From jackiekazil at gmail.com Fri Jun 2 02:00:19 2017 From: jackiekazil at gmail.com (Jacqueline Kazil) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 02:00:19 -0400 Subject: [PSF-Community] Data Intelligence & Machine Learning Conference - discount & scholarship info Message-ID: The Data Intelligence and Machine Learning conference is coming up next month and you should attend!!! This is not a vendor conference; but, is geared towards engineers and practitioners on both an academic and professional level. *Data Intelligence & Machine Learning ConferenceJune 23-25 in McLean, Virginia USA* - *Check out the **complete list ** of presentations!* - Early bird closes June 4th ? register now - Diversity scholarship applications close June 2nd Tickets: - $100 for Early Bird ? until June 4. - $150 after June 4. 20% off coupon: DATAINTEL20 -Jackie -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mal at python.org Thu Jun 8 08:26:14 2017 From: mal at python.org (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:26:14 +0200 Subject: [PSF-Community] EuroPython 2017: Full schedule now online Message-ID: We are happy to announce the schedule for EuroPython 2017 in Rimini, Italy (July 9-16). The program WG has been working hard trying to fit all the sessions in the last few weeks. With over 200 sessions, over 180 speakers, one day for workshops, 5 days of talks, training, keynotes, lightning talks, posters, help desks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year: * EuroPython 2017 Schedule * https://ep2017.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2017/ The schedule is available in table and list format. Please note that we are still applying small changes to the slots where necessary. Many thanks to everyone who submitted proposals. EuroPython wouldn?t be possible without our speakers ! If you want to join the fun, be sure to get your tickets as soon as possible, since ticket sales usually start picking up quite a bit after we announce the schedule. Aside: If you haven?t done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket soon. We will switch to on-desk rates later in June, which will cost around 30% more than the regular rates. https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/registration/buy-tickets/ Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2017 Team http://ep2017.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties: https://twitter.com/europython/status/872790385055211520 Thanks. From max at pygotham.org Thu Jun 8 10:34:03 2017 From: max at pygotham.org (Max Schwartz) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:34:03 -0400 Subject: [PSF-Community] PyGotham 2017 CFP Message-ID: PyGotham 2017 will be taking place from October 6-8 in New York City! PyGotham is going to be the most exciting Python event in NYC this year, with many talks on a wide variety of topics. The CFP is now open. Submit your talks at https://www.papercall.io/pygotham-2017. Keep an eye on our website https://2017.pygotham.org/ and our Twitter @PyGotham for more info and updates. Looking forward to reading your proposals, The PyGotham 2017 Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From graffatcolmingov at gmail.com Sun Jun 11 15:48:03 2017 From: graffatcolmingov at gmail.com (Ian Cordasco) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 14:48:03 -0500 Subject: [PSF-Community] Results of the PSF Board of Directors Election and Bylaws Vote Message-ID: Hello everybody! The preliminary Board of Directors winners are: Van Lindberg Naomi Ceder Eric Holscher Jackie Kazil Paul Hildebrandt Lorena Mesa Thomas Wouters Kushal Das Marlene Mhangami Kenneth Reitz With Paola Katherine Pacheco and Trey Hunner tied for the 11th seat. Using https://github.com/python/psf-election/blob/357fa903b8ba224fd2e5207eeb4208794567bf56/break-ties.py the tie has been broken and the 11th member Board of Directors is Trey Hunner. Ewa will contact the new directors with on-boarding information later today. This year there were 328 votes cast out of 630 potential voters. That means there was a 52% voter turnout for the election. This is the highest of any of the elections where I have served as Election Administrator. Further, in order for the Bylaws to be approved, we needed more than 51% of those who voted to approve the change. 51% of 328 is just about 168 voters and all bylaws amendments were approved by far more than that, thus they have all been approved by the membership. The results are available at: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/PSF-2017-June-Vote Cheers, Ian Cordasco PSF Election Administrator From ncoghlan at gmail.com Sun Jun 11 23:08:46 2017 From: ncoghlan at gmail.com (Nick Coghlan) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:08:46 +1000 Subject: [PSF-Community] Results of the PSF Board of Directors Election and Bylaws Vote In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 12 June 2017 at 05:48, Ian Cordasco wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The preliminary Board of Directors winners are: > > Van Lindberg > Naomi Ceder > Eric Holscher > Jackie Kazil > Paul Hildebrandt > Lorena Mesa > Thomas Wouters > Kushal Das > Marlene Mhangami > Kenneth Reitz > Trey Hunner Thanks and congratulations to our incoming board members, and thanks also to all of the other candidates who offered to volunteer their time providing community oversight of the operations of the PSF! For folks that weren't themselves elected, but nevertheless have initiatives they would like to pursue, I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone of the active PSF Working Groups (https://www.python.org/psf/committees/#active-work-groups), as well as: - the Grants program, to request financial support for community initiatives: https://www.python.org/psf/grants/ - fiscal sponsorship arrangements, whereby the PSF provides legal and administrative support for management of targeted donations: https://wiki.python.org/moin/FiscalSponsorship - the process for forming new Working Groups in the ByLaws to provide PSF-backed organisational structure, and potentially a recurring annual budget: https://www.python.org/psf/bylaws/ For folks that are mainly interested in *doing* the work of the PSF, rather than in deciding which activities should be prioritised when allocating funding support, these other possibilities may also be more appealing than standing for election to the Board of Directors :) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia From mertz at gnosis.cx Sun Jun 11 23:53:31 2017 From: mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:53:31 -0700 Subject: [PSF-Community] Results of the PSF Board of Directors Election and Bylaws Vote In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I can attest that the tie-break software deterministically chooses Trey Hunner when tied with Paola Katherine Pacheco. Any other member can download the tool to verify the result by running: 532-psf-election % python break-ties.py -c "Paola Katherine Pacheco" -c "Trey Hunner" -n 1 ['Trey Hunner'] Effectively, we declare in advance the ordering of ties among each N candidates who might tie for a relevant position. In the case of this election, we might potentially have needed to break ties to decide between the 3, 2, and 1 year terms, but no ties happened to fall at those boundaries (albeit Marlene Mhangami and Kenneth Reitz tied for the 9/10 spots... but since either of those go into the same term cohort, there is no need to break that tie). Even though Trey could know in advance of the election that he would be selected in the event of a tie with Paola, this is actually of little use for a candidate trying to "game" an election. Trey would also, for example, lose such a tie with Kenneth Reitz or Marlene Mhangami had those occurred. It's very unlikely that a candidate could devise a strategy to come in last place, but tie with a some particular candidate the algorithm would have them beat. Moreover, three-way ties need not share any ordering with a two-way between a subset of those three (and likewise for any N and N-1). As an illustration, had Lorena Mesa received fewer votes, simply adding her to the contest between Trey and Paolo would happen to choose Paolo over Trey (and Lorena over Trey also, in this case): 552-psf-election % python break-ties.py -c "Paola Katherine Pacheco" -c "Trey Hunner" -c "Lorena Mesa" -n 2 ['Paola Katherine Pacheco', 'Lorena Mesa'] On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The preliminary Board of Directors winners are: > > Van Lindberg > Naomi Ceder > Eric Holscher > Jackie Kazil > Paul Hildebrandt > Lorena Mesa > Thomas Wouters > Kushal Das > Marlene Mhangami > Kenneth Reitz > > With Paola Katherine Pacheco and Trey Hunner tied for the 11th seat. > Using https://github.com/python/psf-election/blob/ > 357fa903b8ba224fd2e5207eeb4208794567bf56/break-ties.py > the tie has been broken and the 11th member Board of Directors is Trey > Hunner. > > Ewa will contact the new directors with on-boarding information later > today. > > This year there were 328 votes cast out of 630 potential voters. That > means there was a 52% voter turnout for the election. This is the > highest of any of the elections where I have served as Election > Administrator. > > Further, in order for the Bylaws to be approved, we needed more than > 51% of those who voted to approve the change. 51% of 328 is just about > 168 voters and all bylaws amendments were approved by far more than > that, thus they have all been approved by the membership. > > The results are available at: > https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/PSF-2017-June-Vote > > > Cheers, > Ian Cordasco > PSF Election Administrator > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. 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S Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Jun 2017, at 04:08, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> On 12 June 2017 at 05:48, Ian Cordasco wrote: >> Hello everybody! >> >> The preliminary Board of Directors winners are: >> >> Van Lindberg >> Naomi Ceder >> Eric Holscher >> Jackie Kazil >> Paul Hildebrandt >> Lorena Mesa >> Thomas Wouters >> Kushal Das >> Marlene Mhangami >> Kenneth Reitz >> Trey Hunner > > Thanks and congratulations to our incoming board members, and thanks > also to all of the other candidates who offered to volunteer their > time providing community oversight of the operations of the PSF! > > For folks that weren't themselves elected, but nevertheless have > initiatives they would like to pursue, I'll take the opportunity to > remind everyone of the active PSF Working Groups > (https://www.python.org/psf/committees/#active-work-groups), as well > as: > > - the Grants program, to request financial support for community > initiatives: https://www.python.org/psf/grants/ > - fiscal sponsorship arrangements, whereby the PSF provides legal and > administrative support for management of targeted donations: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/FiscalSponsorship > - the process for forming new Working Groups in the ByLaws to provide > PSF-backed organisational structure, and potentially a recurring > annual budget: https://www.python.org/psf/bylaws/ > > For folks that are mainly interested in *doing* the work of the PSF, > rather than in deciding which activities should be prioritised when > allocating funding support, these other possibilities may also be more > appealing than standing for election to the Board of Directors :) > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community From mmueller at python-academy.de Mon Jun 19 12:48:44 2017 From: mmueller at python-academy.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Mike_M=c3=bcller?=) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:48:44 +0200 Subject: [PSF-Community] PyCon.DE 2017 - Call for Proposals Message-ID: Call for Proposals ------------------ The Call for Proposals for the PyCon.DE 2017 is open until July 30, 2017. Please submit your proposals here: https://www.papercall.io/pyconde2017 We?re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. PyCon.DE is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. The conference will be held in English language only. The conferences addresses: * Data Scientists * Software Developers * System Administrators * Academic Scientists * Technology Enthusiasts We are looking for: * 30 minute presentations (incl. optional 5 minute Q&A) * 45 minute presentations (incl. optional 5 minute Q&A) PyData @ PyConDE 2017 There will be a PyData track at this year?s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the PyConDE form. About PyCon.DE 2017 ------------------- The next PyCon.DE will be held October 25 - 27, 2017 at the ZKM - Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany [1]. The conference is the sixth in this series, gathering Python professionals and enthusiasts. The conference language will English, attracting Pythonistas from all over Europe and the world. Volunteers organize and provide talks, tutorials, as well as discussions in an open-source fashion. This Karlsruhe conference has a special focus on data science. Therefore, a PyData conference is held as part of PyCon.DE. PyData [2] is an internationally renowned conference series, which is dedicated to data science, machine learning, and AI. The ZKM - Center for Art and the Media is a unique cultural institution, as it is a place that extends the original tasks of the museum. It is a home of all media and genres, a house of both the traditional arts like painting, photography, and sculpture as well as the time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater, and performance. Conference registration is open. Don't miss this event! More information available at: http://www.pycon.de [1] http://zkm.de [2] http://pydata.org From mal at python.org Fri Jun 23 06:33:00 2017 From: mal at python.org (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:33:00 +0200 Subject: [PSF-Community] PyData EuroPython 2017 Message-ID: <030138c7-caef-4341-aeb2-72c2a52c0a25@python.org> We are excited to announce a complete PyData track at EuroPython 2017 in Rimini, Italy from the 9th to 16th July. * PyData EuroPython 2017 * https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/events/pydata/ The PyData track will be part of EuroPython 2017, so you won?t need to buy an extra ticket to attend. Mostly talks and trainings are scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (July 12-14), with a few on other days as well. We will have over 40 talks, 5 trainings, and 2 keynotes dedicated to PyData. If you?d like to attend PyData EuroPython 2017, please register for EuroPython 2017 soon: https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/registration/ Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2017 Team http://ep2017.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties: https://twitter.com/europython/status/878198420573483008 Thanks. From mmueller at python-academy.de Fri Jun 30 11:21:48 2017 From: mmueller at python-academy.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Mike_M=c3=bcller?=) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:21:48 +0200 Subject: [PSF-Community] PyCon.DE 2017 - Early Bird Deadline July 2, 2017 Message-ID: PyCon.DE 2017 - Early Bird Deadline July 2, 2017 ------------------------------------------------ There are only 2 days left to buy a ticket at the early bird rate for PyCon.DE. https://de.pycon.org/#tickets About PyCon.DE -------------- The next PyCon.DE will be held from 25-27th October 2017 at the ZKM - center for art and media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The conference is the sixth in this series, gathering Python professionals and enthusiasts. The conference language will English, attracting Pythonistas from all over Europe and the world. Volunteers organize and provide talks, tutorials, as well as discussions in an open-source fashion. This Karlsruhe conference has a special focus on data science. Therefore, a PyData conference is held as part of PyCon.DE. PyData is an internationally renowned conference series, which is dedicated to data science, machine learning, and AI. The ZKM | Center for Art and the Media is a unique cultural institution, as it is a place that extends the original tasks of the museum. It is a home of all media and genres, a house of both the traditional arts like painting, photography, and sculpture as well as the time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater, and performance. Call for proposals is still open until 1st of October. Registration for attending the conference will start soon. Don't miss this event! More information available at: http://www.pycon.de http://pydata.org http://zkm.de From mmueller at python-academy.de Fri Jun 30 11:41:03 2017 From: mmueller at python-academy.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Mike_M=c3=bcller?=) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:41:03 +0200 Subject: [PSF-Community] EuroSciPy 2017 - Call for Contributions extended to July 2 Message-ID: Call for Contributions ---------------------- There are only 2 days left to submit a talk, tutorial, or poster for EuroSciPy 2017 (https://www.euroscipy.org/2017/). Don't miss the change to talk about what you do with Python in science. Submit your proposal today: https://www.papercall.io/euroscipy-2017 About EuroSciPy --------------- The EuroSciPy meeting is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This event strives to bring together both users and developers of scientific tools, as well as academic research and state of the art industry. Presentations of scientific tools and libraries using the Python language, including but not limited to: Vector and array manipulation Parallel computing Scientific visualization Scientific data flow and persistence Algorithms implemented or exposed in Python Web applications and portals for science and engineering- Reports on the use of Python in scientific achievements or ongoing projects. General-purpose Python tools that can be of special interest to the scientific community. This year, we have announced our two keynote speakers: Julia Roher, one of the authors of the blog the http://www.the100.ci/, who will discuss scientific reproducibility and statistical analysis, and Soumith Chintala https://research.fb.com/people/chintala-soumith/ , Senior Researcher at Facebook AI Research, who will talk about using pytorch for Deep Learning http://pytorch.org/