I told someone at #PyconUS that I'd send some cool links about the concept of glue work, but I unfortunately forgot to write it down as an action item and I've forgotten who! If this was you or you were there and remember, please let me know!
Bye Pittsburgh* and #PyConUS! It’s been great but I am very excited to get home after 11 days on site. Thanks to everyone who made it a special and memorable event ! Y’all are gems.
*I hope—my rescheduled flight after my canceled flight is now delayed😬
Since we have seen a few positive tests from #PyConUS and it’s very easy to get base-rate brain around this stuff, despite being asymptomatic I popped out to the drug store to get a few COVID tests just in case. Happy to report that I am testing negative at this point.
I decided to be #vegan for the week of #PyConUS 2024. I put little effort into this endeavor but I did think about it during each meal.
I'd like to share how it went, but first I'll note why I did this.
Since early 2020, I've been attempting to gradually reducing the animal suffering I cause (as much as I'm individually able to).
I focused one-by-one on small habit changes that had large impacts (e.g. I completely cut out chicken first). After ~2 years of this, I was #vegetarian.
Probably long overdue, but after my (great) experience at #pyconus I decided to become a PSF member today. If you value something, support it. The default fee is $99 USD, but they recently created a sliding scale to make it more accessible across the world.
Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the #PyConUS sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0#Python#Flask
@davidism That felt like a good use of time! Thanks again for all the guidance and help (not to mention all the work you did to get this over the line). Great illustration of why events like #pyconus are so valuable to the community.
For anyone still at #pyconus - I have no idea how much longer they'll be there but there are quite a few rapid tests and KN95s in a box in the PyCon office (306/307) if you need them before you head out. There are also a bunch of lost and found items including a keyboard and multiple chargers. (And my water bottle, yay!)
Selfie Inside the conference venue. Above, signage of directions to the hall, as well as digital monitor showing PyCon US logo and a text: Thank you for joining us! In front of room 305 Mariatta wearing KN95 face mask Animated text: Bye #PyConUS
Back home from #pyconus where across the street the church bells play music a couple times a day. Right now it's Battle Hymn of the Republic, or as I learned from @brainwane (and am singing along in my head), "the union makes us strong"
One of the things I respect most about how #PyConUS organizers handled the masking policy is that they A) made a clear policy, and B) stuck to that policy.
Many people made their decision about whether to attend - both attendees and non-attendees - based on that policy.
I believe they were also collecting air quality data throughout the conference, in order to inform next year's policy. I have tremendous respect for that approach.
Hey #PyConIT2024 folks, since I saw the accepted #PyO3 workshop is sold out and I happen to have a rejected PyO3 workshop (which was accepted in #PyConDE and #PyConUS) how about we have a reject-PyO3 workshop at the hall way track tomorrow. If there’s enough likes I will do it.
If for no other reason*, I support a mask requirement at #PyConUS because the kind of person who doesn’t attend because they’re required to mask is the kind of person who I don’t want to hang out with anyway.
I’ll also just add — look, I’m someone who has decided to accept a fair amount of COVID risk. I’m living a life now pretty similar to pre-2020. I don’t mask much in daily life. I’d feel comfortable at a conference without a mask. I’m a bit hard of hearing and mildly face-blind so masks actually are a bit tricky for me. But I’m still all for a mask mandate because it’s not just about me! It’s about inclusivity and being welcoming and JFC wearing a mask is easy so why not? #PyConUS
At the same time that bad-faith "pollers" are asking about #PyConUS masking, the attendee survey asks about it as well. But that survey only goes to attendees, meaning people put off by the requirement this year will not be asked. How do we get a complete view of the entire population of potential attendees?
Logging in to take a look at some talks on the online platform for #PyConUS, even though I'm done with the conference now, I just noticed that the attendee dashboard has a section for "sponsor badge scans", giving transparency over which sponsors got my contact details. That is a really nice touch, thank you @ThePSF .
@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