Open Source Community

On behalf of the event organizing committee and benefiting charities, the Last Mile Education Fund and NumFOCUS, I am delighted to invite you to join us for the inaugural PyData Seattle charity fundraiser. Let’s celebrate with Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language reaching 1 billion users, Python into Excel! 💚🎉

The Language Creators, 12-4PM on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. https://pydata.org/language-creator-fundraiser/
An epic conversation between language giants featuring:
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk
• Guido van Rossum, Python
• Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal, C #, Typescript
• James Gosling, Java
• Moderator – Carol Willing, Project Jupyter

🌸 We are offering scholarship opportunities to those from underrepresented groups who may otherwise be unable to attend the event. Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/yKfsMAkpsxsJ1gou8

Additional special guests to be announced!

In addition to the panel, there are a limited number of tickets available to join the speakers for an exclusive post-event drinks reception (4:30-6:30) and twelve spots for an intimate dinner with the Language Creators and special guests.

Also, this year we are offering a limited-edition event t-shirt signed by Guido Van Rossum!

15% PyData Seattle Meetup discount for early birds:https://ti.to/pydata/language-creator-charity-event/discount/PDSeattle_15 We encourage you to secure tickets ASAP, as this event sold out in just a few days last time.

We hope to see you there,

The Language Creators organizing committee.


About the fundraiser beneficiary organizations —

The Last Mile Education Fund closes critical gaps in financial and career support for financially vulnerable underrepresented college students in the “last mile” to graduation, addressing both economic mobility and the diversity and talent crises in tech and tech-enabled industries. Launched in 2020, Last Mile has invested over $5.5M to support persistence and degree completion for 5,132 individual students, of whom an estimated 1650 have graduated. Last Mile grantees are 42% Black, 19% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Asian, 2% Indigenous. 58% of grantees identify as women on non-binary. Learn more: www.lastmile-ed.org.

NumFOCUS public charity. Proceeds are used for the continued development of open-source tools used by data scientists. Supporting and promoting world-class, innovative, open source scient💕ific computing projects including: Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, R and many more including Julia.
https://numfocus.org/

We much appreciate that you help us spread the word within your network 🌎

In celebration for Guido/Python reaching 1 billion users, Python into Excel! 💚🎉

The Language Creators, 12-4PM on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. https://pydata.org/language-creator-fundraiser/

An epic conversation between language giants featuring:
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk
• Guido van Rossum, Python
• Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal, C #, Typescript
• James Gosling, Java
• Moderator – Carol Willing, Project Jupyter

🌎🚀 Discount code for all our PyData Seattle members Friends Of The Community 25% off code ("PNW25")!. Link: https://ti.to/pydata/language-creator-charity-event/discount/PNW25

🌸 We are offering scholarship opportunities to those from underrepresented groups who may otherwise be unable to attend the event. Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/yKfsMAkpsxsJ1gou8

💟 Join us as a volunteer. Everyone is welcome to apply: https://forms.gle/nWSzCnKMiJ5agYx57

In addition to the panel, there are a limited number of tickets available to join the speakers for an exclusive post-event drinks reception (4:30-6:30) and twelve spots for an intimate dinner with the Language Creators and special guests.

Also, this year we are offering a limited-edition event t-shirt signed by Guido Van Rossum!

About the fundraiser beneficiary organizations —

The Last Mile Education Fund closes critical gaps in financial and career support for financially vulnerable underrepresented college students in the “last mile” to graduation, addressing both economic mobility and the diversity and talent crises in tech and tech-enabled industries. Launched in 2020, Last Mile has invested over $5.5M to support persistence and degree completion for 5,132 individual students, of whom an estimated 1650 have graduated. Last Mile grantees are 42% Black, 19% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Asian, 2% Indigenous. 58% of grantees identify as women on non-binary. Learn more: www.lastmile-ed.org.

NumFOCUS public charity. Proceeds are used for the continued development of open-source tools used by data scientists. Supporting and promoting world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing projects including: Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, R and many more including Julia.
https://numfocus.org/

We much appreciate that you help us spread the word within your network 🌎💕

🌸 NumFOCUS will be hosting Seattle conference 2023 April 26-28 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond a 500+ in-person attendees https://pydata.org/seattle2023/ We are excited that this event is returning to Puget Sound after the pandemic caused a longer hiatus than any of us hoped for.

Keynote Speakers

Katrina Riehl - Board of Directors President & Head of Streamlit Data Team at Snowflake

Travis Oliphant - CEO at OpenTeams LLC and Quansight. Creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Numba.

Peter Wang - CEO at Anaconda, Inc.

Holden Karau - Co-author of O'Reilly's Learning Spark and High Performance Spark.

PyData is organized by, and all proceeds benefit NumFOCUS, a US 501(c)(3) public charity. Proceeds are used for the continued development of open-source tools used by data scientists and the advancement of the NumFOCUS mission to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research. NumFOCUS supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing projects including: Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, R and Julia.

More information about the conference and to find tickets you can visit https://pydata.org/seattle2023/.

💚 10% PyData Seattle meetup members discount, here: https://www.meetup.com/pydata_seattle/events/287601118/

We would love to see representation from the Open Source community and welcome you to join the event as an attendee. If you have any questions please address pydataseattle @ gmail.com. Thank you for sharing this information and helping us spread the word! 🌎 💕

Apply to our PyData Impact Scholarships 💝 🌷 by NumFOCUS
🌸 🌼 Are you a member of an underrepresented group in technology and/or open source and looking for ways to develop your career further and increase your professional impact?

Apply here 💟 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKcKk3SSIEujGffWhJZZQhoQ8zJJQiLJ9zcoxZhAC8C4M8xQ/viewform

Through the Impact Scholarship, you will get connected to other professionals in the field and learn from their experiences. Scholars will have their own private track during the conference, with workshops designed to help you increase your visibility and impact, and you will join the Impact Scholars community with regular meetups afterwards. Check out a recap of our program last year at https://lnkd.in/gtHUBCgP. This program includes a ticket to the conference (including talks, tutorials, and sprints).

Link to PyData Global 2022: https://pydata.org/global2022/

Timeline:
• November 10: application deadline
• November 17: feedback to all applicants
• November 27: pre-conference Get-Together
• December 01: Impact Program Day 1
• December 02: Impact Program Day 2
• December 03: Impact Program Day 3

💝 Everyone is welcome to apply.

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Seattle by Meetup group, supporting over +2300 data scientists enthusiasts in the Seattle area 🌷🌸🌼 We provide all our meetup services free of charge thanks to generous sponsors! 💟💯

If you have a presentation of between 10 minutes and 1 hour that you would like to share with our group, please submit a short proposal. Fill in the form and let everyone know about the cool work you are doing: Here 💟 https://lnkd.in/g3m-U_6h

💚💙 Sponsor PyData Seattle
Host an event, provide some delicious food and snacks for our attendees 🍬🍭🍿 Email us at [email protected] or fill out the form here 💟 https://lnkd.in/gg5S-5m6

💖🚀🌸 Become a NumFOCUS Member! https://numfocus.org/

💝🌷 NumFOCUS 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter, Julia, SciPi, Sympy, Scikit-learn, R and many more!

NumFOCUS envisions an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world.

A big thank you to EElastic 🍔 🍟🍕 🍡🍥🍦🍭

💞 💟 Event program:
6:00 - 6:45 - Eat, beverages, desserts and network. Sponsor: 🎉 EElastic6:45 - 7:00 - Announcements 💙 💚
7:00 - 8:00 - Talks:
Rui Wang - Scale Data Science by Pandas API on Spark
Rahul Baboota - Using Deep Learning to Discover New Molecules
8:00 - 8:15 - Raffle! 💚💙 🎉:

- 2 Ticket to PyData Seattle 2023 💖 3-day conference, April 26 28 Hosted by Microsoft. 1 ticket for a women and 1 ticket for a men - Sponsor NumFOCUS https://lnkd.in/eiCuZDB5

- 5 Books! Learning Spark - Sponsor Databricks Denny Lee 💚💙 🎉

💚💙 🎉 Come and celebrate with us! The Re-LAUNCH PARTY of our PyData Seattle meetup by NumFOCUS! Oct 5th!

RSVP https://lnkd.in/gdrc5QSN

💖 🚀 Check out our PyData videos!
https://lnkd.in/gbGJ7tMf

Bellevue Place parking after 8:00 p.m. is complimentary – No validation is necessary.

PyData Seattle by NumFOCUS Meetup group, supporting over +2300 data scientists enthusiasts in the Seattle area 🌷 🌸 🌼

We provide all our meetup services free of charge thanks to generous sponsors! 💟💯

🌷 🌸 🌼 NumFOCUS 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter, Julia, SciPi, Sympy, Scikit-learn and many more!

💛 💜 Become a NumFOCUS Member! https://numfocus.org/

Help sustain the open source data stack by becoming a NumFOCUS member.

NumFOCUS envisions an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world.


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