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This week we will chat with Leon 'Lemon' Sandøy, one of the owners of Python Discord. Do you know why he is called Lemon? We also talked about some history and behind the scenes of Python Discord. All links are in the podcast notes

This week we will chat with Laura Gutierrez Funderburk of PyLadies Vancouver. Also, check out the Flask tutorial by Miguel Grinberg. All links are in the [podcast notes](https://www.notion.so/Streaming-Jan-29th-epi-I-7cd79f7eef784ca485b61ad3263bef5b) [Listen to MidMeetPy podcast](https://anchor.fm/midmeetpy)

PyChat DjangoCon 2020 Sept 18th and 19th Cheuk and I will be speaking at PyData Hamburg on Sept 22nd Humber Data Workshop with PyData Global open for application Answer survey to improve pip's usability EuroPython Society General Assembly 2020 this Sunday Python 4 FAQ by Guido Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Vicky Tomey-Lee Founder of PythonIE, PyLadies Dublin chapter, Coding Grace Follow Vicky on Twitter Follow Vicky on dev.to PyPI highlights Papermill - let's you use parameters and trigger actions on a notebook.

PyChat Very important - Pyjamas CfP extended to 19th Sept!!!! Humble Data workshop with PyData Global @ 7th November PyCon AU recording is out Some recent stats on Woman in Eng (EWB South Africa)

PyChat Very important - Pyjamas CfP ends this Saturday!!!! PyCon TaiWan (Maybe) the first non-online PyCon since COVID outbreak (5-6 Sep 2020) At the same time - PyConline AU (4-6 Sept) you can join anywhere in the world PyData Global tickets are now available! You can get PyData Swag here Bokeh 2.2 is out! Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Jesper Dramsc - ML engineer Follow Jesper on Twitter Skill share course here Pyrocko StatsQuest PyPI highlights Docker Compose (is a Python library!!!!) Present - make your slides with a terminal window with flare Opacus

PyChat PyCon Italy cancelled Pyjamas CfP workshop August 27th & 28th Ticket sale to PyData Global starts tomorrow (27th Aug) Data Science and Business Analytics with Python course- Jesper Dramsch CircuitPython day- Sept 9th - Adafruit newsletter Nadia's new book on Open Source - Guido's tweet Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Bojan Miletic - Python developer Follow Bojan on Twitter Virtual Coffee Website PyPI highlights Pytest-docker-compose

PyChat PyBay impressions PyCon India extended their CfP until TODAY! Nominate a PSF fellow! Deadline is TOMORROW! Django 3.1 release notes - backwards incompatibilities 3.0 earlier. Consortium for Python Data API Standards - from these peeps PyLadies section PyLadies India & WomanTechmakers hosting a Show&Tell on Aug 29th! Participation form PyLadies Munich hosting Naomi Ceder on Aug 27th talking about Python Objects Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Nina Zakharenko - PSF Director Follow Nina on Twitter Follow Nina on Twitch PyPI highlights AI Fairness 360 (aif360) CherryPy

PyChat: PyCon Africa is happening now data science for beginners workshop this Sunday PyData Global DfP extended to 16th Aug - Joke about PyData CfP PyjamasConf CfP is opened PyBamn just joined NumFocus Numfocus is looking for a Dev Rel Raspberry Pi Keyboard in Japanese Create google assistant with Raspberry PI??? Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Vincent D. Warmerdam - co-founder of PyData Amsterdam, Developer Advocate for Rasa Follow Vincent on Twitter PyPi Highlights - Rasa

PyChat: We need you! Data Science workshop at PyCon Africa needs mentors PyData Global CfP deadline is 2nd August !!! Pytest 6 is out now Hacktoberfest Website is already out ?! PyBerlin tonight PyData Cambridge - 20th Meetup happening tonight! Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Matin Borus - Pythonista, Volunteer of EuroPython Follow Martin on Twitter PyPI highlights: PhotoCollage made this Authlib

PyChat: Pytest 6.0 is coming GitHub -> Slack bot for pyladies Registrations for PyConAfrica2020 are open EuroPython 2020 will start on Thursday next week PyLadies Dublin Virtual Meetup July Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Sandrine Pataut - Pythonista, Data Scientist Follow Sandrine on Twitter PyPI highlights: Marshmallow AffectInTweets

PyChat: Python security announcement - If your application embeds Python on Windows, you may be at risk. Matplotlib Cheatsheet EuroPyhon Merch Shop (15% off till 15th) Turn you Raspberry Pi into gaming machine Python Ireland remote meetup event today Pydata event: joined effort with regional meetup Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Stéphane - CPython core developer, Board member of EuroPython Follow Stéphane on Twitter PyPI highlights: Pandas-Bokeh - using bokeh with pandas interrogate checks your code base for missing docstrings.

PyChat: PyData global CfP is opened JupyterCon 2020 Virtual Event PyTorch joins NumFOCUS as an Affiliated Project PyGotham TV - last days for CfP (July 5th) Python Ireland remote meetup events > volunteers for Lightning Talks Blog about Pickle: Pickle's nine flaws Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Interview with Waylon Walker (Twitter & dev.to)- Data driven solution enabler, creator of find-kedro and kedro-static-viz

PyChat: Congratulations to new PSF board directors PyCon India - CfP open until the 14th August. Conf on 2nd & 3rd of October PyCon Australia is happening soon - CfP ends on July 12th DjangoCon two full days of talks, free & online Mid Meet - Hall of Fame Interview with Jason McDonald, author, speaker and time-lord. Follow Jason on Twitter and dev.to

PyChat: Dropping pytz? PyData MCR CPython - old parser is dead TutorialDB - a small scale OS search engine for programming/dev tutorials Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Dani Papamaximou - organizer of Django Girls Birmingham and Python Midwest Follow Dani on Twiter PyPI highlights: Recently wanna try using Pre-commit HTTPrunner HTTP(s) testing framework in Python

PyChat: PyData Festerval Amsterday Zen of Python song! pyOpenSci community call today Python Packaging Guide PyLadies Call for Speakers Python Ireland call for speakers Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: David Lord - lead dev Flask and related libraries on @PalletsTeam. Meetup organizer @SanDiegoPython Follow David on Twitter PyPI highlights: Make yourself a cartoon - They use this: face-alignment Create representations of large DS - datashader

PyChat: PSF support diversity, BlackLivesMatters YSYS will be hosting an event bringing together black community leaders + allies in tech to discuss how we can mobilise and rebuild EuroPython Schedule is out AnacondaCon Starting today Django security releases, update ASAP Py Hall of Fram: Adam Johnson, Django technical board member Follow Adam on twitter @AdamChainz Get Adam's book PyPI Highlight: Cheuk's choice - sidetable - Create Simple Summary Tables in Pandas Adam's choice - time-machine Lais's choice - pillow

PyChat: Free Python DS book (online) Intro to NumPy, Matplotlib & sci-kit learn CfP for FlaskCon is open! Way to have more diverse board members is to have diverse voters - become a voting member of the PSF Test pip's alpha resolver New pymsbuild for windows people Workshop online PythonIreland Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Ian Ozsvald - co-founder of PyData London Follow Ian on Twitter @ianozsvald PyPI highlights: Tesseract OCR text localization & detection Shed - black plus autoflake plus isort plus pyupgrade plus some custom fixers Listen to MidMeetPy podcast

(Sorry for the technical difficulties, we failed to capture Lais on the call today) PyChat: [Python Conference for web devs 17th to 19th June](https://2020.pythonwebconf.com/) [PyCon DE cancelled this year, see you next year](https://twitter.com/PyConDE/status/1261303281961381888) [PyCon Africa 2020 Online](https://africa.pycon.org/) [Sci-kit learn bugfix release 0.23.1 is out](https://twitter.com/scikit_learn/status/1262829951654473729) [Release of the `tzdata` package](https://twitter.com/pganssle/status/1262791115230662657) Mid Meet - Hall of Fame: Tanya Allard, PSF Fellow, Developer Advocate at Microsoft [Follow Tania on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ixek) PyPI highlights: [Helium](https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium) - Python library for web automation (like Selium but lighter) [Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) is actually cool. [Listen to MidMeetPy podcast](https://anchor.fm/midmeetpy)

PyChat: EP published their 1st set of talks CfP still open for Various time zones (anyone can apply) Naomi won't run for re-election for the chair of the PSF PyCon Us Hatchery Mentoried sprint this Saturday Hall of Fame: Interview with Nicolas Demarchi Follow him on LinkedIn Follow him on Twitter PyPI highlights: Events, a library that works as the Observer Design Pattern (or the Moderator, depending on your case). Discord.py - perfect if you wanna build a Discord bot. Listen to MidMeetPy podcast

PyChat: Pydata UK joint meetup with multiple chapters in UK yesterday, awesome talks about TensorFlow Probability and How to expend Pandas capabilities Global Pydata conference calling for organizing committee PyData Dublin starting with a round of Monday talks from the 18th Release of Napari `0.3.0` with many new features Naomi Ceder is the first keynote speaker announced for EuroPython Learning aid for Vim Learn Vim while playing a game Py Hall of Frame: Interview with Steve Dower, Python tools developer at Microsoft and core CPython developer Follow Steve on Twitter PyPI Highlight: Napari - fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python Kedro - a best-practice scaffold for ML and DS pipelines

PyChat (news in the community): PyCon Hatchery Programs looks for attendees and mentors: Data Workshops for Beginners Mentored Sprints Remote Python Pizza surprise people that online conference does works! * Great speaker lineup * Chat on Discord is amazing * Hiccups with YouTube Streaming * 2 mins lightning talks * After party till 1am !!!!! Python 3.9a6 is out! Harvard is offering free courses Meet Hall of Fame: Interview with Naomi Ceder, chair of the Python Software Foundation, co-founder of TransCode Follow Naomi on Twitter Check out her Twitch channel for tutorials every Friday. IDE showcase for Python with Lais: Atom / PyCharm / VSCode / Vim / Sublime etc

PyChat (news in the community): Farewell to Oier Echaniz Pyladies Dub meetup 19th May Python in Astronomy hackdays kick off at midnight tonight BST (23rd & 24th) April - all welcome! New Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging Ticket sales for EuroPython 2020 Online have started Meet Hall of Fame: Interview with Michael Foord, Python Core Developer, creator of Iron Python and Mock module Follow Michael on Twitter Check out his website PyPI highlight: Fades - a library to manage your virtual Envs Jupyter-require - Let you run JavaScript, plug-in to Jupyter notebook

EuroPython talk voting started Python Pizza Speaker line up is great! Free Django beginner course PyCon UK has been cancelled EffectiveQuadratures got support from NUMFocus PyAmsterdam flying software Circus - talking about FastAPI lib Python IE meetup next Wed 22nd April 2020 PyPI Highlight: EffectiveQuadratures SimPy

PyCon US go online! Subscribe to their YouTube channel to catch all the talks PyLadies also has YouTube Channel Python Ireland's 1st meetUp is tonight talking about App Performance Monitoring in Python. PyCon Australia and PyCon Africa are also going online, details to be announced. Scikit-image join NUMFocus! PyPI Highlight: Foxdot - Make music with Python FastAPI - a high-performance framework, easy to learn, and fast to code

In this episode, we chat about: Pyjamas - online conference recruiting organisers CfP for Remote Python Pizza ends on the 6th April EuroPython goes online First virtual meetup for PyCon IE Lais will be speaking at PyAmsterdam PyPI Highlights - Extruct PyPI Highlights - Delorean