4th Annual Holiday Party for Python Devs in the Bay Area

Let's celebrate the Python community in style with talks from Raymond Hettinger and community members, live music, raffle, good food, beer...

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Lightning Talks

• Quicksort without recursion, or even a stack by Henry Chen
• Debugging distributed Python applications by Or Weis
• Use Python to Parse HTML for Book Quotes with Beautiful Soup by Lizzie Siegle
• Lightkurve: a new Python package to discover planets! by Christina Hedges
• Neural Net Music Generation by Christine Payne
• How to turn your scrap hardware into a machine learning workstation by Linda Zhou
• Give the Gift of Python by Grant Jenks
• Social skills for AI: how to make likeable chatbots by Tyler Suard

Want to give a lightning talk at this party or at our meetup next year? Please submit your lightning talk proposal

Main talk

Python Holiday Fun: Learning from Puzzles and Games by Raymond Hettinger

Have some fun during the holidays making your computer smarter.

• Generating crossword and word search puzzles with Jupyter
• Einstein Problem: SAT Solver
• Best play in Mastermind: Information Gain
• Sliding block puzzle: Breadth First Search
• Sudoku: Constraint Solver with Backtracking
• Liar's Hi/Lo: Iterative Bayesian Solver
• Rock/Paper/Scissors: Pattern Recognition and Prediction

Raymond Hettinger has been a Python Core Developer since 2001 and received the Python Software Foundation Distinguished Service Award in 2014. He is the author of many parts of Python, including itertools, collections, sets, sorted, enumerate, and reversed. Currently, he runs an international Python training and consulting business. He shares his wisdom on twitter via @raymondh and is among the most well-received speaker at Python Conferences around the world.

Live Music

Our music this year mimics our favorite language and community: Flexible, inclusive, and diverse

Enjoy world music and some holiday tunes with a twist and groove, made especially for us, by notable musicians DJ Hey Love, Pianist/Composer Jack Perla, and Bassist/Composer Aaron Germain. DJ Hey Love and Jack have recently played for Dreamforce and they are adding Aaron to the already fantastic duo!

Agenda

• 5:45pm Check-in / reception
• 6:10pm Live Band
• 6:50pm Opening Remarks
• 6:55pm Lightning Talks
• 7:35pm Break: Music, networking, more drinks/food
• 7:55pm Raffle/Thank yous to Community Leaders
• 8:05pm Feature Speaker + Q&A
• 9:05pm Closing
• 9:30pm Hard Stop

Ticketing Information

The Holiday Party is one of two fundraising events for SF Python to cover operating costs of producing over 20 tech meetups a year. If the ticket cost is a financial hardship for you, please write to the organizers.

There is a no-refund policy but feel free to transfer your ticket to someone else by clicking the "Change Details" button on your confirmation email provided by Tito.

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The Holiday Party is brought to you by

SF Python A volunteers run organization aiming to foster the Python community by producing fun and educational get-togethers for developers in SF Bay Area.

Yelp SF Python's primary venue sponsor. They see 89 million mobile users and 79 million desktop users every month. Keeping everything running smoothly requires the best and brightest in the industry. Their engineers come from diverse technical backgrounds and value digital craftsmanship, open-source, and creative problem-solving. They write tests, review code, and push multiple times a day. Come out and talk to them.