Mid Meet Py

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.

PyChat:

      PyData global CfP is opened

      JupyterCon 2020 Virtual Event

      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

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

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

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PyPI highlights:

Recently wanna try using Pre-commit

HTTPrunner HTTP(s) testing framework in Python

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

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

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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(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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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

Follow him on LinkedIn

Follow him on Twitter

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.

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PyChat:

Pydata UK joint meetup with multiple chapters in UK yesterday, awesome talks about TensorFlow Probability and How to expend Pandas capabilities

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

Follow Steve on Twitter

PyPI Highlight:

Napari - fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python

Kedro - a best-practice scaffold for ML and DS pipelines