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welcome to Pon Au 2024
uh my name is Peter my pronouns are here
in him I am your conference director it
is so great to have you all
here thank you for wearing a
mask having everyone wear a mask makes
it possible for people who wouldn't
otherwise be able to attend to be here
safely and it helps us to uh you know
those people are here to attend to speak
to help run the conference um we may we
wear the masks not because we like
wearing masks but because we like those
people and we want them here as
well going to start with a bit of uh
safety information uh we all deserve to
feel safe comfortable and welcome uh we
have a code of conduct we mean it um if
at any time during the conference you
feel unsafe or want to report
questionable Behavior Uh please contact
a member of the safety team if you're
not sure something is worth raising
talk it through with the safety team
anyway uh they can help you figure it
out
right some of these calls to the safety
team are okay we will urgently get
someone on site and some of these calls
are do you feel okay with it thank you
for bringing it to our attention you
know we'll we'll make a note of it like
little things big things if you feel
uncomfortable safety team is your
contact uh some notes about culture of
Pon
Au we don't do that here we don't Trash
Talk other communities uh whether other
programming languages or other groups we
don't act like we're better than them
like this is python we're here because
we love python but that doesn't make
other languages worse we love them too
they're all wonderful um we don't assume
people aren't technical uh don't assume
someone's not a programmer like this is
a programming language conference if
people come here there is a very good
chance that they are into programming uh
don't don't lead your questions with why
did you come to a Tech conference you
know open your conversations with what
tech do you work on um we don't make
jokes at the expense of others uh
punching down isn't funny um please
don't if you see things like that
happening
um it is a most people don't want to be
part of a community where those things
happen it's a good idea to just say hey
we don't do that here
uh there's more notes about culture on
our website p.org
culture um we like our in jokes but we
don't want people to feel excluded for
not getting them so some of them get
documented you are very welcome to uh
send us a GitHub issue to say hey could
you explain this cuz it's come up in a
few talks and I don't get the reference
and we'd be very happy to tell you about
the wonderful lightning talk from 3
years ago that about half of our
speakers have seen uh it it was a good
one
watch the recording it's amazing
um yeah please don't judge us too
harshly about the website code when you
look at that repo
like we've all been there
right uh now our
bathrooms they are marked as gender
neutral um they are all gender bathrooms
um in the expo hall and outside the
goldfields theater um if someone's in
wrong bathroom um just carry on with
your date that's they know which
bathroom they need they'll work it out
if you would prefer to be in agendered
bathrooms uh the bathrooms in the public
parts of
MC are open to everyone um and are
gendered um near the AV desk behind the
goldfields cafe those are the
closest uh in the bathrooms that are
ours the the the two nearby ones uh we
are supplying some basic supplies for
people uh take what you need leave some
for others if you need tissues tampons
pads deodorant
toothbrushes and so on and so forth
there's some spares there cuz Hey I know
a lot of people flew in here and if you
forgot to pack some of the basics well
we got you all
good other people are in the same boat
leave some for them
please the conference Wi-Fi and I'm
going to talk very slowly about this to
make sure everyone has enough time to
scan the QR code if they're trying to
join the Wi-Fi
um details are there the network is
called Pyon Au the passphrase is ask a
sponsor you are very welcome to ask a
sponsor for the password to the Wi-Fi
they they love that joke um mostly they
love that you're talking to them please
talk to our sponsors they're
wonderful all right I don't see too many
phones still pointing so I'm going to
take this off now here's a map there is
a lot of things on this map because a
good conference with a lot of good
things uh number one goldfields theater
it's in Orange that is the room you are
currently in it is the biggest room with
the biggest stage the biggest
audience biggest
screen um I think the presenters in all
of the rooms are the same size but you
know in general this one's the
biggest um right next door in red is e
that's the Expo set base that has the
REO desk that's where you first came in
to uh pick up your badge um that is
where we will be catering lunch
uh only the lunch break is caded if you
want snacks at morning tea or afternoon
tea you can pick them up at the
goldfields cafe there's restaurants
nearby uh we do provide coffee until 4
p.m. if you want your coffee get it by
4 uh rooms 2 and three uh in green and
blurle just outside that's Eureka 2 and
three those are the other rooms that
we'll have talks in
them um in yellow at the top of the map
is the AV room if you are a speaker and
you would like to test your laptop to
make sure it's going to work with our av
setup uh there's a test station there
and also right next to it is a speakers
lounge if you want somewhere quiet to
sit down and work on your slides you
know hey a bit last minute I was doing
the same thing it's fine uh that's where
you can do it right at that uh next to
the AV
station uh there's one big thing that's
not shown on this map and that's
something we call Hallway track if
you've been to other Tech conferences
you may have come acoss this idea before
but there is when you come to a
conference like you you look at the list
of talks and go wow that's really
exciting like all these things I can
learn about that's not the best bit of
the conference the best bit of the
conference is the people around you the
people you will meet in the hallway the
conversations you will have in the
hallway we call that the hallway track
talk to people people love talking
people love being talked
to this is why we keep coming back is
you know we come for the talks we come
back for the people
um that's what the hallway track is all
about um there's also an organizer
office upstairs it
is you shouldn't have any reason to go
there if you do need to talk to the
organizers uh speak to any of our
volunteers anyone with a brightly
colored badge regular attendees are all
in White and the organizers volunteers
safety team uh have much more brightly
colored badges you'll be able to see
them and if you need to get there we can
take you
now speaking of the hallway track and
the conversations we have communication
stickers if you would like to advertise
your preference for how you talk to
people there's stickers you can put on
your badges uh we have green circles to
say I am happy to chat to anyone uh we
have yellow triangles to say happy to
chat but just check with me first maybe
not right now I'll let you know and we
also have red octagons like a stop sign
that just says
stop I am not ready to talk to people I
will come to you if I would like to talk
uh the stickers are reusable you can
peel them off and put other ones on so
if you're feeling really happy in the
morning and a bit overwhelmed in the
afternoon take one off put on a
different one that's what they're for uh
please respect people's preferences you
know don't don't rush up to anyone who's
got the red sticker on and be big and
loud and in your face and like hey yeah
we got a chat
like that's what the stickers are for to
let you know that that they're not ready
for
that
um the
Discord we have an attendees Discord a
lot of you have already joined the link
is in your email uh it will be the email
that had your ticket in it the most
recent email you've received from uh Pon
Au
2024 um the hallway track happens on
Discord as well as in person you can
chat to people on Discord
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um yeah
helps you to get organized in Social and
share photos and and things and to
organize birds of a feather
sessions so um there's a bit of detail
on our website um url's up there there's
a board near the registration desk I
think that
has a place you can write down so birds
of Fe feather sessions these are like
small self-organized sessions right if
you have come to Pon to meet people but
you'd like to meet a particular type of
people like maybe you've traveled from
say CRA and like ah I want to meet some
more people from camra organize a CRA um
birds of a feather session um they're
there for lots of
things programming like functional
programming queerness crochet board
games
running anything that you might like to
just find some like-minded people you
can organize a session uh on the Discord
and on the
Whiteboard I'm going to
describe the Pac-Man rule so this is
part of those having welcoming and open
conversations is we follow the Pac-Man
Rule and the Pac-Man rule is that when
you talk to people like in a small group
you form a circle right here's a circle
you've all seen circles
right and we say leave us space in that
circle like
Pac-Man and you leave a space in that
Circle so
that new people can join you that is
being opening and welcoming and just
inviting space for hey I'm just I'm here
to chat you can come in and be part of
this conversation and when those people
join you uh make a new space welcome
more people if your groups gotten too
big and it tends to happen naturally
that you'll split into smaller groups
and and you'll work it out don't
worry uh that's not the Only Rule
there's also the snowball
rule every day try to meet as many new
people as the number of pons Au you have
been to if this is your first time
that's going to be really easy you you
will meet one person every day without
trying that will happen accidentally um
if you're like me this is my ninth Pon
Au seventh in person nth in
total and it takes a bit of work and
this rule is to encourage the people
who've been here before the people who
are experienced who know what they're in
for go out meet new people welcome them
bring them into the community like we're
here to have a good time and having
people who are experienced and have been
here before uh going out to do that that
helps to bring them
in uh lost and found if you find
something let a no if you lose something
ask a volunteer uh the volunteers have
colored badges green I believe
volunteers have green badges if it's not
green people with green badges will help
too uh
T-shirts from lunchtime if you ordered a
t-shirt you'll be able to pick it up at
the registration desk uh bring your
ticket like the QR code that was
attached in your email the one that you
use to check in at
registration if you need to swap sizes
or or you will be able to do that
hopefully on Sunday
um there's might be some leftover
t-shirts we will find out
tomorrow um and S swaps pending
available stock like we you know we
we've ordered enough for the size you
indicated when you ordered your
T-shirt um we'll see what we have for if
you need to swap sizes
now uh I'm going to talk about our
sponsors we can't run this event year
onye with discounted tickets and our
financial assistance program without the
help of our generous sponsors so if we
could start clapping
for our Platinum sponsor mongod
DB Platinum sponsor the python software
Foundation gold sponsors Kraken and
Cipher stash
standard sponsors Google elastic and
acorn startups at Pon Au multitudes and
iy and of course we cannot run this
event without the logistical and
financial support of Linux Australia
like yes sponsors we love them thank you
sponsors for sponsoring please do it
again next year I would be
grateful love you that's right we do
love you sponsors
and now it's time for one of our
Platinum sponsors to uh come up on to
give us our sponsor address from mongodb
we have Katie Bell Katie welcome to the
stage all
right all right um I'm Katie uh and I
want to before I talk about Mong B uh I
want to take you back to 2011 imagine
yourself in 2011 uh I was pretty early
in my Tech Career at that point I had
been been to a Tech conference before I
felt really out of place at that Tech
conference I kind of decided that I
didn't like Tech conferences generally
uh and then in
2011 uh a friend of mine tried to
convince me to come to Pon
Au um and in not only that to give a
talk at Pon Au which was
terrifying uh but after multiple
attempts to convince me I did relent and
agreed to give a talk along with a
friend of
mine uh so this is me giving a talk my
first ever conference talk uh at Pon uh
2011 uh it was a long time ago uh and I
absolutely loved it like the python
Community the Pyon Australia Community
has been super welcoming um and I have
kept coming since s I've lost count of
how many pythons I've been to now um but
anyway earlier this year I joined a
company called Monger DB uh and I really
like working at Monger DB and uh it
turns out they were already excited
about sponsoring python confence so it
wasn't just because of me uh they uh
recently discovered that python
developers actually use MB and seem to
be increasingly using MB and so it would
be a good idea to get involved with the
community and have that kind of open
dialogue we can get feedback find out
what people are working on um and be
able to build a better mongodb for
python developers uh one of the most
notable ones uh actually who can tell me
what the most popular database is for
Jango developers specifically yeah post
postgress you are 100% correct um
postgress is a really awesome database
and it's used by a lot of Jango
developers um but it was kind of
surprising at least to the people at
mongodb that 8% of Jango developers
according to the jet brains Jango
developer survey uh also use mongodb um
and postgress is a really awesome
database that absolutely uh deserves to
be up there but mongodb being on this
graph at all is kind of weird because
there isn't like a supported Jango
mongodb integration um so mongodb is
working on one if you have opinions
about Jango and mongodb and how they
should or should not work together it is
currently in a not ready to use state
but the code is out there I can point
you at it uh if you have opinions on how
this should be how this should or
shouldn't work um I would love to talk
to you uh so please do
that um I don't work on it myself but I
can put you in touch with people who do
uh the other thing is python developers
a lot of data scientists use Python a
lot of data scientists are working with
llms and AI stuff there is a workshop on
Monday uh using Atlas Vector search to
do rag retrieval augmented Generation Um
I do believe the workshop is
unfortunately full at this point um but
that is one of the other reasons that
there seems to be increasing usage of
python uh of Monger DB in the python
Community um because of this feature as
well but if there is anything at all you
would like to talk to us about um please
come talk to us at the Mong DB booth
there should be someone there or you can
find me walking around or I'm giving a
talk later today but mostly we're just
really excited to be here at Pon Au I
love this conference um and I hope you
have a great time thank you thank you
very much
Katie all right thank you Katie great to
hear about mongod Deb uh great to have
mongod Deb here uh let's continue so
Katie mentioned our workshops uh our
workshops are sold out they are full so
they're running on Monday at the
development Sprints if you registered
for a workshop and you're not going to
be able to attend um please let us know
at the REO desk so that we can give that
space to someone else um if you would
like to join a weit list for a workshop
uh again Ask at the registration desk
and you will be able to sign up
there uh right more things about our
wonderful
conference lightning talks 11:30
lightning talk
11:30 oo all right submit at the rro
desk before 11:30
sorry for the uh wrong
slide really want to edit it live not
going to um so for anyone who is not
aware lightning talks are talks which
are 5 minutes long you get 5 minutes to
talk while you are talking someone else
is setting
up you end they start backto back 5
minutes like it is a great time you can
give a lightning talk on you can submit
a lightning talk on any topic you like
our Lightnings are uh Christopher will
decide if you get to give a lightning
talk I would encourage you to submit one
they are wonderful we have two boxes for
submitting lightning talks if you have
never given a talk before there is a
first Tim as box we love lightning talks
to be a way for you to get your first
taste of being on a stage there is a
second box if you have previously given
talks you know what it's like to be on a
stage submit in that box um and we will
be able to choose an appropriate mix of
new speakers experienced speakers
everyone will have a great time any
Topic at all that might be of interest
to the pon Community is uh welcome at a
lightning talk doesn't have to be about
programming doesn't have to be about
tech last year I gave one about the Fast
and the Furious it was
great uh jobs board we have a jobs board
uh out near the reg desk we have a jobs
board channel on the Discord if you are
trying to hire people or you are trying
to be hired uh great Pace to put your
information um
yeah uh information for
speakers uh if you are a speaker in the
break before the block of talks that you
are in talks are in blocks of three so
you might be the third one you still
need to be in the hall that you are
speaking in 10 minutes before the end of
that break and stay there for the entire
time so if you are the third in a block
of three you're going to watch two talks
don't worry every talk is great so
you'll be seeing the you'll be seeing
good talks anyway um but yes stay in
that until your talk we we do not like
to lose speakers and if we lose speakers
sometimes we cancel their talks if we're
not sure they're going to be
there uh now for those blocks of talks
we need session chairs uh people need to
um introduce the speakers thank the
speakers give the speakers gifts um help
do Q&A sessions for speakers um room
monitors run the room session chairs
just look after the speakers um if you
would like to be a speaker just come up
here at the front after the keynote and
uh we'll talk to you about being speaker
there is a signup sheet I believe we're
still looking for a few for later today
um and a few for tomorrow so if you're
interested find the post in
announcements sign up and come up here
for a uh a rundown on how it works cuz
we won't just drop you into called we
will tell you what to
do um
great and
now we have one more thing left and that
is