@leahawasser@PyConUS It's not still working, unfortunately. The owner of chirp.social chose to bring down the service a few months ago 😞
The best practice for now is to include the #PyConUS hashtag for visibility. (Also, some folks are following the unofficial #PyCon hashtag instead, so you could include that for bonus visibility)
Almost all bday party invites for my 4 year old specify "No gifts please" or "No gifts necessary" - and I totally get why, I added it to hers as well. Are we moving towards a society that's not so into gifting? Or is this only a thing at certain income levels?
@pamelafox Gifts that tend to be bought for a preschool classmate / neighbor just become junk around the home
We've had success suggesting guests give used books only. Even had a big book swap party for all the kids last year. Everybody leaves with something new (to them) 👍
@MissingThePt Admit it. If you were required to watch multiple weeks of the south Florida crew going on the road to take on Washington's team, you'd nod off a few times yourself
Volunteers are the heart of everything we do here at pyOpenSci, and today we want to celebrate the incredible and tireless efforts of @nicholdav, who has shaped our Editor-in-Chief role into what it is today.
Although David is stepping down from the EiC position, we’re looking forward to his continued contributions to pyOpenSci and the broader Python community 💜
We're in this liminal state where everyone is waiting on MMSD to decide whether or not to open tomorrow because of the extreme cold/wind chill (even though my wife and kids don't work for or go to MMSD, our schools are intertwined with busing), so now I have to make their lunches...
I'm still tweeking the code that aggregates Mastodon posts from the confs, but once that's done I'll start adding 2024 conferences, starting with pycon.it and djangocon.eu (the two that I already have tickets for 😇).
@anze3db You should add SciPy 2024. SciPy brings together attendees from industry, academia and government to showcase their latest projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development.
This year, the conference will be held in Tacoma, WA during the second week of July. Online passes will also be available.
TIL the passageway in theatres is called a “vomitorium” derived from the Latin verb vomō, vomere, to “spew forth”. You can also refer to them collectively as vomotories. So next time I see you at a conference, meet me at the vomitorium 🤮
We are thrilled to announce that pyOpenSci has received 2 years of funding to cover core operations from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. These funds will be used to continue our work in:
🌉 supporting Python open source maintainers in developing the usable and maintainable scientific software the enables open science;
🗺️ helping scientists navigate a complex Python packaging ecosystem;
🌈 diversifying the scientific Python open source community.
Do you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse? Especially if you're a beginner or unsure about techy things?
You can ask by messaging me or replying to this thread, and I'll try to help or find someone else who can help. Don't worry if a question seems silly or basic!
You can also look things up on the guide at https://fedi.tips, which has an "essentials" section at the top and a complete list of answered questions below that.
@feditips Niche question for you: is chirp.social still open to creating new groups?
I really appreciate your guide on groups ( https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/ ) and used it last summer to create a chirp.social group for a conference I was organizing. I'd like to do it again, but this time, the new group isn't boosting any posts (as far as I can tell).
Here's the group: @scientific_python
Do you see the above group boosting any posts?
Do you know if chirp.social is still creating new groups?
@feditips@scientific_python
lol, after 3 weeks of refusing to boost any posts in which it was mentioned, the group finally boosted its first post: my question to you just now! 😅
Here's hoping the issue is resolved and I can use the group for our upcoming conference 🤞
My new friend and fellow Madisonian, Wesley, will be there too. (He just started with Canonical last month.) If you see him, say hello. And tell him to get on Mastodon!
@simon Any guesses on how Goodside performed his attack? Is it as simple as a message hidden with nearly-white text on a white background? Very intriguing
watching a recording of a talk Q&A where the speaker says they never heard of X although X was on their slides & Q&As just deserve to be burned to the ground & the ashes spread to the wind.
absolutely EVERYTHING is stacked against speakers in Q&As.
as a speaker, refuse to participate. even IF you get a worthwhile question, chances are good the acoustics will make sure you’ll answer a different one.
if you have question, go & talk to the speaker after. that’s the point of conferences.
@hynek Any time a speaker offers to give a talk, it's a gift. (Even when they're compensated.) But, as the FOSS community is all-too-aware, the dynamics of how strangers receive gifts (and what expectations they may reasonably make of a gift-giver) are fraught
Are Q&As ever worth it? Sometimes speakers are swarmed by a scrum after. For some attendees, Q&As are the stepping stone to public speaking
Regardless, you've convinced me that speakers should have the choice to skip Q&As altogether
@simon Slightly off-topic, but I'm interested in the choice of wording for your prompt. Specifically, the phrase "Try a bunch of things and figure it out"
A few months ago, the common lore was to use the phrase, "Let's take it step-by-step." Have you found "Try a bunch of things..." to be noticeably better? (Or am I missing the forest for the trees?)