It would be great if we could stop playing the "Q&A after the talk" game at conferences. Those are generally very low value to everybody but it gets even worse when you interrupt a speaker during their own time slot only to learn nobody has any questions anyway. Let the speaker talk, the Q&A isn't more important than what they prepared.
I helped out with the CPython sprint at #EuroPython last weekend, we had one room for code and another for documentation, and merged some 140 PRs in total! It was rewarding to help people make their very first contributions. Thanks to everyone who contributed, plus to all the organisers and volunteers!
Here's a great writeup on the conference and sprints from @ambv:
While I'm back from Prague where I was taking part in #EuroPython2023, it's still very much on my mind! I wrote about what I did there, and some other related stuff.
It's sprint time! If you're at #EuroPython, BeeWare is sprinting in room RB109 (not RB113 as suggested on the program). Come say hi, grab a sticker, and maybe try your hand at a patch and earn a challenge coin!
The EuroPython 2024 Community Voting is open for a few more hours, it will expire on March 27, 2024 AoE. ⌛
If you haven't already done so, find out if you are entitled to vote and express your choices. 🏃
Your introduction to the :python: logging module at #EuroPython was great to watch.
It probably was the push I needed to start using it instead of all those prints. It seems so much more useful in the long run, and to leave those debug logging bits in there and only wake them up with an appropriate environment variable.
Sophie Wilson, the co-designer of the ARM processor, is telling it like it is in her #europython2023 keynote. The future is multicore. We have to address it.
On a train from Prague to Berlin after my 11th #EuroPython & my 🧠 is completely empty but my ❤️ is overflowing. Not only is it crucial for people who invest a lot of time in unpaid community work to have the opportunity to meet their users & readers & hear more than complaints. 🧵