Into Python and want to experience how cool the Python Community is?

Join ~150 Pythonistas at SF Python's Project Night on April 17!

The format is similar to an un-conference. We start with a free food and drink reception from our generous sponsor IBM. After formal introductions, Pythonistas join up with like minds to:

• enjoy our featured tutorial
• learn, share, and contribute at planned and spontaneous Special Interest Groups (SIG)
• hack on your own projects

Who should attend?

• Anyone interested in our planned tutorial or SIGs
• Anyone who want to hack on your work, personal or open-source projects
• Experienced devs who want to lead a regular or spontaneous discussion group
• Anyone interested in mentoring others

The plan:

• 6:00p Begin check-in
• 6:50p Introductions: tell us about your project and/or the kind of help you seek
• 7:00p Make yourself comfortable and start hacking, or attend one of the tutorials or SIGs
• 7:30p Door Close
• 9:30p Wrap up / Hard Stop

Tutorials offered

Work smarter, not harder with automated human-like image captions with Simon Plovyt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonplovyt) & Karthik Muthuraman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik.muthuraman)

While images provide an incredibly rich description of information at a glance, deriving descriptors in text to match what is being shown is often a time consuming and arduous task. It’s no wonder alt tags on images, which are crucial for the blind to experience web pages, are often left blank. Or exhausted humans sorting and cataloging immense image libraries missing details in meta descriptions.

In this tutorial, you’ll work through building, deploying, and consuming one of the many readily available open source deep learning models on IBM Model Asset Exchange to automate the generation of human-like descriptions of captions for images.

Simon and Karthik are Data Scientists+Developer Advocates at the IBM Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT).

Special interest groups

PyBay CFP SIG

Have an idea for a talk for our regional conference in August and want to brainstorm with someone or get your proposal reviewed?

Join Nick DiRienzo, SF Python Organizer and past PyBay speaker to get your proposal written. He’s helped his coworkers submit talks to PyBay, PyCon, and PyTexas.

Biocommons SIG

The biocommons software packages help genetic testing companies map patient sequence variation to reference genomes.

Software: https://github.com/biocommons/ Docs: https://hgvs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro.html Gitter Group: https://gitter.im/biocommons/devs

Join us to hack on the installation docs, improve our test coverage, or pick your own issue to solve. (All skill levels are welcome!)

Pydata SIG

The PyData SIG brings together people interested in statistics, machine learning, and deep learning to share ideas and learn from each other. The focus will be Python's scientific stack - NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, and related packages.

Beginner SIG

Just getting started learning Python or programming in general? Come to the beginner SIG and work to up your Python skills.

Check-In Process

• Doors open at 6:00pm. Please wait outside without blocking the building entrance. Security will check ID and stop admitting guests at 7:30p.

• Wait-listed folks or those without a tito registration will be admitted after 6:45pm if we have not met our venue's capacity limit.

• Please park your bikes on the street.

This event is produced by

SF Python, a volunteers-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. Please submit a 25 or 40 mins talk to their flagship event, PyBay2019, 4th Annual Regional Python Conference in SF this August. CFP closes 4/24

Venue is through the generosity of Microsoft. Our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world. We know where we’re going as a company and how we’ll get there. We are committed to reinvent productivity and business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. Learn more about development resources available to help you achieve more, visit: docs.microsoft.com.

Food and drinks is through the the generosity of IBM. For over a century, IBM has led world-changing progress by uniting, empowering, and relentlessly reinventing ourselves and our customers. The IBM Data Science Community is the place for data scientists and developers to learn, share, and engage with their peers and industry renowned data scientists. Join the IBM Data Science Community and participate in shaping the digital future.