We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions

http://pydanny.com/we-need-more-pycon-us-2013-submissions.html

by pydanny • 14 years ago

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leopy• 14 years ago

Python is dead.

vvpan• 14 years ago

If a language is not making the front-pages of /r/programming and Hacker News much it does not mean that it is dead. Maybe just not as "hip" or even "hyped" as it used to be.

akoumjian• 14 years ago

Python makes the front page here almost every day. I think this thread is being trolled.

pydanny• 14 years ago

trollolololol

Wohlf• 14 years ago

Long live Python.

darmon• 14 years ago

Who still uses Python?

kingkilr• 14 years ago

Google, NASA, Intel, AMD, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Canonical, Red Hat, Amazon, Netflix, and thousands upon thousands more.

ajtulloch• 14 years ago

Facebook as well.

zissou• 14 years ago

I first learned Python (which I use for web-related functions) from an engineer at Seagate who uses it everyday in failure analysis of drives (they use something like Python 2.2 still). That's something I always loved about Python -- it can be used for anything. It may not always be the "best" language for the job, but you can always "get it running" in Python.

That's why I love Python.

ehutch79• 14 years ago

Yeah. but any companies whose names I might actually recognize?

thought not, pythons is clearly dead....

</sarcasm>

duked• 14 years ago

I'm many companies... At least I know many researchers who us it to build small prototypes and rapidly demonstrate a proof of concept.

swang• 14 years ago

When I was applying for a job a large majority of the companies were looking primarily for python developers. Google uses python and that alone is probably enough to never need to ask the parent's question.

achompas• 14 years ago

I agree about many companies using Python, but I've heard from former Googlers that most of their code is written in Java or C++.

dorkrawk• 14 years ago

A lot of things that are built on Django probably use Python: Disqus, Pintrest, Instagram, Fitocracy, some Mozilla stuff, and a lot of news sites (just to name a few).

Swizec• 14 years ago

Errr ... "a lot of"? Django is a Python web framework. All the things built on Django use Python.

Donwangugi• 14 years ago

I still use python a lot. Out of curiosity then what are the popular languages now?

xradionut• 14 years ago

Oberon, Squeak and Forth.

jnoller• 14 years ago

Who still uses Python you ask?

Easy!

This Year: https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/

Last Year: https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/

And I've got about 14 more pending for 2013 :)

There's some big names there. I know there are more. Almost every company listed there is hiring there, both on the site and at the on site jobs fair:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/prospectus/

Join us.

dabent• 14 years ago

"Almost every company listed there is hiring there, both on the site and at the on site jobs fair"

It's true. That's how I got my job at (2013 Gold sponsor) TrueCar, back in 2011. It's a great event to attend, just to be around that many like-minded folks.

I was actually on "Startup Row" and wandered around a bit during talks when the exhibit hall was empty and was asked if I'd like to work two blocks from the beach. The line worked.

Speaking of Startup Row, do you have plans to run that again this year? It was great to see all the young companies using Python.

ebrynne2• 14 years ago

As someone who's never given a speech at a conference before, but is very interested in sharing his newfound knowledge and love of Python, is there anywhere people would recommend reading up on the form or content of such a proposal?

Thanks!

akuchling• 14 years ago

The PyCon site has a page of advice that links to sample proposals and relevant blog entries: https://us.pycon.org/2013/speaking/proposal_advice/

simonw2• 14 years ago

This is a much better answer than mine above :)

simonw2• 14 years ago

You might be over-thinking things a bit... depending on the conference, a talk proposal often only needs to be a couple of paragraphs. You don't need to have planned the talk out in detail - just an explanation of what it is you intend to talk about and some background on your experience with the topic.

mkhattab• 14 years ago

Gosh, it seems like Pycon 2012 was just yesterday. I considered contributing to PyCon 2013 but time just flies.

megamark16• 14 years ago

Some people want to talk but aren't sure what to talk about, so what were your favorite topics from last year? Some of mine were:

* Sketching a Better Product

* Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone

* RESTful APIs With Tastypie

* Documenting Your Project With Sphinx

simeonf• 14 years ago

How many is enough? Is it encouraged to spam with many presentations to see if any stick? I submitted one tutorial, three talks...

mmariani• 14 years ago

I just watched Robert Hancock's talk on coroutines [0]. More of that or him would be awesome!

[0] http://lanyrd.com/2011/pygotham/shppw

rabidsnail• 14 years ago

BTW, anybody interested in python coroutines should go read the greenlet source. It's pretty readable, well commented, and is the best way to get your head around what's happening to the stack when you do a coroutine switch.

https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet/blob/master/gree...

jbellis• 14 years ago

PyCon is still my favorite conference by a long shot. I did think that 2012 felt like it was losing some of the community vibe, with evenings dominated by big sponsor events instead of BoF sessions, but in a way I guess that's a good problem to have.

sontek2• 14 years ago

I felt the same way for 2012

We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions

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