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Chris before you leave the stage come
back come back Chris I have two requests
for you one one is please give that
microphone to Nick because I'm going to
let Nick speak in just a moment I'm
going to have to duck aren't I the
second is please accept this wonderful
Mark another one another one for our
lightning Zar thank you very much
Christoper n thank
you all right Nick if you want to be
able to advance slides you have to stand
all the way over here so very slowly no
come get over here
I would like to thank the audience for
The Imperial March I would like to thank
the audience for The Imperial March
um this um those of you who were at in
Adelaide um not this time but this thing
last year uh kind of know where I'm
going with
this Pon is is or Pon Au is run by the
people who show up uh I said it last
year uh I'm saying it again this year
remains true um this event doesn't
happen uh without the effort of a whole
bunch of people um a lot of whom have
been called out will be called out again
um there are and and and all of whom
deserve every call out we can give them
and more
uh there are a lot of ways in which
people help um there are a lot of ways
that you can
help the first way is Word of Mouth tell
your friends um the the easiest best
most effective
marketing is when somebody you respect
somebody you like tells you this is a
good thing be that person that's
somebody respects that somebody likes
who tells them about this thing that we
like the second way is social media um
which is essentially the first way uh
but with the
internet we have a
masteron we have a LinkedIn uh and I'd
especially like to shout out um our
amazing social media uh person
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kalila if you you've noticed a whole
bunch more Pik on Au all over your
socials all year now you know who did
that and now you know where to go to
share kala's amazing
work speaking I obviously you've all
been here watching people speaking I
probably don't need to explain what that
is volunteering this one maybe be some
maybe some more um in
particular um this year I'd like to
shout out Izzy who basically R the r
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desk um there's going to be more shout
outs coming so I I promise that's I was
sitting at the rjo desk watching Izzy
just absolutely kill it all uh all
weekend um but you can help by
volunteering I I I want to shout out the
community this year on this front um we
had an amazing response to our call for
volunteers however that doesn't mean
that when we do it next year you're like
oh no they had an amazing response last
year I don't have to do it no absolutely
when we call for volunteers next year do
it thank
you you can help by coming along um one
thing that doesn't get said very often
um is is how much it really does help to
have people come to the conference that
you put
on um but also um one thing one request
um on behalf of the people organizing
this next year
um maybe comment
earlier um you can help by
organizing um we're all going to get up
on the on the stage I assume at some
point and we'll shut ourselves out
because somebody should um but you can
sign up to organize um a Pon Au um and
that's very helpful because without
organizers this event literally can't
happen um I want to talk a little bit
about
uh the power of community and I didn't I
didn't ask Chris to select a whole bunch
of lightning talks um that were so
fantastically themed around the power of
community um but he did it anyway and I
don't think that's a coincidence
um I'm personally of the belief that we
were coming into a time when um the
people around us will be more important
um than ever um and the power of
communities um even just that last
lightning talk the power of the
community to create a space in which it
is possible to keep a government
accountable for doing terrible things um
the the power of a community to enable
people to go and do amazing things um
cannot be understated um the time is
coming when um your involvement in the
communities around you uh will be what
determines how powerful those
communities are um and I I honestly
believe that with the the amazing smarts
that we have in this room um and in the
the python Community nationally uh we
can do amazing things
so so with that uh a speech is nothing
without a call to action um the QR code
goes to a Google form the Google form um
hopefully Works uh and is also uh very
simple um it will ask you for your name
it will ask you for an email address uh
it will ask you what you are
particularly interested in doing or
helping or knowing about um to be
upfront though that information comes to
me um and I ask you for permission to
share it with the most appropriate
people um hopefully you can trust me to
do that um that's that's pretty much the
call out I'm going to stall for time
Beno interpretive dance while you get
the QR code to work on your phone okay
excellent all
right bye Nick thank you very much Nick
yes all right does anybody here
like
statistics we have
had 560 one a 10
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days that means you your you're a
statistic good
job we were able to offer financial
assistance to four
people four people could not have been
here without the help of uh our sponsor
Google who made a donation directly to
the financial assistance fund thank you
Google
we have
had
103
presentations 62 talks seven students 14
lightning talks on Saturday 12 on Sunday
eight in the first ever specialist track
lightning session devops lightning
talk we have had
one fire
hazard I hope nobody saw that in the uh
student
showcase leg it was
legit that's enough statistics for the
moment let's talk about tomorrow cuz we
aren't entirely done yet we still have
the development Sprints uh websites up
there there's a Dev Sprints Channel Dev
Sprints General channel in the Discord
um if you haven't bought a ticket yet
there's still tiny bit of room available
you could still come to Sprints if you
can and here and in town it's not here
and in town it's in town and in town uh
Sprints are happening at the Grand
Chancellor Hotel you can get there on a
single trim if you happen to be inside
the goldfields theater right now you
could be there in 27 minutes on the 96
tram
um don't go right now though it doesn't
start until 9:
tomorrow is there anything left we have
to do um we had a to-do list up on the
uh in the organizers's office uh let's
just check what's on
there right could we have the house
lights turned all the way up
please good okay that's perfect let's
take them all the way down
again all right I trust that fixes
everything
so time to say some thank yous
let's thank there's going to be a lot of
clapping get your hands ready let's
thank our speakers right come on
speakers
yes so many good talks and as an
organizer I have seen very few of
them I am glad they
recorded I will watch them later uh I
would like to thank our session chairs
our session chairs are all people who
volunteered in just the last few days um
they signed up on a spreadsheet yay
spreadsheets um they helped make our
speakers have a wonderful time they
introduced people they handed out gifts
they um you know the mug they gave the
mug yes they did all right let's
thank Rina y our artist who made this
amazing graffiti
boy I love
it this has curly boy with Melbourne
icon's flinder Street Station Luna Park
uh an E-class tram I'm told by an expert
and of course our very proud tradition
of spraying art on anything that will
sit still long enough to become an art
piece I'd like to thank our wait list
and backup
speakers the these people were all
waiting in the wings so that if we had a
last minute cancellation we could still
give you a talk a special thank you to
Stephanie Mullen who actually had to
give a talk at the very last minute
thank you
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Stephanie let's thank our safety
team my saurin LED and assembled this
team of uh Beno Christopher Eliana and
Russell and uh I felt safe did you feel
safe it is thanks to the hard work of
these people thank you safety
team I'm going to invite our volunteers
coordinator coordinator up on stage if
uh Lily wants to come up with a
microphone oh she's coming from the
other side amazing we need the handheld
mic and here it comes
off best inter best interpretive dance
we've seen very Speedy thank you all
right I want to thank all of the people
who have volunteered during this
event there are a lot look at
them if you are a volunteer and you were
here in the audience could you please
stand up from where you are right now if
you're able to do so if you volunteered
and you want to please stand up so that
everybody can see you and say thank you
to all of these
people who did such an amazing job for
this entire event and really made it
work one of them came up to me and said
are we doing can I do anything things
seem really smooth should I should I do
something and they have been the entire
time which is why it was so smooth thank
you everyone thank you for giving up
your entire weekend to come here and
help us out Nick mentioned earlier we
had a record number there was about 114
people who applied to volunteer this
year which is wild and also shows just
how
much the community here really cares
about this event please do it again next
year we love having this kind of thing
to be able to do rather than the other
way around it really really really helps
us to have
help so thank you once again could I
just get another round of applause for
all of our volunteers who did the
special the special work at the Retro
desk session monitoring whove been
running up and down back and forth the
whole time and especially also our av
volunteers some of whom are still
volunteering right now to make sure that
we can all see and hear everything
that's going on thank you so much
everybody we deeply appreciate it
thank you very much for that Lily
speaking of seeing and hearing
everything can you hear me yeah can you
see
me you better thank our a
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team thank you very much to Ryan for
running the AV team and uh catrix
Who provided the um media assets
including that lovely animated version
of the graffiti boy that you see at the
start of every talk uh the rest of the
AV core team thank
you I'd like to thank our specialist
track organizers
I'm going to very carefully read the
correct names for the correct track this
time and I'm very sorry for that
Scientific Python Adam Graham Charles
Turner geneveve Buckley Kai strer Paige
Martin thank
you education track I would like to
thank Amanda hodgers Nikki ringland and
Sally Gridley thank
you and from the devops track I would
like to thank Orin Shaw Justin Warren
and
thank
you I want to thank my core team and I'm
going to ask you all to come up on stage
because it should be possible for
someone to get a photo of all of us
together uh we have our program chairs
Maya and Alena coming over here we have
our sponsorship coordinators Jack
Skinner and Nick
Crouch who are without whom you wouldn't
have had such great sponsors to chat
with uh we have our Treasurer uh Russell
Keith McGee thank you Russell somebody
has to guard the treasure
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um yeah do we
have our oh our social sorry my screen
blocks half of this my social media
coordinator Kila ly thank you
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Kila all right let's just come in a bit
closer so we can all be in the photo
come on Benner
where's Lily we need Lily as well oh
here she
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comes thank you very much core
team the final names on the cour team l
oh hang on Beno were you carrying
something has it been 6 years and we're
not going to let Russell leave the stage
just
yet did you know that Russell has been
treasurer for six consecutive pons Au
and had no idea that I knew that and was
going to make this a big deal on
stage Russell
we know you're a Treasurer who loves
treasure and a business dad who loves
business and that's why we got you some
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flowers thank you very much Russell we
could not have done that without
you
finally the directors that's me Peter
Hall
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assistant director Beno
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rice Lily Ryan our volunteers
coordinator and Libby Barry who isn't
here to be on stage uh Libby pushed that
boulder up the hill Lily guided it on
the way down terrifying and exhilarating
I'm
sure
Benner you may have the microphone as
requested foolish foolish man
hi I'm Beno and welcome to my lightning
talk [ __ ] um sorry so um Pon is an Pon
Au is an amazing thing it's been around
for quite a while um and it's lovely and
we love it and we want it to keep going
but continuity in these kind of
communities is you know it's a tricky
thing especially when you had something
as minor and annoying as Co show up um
and Daisy deserves an amazing debt of
gratitude in in carrying it through
those years
um but coming out of that we were liking
what do we do next and the trick is
trying to find people to keep it going
and um Lily and I are both members of a
maker space in Brunswick and we were
there at one point and we both were
comparing notes that various people like
Chris nerow and various other you know
collaborators of his were kind of
staring at us in this way that was just
sort of Daring us to run the conference
and we were kind of going oh
I don't and then we sort of compared not
went you know what between us we can
probably must enough executive function
to do it but we both know that our
brains are very squirly and so we need
someone to help us out and we coined the
term executive function
officer um we needed someone who could
actually keep everything on track and
not muck it up and so we came up with
this brilliant plan which is going to go
as well as every brilliant plan ever
come up with is going to go where we
would be co-directors of the conference
and we would try to find some new people
who hadn't done it before to Shadow us
and come into it and we went and did
that and then promptly um I forget
exactly when it was It was kind of yeah
uh both of us absolutely lost it uh for
various reasons that were not to do with
the conference we we both had life
happen at which point Peter who had been
the executive function officer um
suddenly became the
director and it was a peaceful if
somewhat chaotic transfer of power but
it was vital because if that hadn't
happened this wouldn't have happened and
so I I I and cheerfully accepted my
demotion from being top of that list to
further down the list because Peter has
just done an amazing job at running this
Con
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thank
you thank
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you and he's managed to make it happen
to the point where at one point Peter
and I were up in the OR room and we
looked at each other and went are our
radios working
cuz no one said anything in ages and we
had to check like this has
been uh the chaos was very front-loaded
on this conference we got it out of the
way so that the event itself has run
very smoothly and a lot of that is down
to Peter and just being really awesome I
cannot think of a better person to have
done this and speaking of people who I
don't think were expecting to get
gifts this is from Lily and myself thank
you Peter for being not just the
executive function officer I thank you
benar thank you very
much I know I'm really hard to buy for
and I'm I need to know what you've
done because it looks suspiciously like
some very nice whiskey which I have been
told I
deserve
oo there is some very nice whiskey in
there I was we were also uh informed by
a reliable source that hot sauce was a
particular yes and so there is a few
options for that and there is a bit more
in there as
well ah thanks thank you again Peter you
are awesome thank you very much Benner
thank you very much
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Lily all right oh uh oh that's not good
let's put that back
oh no you don't need to see that
bit that's going where you can't see all
right let's try
again all
right a big thank you to everyone who we
have just thanked once again it is all
the p on AU
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team of course we couldn't do this
without our sponsors so I'm going to uh
we're going to thank them we're going to
start clapping for sponsors we're
clapping for mongodb our Platinum
sponsor we're clapping for our Platinum
sponsor the python software Foundation
we're clapping for our gold sponsors
Kraken and Cipher stash we're clapping
for our SP standard sponsors Google
elastic and acorn these startups at
picor AU multitudes and iky and of
course our orice our benevolent overlord
Linux Australia thank you very much to
all of our
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sponsors and the final group I need to
thank is
you thank you for coming thank you for
being part of Pon Au
2024 and did I say final because we need
to thank
the organizer
organizers cuz I didn't just organize
myself Jack you're going to need the
microphone and you already have it you
are so
organized surprise I feel like I'm
saying organize a lot Jack please um
could Richard Jones please join me here
in front of the
class is Richard here Richard on coming
from over here folks I will keep this
brief
Richard has been involved in starting
running leading enabling advising and
supporting Pon you since its very first
event for 15 years he has been
instrumental to both the organizing and
the organizing of the organizers for
this wonderful
conference the culture and values of
this community have been shepherded and
shaped by Richard's efforts often in a
thankless capacity behind behind the
scenes so it is my honor as Richard
steps back from his service on the P you
steering committee to offer him a small
gift of
appreciation to say thank you for the 15
years of joy and growth you've helped
bring our community as we wish you well
as you turn your focus to other more
athletic
Pursuits thank you
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thank you very much
Richard thank
you
well it's been a
year when I signed up for this I filled
out the form at the end of last year's
Pike on Au I had never run an event at
all before like I'd never organized a
Meetup and I said
look I'm willing to be director but I'm
probably not your best choice I I don't
have the
experience and I was like okay you you
Beno already told this story a little
bit he he said you know you can
uh you can come on as assistant director
we'll put some experienced directors
above you you'll learn you'll be ready
to do this again in
2025 and I said okay
and then 6 months ago we were discussing
in the Discord like why why are we doing
this what's our what's our role going to
be what do we hope to get out of this
and I said
look I'm not trying to be in the
spotlight I don't need anyone to notice
that I'm there but I would like
everybody to think gez things have gone
smoothly this year and I can't quite
work out
why as Vero said
we had to check our radios cuz nothing
was going wrong for hours so I think I
hit the second part but here I am on
stage and everyone's looking at me I
haven't quite got the first
spot here I
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am now you might be wondering about next
year's p on Au you might be thinking did
he just say
20252 I did I did I said 2025
well we're not quite ready to announce
any of the little details like the dates
or the
venue and that's why you should join our
mailing list and follow us on social
media and we will get those to you as
soon as we
can thank you very much everyone it's
been great for me I hope it's been great
for you I hope it's been great for
everyone in the core team who have uh
done this with me volunteers a speak
speakers
sponsors thank you
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everyone please leave quickly we need to
back
up we'll see you at sprints
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