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greetings
everyone we going to
Pon uh hopefully they can flip across to
the
the video that we can see fabulous uh
Pon Au 2024 is held on the lands of the
warer warang people of the cooland
nation we pay our respects to their
Elders past and present the buang has
been a place for building community and
exchanging ideas for thousands of years
and we are honored to continue that
tradition here
today welcome to
Bon it is it is wonderful to see
everybody here thank you for coming uh
it is tremendous we we have a great day
hopefully planned for you we are already
embodying big big devops energy here
today uh with minor elements of chaos
but uh embrace the chaos that's what
today is all
about thank you for wearing a mask
everyone it is tremendous um thank you
for helping to protect others who uh are
here today who otherwise couldn't be um
if we weren't wearing masks um it is
tremendous to see all of you embracing
that
we all deserve to feel safe comfortable
and welcome uh this is the the safety
team uh this is how to find them they
have a red badge uh here is the safety
contact information so uh if you see any
kind of safety incident at any time if
you feel unsafe or you want to request
uh you want to report questionable
Behavior please contact a member of the
safety team um if you're not sure if
something is worth raising uh talk it
through with the safety team anyway just
just check it's fine and they can help
you figure it
out if you do see something and you you
feel comfortable intervening um a good
way to do that is just to say that we
don't do that here so there are certain
things that we don't do in this
community um that people in other
communities sometimes do um some
examples are we don't Trash Talk other
communities um we don't assume that
anyone is not a programmer we don't make
jokes at the expense of others so if you
feel comfortable and see that sort of
behavior going on we want to encourage
everyone to make this a great community
and all you need to do is say well we
don't do that
here if you want to learn more about the
culture of Pon here is a link go and
have a look it explains some of the in
jokes that we have we have a bit of law
around this this particular community
and and Pon uh this is a great way to to
do it um if you see any issues with it
um we we had one earlier today I think
someone's asked to explain a little bit
more of the law
uh if you see that uh please do report
it raise a pull request or an issue um
it's all run through GitHub um
everyone's really busy today so if we
don't get to it today it's not because
we don't care um but if you can chip in
and help to do that it spreads the load
for everybody and it all incrementally
makes this community
better the restrooms are marked thusly
so please use the one you are most
comfortable using uh everything in this
venue is uh all gender the ones outside
in the main part of the MC there are
gendered bathrooms out there if you feel
more comfortable over there that's fine
um if you prefer one that's where you
can go or you can use these ones totally
fine um if someone's in the wrong
bathroom you think don't worry about it
just respect their privacy and just go
about your day thank
you there are baskets in the bathrooms
that have a variety of of goods uh so
there's there's things like um tampons
pads uh deodorant toothbrushes uh Combs
tissues I think that's about it um take
what you need leave some for
others uh if they run out let us know uh
let just grab someone from the
organizing team and we'll go and refill
them if you're not already connected to
Wi-Fi totally trust that QR code sure
it's fine what could possibly go wrong
it's develops uh
pass pH is there it does work I am using
it right
now we also have a Discord you would
have gotten a link uh with an invitation
in uh in email uh either last night or
earlier today it's linked to your
registration um so join us there if you
want to socialize on the line um that is
where we are hanging
out there are birds of a feather
sessions uh there's a link there and
there's a board over at registration so
if you want to participate with just a
community of of people it's self
organizing uh if you just have a group
of people that you want to talk about a
thing doesn't have to be python doesn't
have to be Pon could be anything that's
how you can do
it the Pac-Man rule this is one of the
most important parts of this conference
and indeed I encourage you to take this
rule to other conferences and other
venues to explain it when you're
standing in a group leave room for
someone else to join you
and then when they join
you then move around so that others can
also join you that's a way that we help
we we like to talk about things we get
quite into it if you can please
consciously just sort of step to one
side leave room for other people to come
and join you that's how we grow this
community and for those of you who have
been to Pon more than once we have the
snowball rule which is for every Pon you
have been to go and meet that many new
people sometime through the conference
we want you to go and talk to some new
people and bring them into this
community make them feel welcome and a
part of it and the best part is it's a
bit like the GPL because then they have
to do the snowball rule next
time we have communication stickers I
believe they're at REO I I haven't seen
them yet but I hope I think I have seen
some people who have grabbed them I
forgot to get one um I must do that when
uh so the are three colors and three
different shapes um for those who might
be a bit color blind um I will try it
now left and right I'm going to get this
wrong aren't I left is on that side uh
the green circle means please talk to me
I'm quite happy to talk come up approach
me it's fine yellow uh means check with
them first so just a quick are you okay
to talk is now a good time that kind of
thing uh the red one uh says that they
prefer if they initiate if they want to
talk to you they will do so please don't
approach them and initiate conversation
um please respect those boundaries uh
it's part of what makes this community
great um thank you very much uh There Is
Lost and Found if you lose something um
go to Lost and Found and hopefully they
will have found it and can give it back
to you if you find something if you find
something that doesn't seem to have an
owner please take it to Lost and Found
so the its owner can come and find it uh
if uh or you can just ask a volunteer as
well um and they can help you find lost
and found
or lose lost and
found we could not do Pon without our
sponsors um
particularly last year or so it's been
challenging um as I'm sure some of you
are probably aware there's some
interesting macroeconomic conditions
going on so please join me in thanking
our sponsors um Platinum sponsors mongod
DB and python software Foundation um
gold sponsors Kraken Cipher stash our
standard sponsors Google elastic and
acorn and our startup sponsors
multitudes uh I I can't remember how to
pronounce it iy guy I apologize for not
checking about checking how to pronounce
that before and of course Linux Linux
Australia uh as always Linux Australia
is our AA sponsor they do a lot of work
to help us and indeed the broader python
Community uh to run these conferences
and we really appreciate their their
assistance and help every year um and
throughout the
year there is a job board if you are
looking for a job or if you want to give
someone a job if you're looking for
staff uh please go and use the job board
so that we can help people find someone
that will help
them there is also a jobs board uh
channel in
Discord uh if you are a speaker today
please come and find either myself or
Yakov um my delicious co-chair who I now
realize I forgot to introduce at the
beginning as I should have
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uh find one of us Ken sorry was it luck
my name wasn't Ken lucky your name
wasn't Ken yes yes all Sparticus uh if
you so if you are a speaker please come
and find one of us uh before the session
so we have some breaks through the day
and then we have a block find us at the
beginning of that block please just so
that we can do a bit of logistics with
you uh and get you ready for
presenting we also have lightning talks
uh there's two kinds uh this one is
Devil's lightning talks so if you see
people up here speaking and you think I
would like to do that I reckon I might
try to give that a go if you have
something that you would like to do uh
sign up for a lightning talk they're
only short it will be over before you
know it um that is the link either just
use the URL or again please feel free to
scan the QR code which is totally safe
I'm
sure uh have a great day Pon is all
about having a really good time uh as
well as learning some things we want you
to enjoy the experience so please
Embrace that
idea and just a check you are in the
devops track if that was not already
obvious by the levels of chaos that were
going on around here if this is not
where you want to be um please feel free
to wander off into one of the other
tracks that are next door I'm sure
they're also excellent um but here we
are all about learning from weirdness
and failure uh we want to try to make
more interesting mistakes next time
eliminating them completely is probably
impossible we just want to make it kind
of more fun rather than doing the same
thing over and over again so again if
you have some weirdness that you've
noticed or a bit of failure that you've
noticed you can sign up for a lightning
talk and talk about it later today uh
and with that I'm now going to hand over
to Yakov who will introduce our first
Speaker for the day