Posts tagged “pycon”

The Python Language Summit 2023

Every year, just before the start of PyCon US, core developers, triagers, and special guests gather for the Python Language Summit: an all-day event of talks...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Three Talks on the C API

The Python Language Summit 2023 began with an extended discussion of Python’s C API – the interface through which it is possible to communicate between code ...

The Python Language Summit 2023: What is the Standard Library for?

Brett Cannon came to the Python Language Summit this year with a fundamental question for the assembled core developers: What is the standard library for? Ac...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Pattern Matching, __match__, and View Patterns

One of the most exciting new features in Python 3.10 was the introduction of pattern matching (introduced in PEPs 634, 635 and 636). Pattern matching has a w...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Lightning Talks

The Python Language Summit 2023 closed off with a trio of lightning talks from Dong-hee Na, Carl Meyer and Amethyst Reese. Dong-hee Na: Let’s sup...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Towards Native Profiling for Python

Joannah Nanjekye came to the Python Language Summit 2023 to discuss innovations by Scalene, a sampling-based Python profiler that can distinguish between nat...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Python on Mobile

At the Python Language Summit 2023, Russell Keith-Magee presented on the ongoing efforts of BeeWare, a project that aims to make it easier to run Python on m...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional

The Global Interpreter Lock (“GIL”), is one of the most fundamental parts of how Python works today. It’s also one of the most controversial parts, as it pre...

The Python Language Summit 2023: Burnout is Real

Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, spoke at the 2023 Python Language Summit on the subject of open-source burnout, strategies for ...

The 2022 Python Language Summit

Every year, just before the start of PyCon US, around 30 core developers, triagers, and special guests gather for the Python Language Summit: an all-day even...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Python in the browser

Python can be run on many platforms: Linux, Windows, Apple Macs, microcomputers, and even Android devices. But it’s a widely known fact that, if you want cod...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Upstreaming optimisations from Cinder

In May 2021, the team at Instagram made waves in the world of Python by open-sourcing Cinder, a performance-oriented fork of CPython. Cinder is a version of ...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Dealing with CPython's issue and PR backlog

> “Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.” > > – Tongue twister, author unknown As the Python programming language continues t...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Python without the GIL

If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again: the dream of Python without the GIL. Continuing thi...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: F-Strings in the grammar

Formatted string literals, known as “f-strings” for short, were first introduced in Python 3.6 via PEP 498. Since then, they’ve swiftly become one of the mos...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Performance Improvements by the Faster CPython team

Python 3.11, if you haven’t heard, is fast. Over the past year, Microsoft has funded a team – led by core developers Mark Shannon and Guido van Rossum – to w...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Lightning talks

These were a series of short talks, each lasting around five minutes. Read the rest of the 2022 Python Language Summit coverage here. Lazy imports, ...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: Achieving immortality

What does it mean to achieve immortality? At the 2022 Python Language Summit, Eddie Elizondo, an engineer at Instagram, and Eric Snow, CPython core developer...

The 2022 Python Language Summit: A per-interpreter GIL

“Hopefully,” the speaker began, “This is the last time I give a talk on this subject.” “My name is Eric Snow, I’ve been a core developer since 2012, and I’ve...

PyCon 2016: A look back, my take away, and thank you!

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PyCon Japan 2015: A Success

Last month PyCon Japan took place from October 9 - 12th at the Tokyo International Exchange Center Plaza Heisei. The PSF has recently received a report from ...

Register Now for PyCon 2016!

Once again, the PSF is proud to underwrite and produce the largest gathering of the international Python community at PyCon 2016! The 2016 conference will be...

PyOhio Young Coders to receive PSF Funding

The PSF is always thrilled to be able to help introduce young people to the world of programming. As such, Young Coders' Workshops (also see O'Reilly) are es...

PyCon Singapore

The PSF is happy to report that the third annual PyCon Singapore took place June 17 to 19, 2015. This event, organized by the Python User Group Singapore, is...

My Dinner with Katie

Last week at PyCon, I had the pleasure of talking with Katie Cunningham at a dinner party hosted by O'Reilly. Katie is well-known in the Python community. Th...

PSF Python Brochure: Get your free copy at PyCon 2015

PSF Python Brochure PDF (low resolution version) After having distributed the first 5,000 copies of the PSF Python Brochure to Python conferences and user ...

Python Events Calendars - Please submit your 2015 events

Introduction As some of you may know, the PSF has a team of volunteers who are maintaining a set of central Python event calendars. We currently have two ...

Portland Chosen as PyCon 2016/2017 Location

After a thorough evaluation of several potential host cities, the Python Software Foundation has chosen Portland, Oregon as the next location for PyCon. Foll...

Python Events Calendars - Please submit your 2014 events

Introduction As some of you may know, the PSF has put together a team of volunteers who are maintaining a central Python events calendar. We currently hav...

PSF Moves to Require Code of Conduct for Conference Grants

On Wednesday, November 21, the Python Software Foundation’s board of directors voted on two resolutions on the topic of Codes of Conduct at Python conference...

PyCon 2012 Proposals Due 12 Oct.

PyCon 2012, the tenth annual Python conference, is accepting proposals for talks, tutorials, and posters through 12 Oct 2011. Please submit proposals at the ...

EuroPython Early Bird Registration Deadline is 12 May

The early bird deadline for registering to attend EuroPython 2011 is midnight 12 May. The discount for registering early is €60 for standard tickets, so rese...

PyCon Australia

The PSF Board of Directors has awarded a $1500 USD grant to sponsor PyCon AU. Date and Location PyCon Australia 2011 will be held in Sydney on the weekend of...

Bring the Superbowl of Python to Your Hometown

The site for PyCon 2014 and 2015 has not been set, yet. If you want your city to be considered, attend the Site Selection Meeting in the Dunwoody room at PyC...

PyCon 2014-2015 site selection meeting at PyCon 2011

The PyCon Organizing Committee will have a planning meeting at PyCon 2011 to begin the process of selecting the location for the 2014 and 2015 conferences. A...

Funding for PyCon PL'10

The PSF Board has offered a grant of $750 to the organizers of the PyCon Poland 2010 conference. Conference Details PyCon Poland 2010 will take place from Oc...

Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

This summary was written by Tim Golden. Before the main events of EuroPython 2010 a Python Language Summit took place at the Conference venue in Birmingham. ...

PyCon India 2010 Grant

The PSF Board has offered a grant of $1,000 organizers of the PyCon India 2010 conference to fund the travel expenses of one foreign delegate from the U.S. o...

EuroPython 2010 Grant

The PSF Board has offered a $2,000 grant to the organizers of EuroPython 2010 to fund sprints and the travel expenses of selected sepakers who could not other...

Leadership for PyCon US 2011

The PyCon organizing committee has started making plans for PyCon US 2011, to be held in Atlanta, GA on March 9-17 of next year. One of the first steps is en...

Members&#39; Meeting at EuroPython 2010

The PSF is organizing a second members' meeting this year, and the first ever held outside of the United States. In the past, official meetings of the member...

More PyCon 2010 Conference Grants

At their May 10 meeting, the PSF Board approved grants for two PyCon conferences. PyCon Ukraine PyCamp Kyiv, held in January 2010, attracted over 200 attende...

PyCon 2010 Conference Grants

At their April 12 meeting, the PSF Board approved grants for two PyCon conferences. PyCon Italia PyCon Italia Quattro is scheduled for May 7-9 in in the old ...

Reminder: 5 days left for PyCon US 2010 Proposals

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a week away. If you're planning to present, you should submit your outline now...

Reminder: 14 Days left for PyCon US 2010 Proposals

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a month away. Start thinking about your outline now! See the proposal instruct...

Call for Tutorials -- PyCon 2010

The period to submit proposals for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) is now open and will close on October 18. Tutorials are 3-hour long classes on a spec...

Call for proposals -- PyCon 2010

Submission Due date: October 1st, 2009 Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your ...

PyCon UK Registration Open

PyCon UK takes place in Birmingham UK from 12th to 14th September 2008. A full programme includes a day of tutorials; bookings are being taken at http://www....

PyCon FR: May 17/18, 2008

PyCon FR is to be held at the Cité des sciences et de la Villette in Paris. This is the second national Python Conference in France. There is an interesting ...

PSF Community Awards

A little-publicized feature of this year's PyCon was the first ever PSF Community Awards. One of the issues with being a Foundation of part-timers is that so...