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Mid Meet Py

Mid Meet Py

By Cheuk Ting Ho

We meet in the middle of the day in the middle of the week to chat about Python. It is a podcast designed by Pythonistas for Pythonistas. Episodes include interviews with leaders in the Python community, news related to Python, updates of Python libraries etc.
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Mid Meet Py - Ep.16 - Interview with Sandrine Pataut

Mid Meet PyJul 16, 2020

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Mid Meet Py 2021 - Ep.02 - Let's chat with Lemon
Mar 07, 202101:08:15
Mid Meet Py 2021 - Ep.01 - We are back and chat with Laura Gutierrez Funderburk

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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Feb 02, 202157:31
Mid Meet Py - Ep.23 - Interview with Vicky Tomey-Lee

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

  Python 4 FAQ by Guido


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.

Sep 18, 202001:02:33
Mid Meet Py - Ep.22 - Ask us anything
Sep 12, 202001:01:20
Mid Meet Py - Ep.21 - Interview with Jesper Dramsc

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

     Bokeh 2.2 is out!


Mid Meet - Hall of Fame

    Jesper Dramsc - ML engineer

    Follow Jesper on Twitter

    Skill share course here

    Pyrocko

    StatsQuest


PyPI highlights

    Docker Compose (is a Python library!!!!)

    Present - make your slides with a terminal window with flare

    Opacus

Sep 09, 202056:43
Mid Meet Py - Ep.20 - Interview with Bojan Miletic

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

    Follow Bojan on Twitter

    Virtual Coffee

    Website


PyPI highlights

    Pytest-docker-compose

Aug 28, 202055:48
Mid Meet Py - Ep.19 - Interview with Nina Zakharenko

Mid Meet Py - Ep.19 - Interview with Nina Zakharenko

PyChat

  PyBay impressions

  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!

      Participation form

    PyLadies Munich hosting Naomi Ceder on Aug 27th talking about Python Objects


Mid Meet - Hall of Fame

  Nina Zakharenko - PSF Director

  Follow Nina on Twitter

  Follow Nina on Twitch


PyPI highlights

  AI Fairness 360 (aif360)

  CherryPy

Aug 21, 202058:23
Mid Meet Py - Ep.18 - Interview with Vincent D. Warmerdam

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

  PyjamasConf CfP is opened

  PyBamn just joined NumFocus

 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

Aug 07, 202001:00:03
Mid Meet Py - Ep.17 - Interview with Matin Borus
Jul 30, 202001:01:49
Mid Meet Py - Ep.16 - Interview with Sandrine Pataut
Jul 16, 202058:03
Mid Meet Py - Ep.15 - Interview with Stéphane

Mid Meet Py - Ep.15 - Interview with Stéphane

PyChat:

  Python security announcement - If your application embeds Python on Windows, you may be at risk.

  Matplotlib Cheatsheet

  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.

Jul 09, 202059:41
Mid Meet Py - Ep.14 - Interview with Waylon Walker
Jul 02, 202058:24
Mid Meet Py - Ep.13 - Interview with Jason McDonald

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.

      Follow Jason on Twitter and dev.to

Jun 25, 202001:00:41
Mid Meet Py - Ep.12 - Interview with Dani Papamaximou

Mid Meet Py - Ep.12 - Interview with Dani Papamaximou

PyChat:

Dropping pytz?

PyData MCR

CPython - old parser is dead

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

Follow Dani on Twiter


PyPI highlights:

Recently wanna try using Pre-commit

HTTPrunner HTTP(s) testing framework in Python

Jun 18, 202052:29
Mid Meet Py - Ep.11 - Interview with David Lord

Mid Meet Py - Ep.11 - Interview with David Lord

PyChat:

  PyData Festerval Amsterday

  Zen of Python song!

  pyOpenSci community call today

  Python Packaging Guide

  PyLadies Call for Speakers

  Python Ireland call for speakers


Mid Meet - Hall of Fame:

  David Lord - lead dev Flask and related libraries on @PalletsTeam. Meetup organizer @SanDiegoPython

  Follow David on Twitter


PyPI highlights:

  Make yourself a cartoon - They use this: face-alignment

  Create representations of large DS - datashader

Jun 11, 202059:12
Mid Meet Py - Ep.10 - Interview with Adam Johnson

Mid Meet Py - Ep.10 - Interview with Adam Johnson

PyChat:

    PSF support diversity, BlackLivesMatters

    YSYS will be hosting an event bringing together black community leaders + allies in tech to discuss how we can mobilise and rebuild

    EuroPython Schedule is out

    AnacondaCon Starting today

    Django security releases, update ASAP


Py Hall of Fram:

    Adam Johnson, Django technical board member

    Follow Adam on twitter @AdamChainz

    Get Adam's book


PyPI Highlight:

    Cheuk's choice - sidetable - Create Simple Summary Tables in Pandas

    Adam's choice - time-machine

    Lais's choice - pillow

Jun 04, 202045:37
Mid Meet Py - Ep.9 - Interview with Ian Ozsvald

Mid Meet Py - Ep.9 - Interview with Ian Ozsvald

PyChat:

  Free Python DS book (online) Intro to NumPy, Matplotlib & sci-kit learn

  CfP for FlaskCon is open!

  Way to have more diverse board members is to have diverse voters - become a voting member of the PSF

  Test pip’s alpha resolver

  New pymsbuild for windows people

  Workshop online PythonIreland


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


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May 28, 202051:23
Mid Meet Py - Ep.8 - Interview with Tania Allard

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.


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May 21, 202040:47
MidMeetPy Ep7 - Interview with Nicolas Demarchi
May 13, 202055:23
MidMeetPy Ep6 - Interview with Steve Dower
May 11, 202059:35
MidMeetPy Ep5 - Interview with Naomi Ceder

MidMeetPy Ep5 - Interview with Naomi Ceder

PyChat (news in the community):

  PyCon Hatchery Programs looks for attendees and mentors:

  Data Workshops for Beginners

  Mentored Sprints

  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 !!!!!

  Python 3.9a6 is out!

  Harvard is offering free courses

Meet Hall of Fame:

  Interview with Naomi Ceder, chair of the Python Software Foundation, co-founder of TransCode

  Follow Naomi on Twitter

  Check out her Twitch channel for tutorials every Friday.

IDE showcase for Python with Lais:

  Atom / PyCharm / VSCode / Vim / Sublime etc

May 11, 202001:01:09
MidMeetPy Ep4 - Interview with Michael Foord

MidMeetPy Ep4 - Interview with Michael Foord

PyChat (news in the community):

  Farewell to Oier Echaniz

  Pyladies Dub meetup 19th May

  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

  Follow Michael on Twitter

  Check out his website

PyPI highlight:

  Fades - a library to manage your virtual Envs

  Jupyter-require - Let you run JavaScript, plug-in to Jupyter notebook

May 11, 202055:57
MidMeetPy Ep3
May 11, 202029:44
MidMeetPy Ep2

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.

Scikit-image join NUMFocus!

PyPI Highlight:

Foxdot  - Make music with Python

FastAPI - a high-performance framework, easy to learn, and fast to code

May 11, 202020:38
MidMeetPy Ep1
May 11, 202024:04