Mid Meet Py
By Cheuk Ting Ho
Mid Meet PyJun 11, 2020
Mid Meet Py 2021 - Ep.02 - Let's chat with Lemon
This week we will chat with Leon 'Lemon' Sandøy, one of the owners of Python Discord. Do you know why he is called Lemon? We also talked about some history and behind the scenes of Python Discord.
All links are in the podcast notes
Mid Meet Py 2021 - Ep.01 - We are back and chat with Laura Gutierrez Funderburk
This week we will chat with Laura Gutierrez Funderburk of PyLadies Vancouver. Also, check out the Flask tutorial by Miguel Grinberg.
All links are in the [podcast notes](https://www.notion.so/Streaming-Jan-29th-epi-I-7cd79f7eef784ca485b61ad3263bef5b)
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Mid Meet Py - Ep.23 - Interview with Vicky Tomey-Lee
PyChat
DjangoCon 2020 Sept 18th and 19th
Cheuk and I will be speaking at PyData Hamburg on Sept 22nd
Humber Data Workshop with PyData Global open for application
Answer survey to improve pip’s usability
EuroPython Society General Assembly 2020 this Sunday
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Vicky Tomey-Lee
Founder of PythonIE, PyLadies Dublin chapter, Coding Grace
Follow Vicky on Twitter
Follow Vicky on dev.to
PyPI highlights
Papermill - let’s you use parameters and trigger actions on a notebook.
Mid Meet Py - Ep.22 - Ask us anything
PyChat
Very important - Pyjamas CfP extended to 19th Sept!!!!
Humble Data workshop with PyData Global @ 7th November
Mid Meet Py - Ep.21 - Interview with Jesper Dramsc
PyChat
Very important - Pyjamas CfP ends this Saturday!!!!
PyCon TaiWan (Maybe) the first non-online PyCon since COVID outbreak (5-6 Sep 2020)
At the same time - PyConline AU (4-6 Sept) you can join anywhere in the world
PyData Global tickets are now available!
You can get PyData Swag here
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Jesper Dramsc - ML engineer
Follow Jesper on Twitter
Skill share course here
PyPI highlights
Docker Compose (is a Python library!!!!)
Present - make your slides with a terminal window with flare
Mid Meet Py - Ep.20 - Interview with Bojan Miletic
PyChat
PyCon Italy cancelled
Pyjamas CfP workshop August 27th & 28th
Ticket sale to PyData Global starts tomorrow (27th Aug)
Data Science and Business Analytics with Python course- Jesper Dramsch
CircuitPython day- Sept 9th - Adafruit newsletter
Nadia’s new book on Open Source - Guido’s tweet
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Bojan Miletic - Python developer
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PyPI highlights
Mid Meet Py - Ep.19 - Interview with Nina Zakharenko
PyChat
PyCon India extended their CfP until TODAY!
Nominate a PSF fellow! Deadline is TOMORROW!
Django 3.1 release notes - backwards incompatibilities 3.0 earlier.
Consortium for Python Data API Standards - from these peeps
PyLadies section
PyLadies India & WomanTechmakers hosting a Show&Tell on Aug 29th!
PyLadies Munich hosting Naomi Ceder on Aug 27th talking about Python Objects
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Nina Zakharenko - PSF Director
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Follow Nina on Twitch
PyPI highlights
Mid Meet Py - Ep.18 - Interview with Vincent D. Warmerdam
PyChat:
PyCon Africa is happening now data science for beginners workshop this Sunday
PyData Global DfP extended to 16th Aug - Joke about PyData CfP
Numfocus is looking for a Dev Rel
Raspberry Pi Keyboard in Japanese
Create google assistant with Raspberry PI???
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Vincent D. Warmerdam - co-founder of PyData Amsterdam, Developer Advocate for Rasa
Follow Vincent on Twitter
PyPi Highlights - Rasa
Mid Meet Py - Ep.17 - Interview with Matin Borus
PyChat:
We need you! Data Science workshop at PyCon Africa needs mentors
PyData Global CfP deadline is 2nd August !!!
Hacktoberfest Website is already out ?!
PyData Cambridge - 20th Meetup happening tonight!
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Matin Borus - Pythonista, Volunteer of EuroPython
Follow Martin on Twitter
PyPI highlights:
Mid Meet Py - Ep.16 - Interview with Sandrine Pataut
PyChat:
GitHub -> Slack bot for pyladies
Registrations for PyConAfrica2020 are open
EuroPython 2020 will start on Thursday next week
PyLadies Dublin Virtual Meetup July
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Sandrine Pataut - Pythonista, Data Scientist
Follow Sandrine on Twitter
PyPI highlights:
Mid Meet Py - Ep.15 - Interview with Stéphane
PyChat:
Python security announcement - If your application embeds Python on Windows, you may be at risk.
EuroPyhon Merch Shop (15% off till 15th)
Turn you Raspberry Pi into gaming machine
Python Ireland remote meetup event today
Pydata event: joined effort with regional meetup
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Stéphane - CPython core developer, Board member of EuroPython
Follow Stéphane on Twitter
PyPI highlights:
Pandas-Bokeh - using bokeh with pandas
interrogate checks your code base for missing docstrings.
Mid Meet Py - Ep.14 - Interview with Waylon Walker
PyChat:
PyTorch joins NumFOCUS as an Affiliated Project
PyGotham TV - last days for CfP (July 5th)
Python Ireland remote meetup events > volunteers for Lightning Talks
Blog about Pickle: Pickle’s nine flaws
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Interview with Waylon Walker (Twitter & dev.to)- Data driven solution enabler, creator of find-kedro and kedro-static-viz
Mid Meet Py - Ep.13 - Interview with Jason McDonald
PyChat:
Congratulations to new PSF board directors
PyCon India - CfP open until the 14th August. Conf on 2nd & 3rd of October
PyCon Australia is happening soon - CfP ends on July 12th
DjangoCon two full days of talks, free & online
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame
Interview with Jason McDonald, author, speaker and time-lord.
Mid Meet Py - Ep.12 - Interview with Dani Papamaximou
PyChat:
TutorialDB - a small scale OS search engine for programming/dev tutorials
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Dani Papamaximou - organizer of Django Girls Birmingham and Python Midwest
PyPI highlights:
Recently wanna try using Pre-commit
HTTPrunner HTTP(s) testing framework in Python
Mid Meet Py - Ep.11 - Interview with David Lord
PyChat:
pyOpenSci community call today
Python Ireland call for speakers
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
David Lord - lead dev Flask and related libraries on @PalletsTeam. Meetup organizer @SanDiegoPython
PyPI highlights:
Make yourself a cartoon - They use this: face-alignment
Create representations of large DS - datashader
Mid Meet Py - Ep.10 - Interview with Adam Johnson
PyChat:
PSF support diversity, BlackLivesMatters
Django security releases, update ASAP
Py Hall of Fram:
Adam Johnson, Django technical board member
Follow Adam on twitter @AdamChainz
PyPI Highlight:
Cheuk's choice - sidetable - Create Simple Summary Tables in Pandas
Adam's choice - time-machine
Lais's choice - pillow
Mid Meet Py - Ep.9 - Interview with Ian Ozsvald
PyChat:
Free Python DS book (online) Intro to NumPy, Matplotlib & sci-kit learn
Way to have more diverse board members is to have diverse voters - become a voting member of the PSF
New pymsbuild for windows people
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Ian Ozsvald - co-founder of PyData London
Follow Ian on Twitter @ianozsvald
PyPI highlights:
Tesseract OCR text localization & detection
Shed - black plus autoflake plus isort plus pyupgrade plus some custom fixers
Mid Meet Py - Ep.8 - Interview with Tania Allard
(Sorry for the technical difficulties, we failed to capture Lais on the call today)
PyChat:
[Python Conference for web devs 17th to 19th June](https://2020.pythonwebconf.com/)
[PyCon DE cancelled this year, see you next year](https://twitter.com/PyConDE/status/1261303281961381888)
[PyCon Africa 2020 Online](https://africa.pycon.org/)
[Sci-kit learn bugfix release 0.23.1 is out](https://twitter.com/scikit_learn/status/1262829951654473729)
[Release of the `tzdata` package](https://twitter.com/pganssle/status/1262791115230662657)
Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:
Tanya Allard, PSF Fellow, Developer Advocate at Microsoft
[Follow Tania on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ixek)
PyPI highlights:
[Helium](https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium) - Python library for web automation (like Selium but lighter)
[Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) is actually cool.
[Listen to MidMeetPy podcast](https://anchor.fm/midmeetpy)
MidMeetPy Ep7 - Interview with Nicolas Demarchi
PyChat:
EP published their 1st set of talks
CfP still open for Various time zones (anyone can apply)
Naomi won't run for re-election for the chair of the PSF
PyCon Us Hatchery Mentoried sprint this Saturday
Hall of Fame:
Interview with Nicolas Demarchi
PyPI highlights:
Events, a library that works as the Observer Design Pattern (or the Moderator, depending on your case).
Discord.py - perfect if you wanna build a Discord bot.
MidMeetPy Ep6 - Interview with Steve Dower
PyChat:
Global Pydata conference calling for organizing committee
PyData Dublin starting with a round of Monday talks from the 18th
Release of Napari `0.3.0` with many new features
Naomi Ceder is the first keynote speaker announced for EuroPython
Learning aid for Vim Learn Vim while playing a game
Py Hall of Frame:
Interview with Steve Dower, Python tools developer at Microsoft and core CPython developer
PyPI Highlight:
Napari - fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python
Kedro - a best-practice scaffold for ML and DS pipelines
MidMeetPy Ep5 - Interview with Naomi Ceder
PyChat (news in the community):
PyCon Hatchery Programs looks for attendees and mentors:
Remote Python Pizza surprise people that online conference does works!
* Great speaker lineup
* Chat on Discord is amazing
* Hiccups with YouTube Streaming
* 2 mins lightning talks
* After party till 1am !!!!!
Harvard is offering free courses
Meet Hall of Fame:
Interview with Naomi Ceder, chair of the Python Software Foundation, co-founder of TransCode
Check out her Twitch channel for tutorials every Friday.
IDE showcase for Python with Lais:
Atom / PyCharm / VSCode / Vim / Sublime etc
MidMeetPy Ep4 - Interview with Michael Foord
PyChat (news in the community):
Python in Astronomy hackdays kick off at midnight tonight BST (23rd & 24th) April - all welcome!
New Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging
Ticket sales for EuroPython 2020 Online have started
Meet Hall of Fame:
Interview with Michael Foord, Python Core Developer, creator of Iron Python and Mock module
PyPI highlight:
Fades - a library to manage your virtual Envs
Jupyter-require - Let you run JavaScript, plug-in to Jupyter notebook
MidMeetPy Ep3
EuroPython talk voting started
Python Pizza Speaker line up is great!
EffectiveQuadratures got support from NUMFocus
PyAmsterdam flying software Circus - talking about FastAPI lib
Python IE meetup next Wed 22nd April 2020
PyPI Highlight:
MidMeetPy Ep2
PyCon US go online! Subscribe to their YouTube channel to catch all the talks
PyLadies also has YouTube Channel
Python Ireland's 1st meetUp is tonight talking about App Performance Monitoring in Python.
PyCon Australia and PyCon Africa are also going online, details to be announced.
PyPI Highlight:
Foxdot - Make music with Python
FastAPI - a high-performance framework, easy to learn, and fast to code
MidMeetPy Ep1
In this episode, we chat about:
Pyjamas - online conference recruiting organisers
CfP for Remote Python Pizza ends on the 6th April
First virtual meetup for PyCon IE
Lais will be speaking at PyAmsterdam
PyPI Highlights - Extruct
PyPI Highlights - Delorean