Python Community Podcast: Recent Episodes

Jay Miller and Jon Banafato

This is a weekly look at the news around and impacting the Python Community. Hear from experienced Conference Organizer Jon Banofato and community organizer and advocate Jay Miller about upcoming events and how the latest in Python news may affect Pythonistas around the globe.

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TopicsThe PSF is hiring a Community Events ManagerRemix acquired by ShopifyAnaconda Partners with NumFOCUS and Bitergia to Bring Community Metrics to Open-Source Projects ConferencesPyCon Ireland 2022 JupyterCon 2023 - Request for Volunteers PyCon 2022 - Request for Volunteers

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TopicsThe PSF is hiring a Community Events ManagerRemix acquired by ShopifyAnaconda Partners with NumFOCUS and Bitergia to Bring Community Metrics to Open-Source Projects ConferencesPyCon Ireland 2022 JupyterCon 2023 - Request for Volunteers PyCon 2022 - Request for Volunteers

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Topics:
Python 3.11 has been releasedMicrosoft Announces New Dev Kits using ARM64Disclaimer: Jay, one of the shows hosts, works for Microsoft

Last call for Hacktoberfest contributions PyCon US Announces New Health and Safety Guidelines for PyCon US 2023

DjangoCon US Code of Conduct Transparency ReportPublic Health Pledge website launchedThousands of GitHub repositories deliver fake PoC exploits with malware

Chapters
Intro 00:00:00
Python 3.11 is Out! 00:00:27
Windows Dev Kit 00:04:52
Hacktoberfest 00:06:55
Health and Safety at Conferences 00:13:22
OrganizerChats.org 00:58:56
Proof of Concept Malware Found 01:00:23
Conferences 01:02:38
Outro 01:03:51

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Python Community News Weekly Brief for the week of 28 October 2022.

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Django Software Foundation Board of Directors nominations open for 2023
Nominations for the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize now open
PyCon US 2023 Announced
Talk Python Training Course Giveaway

Python Community News is a podcast, livestream, and newsletter that focuses on the Non-Pipable news in the Python Community.

Join Jon Banafato, experienced conference organizer, and Jay Miller, community organizer and advocate, as each week they look at the top stories affecting Pythonistas around the world.

You can tune in live every friday at 6pm EST/3pm PST. If you miss us live you can check out the podcast or watch the VODs on Youtube.

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Django Software Foundation Board of Directors nominations open for 2023
Nominations for the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize now open
PyCon US 2023 Announced
Talk Python Training Course Giveaway

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Topics:
Python Community News Meta-Updates

Python Community News has several meta updates to share:
- Python Community News is a Community Sponsor for DjangoCon US this year.
- We now have a dedicated YouTube channel where our videos will be hosted and future live streams will take place.
- You can now follow PyCommunityNews on Twitter for live stream announcements and other updates about the show.
- The source code and topic repositories have moved to a new GitHub organization at https://github.com/Python-Community-News.

Python Developers Survey 2022 Now Open

White House announces Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

Meta Announces Meta Quest Pro and Integrations with Teams and Zoom

Microsoft Ignite Announces GPT3 Integrations, Azure Postgres Support in Cosmos DB

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This week on Python Community News: 

  • PyPA Announces 3000 2FA New Enrollments - Twitter
  • University of Illinois is teaming up with companies to improve speech to text for folks with speaking disabilities.
  • The Core dev summit wraps up and Jay gives a simple breakdown of the PEP process - Twitter

Python Community News is a podcast, livestream, and newsletter that focuses on the Non-Pipable news in the Python Community.

Join Jon Banafato, experienced conference organizer, and Jay Miller, community organizer and advocate, as each week they look at the top stories affecting Pythonistas around the world.

You can tune in live every friday at 6pm EST/3pm PST. If you miss us live you can check out the podcast or watch the VODs on Youtube.

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Python Community News is a podcast, livestream, and newsletter that focuses on the Non-Pipable news in the Python Community.

Join Jon Banafato, experienced conference organizer, and Jay Miller, community organizer and advocate, as each week they look at the top stories affecting Pythonistas around the world.

You can tune in live every friday at 6pm EST/3pm PST. If you miss us live you can check out the podcast or watch the VODs on Youtube.

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Hacktoberfest
Good First Issues

Python Community News is a podcast, livestream, and newsletter that focuses on the Non-Pipable news in the Python Community.

Join Jon Banafato, experienced conference organizer, and Jay Miller, community organizer and advocate, as each week they look at the top stories affecting Pythonistas around the world.

You can tune in live (almost) every friday at 6pm EST/3pm PST. If you miss us live you can check out the podcast or watch the VODs on Youtube.

Check out the Playlist of previous streams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHLoGg0Ng8&list=PLfDBFPSIcChU5ASV-9ysy-oJKDSa1-co9

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The PCN Brief is a headline and description only version of the show. Each episode has a longer form episode and live stream available on Youtube.

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Links:
- India's Tech Hub Bengaluru Floods - Al Jezeera
- Someones Been Messing With My Subnormals - moyix.blogspot.com/
- Fuzzing beyond memory corruption - Google Security Blog
- Python releases 3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14 are now available – pythoninsider.blogspot
- California Passes Law Requiring Companies to Post Salary Ranges on Job Listings - bloomberg.com
- Lightbend ditches Apache 2 license – Chooses BSL – lightbend.com

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Links:
- India's Tech Hub Bengaluru Floods - Al Jezeera
- Someones Been Messing With My Subnormals - moyix.blogspot.com/
- Fuzzing beyond memory corruption - Google Security Blog
- Python releases 3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14 are now available – pythoninsider.blogspot
- California Passes Law Requiring Companies to Post Salary Ranges on Job Listings - bloomberg.com
- Lightbend ditches Apache 2 license – Chooses BSL – lightbend.com

Other Links:
- Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

  • GPL - Wikipedia
  • CPython License

Conferences:
- PyData Global
- PyCon Chile
- SciPy LATAM
- PyCon Portugal

Chapters:
Intro 00:00 
India's Tech Hub Bengaluru Floods 00:45 
Someones Been Messing With My Subnormals 01:14 
Fuzzing Beyond Memory Corruption 02:30 
Python 3.10.7 Released 04:30
California Passes Salary Range Law 06:45 
Lightbend Abandons Apache2 License 17:25 
Conferences 53:45
PyData Global 54:07
PyCon Chile 54:39
ScyPi Latam 55:34
PyCon Portugal 56:44

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Topics

  • DjangoCon Announces Weekly Twitter Spaces, Virtual Only Talks, and their COVID Policy
  • Python Packaging Survey
  • Starlite looking for Maintainers and Contributors

Links:Keynote: Improving Contributor Experience & Broadening Contributor Scope - EuroPython 2022
https://github.com/jazzband

Open CFPs and Upcoming Conferences

CFPs Open

  • PyCon PL

  • PyJamas

Conferences

  • PyConUK

Chapters
Intro: 0:00
DjangoCon US Covid Policies: 1:28
DjangoCon US Virtual Talks: 4:22
Twitter Spaces and gathering conference feedback: 10:07
PyPA Survey: 17:21
Starlite looking for maintainers: 27:33
Conference Lightning Round: 55:23
Contributing to Python Community News and Outro: 58:21

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Topics

  • DjangoCon Announces Weekly Twitter Spaces, Virtual Only Talks, and their COVID Policy
  • Python Packaging Survey
  • Starlite looking for Maintainers and Contributors

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This week on Python Community News:
- Heroku ends their free tier - https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter
- Phishing Attack Targeting PyPI Users - https://twitter.com/pypi/status/1562442188285308929
- Should Virtual Conference Release their Videos Next Day?
- Python is the Most Popular Language except for in the Job Search - https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022

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Python Community News is a non-pippable look at the week in the Python community. Learn about conference announcements and the latest news around the Language you love.

Chapters:
intro: 0:00
Heroku ends their free tier: 0:50
Python is the Most Popular Language except for in the Job Search: 11:50
Should Virtual Conference Release their Videos Next Day?: 28:11
Phishing Attack Targeting PyPI Users: 54:10
Conference Lightning Round: 1:06:51
Outro: 1:09:19