Speaker Information
Talks
The call for talks is open until July 15 August 4. Talks can be either 25 or 50 minutes. Please indicate the length of your talk in your proposal. If you would prefer a different amount of time, we can be flexible, just include it in the description. Areas that people have expressed interest in for talks this year include:
- General Python programming
- Web
- GIS
- Scientific Computing
- Visualization
Tutorials
If you would like to teach a tutorial, we are looking for tutorial instructors for a few 3 hour tutorials. If interested, please contact [email protected].
Current Submissions
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"Amazon S3 Python and Django"
by Eloy Zuniga Jr. Core Programmer at Tendenci
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"Asynchronous, Evented Messaging with AMQP, Kombu, and gevent"
by Aaron Tygart & Travis Mehlinger
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"Beginning Python for Basic Automation and Data Manipulation"
by Walker Hale IV
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"Bugs: Can't code without them, so code against them!"
by Over the last 10 years, Luke Lee has professionally written software for
applications ranging from Python desktop and web applications to embedded C
drivers for Solid State Disks. Currently, he writes scientific Python
applications for Blueback Reservoir in Houston, TX.
His enthusiasm for Python is emphasized throughout his presentations at several
Python related conferences including Pycon, PyTexas, and PyArkansas. He is
also an active member of the Houston Django and Python user groups.
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"Building full-stack scientific applications in Python"
by Over the last 10 years, Luke Lee has professionally written software for
applications ranging from Python desktop and web applications to embedded C
drivers for Solid State Disks. Currently, he writes scientific Python
applications for Blueback Reservoir in Houston, TX.
His enthusiasm for Python is emphasized throughout his presentations at several
Python related conferences including Pycon, PyTexas, and PyArkansas. He is
also an active member of the Houston Django and Python user groups.
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"Build Your Infrastructure - with Python!"
by Ed Leafe
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"Classes and Metaclasses"
by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
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"Conference Welcome MSC 2300 A"
by PyTexas Chairs
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"Developing Web Services with Bottle"
by Jeff Kramer is a Technical Architect at HP Cloud, where he develops new cloud automation services for customers. After a decade and a half with the other 'P' languages, he finally jumped into Python with both feet early last year, and has since taught a small intro to python class and built an OpenStack compatible cloud service from the ground up.
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"dtrace, python and you"
by Mark Allen
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"Embeddings of Python"
by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
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"Filtering and Deduplicating Data in IPython Notebook"
by Walker Hale
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"Flask: a Micro Web Framework for Simple Things"
by Walker Hale
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"Going beyond the Django ORM limitations with Postgres"
by I'm part of the team at Heroku, currently running product for the Heroku Postgres team. I've done a variety of things at Heroku from engineering to product management including launching our Python support. I also curate postgres weekly and blog frequently around Postgres/Django.
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"Growing Python with Spreadsheets"
by Kojo Idrissa (@Transition)
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"__instancecheck__ and user-defined type systems"
by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
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"Is OpenStack right for me?"
by Paul Kippes recently completed an MS in computer science at Georgia Tech. His studies in distributed computing included research on OpenStack's swift object store. Before attending Georgia Tech full-time, he worked at Bell Helicopter writing simulation software and working in embedded systems.
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"Learn and Practice Python basics"
by Barbara Shaurette
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"Lightning Talks MSC 2300 A"
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"Managing web applications with DevOps and Chef"
by Jim Rosser
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"MySQL and Python"
by Dave Stokes -- MySQL Community Manager
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"New cloud factories run on Python"
by Thomas Hatch - SaltStack founder and CTO - [email protected] - Tom is the creator and principal architect of SaltStack. His years of experience as principle cloud architect for Beyond Oblivion, software engineer for Applied Signal Technology, and systems admin for Backcountry.com provided real-world insights into requirements of the modern data center not met by existing tools. Tom’s knowledge and hands-on experience with dozens of new and old infrastructure management technologies helped to established the vision for Salt. Today, Tom is one of the most active contributors in the open-source community, and is widely regarded as rising star. For his work on Salt, in 2012 Tom received the Black Duck “Rookie of the Year” award and was named to the GitHub Octoverse Top 10 list for the project with the highest number of unique contributors sharing the list with other notable projects like Ruby and OpenStack.
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"Nobody Expects the Python Packaging Authority"
by Nick Coghlan
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"Notable Features of Python"
by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
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"Python Applications with Google Drive SDK"
by Paul Bailey: Senior Python developer at MobileWorks and founder of NeutronDrive.com.
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"PyYAML, ElementTree, and Liquibase"
by Walker Hale
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"Scraping the Web with Scrapy"
by Dave has been developing in Django for 3 years in sunny Austin, TX, where he is an organizer for the Austin Web Python User Group. He worked for the Texas Tribune building data apps and contributing to the open source Armstrong CMS framework built on top of Django. He is now freelancing after his latest attempt at the startup game crashed. He enjoys shooting sports and barbecueing beef when he's not scraping ecommerce sites. The worst bet he's ever lost was when he was forced to retake the SAT at the age of 27 because he came in dead last in a fantasy football league.
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"The Flying Circus: An Opinionated "Setup Talk" for Beginners"
by Andrew Yurisich
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"The Future of Python in Personal Clouds"
by Jeff Kramer is a Technical Architect at HP Cloud, where he develops new cloud automation services for customers. After a decade and a half with the other 'P' languages, he finally jumped into Python with both feet early last year, and has since taught a small intro to python class and built an OpenStack compatible cloud service from the ground up.
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"Thin Servers: Service Oriented Architectures with Django REST Framework"
by Gary Bernitz, VP of Engineering rewardStyle
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"Trends in Deep Learning"
by Kyle Kastner
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"Unit Testing Django Apps with Mock"
by Jeremy Boyd
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"Using Nginx, Gunicorn, and Upstart to serve a WSGI app"
by John-Michael Oswalt. Got a django/flask/other wsgi app and want the world to see it? Come follow along and learn all the necessary parts to get your app up and running on a server or a local VM.
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