In episode 4 we present a fun, yet by no means comprehensive, overview of PyCon 2011. PyCon, the conference dedicated to the Python programming language, presents a unique opportunity for meeting and engaging not just the traditional software development community, but also the scientific computing community.
This year promised to be the best ever, and certainly delivered! Live vicariously through inSCIght if you couldn’t make it out to Atlanta this year…
Today’s pythonistas include:
- Geraldine A. Van der Auwera
- Jeff Ramnani
- Anthony Scopatz (moderator)
- Peter Wang
And look Mom, no SXSW! Well, almost…
Intro/Outro Music: ‘Mega Man 3 Snakeman Get Down OC ReMix’ -Disco Dan (Get it?!)
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Show Links:
- PyCon 2011 (http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/)
- PyCon 2011 Talks (http://pycon.blip.tv/)
- PyCon 2011 Convore ()
- “Keynote: Hilary Mason” (http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878710/)
- “Using Python 3 to Build a Cloud Computing Service for My Superboard II” (http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878868/)
- “Handling Ridiculous Amounts of Data With Probabilistic Data Structures” (http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4881076/)
- “Diversity in Tech: Improving Our Toolset” (http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4883080/)
- Testing in Python Birds of a Feather (TiP BoF) ()
- Python Scientific Computing convore group ()
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Brandon Nedwek
2011/03/17
The pace of improvement on these is really impressive. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Anthony Scopatz
2011/03/17
Thanks Brandon! If you have other feedback, please feel free to post to our convore thread ().
katyhuff
2011/03/23
Geraldine! Thanks so much for standing up! You’re no harpy. From a woman who couldn’t make it to PyCon this year, thank you for the righteousness of your presence there.
Geraldine VdA
2011/03/27
Thanks Katy! I just had to say something, you know? To some extent, outright misogyny doesn’t even need a response, because it’s obviously wrong to the majority of civilized people (I’m assuming — I’m an optimist about people). Whereas here the guy actually meant well and thought he was being positive, and I feel that’s when it’s most important to point out the problem, to educate people and prevent these reasonable-sounding but nevertheless discriminatory ideas from proliferating. And I’d say this is applicable to any type of minority, not just gender.
Chris Lasher
2011/04/10
Great recap of PyCon 2011! Anthony, it was good to see you there, again, and Geraldine, it was a pleasure to meet you. I’m sad I missed the Scientific Computing and Visualization BoFs, but I’m really glad you took the time to summarize them here. Also, the TiP BoF lies beyond verbal description, but I think you guys also did a great job summarizing the spirit!
I was glad that Geraldine pointed out the diversity talk by Jennifer Leech from this year, which I also attended. I felt relieved when Geraldine said she found the talk disappointing, because I also felt disappointed. I think Jennifer Leech took a real opportunity to discuss an important matter and blew it. Her talk came off as an under-prepared rant, desperately in need of citations. Anna Ravenscroft gave a diversity talk at the previous year’s PyCon titled “Diversity as a Dependency” which I found informative and constructive: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3261290 I hope future diversity talks follow Anna’s example rather than Jennifer’s.
Thanks again for taking the time to record these podcasts!