I guess the “Do you agree with the PSF’s universal masking policy for #PyCon?” poll has been deleted. When I saw it yesterday the vote was 80% “Yes”, and I was so proud. 🩷
“Came for the language, stayed for the community” in action! 🐍
@andreasjung It seems like you started this poll in bad faith. You have a clear opinion on the subject. You were not looking for opinions from people, you were trying to start arguments.
@treyhunner@nedbat@andreasjung Certainly looks bad faith when the Mastodon poll is deleted (79% yes, 66 votes) but not the one on Twitter (33% yes, 3 votes)
Twitter: Pinned Andreas Jung @_andreas_jung 8h #PyCon#PyConUS@pycon 2025 should/must have a masking mandate (if the situation is comparable to 2024)? @thepsf#Python Yes 33% No 67% 3 votes. 6 days 15 hours left
To make it clear: the @pycon session chair is completely lost.
Of course, it is your right to mask outside. It is just scientific bullshit, without scientific evidence…and such statements and such persons in charge are the core problem of the #PyCON@pycon masking mandate
@andreasjung I don’t see any problem of being considerate and suggest people to protect their loved ones and people around them by wearing mask (which in fact, prevent spreading of airborne viruses). Also, even though you don’t agree, you should not be attacking someone who volunteered so much of her time and energy for #PyCon@pycon because of it.
"Dear #pycon presenters. Here are my accessibility requests for next year. 1. No colorized code on black backgrounds. Blue or purple or gray is really hard to read. 2. Use large text please. I cannot read your regular terminal font. PLEASE." https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1792293514929176817
If you are traveling to PyCon Italia 2024 I recommend you listen to the latest episode of "Intervista Pythonista" podcast in which Marco Santoni and Cesare Placanica host Matteo Benci 🎙️
Well, another #PyConUS is done (for me - #Sprints continue for another couple of days!)
It was excellent catching up with old friends and meeting tons of new ones. Pittsburgh was definitely a super cool vibe, 2025 should be fun too.
I'm looking forward to recharging my depleted physical batteries, so I can jump into all the important work we have ahead of us to continue to support this amazing community.
Hey folks, one last entreaty before the #PyConUS hashtag trails off.
We could really use your financial support. Our non-profit #ScholarshipFund is the travel sponsor for #PyCon US 2024.
We've recouped only 4% of what we gave. We're here to serve & happy to do it but could really use some boosts across the fediverse to drive donors so we can do it again.
Pls donate to help more people experience #Pittsburgh through tech conference travel:
I'm looking forward to speaking at PyCon Italia 2024, in Florence, Italy, later this week on Friday.
The title of the talk is "Advanced parsing of structured data using Python's new match statement". Given that the match statement still isn't used much in Python Land, I want to make people more aware of how useful it can be for parsing in Python.
Many thanks to @mariatta, @lorenipsum, the rest of the @pycon organizing team and @ThePSF staff, and everyone else who made PyCon US in Pittsburgh possible and awesome. See you again in 2025!
Good morning, it's the first day of #PyConUS Sprints! Sprints are open to all #PyCon attendees and you don't have to reserve a spot ahead of time, just walk into the room and join the others working on the project.
Happy PyCon sprint day to all who celebrate! Come join pyOpenSci to:
📚 contribute to our guidebook
🚗 test drive a tutorial
🛠️ help with technical CI (and other challenges)
🔍 even get in there and typo-hunt!
We have ways for everyone of all skill levels to contribute! Plus you'll get to hang out with our Executive Director and Founder, @leahawasser (ask her about Juno - trust us!)
The proud new adoptive parent of “Loren 2” the 18 foot purple stuffed snake auctioned off last night at the #PyLadies auction needs a LARGE duffel bag to transport her home.
After the fantastic keynote by Kate Chapman, are you wondering what you can do during the break? Check out an open space starting at 10am.
Room 308: Self hosting
Room 309: @pyOpenSci
Room 310/311: Meetup of Meetup Organizers
Room 315: SQL might be good?
Room 316: Real World Python
Room 318: Starting your Python community
Room 319: Open Source Architect Community
Room 320: AI/LLMs
Roof terrace: Improv games and warmups
"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."
Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .