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PyCon AU gets to use the name PyCon and
the people we have to ask for permission
to use that name is the Python Software
Foundation and um Chris would you like
to come back upstage to say a few words
on behalf of the Python Software
Foundation?
Certainly. Yes. Uh so uh I'm on the
stage this time uh in my capacity as
vice chair of the uh of the board of the
foundation and one of the things excuse
me lost my breath for for some reason I
shouldn't have jumped off the stage.
Um, one of the things that we do as a
foundation is recognize important people
in our community. And we do that with a
series of community service awards. We
give a bunch of these out every year.
And last year we uh oh, and one of the
things that comes with this uh is a uh
lifetime offer to show up at PyCon US uh
to be presented with your award. And um
in the last year or so it's become uh
somewhat fraught to uh to enter the US
uh if you are a uh member of a number of
minorities including transgender people.
And uh last year uh we wrote this
citation. This was in March 2024. Uh the
Q1 2024 community service award was
given to Daisy Lee Breni in recognition
of her work leading the Python community
in Australia. Initially as an organizer
of Django AU, then leading PyCon
Australia for over four years.
Throughout her time leading PyCon
Australia, she has repeatedly
demonstrated her ability to build teams
and lead her events with a commitment to
inclusivity and diversity, which is is
an example of the best in the Python
community. Um, Daisy was not here to
receive uh was not at PyCon US to receive
that award this year. Uh, but I was able
to cut uh to cart this plexiglass brick
of destiny with me from Pittsburgh this
year to uh present to you. So, uh, on
behalf of the Python Software
Foundation, uh, congratulations on
receiving the 2024 community service
award. Basically, Breni, everyone,
you know,
Thank you, Chris. And thank you,
especially Daisy. It's well done. Well
done.
Well,
it's been a big year. Like, have you
seen the news? There is a lot happened
in the last like since the last pyon AU
but we got through it. We got through it
but it's taken a lot of work. Uh I've
had a team of uh the core organizers
with me for the last uh since the last
Pon AU basically helping to make sure
that uh this event happened. And you
know what they say about a lot of work?
They say many hands make light work.
Do you want to help?
This QR code is a signup sheet. If
you're interested in joining the core
organizer team to help run the next
Pyorn or maybe even the Pyorn after
that, fill this out. Tell us who you are
so that we can find out, get in touch,
see what you're up for, bring you into
the fold. We're uh because we can't do
it alone. We we we need you.
We need you. So fill out the form. Fill
out the form, please.
Now let's
stop focusing on the future for a
moment. Let's focus on the present. How
has this Python AU gone? It's time for
statistics. We love statistics.
Yeah.
This year we had 584 registrations. Uh
exactly how many individuals that is.
I'm going to have to like compare email
addresses and check for uniqueness. But
that's a lot. That's more than we had
last year. We had 99 presentations. Uh
24 lightning talks, nine student talks.
Uh the rest of that being your regular
program.
Uh there was 12 financial assistance
recipients. We would like there to be
more than 12 financial assistance
recipients next year. So please
encourage your employer to become a
sponsor. The more sponsors we have, the
more financial assistance we can offer
and the more people we can bring to PyCon
AU.
We had one very creepy robot.
Like, are you ready to be creeped? Oh,
it's there. It's there.
All right. So,
Oh, I don't want Yeah, let's let's move
that away.
So, today's the last day of the PyCon AU
conference. Ah,
but it's not the last day of Python AU
cuz there is tomorrow we have the
sprints starting the development
sprints. Uh they are going to
uh so they are going to be nearby. It's
going to be very easy for you to find.
Uh if you have a ticket, great. We'll
see you tomorrow. If you don't have a
ticket, there is a small number still
available. you could like immediately
jump on your phone and buy one of those
last few remaining tickets. Uh at the
sprints, you'll be able to check out
Valky's sprints challenge uh in the
Discord for a chance to take home a
Raspberry Pi. Uh AWS's workshop is in
the afternoon. Uh thank you to everybody
who realized they weren't going to be
able to make it and canceling their
registration. Last I checked, there was
now some registrations available. So, if
you're keen, sign up for the workshops
if you're going to be here tomorrow. Uh,
in terms of where uh right over there we
are back at the Pullman, back on this
floor, but not in this room. We are at
the other end of the floor. Uh, follow
the big red arrow on this map. It's not
drawn on the back of your um on the back
of your badge. Draw in a big red arrow.
It'll make it easier for you.
So, would anybody like a peak behind the
curtains of how we run these things on
the day in the organizer office? I know
a few people have been in to say hi, but
I'm just going to give you just a little
peek at our shopping list.
We need many rolls of masking tape like
like so many signs. Oh, I tell you what.
All right, it is time for thank yous.
It takes a lot of people. We're going to
give thanks to our speakers. Thank you
very much, our speakers.
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This year we uh asked our speakers to
help promote our conference and uh the
speaker who uh did the most to help us
promote the conference, we have a
special thank you for Nick Moore and a
special prize which I have right here,
it's it's big. It's in a bag that is in
another bag. It is a hand crocheted
curly boy
which is actually pretty big. It look it
like I feel like Mary Poppins here. Like
it just keeps going. Like now I'm a
little teapot. Like this is great, isn't
it? So Nick, we will get this to you
after the uh after the conference close.
I'm going to put that here right where
everybody can continue to admire it.
Uh that curly boy handmade by Mitch
Palmer's. Um,
thank you to our session chairs.
Yay.
So good to have someone here to uh
welcome speakers, tell them where to be
and uh introduce them and and um help
facilitate questions um you know it's
great having you here on the day uh of
our speakers. A special thank you to our
weight list and backup speed speakers.
Yes,
sometimes the speakers sometimes a
speaker has to drop out at the last
minute. We have people who are waiting
in the rings to make sure we don't have
an empty schedule and we did not have an
empty schedule. There was someone
talking in every slot where someone was
meant to be talking. Some of those were
a little bit last minute. Thank you.
Thank you to our artist uh Robert
Shelton. Robert Shelton is an incredible
local Melbourne artist who made this
illustration that we've had on the
t-shirts, mugs, and stickers. Um, I met
Robert after I did a walking street art
tour of Melbourne that ended at uh Rob
Shelton's uh studio where I saw his work
and went, "That looks pretty good. Do
you do commissions? Would you do a tech
conference?" And he's like, "Of course,
of course." It resulted in this amazing
uh this amazing snack.
All right.
Big thank you for the safety team. Amaya
Saurin, Elelliana, Mouse, uh, Matt
Sanger, Rachel Bond, and Saul. Thank
you, safety team.
The safety team have kept us safe.
Thank you to all our volunteers. We had
Bardi Haro, Althia Rice, Cameron
Playfair, Kathy Key, Curtis Maloney,
Daisy Lee, Breni, David Nent, Edgar Lin,
Emily Hajelitz,
Esmeu,
Finins, Gadic, Francis, Dela, Cruz,
Juliana, Chinuana, Javier Kandera, Jay
Smallwood, J Stewart, Jesse Roya, Marina
Juviku, Noah Canowitz, Noah Kim, Oilia,
Huan,
Ovidia, Hok Rowena Stewart Sam Hogan
Shri Sarana Kumari Pen Matcha Tane Rao
and Zepheshu.
Thank you.
The These are the people who have been
helping with AV with registration desk
and handing out t-shirts with um being
our room monitors, being our runners and
gophers and you know standing by the
doors when we needed people to stand by
the doors. They've done an amazing job.
Volunteers. Yes.
Thank you to the AV team. Michael
Farrell, Chris Catrix, Ryan Verer,
Patrick Quinn Graham, Daniel McCarthy,
and Blake Verer.
The live stream admittedly had its
issues, but the recordings are going to
look amazing. You will see them on
YouTube much sooner than you are
expecting them if you have not been to a
PyCon AU before.
Thank you to our specialist track
organizers from scientific Python. We
had Genevie Buckley, Kai Strea, Charles
Turner, Jobvi, Scientific Python.
Thank you to our education track
organizers, Amanda J.
Hogan, Nikki Ringland, and Allison Wong.
Can you believe it has been 10 years of
the education track?
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Thank you to our data and AI track
organizers, Nick Crouch and Jack
Skinner.
you you're going to see Jack's name more
times like he has worn many hats this
year.
All right, core team and if you um core
team can start coming up on stage. Uh
partnerships and sponsorships, Jack
Skinner. Thank you very much, Jack.
Our program chair, Beno Rice. Thank you,
Beno.
Uh social media, Kala Lin. Khalila
couldn't be here today. We'd still
applaud her.
Our treasurer, uh, Neil Cox. Neil,
uh, business development, Rick Gina.
Rick couldn't be here today. Applause.
My assistant directors
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Thank you. My assistant directors, uh,
Evan Cohillis and Ridin Maguire, come on
up.
And my assistant, uh, my volunteers
coordinator, Izzy Hogan. Come on up,
Izzy.
Let's, uh, come on into the middle.
Let's try not to be behind a podium. And
uh if someone's taking photos of us,
like we would love a photo. We can't
take it ourselves because we are all on
stage, but if we look for
anyone in Daisy's hands,
ha, we're going to all smile at Daisy
because we love Daisy so much. And Daisy
has the camera as well,
Daisy. Thank you very much,
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Evan. You wanted to say a few words?
Yes. Oh, this is why I'm holding a mic.
Um, this is my first time uh helping out
and all of some of our first times as
well. And we just wanted to say thank
you so much, Pete. It's been an honor to
be under your wing and learn so much and
see it all in action and help out.
You've really um put in the yards and is
very evident in the late nights that you
spend out throughout conference. So, um,
we wanted to say thank you very much and
a little nice gift for you.
This is lovely.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Evan. Thank you,
Ridwin. I I couldn't have done it
without you. I can't do everything like
just for picking up badge gen and
running with running with it, for
picking up financial assistance and
running with it and all of the other
little tasks that you picked up over the
course of months. Thank you.
It is it is from the whole team. Yes.
Thank you everyone.
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[Applause]
That is your PON AU team.
All right.
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We thank our sponsors, our platinum
sponsor, Valky,
our gold sponsors, Snowflake and the
Python Software Foundation.
Our sponsors, Google, Elastic, AWS,
Planet Innovation, Kraken, Electron
Workshop, and Linux Australia. Thank
you.
And last and possibly most important,
more important even than me because
is you. Thank you for being here. Thank
you for watching on the live stream.
Thank you for sitting in the rooms.
Thank you for all of the wonderful
conversations that I've had with people
when I've had my uh occasional breaks to
to come out and have a snack and just
make sure everyone's having a good time.
Everyone's having a good time. I'm so
glad to hear that. Thank you.
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And that's all the thanks. So,
I guess it's story time now. I need to
add lib for a while. That's all my
speaker notes say is, "Hey, Pete, just
talk for a bit." Um,
so I'm going to tell a story about my
fourth PYON because I went to my first
PyCon because I knew the director and I
was like, "Yeah, yeah, you're worried
people won't come to your conference.
I'll do you a favor and come to your
conference. Least I could do." And I had
a good time. PyCon was great. Um, if
you've come to PyCon today, you know it's
a good time. You know, it was great. So,
I went again the next year and I
recognized some of the people say, "Oh,
we spoke last year. It was so good to
see you again.
my third pyon uh in Melbourne this time.
I was like it it keeps happening. I'm
recognizing people. People are starting
to remember me as well. So this story
comes to 2018.
I get to my fourth PON and I've walked
in the door and I've looked around and
I've sort of started spotting familiar
faces and I'm like, "Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah. Oh, some new faces, too. That's
great. More people I recogn." And and I
noticed the people that I had seen come
to park before, they all knew each
other. They were walking up and saying,
"Oh, so good to see you. It's been an
entire year." And and you know, I've
missed you. You're my friend. Like, you
know, I love that we see each other and
if only we could see each other more
often. And I thought to myself,
isn't it amazing this community? And
like, I wish I was one of those people.
I wish I was as important as they are to
this community.
And then the conference director was
standing nearby and she I'd just seen
her having one of those conversations
with another, you know, regular attendee
and she looked up and she saw me and she
said,
"Oh, Pete, it's so good to see you. I'm
glad you're back. Come in for a hug."
And that's when I knew, "Oh, I'm one of
them.
These these are my people. I I have
found them." So So thank you very much,
Katie.
Um,
and if you have seen that happening
today, all it takes is coming back. You
should you should come back. And that's
that's my story.
Well,
that's that's that's it. That's it.
Although
there is one one thing that we haven't
come across yet.
Jack, do you want to come up on stage?
This is one we scripted earlier.
I have similar memories of prior pyons.
2017 I believe was the first time I got
on stage to speak
and my friend Katie
was there and said we're going to Sydney
and so at the end of 2017 we announced
the Sydney conference and at the end of
2019 Daisy got on stage and announced
we're headed to Adelaide
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and we did make it to Adelaide
eventually.
But since 2020,
for many of us and for PyCon AU, it has
felt like we're in a bit of survival
mode.
But this year back here at PyCon,
we are back with gusto.
And so I am ecstatic to share with you
two bits of news.
And the first
is that our beloved curly boy is getting
a glow up.
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And
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[Applause]
And my friends, we are all headed
somewhere slightly warmer next year.
It's been fun organizing two conferences
at once.
But it means that I can stand on stage
today and share some plans with you for
2026.
The first of those plans is our
conference outline. Our
workshops will now be on the Wednesday
and our three days of talks including
specialist tracks will be on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
and sprints will return on Sunday.
Now of course
we've got almost a year to organize this
so more details about tracks and
conference will be forthcoming.
But all of that lead work means that you
can register today.
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Contributor tickets,
professional tickets, and enthusiast
tickets for the full conference can be
purchased at 2026.org.au.
One-day tickets, student tickets,
workshops, and hopefully more will be
announced soon. So, make sure you're
subscribed to the mailing list, follow
us on LinkedIn, Blue Sky, and Masttodon,
and I will see all of you in Brisbane at
the Sophetel Brisbane Central next year.
I'll see you all there.
We're done.
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