I won’t have much to say this week, since I’m in Prague for EuroPython. If anything of interest comes up, I’ll report when I get back.
And there might be something worth reporting. The EuroPython has been around for over 20 years, even a bit longer than PyCon, making it the oldest community run Python conference in existence. I’ve been attending since 2014, although I’ve missed the 2017 and 2019 editions. I gave keynotes in 2016 and in 2020 and I have served on the Code of Conduct committee multiple times (and again this year).
While EuroPython has been around for some time (in fact, it’s a little bit older than PyCon), the EuroPython Society in the past couple of years has seen an influx of new faces and new energy, and I’m really impressed with their commitment to experiment and improve.
I’m particularly happy to be involved since this year (and last year) EuroPython has partnered with me to hold a Trans*Code event, which will have just finished a few hours before this post goes live. I’ll be writing about Trans*Code at some later point, but for now it’s enough to note that it’s an informal hack day intended to give a welcoming and centering space for trans folk in technology.
Secondly, I’ll be introducing one of the keynote speakers, Sophie Wilson. Sophie was designer of (among other things) the first RISC CPU, which became the ARM line that powers the world’s smart phones and so many other devices.
I know from experience that the combination of trans-Atlantic jet lag and a major conference will probably leave me wiped out (have I mentioned that I’m not as young as I used to be?), so I’ll probably do what I can to have next week’s entry done in advance as well. If all goes according to plan I hope to use that entry to introduce a new feature here.