the *PyLadies breakfast * will be happening at Left Bank Melbourne, just up the road on Southbank. This is also a free event, but please register by Friday for catering. The PyLadies Melbourne chapter just formed this year, and it's an exciting and rare chance for women and genderqueer/non-binary Pythonistas from around the country to meet in person and make connections. *We are looking for a sponsor for this event.* As the conference is sold out we unfortunately can't offer any free tickets, but we would be heartened to see financial support forthcoming for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. *If you or your company is interested, please contact us .* On the days of the conference, there will be a *Running group *. There are some great runs planned and it's the best way to prepare for a day of sitting down watching presentations, so pack your sneakers! === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The seventh PyCon Australia will be held on August 12-16 2016 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 2016, 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 Sponsors, DevDemand.co and IRESS; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia, Optiver and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianna.laugher at gmail.com Mon Aug 8 13:58:03 2016 From: brianna.laugher at gmail.com (Brianna Laugher) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:58:03 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-chat] Announcing miniconf keynotes Message-ID: We've already announced that the main conference keynotes are Damien George and Dr Russell Keith-Magee , with Solange Cunin speaking at the dinner . Now it's time to find out who will be keynoting our Friday miniconfs! First up at the *DjangoConAU* will be *Donna Benjamin*! An absolute legend of the Australian open source scene, and sitting on the board for the Drupal Association, Donna will take us through *Django & Drupal: A tale of two cities*. This knowledgeable comparison between the two projects (something of a tradition at DjangoCon AU) will explore the common challenges and highlight where approaches diverge, providing an opportunity to reflect on how each project can grow stronger separately, and maybe even together. Donna is also speaking on Sunday on Turning user stories into websites . Secondly at the *Internet of Things miniconf*, if you can't wait until Saturday to hear *Damien George*, luckily you can get a sneak peek on Friday! Damien will talk about high-level languages that have been adapted for use in microcontrollers including Lua, JavaScript, Ruby, and of course, Python. Lachlan Blackhall, organiser of the Internet of Things miniconf, said, "The inaugural IoT miniconf at PyconAU will be an exciting opportunity to learn about and discuss everything from Python on embedded devices, to how Python is powering IoT enabling cloud services and everything in between." Thirdly, at the popular *Science and Data miniconf*, we will hear from *Juan Nunez-Iglesias*, on *Python's bright future in science *. Juan is a core developer for the scikit-image library and a research scientist at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, in the University of Melbourne. He has taught scipy workshops around the world and co-authored the "Elegant SciPy" book, putting him in a prime position to comment on Python's status in the scientific programming community. Finally, at the *Education Seminar*, we're excited to hear from *Roland Gesthuizen*, from Digital Learning & Teaching Victoria, speaking on * Smart City: Connecting the dots and digital kids*. Roland's current mission is to challenge students to design, build a smart city consisting of intelligent vehicles and infrastructure. To do this they need to program a navigation algorithm to autonomously navigate vehicles through a series of traffic challenges that test collision avoidance and road safety. Roland has an active interest in the development of online learning communities, open education and software freedom, and is a recipient of the 2010 ACCE Educator of the year Award and 2012 ISTE Making IT Happen Award. With four amazing options, the hardest part of Friday morning will be choosing which one to attend! Conference check-in opens from 8am on Friday our venue , Level 1 of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. *You can also check in on Thursday afternoon, from 4:30pm to 6:00pm*, so if you are around the CBD on Thursday, we encourage you to beat the rush and collect your badge then. === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The seventh PyCon Australia will be held on August 12-16 2016 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 2016, 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 Sponsors, DevDemand.co and IRESS; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia, Optiver and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From miked at dewhirst.com.au Mon Aug 8 15:17:10 2016 From: miked at dewhirst.com.au (Mike Dewhirst) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:17:10 +1000 Subject: [PyCon-AU-chat] [melbourne-pug] PyCon AU related events: Data Carpentry, MelbDjango, PyLadies, Running group In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Paul We should be able to arrange at least 15 celcius. And beer! Cheers Mike On 8/08/2016 5:20 AM, paul sorenson wrote: > Sounds like a great program.? A couple of my colleagues, Cooper Lees > and Jason Fried will be in town so put on some warmish weather and check > out stuff we use Python for at Facebook, from network management to data > pipelines and machine learning. > > cheers > > On 08/07/2016 01:54 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote: >> >> It's PyCon Australia week! We trust you are as excited as we are! ???? >> >> There are a few events happening this week in close association with >> PyCon AU. Check out the details below: >> >> On Wednesday and Thursday, there will be a *Data Carpentry Workshop >> * >> at VLSCI (University of Melbourne). This is a hands-on workshop >> teaching basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively >> with data. It's well suited to researchers and scientists, but open to >> anyone (including people not attending the conference). Topics covered >> will include OpenRefine, SQL, and Pandas. It's free to attend but see >> the web page to register. >> >> Data Carpentry is a sibling organization of Software Carpentry. Where >> Software Carpentry teaches best practices in software development, the >> Data Carpentry focus is on the introductory computational skills >> needed for data management and analysis in all domains of research. >> >> We are big fans of Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry at PyCon >> Australia; last year a Software Carpentry workshop was held alongside >> PyCon AU in Brisbane, so we are happy to see this tradition continue. >> Let's pythonify ALL the scientists! >> >> On Thursday evening, there will be the *MelbDjango birthday party >> * to celebrate >> MelbDjango turning three! That's a huge achievement for any meetup to >> sustain, let alone the other things they have also done - organising >> MelbDjango Camp, and MelbDjango Schools to share their knowledge and >> love for Django to new audiences. Congratulations to Brenton and the >> Common Code crew -- here's to another three years. ???? >> >> Finally, on Saturday morning, the *PyLadies breakfast >> * >> will be happening at Left Bank Melbourne, just up the road on >> Southbank. This is also a free event, but please register by Friday >> for catering. >> >> The PyLadies Melbourne chapter just >> formed this year, and it's an exciting and rare chance for women and >> genderqueer/non-binary Pythonistas from around the country to meet in >> person and make connections. *We are looking for a sponsor for this >> event.* As the conference is sold out we unfortunately can't offer any >> free tickets, but we would be heartened to see financial support >> forthcoming for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. *If you >> or your company is interested, please contact us >> .* >> >> On the days of the conference, there will be a *Running group >> *. There are some great runs >> planned and it's the best way to prepare for a day of sitting down >> watching presentations, so pack your sneakers! >> >> === About PyCon Australia === >> >> >> PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming >> community. The seventh PyCon Australia will be held on August 12-16 >> 2016 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 2016, 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 Sponsors, DevDemand.co and IRESS; and our Gold >> sponsors, Google Australia, Optiver and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. >> For full details of our sponsors, see our website. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> melbourne-pug mailing list >> melbourne-pug at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > > > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > melbourne-pug at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug >