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The people standing behind a booth with lots of swag for PyCon US SoCal Python, and PyBeach.

The people standing behind a booth with lots of swag for PyCon US SoCal Python, and PyBeach.

The Python Community Megabooth is just about ready at #scale23x. We're here with 🐍 @pycon.us and🏄 Socal Python at booth 235, come by and say hi!

06.03.2026 21:35 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Jay Miller (founder of Black #Python Devs) shares what they and the BPD organization have seen by sponsoring #PyTexas for 3 years - and why they plan on being a perennial sponsor.

Check out their guest blog here: www.pytexas.org/blog/why-bla...

23.02.2026 16:30 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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🌟 Our #SciPy2026 organizing team just had the kickoff meeting!

🚀 We’re super excited to start building an incredible conference for the scientific Python community!

Hope to see you there! 🙌

👉️ Grab your ticket now and join us in Minneapolis: ti.to/scipy/scipy2...

20.02.2026 23:46 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Python Developers Survey 2026 The official Python Developers Survey 2026. Join and contribute to the community knowledge!

Hey, whether you work in tech or not, if you use Python, please do take a couple minutes to fill out the 2026 Python Developers Survey: surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-de...

21.02.2026 03:09 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Call for proposal for PyCon US Maintainer summit. Closes Feb 20.
Join is too share your thoughts and learn from your peers!
https://us.pycon.org/2026/events/maintainers-summit/

Call for proposal for PyCon US Maintainer summit. Closes Feb 20. Join is too share your thoughts and learn from your peers! https://us.pycon.org/2026/events/maintainers-summit/

Can you believe it's already February 20th?
It's the last day to get your talk proposal to the Maintainer Summit at PyCon US 2026!

us.pycon.org/2026/events/...

#pycon #pyconus #publicspeaking #opensource

20.02.2026 15:53 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Infrastructure Engineer - Python Software Foundation - Career Page Apply to Infrastructure Engineer at Python Software Foundation in Remote.

come work with meeee 🥹

The Python Software Foundation is hiring an infrastructure engineer.

Apply: pythonsoftwarefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/DNzZlB...

19.02.2026 16:24 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2

📆 Two months of Friday the 13ths in a row? Good year for folks looking for excuses to watch winter horror movies.

12.02.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

☝️ Starts about eight hours from now.

11.02.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Factually! with Adam Conover | How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen | Podcastindex.org The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, lead to creative solutions, and even inspire entirely new models of play, like speed running a video game. But when systems of metrics are applied to our actual lives, it’s… not as nice. “Gamification” is just one symptom of our society’s obsession with metrics, and while we tend to like to see Number Go Up, attempting to maximize our “scores” in various aspects of life only seems to make us unhappy. This week, Adam tal...

I don't listen to this podcast super often, but I enjoyed this episode quite a bit podcastindex.org/podcast/905431?episode=49900454903

11.02.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A goal of mine is to get more organizers from a broader range of communities involved here. I believe we'll all benefit from more cross-community discussion and collaboration. Happy to chat if you have questions about the group; or, if you're already sold on it, the invite link is on the website.

11.02.2026 00:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lots of us are Python conference organizers, but we have folks from other tech and non-tech communities in the group as well. We're a friendly and supportive bunch, so if you're looking to talk shop with other organizers, I encourage you to join.

11.02.2026 00:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Conference Chats A community space for community organizers. Join our twice-monthly video calls and Discord server to share advice, support, news, and other topics related to community organizing and event planning.

Twice each month, a group of us at Conference Chats (www.conferencechats.org) meet on a video call to discuss community organizing topics. Our next call is tomorrow at 9PM US Eastern time (~25.5 hours from now). No experience necessary, open to anyone interested in community organizing.

11.02.2026 00:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

📺️ Rabbit Trap (2025)

Small cast, more vibes than story, and definitely worth a watch.

11.02.2026 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤲 Boston TS Club needs your help! We're out of a venue space and are on the lookout for one who can host our monthly meetups.

If you work at or know of a company who wants to support the local web development & JavaScript/TypeScript community, please let us know. 💙

05.02.2026 12:55 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Maintainers Summit PyCon US 2026

The Maintainer Summit is returning to PyCon US 2026. And we have our CFP open!

Come share your talks, stories, ideas about the maintaining open source with us.

secretcodes.dev/maintainer-s...

#PyConUS #MaintainerSummit #CFP #OpenSource #PublicSpeaking

04.02.2026 21:40 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
PyCon US 2026 - Last call for Community Booth Applications! Deadline to Apply - February 6, 2026

PyCon US 2026 - Last call for Community Booth Applications! Deadline to Apply - February 6, 2026

⏰ Last call for #PyConUS 2026 Community Booth applications!! Deadline to apply is tomorrow, February 6th

Show off your project, meet the community, and be part of PyCon US! Don't wait - submit now while there's still time!

👉 us.pycon.org/2026/attend/...

05.02.2026 21:01 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Today is not Friday, but we are down to the final hours for a lot of folks who are able to take advantage of things like employer matches during fundraising drives. If you have that or other reasons to donate to organizations before the end of the year, let this be a reminder.

30.12.2025 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📺 I'm a little late on watching it this year, and it's not part of my usual winter / Christmas double feature with friends, but this grey, snowy day is a good day to watch Krampus (2015).

24.12.2025 00:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you to everyone who proposed a session to PyCon US this year, to those who helped spread the word and promote the CFP, and to the folks who are hard at work reviewing everything. I am *stoked* to be a part of the conference, just five short months away.

23.12.2025 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
only $200 away...please donate - blackpythondevs.com

only $200 away...please donate - blackpythondevs.com

We are only $𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝗵𝘆 of hitting $𝟭𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 raised this year!
If you value our mission of elevating Black Pythonistas, now is the perfect time to chip in.
𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘂𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘁 $𝟭𝟱𝗸: BlackPythonDevs.com

23.12.2025 18:55 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic with the blue, orange, and yellow blocks of color with the text "Python is for everyone" on a black background. Underneath is a simple white snake. At the bottom is the PSF logo.

Graphic with the blue, orange, and yellow blocks of color with the text "Python is for everyone" on a black background. Underneath is a simple white snake. At the bottom is the PSF logo.

You did it—AGAIN! Thanks to you, we hit our second fundraiser goal of $400k 🤯 everyone at the PSF is feeling heaps of astonishment & gratitude for our community’s generosity.

Words can’t fully capture how grateful we are, but we’ll try:

Thank you 💝
Thank YOU 💙💛
THANK YOU 🥰🐍🥰

#PythonForEveryone

22.12.2025 14:55 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2

🎉 A record-breaking year for the #PyConUS 2026 CFP! The PyCon US CFP is officially closed, and we received 1,015 proposal submissions — WOW 😮

A HUGE thank you to everyone for sharing your ideas, expertise, and passion with the community. We’re excited for what’s ahead! 🐍🚀

22.12.2025 17:29 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
PyCon US 2026 Schedule, talks and talk submissions for PyCon US 2026

You only have a few hours left to submit your PyCon US 2026 talks! I've submitted three so far, hoping that one of them gets selected.

pretalx.com/pycon-us-2026/

19.12.2025 22:49 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Boosting the thing again 👇. Donate! Speak! Help others do the same! Help build a better world for the groups that have helped you.

19.12.2025 20:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Support Python With JetBrains Purchase PyCharm at 30% OFF, and have all the proceeds of your purchase donated to support Python.

We're at 97% of our *second* goal of $400K 🫨🥰

It's also the *VERY LAST DAY* to get 30% off @pycharm.dev Pro from @jetbrains.com with ALL proceeds going to the PSF!

Will you be the one to tip us over our goal? Grab PyCharm & support #PythonForEveryone!

lp.jetbrains.com/support-python/

19.12.2025 13:25 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!

Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)

19.12.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
End of Year Holidays Python Community Bingo

Ever wanted to play #Python Community Bingo? Now’s your chance!

Thanks to Rodrigo Silva Ferreira for creating this game supporting the PSF and #PythonForEveryone 🙏

Play along, celebrate the community—and if you can, donate to the PSF to help keep Python accessible to all 💙

18.12.2025 10:32 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Proposal Guidelines PyCon US 2026

The PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals is open for just a couple more days, and you (yes, you!) have something to talk about! You can find info and details about proposing Talks, Charlas, Tutorials, and Posters at https://
us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/.

Have you gotten your proposals in yet?

17.12.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Proposal Guidelines PyCon US 2026

The PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals is open for just a couple more days, and you (yes, you!) have something to talk about! You can find info and details about proposing Talks, Charlas, Tutorials, and Posters at https://
us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/.

Have you gotten your proposals in yet?

17.12.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Just 2 days left! Thank you for listening to us shout about this! We are almost at the finish line!

17.12.2025 15:22 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0