foreign
of Applause to Daisy and Nick
you're not Lily no I'm not
this was pretty good
[Applause]
so um because I didn't trust Chris to
give me five minutes uh I took that
choice away from him and escalated so uh
now you're stuck with me for a little
while
um
pretty good event yeah
we need some help
yes we do you know I wasn't allowed to
put that joke in
um but yeah so
python is run by the people who show up
this was something
we sort of came up with
um Midway through and it's and it's
remained true and it's been relevant a
lot
you don't have to be and like one of the
things
that I thought when I first started
coming to pycon I first started coming
to pycon a long time ago and I've I've
been a very
I I I've not come to all of the pycon
since
um and I was I was given finnaid to come
to my first couple of pycons and I'm
very thankful for that I was a lot
younger when I first came to pycon and
when I first came to pycon Au I thought
you had to be one of the people who you
see come up on stage and who are amazing
right I thought you had to be this
person
I thought you had to be this person
[Music]
and I thought you had to be this person
the good news is to help pycon you don't
have to be any of these people
you don't even have to wear a jacket
you can you can just show up and help
and you will make a huge difference to
the running of the conference
not everything has to be a full-on
conference director position though
there are a lot of ways to help pycon
run and to be really upfront we need it
after the last few years so here are
some ways you can help
the first one is to go out and tell the
weld what you did this weekend
we really struggled to get the word out
particularly because space Karen has
taken over our primary source of
marketing in the bird site
[Applause]
we really need you to go and tell your
friends tell your colleagues tell your
professional acquaintances tell people
on the street
you went to pycon this weekend and it
was great
the second thing you need to do is jump
on whatever social media you are on and
amplify us if you if even if you do
nothing else
amplifying our socials makes a huge
difference and I can tell you because I
had my finger on the pulse of the
numbers of our LinkedIn posts
when you click like it shows it to more
people
if you have LinkedIn go and follow the
pike on Au page if you don't have
LinkedIn go and follow the pycon
fostered on Mastodon uh presence
whatever we're calling those
um the LinkedIn is easy to find
um so is the the Foster done
sponsoring
as you all hopefully know I was the
sponsoring sponsors coordinator this
year it's a massive help to sponsor the
conference there are a lot of you with
organizations on your tags that can and
should be sponsoring pycon AU
my ask is if you are not from one of
these organizations and your
organization has any money at all
we'll take whatever you got
please do
get in touch with whoever it is that has
money it doesn't need to be the
marketing department marketing can help
but the marketing department are not the
only people
um in particular some of the sponsors on
this organization came from the
recruiting side some of the sponsors on
this slide came from the engineering
side you don't have to go to marketing
to get sponsoring dollars if you do want
to go to marketing and get sponsoring
dollars and they say oh well what about
the business fair you're in the business
case please feel free to direct them to
me I can have that conversation you
don't have to I just need I just need
the email
hey
you can help by speaking at pycon
we put out a call for papers you can
submit to that call for papers now is
the time from experience now is the time
to be thinking about what you want to
submit to pycon next year you don't have
to write the proposal tomorrow but over
the course of the next few months you're
going to do something interesting I
guarantee it when you do write it down
come up with a talk or at least an
abstract and when we roll out the call
for papers next year you can be in it
volunteering we do the same thing we do
a call for volunteering
we will have a uh somewhere in here
there is a QR code that I'm going to put
up on the screen and if you are
interested in volunteering next year you
will be able to sign up on there and you
will get the call for volunteers as soon
as it comes out
last but not least coming along is a big
help coming along helps us run pycon and
to be really Upfront for a hot minute
there I was a little worried none of you
would
so thank you very much for coming along
I'm going to keep going the last thing
you can do is sign up to be on the
organizing committee now I'm not going
to lie it's a fair bit of work
um but it's extremely rewarding
um it is a great it's great fun it's
probably the best group of people you'll
work with
um minus me
um assuming I'm still on the committee
um we'll see
um I'm not sure whose choice that is
um yeah we really do need organizers
um we need more organizers to be upfront
like there's there's a lot of people
doing two or three jobs
um the way to fix that is more people it
is not to change the people every year
because they get burnt out
if you want to help
this QR code I'm going to sit here for
30 seconds in fact I'm not going to sit
here
I have
clap for the sponsors while you do the
QR code and hands up if you didn't grab
a plushie
anyone else I'm gonna start throwing at
random heads up
it is just because you've always wanted
to throw stuff into windows isn't it
sorry
nobody giving this a T-shirt cannon one
more over that way
one more over there
has everyone got the QR code great I'm
out thank you very much here's your
clicker
I didn't put that slide there he did
so we have some
I have some words somewhere in here
uh it's been a very very long weekend
for me
um
Lily you've got bits in this bit so if
you want to get on the stage please feel
feel free
um oh no you're not in the statistics
bit I'm not I'm not there we were asked
this we practiced we definitely practice
I wasn't still writing this like as the
lightning talks were going
um we had 447 attendees 391 of them are
here in cantania Adelaide and
56 were online that's pretty amazing
given we haven't done this in person
together for four years so thank you all
so much for coming
we had
19 people came to this conference with
the support of our financial assistance
program and this is a really important
slide for me because when I was a
student I went to my second ever pycon
Au Hobart 23 2013 exactly 10 years ago
with the support of the program if we
didn't have financial assistance back
then I wouldn't have been able to make
it to paikon are you and I probably
wouldn't be running it this year
so as the slide says I would love to see
this number be bigger next year and the
way them to make this happen is exactly
what Nick just said please ask your
employers to sponsor the more sponsors
we get the more stuff like this we can
do the earlier in the year we get
sponsors signed on
the earlier in the year we can make
financial decisions like how big is our
sponsorship pool going to be
and we can make that number a lot larger
without having to try and guess how many
tickets will sell so sponsors are really
really critical especially for the
finite program because of that earlier
in the year
finance that it gives us
we had 114 presentations that included
nine student talks 24 lightning talks
and four pycon festivals
we presented those presentations on 106
square meters of presenters of projected
screen across the uh the four Halls
this screen alone is 36 square meters
and the reason this slide is in here is
because I live in an apartment that is
35 square meters and this this is a
whole square meter bigger than my entire
living space that's just a fun fact
the curly boy Creation Station produced
147 meters of curly boy that is that is
12 meters longer than the riverbank
Bridge which is the bridge that you can
see just outside of foia e leading
across Colorado party the river turns to
Adelaide oval
tomorrow
we have some things happening tomorrow
and the person that is going to talk
about the things is nodding at me and
not coming up to the stage
come on business dad
this is a well-planned operation we
haven't done this in a while that's true
this is true the rust is still
yes okay so tomorrow the next two days
we have Sprints who here has never been
to a Sprint before and there's no idea
what a Sprint is all right the Sprints
are two days of completely unscripted
opportunity to work on the things that
we have spent the last three days
talking about we have an opportunity
with a bunch of program coordinators
people who are open source maintainers
or people who just have really really
bright spark ideas that happened over
beers at two o'clock in the morning last
night
we have two full days with resources
that you can sit down talk to those
people and just work on those ideas I
for example will be there working on the
beware project people want to come along
and and work on the big web project you
can come and talk to me and I can get
you set up and get working on those
projects I am not the only project that
will be there tomorrow morning at the
start about nine o'clock we'll have an
introductory session where people will
have the opportunity to say this is what
I'm going to be working on do you want
to come and work on this with me great
big Open Space full of tables and room
uh room for for 100 people to just hack
away on any old cool thing
there's no no program beyond that we've
got two days and whatever craziness we
can get it get out get up to on those
two days
the tickets for that actually have
already sold out I think we have we have
hit capacity for tomorrow you have it
capacity for tomorrow we have yeah okay
so um
tomorrow morning come along to the
riverbank rooms I think it is which is
downstairs
with the map with a map right that is
where we're going tomorrow it is not in
any of these spaces that you've been in
um
sorry it's on the website okay we'll go
to the website
um
if you've got that that ticket I've got
that option on your ticket tomorrow I
hope you see you tomorrow morning about
nine o'clock we'll uh we'll kick off
with the introductory sessions we'll see
you there
now I have all of the microphones
the bit where I have a bit it is the bit
where you have a bit all right committed
to the bit hello
right
uh we have a lot of people to say thank
you to and we are going to try and get
through all of them we will inevitably
forget people as well so you know big
preemptive thank you to literally
everybody because oh my god
um thank you so much
to the universe basically to my mom uh
no okay okay can I give them a slide
okay so this has been a long time coming
some of you might remember if you've
been to I've been to the last in-person
pycon when I first put this graphic on
screen without the canceled bit and
announced Pike on Au 2020 right here on
this stage is where I was going to be on
the 7th of to the 11th of August 2020.
we first started talking about an
Adelaide pycon are you in 2017 and
started planning an Earnest in late
2018. so much has changed on basically
every scale in the last six years on a
global level we had a whole pandemic on
a personal level for me I'm a girl now
and at every level in between we're in a
whole different world so before we get
into the thank yous for this year I want
to acknowledge everybody that helps me
plan Adelaide 2020 the picon that never
was as well as the team that helped me
run Pike online that year and Richards
Pike online team in 2021 for keeping the
community together
but here we are
we did it finally and there's so so many
people we couldn't have done it without
speakers this was such a great show and
you were the stars you all did an
amazing job I've spoken to so many
people who have told me just how much
they loved there's so many different
talks and the Snippets that I've managed
to see myself on the monitoring screen
in the organizer office which is really
chaotic by the way you're watching four
different talks at once uh make me
really excited to watch them properly
when I can
cheers
we really couldn't have done it without
the session chairs session chairs really
you know they tell us what's going on
when it's going on they introduce people
they say goodbye to people and that's a
really fundamentally important thing
it's also something that people may
arrive at the conference not knowing
that they are going to do and that has
been a thing that we have seen a lot of
people step up and do for the first time
this year so session chairs thank you so
much we hope you session share again we
hope we see you on stages again in many
different contexts and we really
couldn't have done it without you thank
you
a huge thank you to win Dixon Wiley an
incredible local Adelaide artist who
created the illustration that you see on
the t-shirts and the introduction
animations this design is incredible it
ties together our iconic curly boy with
the designs of the pre-curly boy era by
wrapping them around landmarks of aho
City we have the big rocking horse in
glamoraka Bob The Clock Tower from
Glenelg the Adelaide Central Markets and
of course the iconic malts balls
thank you very much to the safety team
which is all of these people
we would not have been able to do any of
this stuff without you folks helping us
keep everything on track
[Applause]
thank you so much
it has been a real honor to be able to
work with all of you
thank you for keeping everybody on track
and for taking reports and for being
ready to take reports and for listening
to all of us and helping us out through
this entire event please say thank you
to the safety team
this conference runs on volunteers and
this is your queue volunteers please
these people have given you their
weekends to staff the registration test
to make sure that sessions and holes run
smoothly to roam the Halls bringing
things to info and of course our av
volunteers make sure our speakers look
and sound good and that you can see and
hear them in the rooms on the live
streams and in the recordings which will
a few are up now the rest will be up
very shortly this conference has been
really challenging because it's been a
huge scale of event we haven't done it
for years and thank you so so so much to
all of these wonderful people for
rolling with the punches managing the
chaos amazingly and making this whole
thing a success I cannot emphasize how
awesome those people have been
thank you
AV
all of the AV team my God you lot have
put up with so much
oh [ __ ]
and
we have been so grateful to all of you
for being here for showing up
um not just at the event but before the
event it requires an awful lot of
coordination with um you know with this
wonderful venue that we have because we
are using this venues facilities in
order to make sure that the AV is
happening and we're using the expertise
of the team as well as a lot of desk you
know their equipment their skills to
make sure that it happens online the
people who are online now watching us
because of the folks who are on stage
right now
um who's driving the car
there are a few people that are not on
stage that are also doing amazing work
and are doing that amazing work right
now thank you
thank you so much to our specialist
track organizers and our Django girls
organizers which are organizing some
stuff tomorrow these specialist tracks
have been really really critical and
wonderful to the event so far and
especially I mean every one of these
tracks has brought something special
djangocon is really special to me
personally all things data is a really
important
application of what is happening behind
me
um application of python education the
like
the students communication especially
just fills me with joy our connected
universe is brand new this year and it's
a really cool really exciting idea
so thank you so much special attract
organizers
this conference was run by a bunch of
corgis
I'm
and we would like all of them to come to
the front of the stage for the front
come to the front of the stage please
some of you may have to extract
yourselves from further down the stage I
think
you'll notice there are some repeat
names on some of these lists
and that's pretty incredible too all of
the people who have stepped up and taken
on other roles not just one role some of
them many of them are in this team
but this team has been with us for a lot
of stuff over the last months time a
long time a very long time yeah
um we have been calling ourselves the
cookies internally because we are you
know the co-organizers and the yeah yeah
yes
and um
it's yeah it's great corgis is also
shorter and therefore more efficient so
thank you thank you yeah we're very
efficient operating them so you can tell
yeah run a tight ship here
um you folks have made the last couple
of months yeah whatever everything
amazing it's been incredible to work
with you to bring all of this together
we have forgotten as much as we've
remembered
about this uh no that probably came out
wrong
I've I've forgotten some some credits
I'm going to do those next before we do
the next slide okay um I want to give
you a big thank you to the program
committee there's a whole bunch of
people who selected all of the talks and
made sure that all of the stuff that you
saw on these stages over the past three
days was really cool stuff and selected
them put them together
and amazing people
I forgot about you because that all
happened months ago but I still very
much appreciate your effort I promise it
was a massive massive amount of work and
um in enabled all of the talks that
we've been able to see today yeah and
hopefully also spawn many many more
talks that you will see at other events
to come because we could not fit them
into this absolutely
thank you
my sponsorship coordinator is making a
face at me so I'm also going to thank
he doesn't trust me to do it right so
he's going to thank the sponsors
oh no what have we done
uh
no I
I want to really quickly say thank you
to our Platinum sponsors wsp
um wsp reached out to us as like the day
after the sponsorship prospectus came
out it was fantastic it's so helpful
um thank you very much wsp
um cracking Tech thank you so much thank
you for coffee
um without it without Kraken sponsoring
the coffee this is a bunch of sleeping
people on stage it's very awkward
um again plushies
um thank you so much to grock learning
and in particular thank you to grock
learning
um both sorry got Academy very bad habit
um grok Academy
um thank you so much both for the
Platinum sponsorship and for sponsoring
the education track
um which personally I found was my why
for the event
um it was it was really fantastic thank
you so much to Google Cloud for the gold
sponsorship and thank you to the python
software foundation and the Django
software Foundation
for your support
and last but not least thank you very
much to the track sponsor for the
uh no that was the jungle foundation for
sponsoring dangocon uh and I think
that's everyone and oh there is one more
thing thank you to the people who
donated to the Oz Harvest
um fundraiser there's still time to do
it
um although I don't have a QR code for
you
um we raised an amazing amount of money
um and there are people who will not go
hungry because of the the money that you
donated so thank you very much for that
I'll hand back the mine now
thank you
so the very last two people I want to
thank are the two people that have
worked tirelessly beside me to help keep
this conference on the rails despite the
best efforts of entropy Libby you're an
incredible and wonderful being thank you
for being somebody that I can just hand
a problem and Trust it'll be done well
and with Care thank you for being kind
and caring to all around you and making
sure to have volunteers and your fellow
corgis are being fed and rested and Lily
I honestly can't think of anyone I'd
rather have sitting next next to me on
the front seat of this roller coaster
ride we've been on since January
ah
you've been there every step of the way
and the way that you've shaped the event
has made all kinds of improvements and
every idea that I've run past you has
been so much better for it and also I've
been staying in an Airbnb with these two
so we've spent like every waking hour
together and
it's chaotic when you get like the three
of us and we've had like four hours of
sleep it's it's it's a wild time but
like we don't hate each other like I I
love these two people even more as
incredibly close friends for this
weekend and I think that it's a
testament to how wonderful they are
oh
that was really nice
um thank you yeah Daisy hi you've been
planning this for years yeah like a long
time there was a panini in between and
then there were the two things uh the
two conferences before which was when I
first met you when you were being
introduced as the person who was going
to run the piequon EU after the one that
I was on the committee for in Sydney and
you were shadowing our committee to
learn what to do with your committee for
the Adelaide one which was going to
happen real soon back then and then it
kind of didn't sort of
and so I feel like this has been a
really long time coming in a lot of ways
but it's also the context within which
you know I first got to know you and
to be able to come here and be here with
you today to do this and to have worked
with you on this has been incredible and
to see it come together and to pay off
has just been amazing and you have led
that the entire way like it has been a
long time coming and a lot of work it's
hard to sustain energy for six years uh
we took a year off yeah um because it's
it's hard to do that and it's all been
you know you driving it your connection
to Adelaide that has been part of what
has brought this to Adelaide and we
could not have done this like we
literally and figuratively could not
have done it without you thank you thank
you Daisy so much
[Music]
sorry
please take a moment to thank everybody
what
we're still applauding you oh okay yeah
no applaud Daisy again
yes
thank you
oh cool okay okay
um please while there's all on stage
thank everybody that has helped make
pycon au 2023 happen
good
and thank you to everyone in this room
you're included in this
[Applause]
you are included in making pycon Au 2023
happen
um because if you weren't here then we
would it would be really awkward
um
and and also a lot more difficult but
every single one of you has brought
something to this event just by being
here today whether you are here in
person if you are here online
thank you so much for being part of this
it's been amazing
[Applause]
all right
that's that's that's you here okay
we planned this
it's a very strange sound with all these
feet walking away from
the typical response I get when I go
into a room
Harry Clinton I didn't think through did
I uh just a few brief words for me my
name is Clinton I'm a previous organizer
of Pocono U Back in 2014 and 2015 in
Brisbane so I have a a reasonably deep
understanding and appreciation of all of
the efforts of all of the volunteers but
particularly Daisy your conference
director
I've also previously been in the Linux
Australia Council so I do have a good
understanding there as well of all of
the work that goes in from the Linux
Australia side to do a lot of the
boilerplate infrastructure stuff so that
conferences like Pokemon Au can go ahead
so it's with uh deep understanding and
deep appreciation that I on behalf of
the Linux Australia Council can say
thank you to all of the volunteers but
especially Daisy your conference
director for Pokemon EU 2023
so I'm up here for two things
firstly as the representative of the
steering committee who's uh whose job is
to recruit the organizing team for the
future of pycon au uh we haven't really
been able to meet in person for the last
few years and our hiring pipeline has
kind of relied on meeting in person and
finding people at conferences to run
events so we don't have a 2024 and 2025
announcement to make just yet we are
working on it and the working assumption
is that the event will be in Melbourne
next year at some point probably later
in the year pay attention to all the
social media places that Nick mentioned
in his talk because as soon as we know
when we're having a conference you will
know when we're having a conference
now the subject of finding people at
conferences and convincing them to run
Pike on EU
five and a half years ago I tracked this
one down at lunch at LCA in Sydney and
after uh an immediate response of of
confusion and shock
there was there was acceptance
and and I remember saying two things I
remember saying firstly it will be one
of the best experiences of your life and
secondly
that will be predictable you only need
to replicate what the 2019 team do
[Music]
um
Daisy has rebuilt pycon EU from the
ground up twice in the last four years
uh
I could not have hoped for a better
organizer to keep this conference
running and keep it alive for all these
years while we couldn't meet in person
and to bring it back
so on behalf of the people on the
steering committee and a bunch of other
people who really appreciate your uh the
work you've done here is a small gift
laughs
I can't I can't get this so we bought
like really I I compared multiple
vendors to get like really high quality
sticker stocks yeah well that's your
fault isn't it
it's
oh my goodness it's
it's a train
but also uh also in there is a gift
voucher for you and a friend uh first
class on the Q train a rail-based
restaurant on the bellarine peninsula in
Victoria oh that's delightful so I enjoy
a pleasantly relaxing weekend uh you've
really earned it uh thank you for
keeping our conference alive Daisy
thank you so much oh
oh
oh don't chance
that was I know that was dark
and so ends pycon Au 2023 and with it my
10 year
I'm very tired
and with it my tenure of leading this
event and uh Christmas preempted a lot
of this but I signed up to be the
steward of this very established
successful wonderful event with a proven
formula the pitch that Chris made to me
was you take this great thing you tweak
it around the edges to be even better
and then you hand it to the next person
but then 2020 happened and I led Pike
online Au 2020 where we tried to bring
the community together online while we
were still apart and now here we are
gathering together for the first time in
the post lockdown era so the theme of my
tenure has been unexpected uh unexpected
firsts and huge amounts of uncertainty I
went into this year being uncertain if
any of it will work bearing the burden
of leading the effort to bring back the
magic of paikon are you after a
four-year break and all of this
everybody that was on the stage earlier
feeling the effect still of a mass
burnout inducing an event that we had in
2020. and while so much has changed I
was so relieved to find this weekend
that the magic is still here and I think
that's because the heart of pikon IU
isn't the structure or the format or the
even now wonderful curly boy it's how we
always strive to be kind and caring and
inclusive each year more so than the
last it's how we have this beautiful and
chaotic combination that is a
professional programming conference
um with a bright and colorful and
irreverent and delightful culture
it's having some of the brightest Minds
in software in Australia coming together
to enjoy stickers and plushies and led
carriers
it's an openness to learning across the
technical and the social about anything
to do with people using computers to
make things for people it's you it's all
of us I love you all and I can't wait to
see what's next
[Applause]