The PyCon US Blog

After two great years in Portland, PyCon is shipping off to Cleveland for the 2018 and 2019 renditions of the Python community's largest gathering. PyCon 2018 will take place May 9 through 17 with two days of tutorials, three days of talks, and four days of development sprints. For more information, check out our newly refreshed website at  https://us.pycon.org/2018/  and follow us here on  the blog  and at  @pycon  on Twitter. New Website The new site features a design centered on the historic landmark Terminal Tower, a 52 story skyscraper that overlooks downtown Cleveland. When it opened in 1930, the tower was the fourth tallest building in the world and the tallest building outside of New York City. Though its height no longer tops the charts, the tower and surrounding Tower City area remain highly important to the city. What once was a beacon to guide ship captains to Cleveland's port and airplane pilots to its airport, the tower now includes 508 LEDs that light up fo

PyCon kicks off in under 24 hours, and it’s kicking off at all thanks to our generous community of sponsors. We hope you’ll browse the expo hall and see what they’re all up to, chat with their developers, learn about their products, and maybe even pick up a job lead. Here’s what a few of them have been up to lately. Metacloud “ At Metacloud, we live and breathe OpenStack which means we also live and breathe Python,” says Todd Cranston-Cuebas of Metacloud . Their Python and Django expertise go a long way when it comes to building up their private cloud product. The combination gives them the ability to build, deploy, and support their OpenStack-based solutions for enterprise-level clients. The service runs on the client’s hardware, with a lot of care put into security, redundancy, and high-availability. “A big part of what drives open source projects is the fostering of an altruistic environment, a community that is driven by many different unique needs leading, ultimately to a refined

A lot of things are selling out around PyCon. We recently sold out conference tickets, and everything else we have left is flying off of the hypothetical shelves. Tutorials are filling up, the first annual sponsor tutorials are going quickly, and we're left with two booths in our Expo Hall. The Expo Hall is a great place for your company to interact with our community. Let them know you're hiring, show off your latest products, whatever makes sense for your organization. It's central to the layout of the conference center, and it's sure to get significant foot traffic with all 2,500 tickets sold. Check out our " Why become a PyCon sponsor? " page for more details. Not only is the Expo Hall great for the company, it's great for PyCon. Sponsorship allows us to "go big" and do some of the things we've introduced this year. We're offering a free kids tutorial , started up the sponsor tutorials , will be running a charity auction , a

PyCon has grown in just about every way possible, and it’s due in part to the generosity of the organizations that pledge their support each year. 2013 is going to be the biggest and best year yet with many new initiatives on tap like the Young Coder event and the recently announced Sponsor Tutorials . We’re up to a few more things you’ll find out about in the coming months, so for now find out what some of our sponsors are up to. LadyCoders LadyCoders is one of several supporters in our OSS/Community Sponsors group, and we’re glad to have them on board this year. The Coders consist of a group of of women who, simply, write code. They’re not a Python specific group, but they support the conference because of the environment it promotes. “From the code of conduct, to PyLadies and PyStars, to the general feeling of welcoming that we always feel when amongst the Python community, this is a mission that we support and of which we are incredibly happy to be a part,” says Tarah Wheeler Van

Our sponsors make PyCon possible, and every year we’re happy to see the returning organizations joined by first time supporters. We continue our sponsor highlights with Lincoln Loop, a first time sponsor! Lincoln Loop “Python makes what we do possible, so sponsoring events like PyCon is a no-brainer,” says Pete Baumgartner of Lincoln Loop . They’re a full-stack web shop that makes use of Python everywhere they can, from the back end to testing, deployment, and everything in between. Django is one of their specialties, and they’ve drafted up many of their best practices to share with the community. “Sponsoring and attending PyCon helps us grow our network and brings us more business,” says Pete of their move to support the conference. A healthy Python community benefits Lincoln Loop, so they’re more than happy to give back and ensure the success of PyCon and Python. Last year they were added as a sponsor member of the Python Software Foundation. They’ve recently released a team discuss

At PyCon, we love our sponsors, and we hope you do as well. They help us keep the conference affordable, allow us to do the big things we have planned, and they’re a source of jobs for you - the community. Check out what a few of them are up to. net-ng Net-ng came to the Python world over 10 years ago, building most of their products using the Nagare framework they created in 2008. They use Python to enable their creation of highly scalable, robust applications, and offer Python training to business in France. When asked about the importance of Python at net-ng, Jean-Luc Carre said, “Python is important for us because it provides multiple benefits such as a great community, strong performances and maintainability.” Jean-Luc went on to praise Python’s ease of use for the beginners to his team. Their history with PyCon goes back to 2001 in Long Beach, CA, when PyCon was but a fraction of what it is today. Net-ng’s excitement over Python’s growth in popularity not only in business and i

As we happily join the celebration of Ada Lovelace’s 197th birthday, we’re also happy to announce that Women Who Code is joining our community sponsorship list! Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer in the early 1800’s, became known as the first computer programmer through her work on Charles Babbage’s “Analytical Engine”. Without her foresight into what the engine could do, namely operations on things other than numbers, who knows what might be different today? She unfortunately passed away at the young age of 36, long before her ideas on advancing the use of calculating machines came to fruition, but her impact lives on and is celebrated each year in a mid-October “Ada Lovelace Day”. She’s also celebrated in today’s Google Doodle and around the tech news world! Women Who Code is a San Francisco-based meetup to provide a low-key environment for women to get together and hack on whatever projects they choose. Their schedule includes upcoming events to hack on Scala, Java