From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Tue Jun 4 18:52:18 2019 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 17:52:18 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy June 2019 Main Meeting: Python Community Night Message-ID: Hi ChiPy, We have a really exciting meeting planned for June 13! We are holding a ChiPy "Community Night", where leaders from different Python communities will share their insights and developments in the Python communities that they are part of. Learn more about PyLadies and the Python Software Foundation. See the exciting line-up below! Thank you for Peak6 for hosting us this month. See you there next week! *When:* Thursday June 13, 2019, 6 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org by noon the day of the event. *Where:* Peak6 Board of Trade Building 141 W. Jackson Chicago Check in with security in the lobby with a photo ID. Mention you are here for the meetup at Peak 6. *What:* - *Shaping Chicago PyLadies: An organizer?s perspective* By: Sand Ip Experience Level: Novice From its founding by Lorena Mesa in 2015 until now, the Chicago PyLadies chapter has evolved into a strong presence by the help of many passionate organizers and fellow tech community partners. In this talk, we will take a look at Chicago PyLadies history, partnerships, and how our future is actively being shaped by our global PyLadies. - *Come for the language, stay for the community* By: Naomi Ceder Experience Level: Novice In 2014 Brett Cannon summed it up when he said of Python, "I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." These are some reflections on what makes Python communities so special, the challenges they face, and how to take part in them and help them (and ourselves) grow and thrive. - *Python Software Foundation Annual Impact Report* By: Ewa Jodlowska Experience Level: Novice In 2019, the PSF released its first Annual Impact Report. This report details the financial standing of the PSF. Additionally, the report describes how funds we receive support various PSF programs. During this talk we will go through the data and discuss upcoming programs the PSF will be funding. - *Past, Present, and Future of the Python Software Foundation's Community Infrastructure* By: Ernest W. Durbin III Experience Level: Novice In fulfilling the mission of the Python Software Foundation, infrastructure to support the development, use, and promotion of the language has seen steady investment. We'll take a stroll through the services that the PSF currently supports, the history and current state, as well as a brief introduction to future initiatives. No experience or prior knowledge is needed! Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors: Metis and Telnyx Also thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From me at lorenamesa.com Wed Jun 5 18:15:53 2019 From: me at lorenamesa.com (Lorena Mesa) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:15:53 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Help! PyOhio needs your corporate and individual sponsorship! Message-ID: Greetings ChiPy, I'm forwarding below a message from Eric Floehr from PyOhio. The TLDR here is that PyOhio needs our help to help fill a shortfall of $10,000 USD in sponsorship. A brief personal appeal: I had my first technical talk accepted to PyOhio 2015. At that point I had never spoken at nor applied to a conference. This past May 2019 I had my first PyCon talk! I would never have started down this path without the loving, supportive environment at PyOhio. My 2015 experience helped me build my confidence in stepping forward to become a speaker, to continue to do more in the Python open source community, and yes even put my name forward for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors. PyOhio is a free regional conference that boasts a high amount of new speakers that, like me, has sparked many to start a meaningful career as a public speaker and Python open source community contributor. Any size donation will help PyOhio! You can sponsor directly at https://ti.to/pyohio/pyohio-2019 as an individual or you can inquire about having your company sponsor (see info below). Thank you everyone for all that you do to make our Python community richer and better. --- Note from Eric Floehr of PyOhio: We need your help. So many people have benefited from PyOhio over our 11 years of existence, and I know many more will benefit from this year's conference. If you have attended, or watched a PyOhio talk video on YouTube, or been a speaker, you know the impact PyOhio makes. Unfortunately, corporate sponsorship is down almost $10,000 from last year. More info on sponsorship packages here: https://www.pyohio.org/2019/sponsors/prospectus PyOhio is an all-volunteer effort... all funds go to things like renting the facility, coffee and snack service, and paying to video all speakers so that we can have a much bigger impact and folks can review and rewatch later, or catch talks they miss. But did you know we also pay for speaker coaching, too, and Young Coders, which teaches programming to kids, including at least half of which are selected from disadvantaged youth programs around Columbus? If you work for a company that would like to get in front of over 500 attendees and countless YouTube watchers, hire or employ developers who better themselves by attending and learning at PyOhio, have a product that developers would want to buy, or just want to support the Python community then please consider sponsoring or asking your company to sponsor PyOhio. Please apply here: https://cfp.pyohio.org/2019/sponsors/apply/ or email info at pyohio.org If we cannot close this $10,000 gap, we may have to: 1. Not offer coffee, water, snacks 2. Not record talks or put them on YouTube 3. Not offer Young Coders 4. Not offer speaker coaching Thank you and thank you for your support over the years and your help in making PyOhio the greatest free Python conference around and supporting our mission to bring the power of programming to all, even those who cannot afford to give anything but their time. Please forward to anyone who can help. Best Regards, Eric __________________________________________________________________ *Lorena Mesa* Co-Organizer, PyLadies Chicago Director, Python Software Foundation www.lorenamesa.com @loooorenanicole Pronouns: she/her/hers Say what? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: