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Specialist Track spotlight: Platform Engineering 🏗️

Last chance: the CFP closes 29 March. DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, developer experience, and the real-world lessons of building and running platforms at scale.

You don't need a Python-specific angle, if it's relevant to people who build and run software with Python, we want to hear it. First-time speakers welcome.

Submit now → 2026.pycon.org.au/cfp

#PyConAU #CFP #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SRE

Specialist Track spotlight: Developer Relations 🥑

Last chance — the CFP closes 29 March. If you work in developer advocacy, community building, documentation, or the craft of devrel, we'd love to see your proposal.

Submit now → 2026.pycon.org.au/cfp

#PyConAU #CFP #DevRel

Submitting to specialist tracks? Select one primary track first, then you can choose additional relevant tracks later in the Pretalx form.
Please only select tracks that genuinely fit your talks: selecting everything won’t help. https://2026.pycon.org.au/cfp #pyconau #cf

It feels very strange that my first ever conference talk should make a list of “20 Talks & Podcasts Everyone’s Watching This Year”: https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/tech-talks-weekly-extra-10-20-talks

I gave the talk at PyCon AU in September and was based on my book “Escape from Tutorial Hell”. I guess it was a topic that resonated with a lot of people. Here’s a link to the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSoxINozBKU&feature=youtu.be and here are more details about the book: https://troz.net/books/escape/

#PyconAU #TechBooks https://getmona.app/rich_text/843491628786

With my #Mozilla Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight at @pyconau about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets.

Better #AI requires better #data - and better data requires collective, collaborative, co-created approaches: the Mozilla Data Collective.

https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWMZ7/

#PyConAU #PyConAU2025

PyCon AU (the finest vaguely-python-related-things conference in Australia and quite possible the entire world) is on in Melbourne again, September 12-14 2025!
https://2025.pycon.org.au/

I'll be there talking about the eerie parallels between the #microprocessor and #cell_biology ... and there'll be a lot of other interesting and probably more useful things to learn about too: https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/schedule/

PS: voucher code for 10% off tickets: https://pretix.eu/pyconau/2025/redeem?voucher=SPKR10-ASE85RZ7Q84L3C7Z

#pyconau #pyconau2025

PyCon AU (the finest vaguely-python-related-things conference in Australia and quite possible the entire world) is on in Melbourne again, September 12-14 2025!
https://2025.pycon.org.au/

I'll be there talking about the eerie parallels between the #microprocessor and #cell_biology ... and there'll be a lot of other interesting and probably more useful things to learn about too: https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/schedule/

PS: voucher code for 10% off tickets: https://pretix.eu/pyconau/2025/redeem?voucher=SPKR10-ASE85RZ7Q84L3C7Z

#pyconau #pyconau2025

😱 Hold on... what?!

One of our PyCon AU speakers from last year just had their conference talk turned into a published journal paper! 🎉📄💚

Check it out 👉
Paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07725
Talk: https://2024.pycon.org.au/program/HMWPGH

#PyConAU #Python #OpenSource #JOSS

When I’m trying to get a piece of work out the door, I can often be heard muttering to myself “Perfect is the enemy of done.” Because the urge to fuss, and edit, and polish until not a blemish can be seen is absolutely fatal to the need to get something finished. I know that, but I often need reminding. Because I am a perfectionist at heart.

My kids (and, when I was a teacher, my students) […]

https://adsei.org/2024/12/04/what-do-we-value/

Enjoyed @kiwipycon in partnership with @pythonnz earlier in the year?

We have an incredible lineup of #OpenSource #events lined up!

#WCSyd is happening 2-3 November at #UTS for everyone interested in #WordPress @wordpressdotcom
https://sydney.wordcamp.org/2024/

@pyconau heads to #Naarm / #Melbourne November 22-26th #pyconau, keynoted by @lindamciver and #KendraVant
https://2024.pycon.org.au

@everythingopen heads to #Adelaide January 20-22 #EverythingOpen
https://2025.everythingopen.au

It's been a while since I've done a #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday post, where I use my large follower count to more richly connect us, so here's some folx you might like to follow on the #Fediverse :fediverse:

@Rushkoff writes books about #media, #technology and #society and is #Professor of Media Theory and #digital #economics at #CUNY #Queens, and works with the #IFTF

@FAccT is the @ACM conference on #fairness, #accountability and #transparency primarily in #MachineLearning and #ArtificalIntelligence.

@drclaireh is a #corpus #linguist specialising in deception, manipulation and agression online.

@mucephie is June Parsons and they are into #astrophysics at @yorkuniversity - author of dorado.py for observatory #data 🐍

@eirliani is a Doctoral #PhD student at #Harvard and is into #DataScience and #HumanRights

@pyconau is the official #PyconAU conference account #pycon #python 🐍

@jadedarko is passionate about the #environment and #SocialJustice and she is a full-time #Python and #Django #dev

That's all for today, don't forget to share your own #ConnectionList so we can connect the :fediverse: more richly ❤️

Good evening :fediverse:! In this evening's #ConnectionList, I'd like you to meet:

@asherwolf - Social Worker in training, social #justice advocate, and a key campaigner in the #Robodebt resistance. She's amazing 🇦🇺

@larowlan is a #dev at PreviousNext, and he does #Drupal and #PHP and #infosec 👋

@charcol is amazing too, and she is into #linux and #opensource, and if you've been to a linux.conf.au or a #pyconau recently, she's part of making that happen for you. Thank you! 🇦🇺

@cafuego is awesome. He's 🇳🇱 by birth and now in 🇦🇺. He loves #AstroPhotography and #Cheese, oh and 🐧 #linux 😆

@koosli is part of @AusSocialMods team (thank you!) and likes #knitting, #dogs 👋

@CompSciEmma is Emma, and she is a #computer #scientist, #musician and #reader, and also on a #BreastCancer journey (solidarity, Emma, 12 yrs post dx, and sending you my very best ❤️ )

@philbrown is a #banjo #nerd, #software #engineer and a #musician too. He's on Dja Dja Wurrung country at #Goldfields, near #Ballarat 👋 🇦🇺

@kristin8x works with the #AntiPoverty Centre, working on #advocacy #research and #decolonization #PayTheRent. She's on Gadigal country 🇦🇺

@freakboy3742 is Business Dad Russell Keith-Magee - who does a lot of work on the #PyBeeWare #Python project, and #software in general 🇦🇺 👋

Don't forget to do your own #ConnectionList so we can more richly and deeply connect with each other ❤️