G’day y’all!
It's so great to see you here.
Welcome home!
Welcome!
Welcome to the internet!
Welcome back. To PyConline AU.
Is this on?
I’ve got my ticket - do you have yours?
Whats my favourite part? Well, there’s like 50 amazing talks
Definitely the specialist tracks
The lightning talks! (doggo)
Definitely looking forward to the lightning talks!
What about conference Karaoke!
I’ve never done a conference dinner by zoom before…
They're always fun!
Actually, all the social things look great!
And there's so much to do on Sunday.
Our cast and crew of almost a hundred people take over 6 months to pull
together a PyConline AU… and now its your turn to help make the conference amazing.
Please enjoy PyConline AU safely.
From your desk!
From the couch,
From your laptop.
With your loved ones! (Featuring doggo!)
From your home!
*oof*
With your blahaj.
With your oodies and your pajamas!
So wherever you are.
and whatever timezone you’re in.
Thank you for joining us this year!
Have a great conference.
Thanks so much for attending.
Thank you
Thank you being a part of this amazing experience
Now, let’s get on with the show! (doggo nom noms)
aah, the corgi gets me every time.
Welcome to PyConline AU, from my home to yours!
I am coming to you from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation and I
wish to acknowledge them as Traditional Owners. I also acknowledge and pay my respects to
our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people joining us today.
We want this event to be welcoming, safe and inclusive for everyone; our code of conduct is
part of that effort, and we ask that you follow it and help us achieve that goal.
If something happens, you can get in touch with one of our safety team members.
The link on your screen will tell you how, but you can also send a message
inside Venueless to anyone with a flair next to their name. You'll see the safety team,
but also volunteers, and organisers, who can help you get in touch as well.
Yesterday we had the specialist track day,
which was programmed and hosted by four independent organising teams.
Thank you so much to all those wonderful folks for making that program a success.
Today is the main conference of PyConline AU, squeezing the traditional weekend into one day of
really awesome generalist Python talks. If you weren’t around for the
specialist tracks yesterday, welcome to Venueless, our virtual event platform.
There’s a chat to your right where you can talk to other attendees during sessions. Some speakers
might choose to take questions at the end of their talk; for those talks, you can also post
your questions in the chat, and our channel hosts will curate them and ask the speaker for you.
After the opening keynote is finished, we have content across a couple of channels,
and you can switch between them in the sidebar menu to your left
On smaller screens, it might be hiding behind the menu button up there
That same sidebar also has rooms where you can chat to your fellow attendees
via text, voice, or video. Each one of our channels has a corresponding “hallway” room,
where you’ll be able to catch some of our speakers if they’re feeling up to an after-talk chat,
and there’ll also be other rooms for general use.
We also have “hallway track” video chat rooms where you can go to hang out and chat. On
that note: Meeting new people is scary, but it’s especially scary if you’re new to a community—for
those of us who’ve been coming to this event for years, we’re far more firmly planted, so it’s our
responsibility to bring new people into the fold. I’d like to introduce you to the Snowball Rule:
for every year you’ve attended an event, try to meet that many new people each day. So if
you’ve been to three PyCons AU before this one, try to meet three new people.
Even though this event is online, and we don’t have to hire out a convention centre,
there are still costs involved. We've been able to keep ticket prices
accessible with the generous support of our sponsors.
We have a few words of welcome from our fantastic sponsors, so lets play those now:
>> Hey, PyConline, I'm from the security team. I know we're all super excited to be here.
Canva is also thrilled to be a Platinum sponsor and we wanted to give a big thank you
to all the organizers, the AV team, speakers and attendees for continuing to make this conference
one of my personal favorites, year after year. Canva is currently hiring for a variety of
roles and I spoke to two of my coworkers. >> Hi. I work at the detection response team
at Canva. I get to work on crazy big goals. It's busy, but not stressful and it's a fun,
productive challenge. [Indiscernible]. >> At Canva, we really live our value of
being a force of good in everything we do. It's great being part of something bigger. At Canva,
we feel like we've only done 1% of what's possible. So if that sounds like something
you want to be part of, check out Canva to find out more. We hope you all have a fabulous
time this weekend and we'll see you all online. >> Hi, there. My name's Evan and I'm the software
engineering lead in WSP in Australia. We're incredibly proud to be part of this conference.
So, who are WSP? And why are we here, sponsoring PyCon? WSP is a global engineering firm with
over 64,000 employees worldwide. Construction, transport, power, environmental, you name it.
In Australia, we have a digital division. All of us use Python in one way or another.
Our data accessibility and analytics team use NumPy, Jupyter to model, analyze and
visualize data accessibility. Our geospatial team use Python as the primary scripting tool.
Digital engineering team automate their modeling tools using Python consoles.
Our visualization team build beautiful VR representations.
And finally, the software engineering team,
my team, has been building solutions in a web [Indiscernible] for over 10 years using Django
and pretty much every other part of the Python ecosystem.
There's simply no other programming language that could permeate. It relies on Python. We're keenly
aware that the software relies on the time and effort of the open source community and sponsoring
Python is a small token of our appreciation. We'd like to express our thanks to the PyCon AU team.
Thanks, again, have a great conference. And we hope to see you all, again, in person, soon.
>> Fantastic. Thanks to our sponsors there.
When not organising Pyconline AU I work for Octopus Energy who are also a gold sponsor
this year so a warm welcome and thank you to everyone from Octopus as well.
And thank you to all our sponsors who are supporting PyConline AU this year.
Please take a moment to check out their exhibitor rooms in venueless and say
hi to their teams throughout the conference this weekend.
Did you also know that this year is the 20th anniversary of the Python Software Foundation?
It’s also the 30th anniversary of the release of Python itself. That’s pretty neat.
Finally, we want to thank Linux Australia, the organisation that PyCon
AU is run under each year. They provide us with a solid foundation to build our conference on.
This year we don’t have T-shirts bundled with our tickets, or a T-shirt desk you can pick them up
from—but we wouldn’t want your shirt collection to be incomplete! Tania Walker has created this
amazing design which combines our conference curlyboi with the Python packaging platypus.
You can learn more about the packaging platypus at the website monotreme.club. And
you can go to the link on your screen to order a shirt, or an apron, or sticker, right now.
It’s been a particularly challenging year to run an event like this, and my team and
I are so grateful for the support we’ve had—not only the financial support from our sponsors,
but the emotional support we’ve all had from each other and from all of you.
Tonight after the talks finish up we think it’d be nice to just spend a relaxing evening with
your fellow PyFriends, perhaps over dinner, or just hanging out. There will be an organised Zoom
call we can all join, and our host Cintia will help organise some breakout rooms so
we’re not completely overwhelmed by the number of people. Keep an eye out in Venueless for the link.
Tomorrow is a bit more free-form; we have a bunch of social events planned,
as well as the traditional lightning talks. If you’d like to find out exactly what time
to catch the talk you’re interested in today, or more about what’s on tomorrow,
or sign up for a lightning talk tomorrow, all the details are on our program page.
If you have an idea for something to do tomorrow, please let us organisers know!
Now on to our keynote. The Python website, and in particular the Python Package Index,
is a critical resource for Python developers to learn about and make full use of Python.
Straight from the factory floor is Ee Durbin, who is pivotal in making sure that PyPI,
which is sometimes known as the Python Cheeseshop, is there when you need
it. Ee will be around after the talk to take questions, but for now, here’s Ee!