PyCon 2012 Schedule & Notes

Friday

• Keynote: Stormy Peters, Mozilla Corporation
  • The Challenge
  • Agena
  • Growing Community
  • How can we create responsible websites
  • Making Tools
  • Closing
• Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
  • Replace Google
  • Replace Email
  • Replace Universities
  • Kill Hollywood
  • A new Apple
  • Bring back the old Moore’s Law
  • Ongoing Diagnosis
  • Conclusion
  • Questions
• Introduction to Metaclasses
  • Terminology
  • Instances
  • The Details
  • Writing Metaclasses
  • When Metaclasses
  • Practicing Wisdom
• Extracting musical information from sound
  • What does it mean?
  • What are we going to use?
  • Getting Basic Information
  • What can we do with this?
• Practical Machine Learning in Python
  • Why Python?
  • Terms
  • SluggerML
  • Python Toolkits
  • Feature Selection
  • Tips and Tricks
• Code Generation in Python: Dismantling Jinja
  • Why Code Generation?
  • Eval 101
  • Template engine architecture (Jinja)
  • How does it work?
  • Semantics
• Throwing Together Distributed Services With Gevent
  • Number Server
  • Number Client
  • PUBSub
  • MessageHub
• Fake It Til You Make It: Unit Testing Patterns With Mocks and Fakes
  • What’s Covered
  • What is a unit test?
  • Why Unit Tests?
  • Mock
  • Low-hanging Fruit
• Python Metaprogramming for Mad Scientists and Evil Geniuses
• Practicing Continuous Deployment
  • When is it ready?
  • The Good
  • The Bad
  • Development

Saturday

• Lightning Talks
• Keynote: David Beazley
  • Thinking about Tinkering
• Why PyPy by example
• Django Form Processing Deep Dive
  • Form Basics
  • Validation
  • Testing
  • Rendering Forms
• Testing and Django
• Web Server Bottlenecks And Performance Tuning
• RESTful APIs With Tastypie
  • Philosophy
  • What about Tastypie
  • Auth API
  • Extensibility
  • Fields
  • Caching
• Using fabric to standardize the development process
  • What is Fabric?
  • Why Fabric?
  • How to use Fabric
• Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone, (or Robots are the Future of Testing)
• Designing Embedded Systems with Linux and Python

Sunday

• Lightning Talks
• Keynote: Guido Van Rossum
• Poster Sessions
• Sketching a Better Product
• Building A Python-Based Search Engine
• Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women
• Afternoon Lightning Talks