PyLadies Speak at PyCon!
January 13, 2013 | Tag: » conferences, PyCon
PyCon talks were announced last week, and this year a record number of them are being given by women in the Python community, many of whom are PyLadies contributors! Congratulations to all the smart, accomplished women in the Python community who are helping to change the ratio at PyCon!
Here’s the run-down - be sure to add these to your schedule when PyCon comes to Santa Clara, CA in March of 2013:
How to Except When You’re Excepting: An introduction to the practice of exception handling (Esther Nam - Los Angeles)
What teachers really need from us: What teachers say about what they need and what the Python community has to offer K-12 classrooms. (Selena Deckelmann - Portland, OR)
Using Python To Generate Art And Sound: Navigating the Python audio/imaging landscape (Audrey M. Roy - Los Angeles)
Lessons Learned in Teaching Python (Alexandra Strong and Christine Cheung - Los Angeles)
Location, Location, Location: Building a Django application that needs to handle geographic location data (Julia Grace - San Francisco)
Who are we? A sociological analysis of the indigenous Python tribe (Jacqueline Kazil - Washington, DC)
Sink or swim: 5 life jackets to throw to New Coders (Lynn Root - San Francisco)
Visualizing Github, Part I: Data to Information: Practical data visualization with Python and web technologies (Dana Bauer, with Idan Gazit - Philadelphia)
Twisted Logic: Endpoints and Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of Twisted (Ashwini Oruganti - India)
Designers + Developers: Collaborating on your Python project: Working in developer/designer teams (Julia Elman, with Mark Lavin - North Carolina)
Prior to the conference are a number of tutorials for those of all skill levels, from Jessica McKellar’s Introduction to Python for Beginners to Mel Chua’s Digital Signal Processing workshop.
PyCon 2013 takes place from March 13-21, 2013 in Santa Clara, California. For more information, or to register, check out the web site: https://us.pycon.org/2013/.