Just watched this rather awesome talk by @glyph at #NBPY
It's been a while since I wrote any #python code, but this is as much a talk about communities, delivering on the promises we make to the people we invite into them, and recognizing new ways to adapt to our changing technology landscape.
And excavators. Worth watching.
If you missed my ‘From FinTech to Fin Tech’ talk at North Bay Python, here’s a blog post with the video
The slide everyone was talking about is at 06:27
And to anyone who lives on the west coast or can tolerate connecting through DFW or PHX, this is the better place to fly to #NBPy, even if the security does stop for a lunch break
@pathunstrom @itsthejoker gave a wonderful talk at #nbpy this year where that is one of the major takeaways. That and that you can redraw the line if you need to.
bad news: For the first time in a while, you're going to have to wait a full year between #NBPy events
Good news: WE'RE COMING BACK! April 25th and 26th, 2026, at our favorite ranch just south of Petaluma. See you there!
https://buttondown.com/northbaypython/archive/save-the-date-for-2026/
Taking the train to the car dealership (for reasons), it's always a great opportunity to snap a pic of the ranch and remember to start plotting next year's #NBPy
To be clear, there are conferences I used to _organize_ that have moved mostly online and which for one reason or another I don't attend in their online form.
These are mostly conferences I was doing purely for fun, with no impact to my work.
But #PyCon is both my "home" conference (although #NBPy continues to give a run for money), and critical to both my career and side-projects.
I thought I had watched all the talks from #nbpy that I had wanted to see and then I realized that @MaggieFero 's isn't up on their YouTube channel yet 
It is just over a week after #NBPy, and the temperature at 7:55am is warmer than it ever got during our two barn days.
Happy shoulder season, everyone!
I love watching the #NBPy survey responses come in. Some minor misses (some in our control, some not), but the positive feedback is glowing. It's nice to know that so many of the things that we do intentionally are things we get right.
Just watched @skinnylatte 's #NBpy talk about finding her plaice in tech and making a difference.
@grimalkina #NBPy happened a bit early in the year to take advantage of this, but it's very much up our alley and I hope I can take you up on this for next year
open a conference survey for #NBPy; still getting responses about excavators
It's been a few days now and I'm going to stop posting about #NBPy soon but I do want to stress this before I do. I've mentioned that the event is pretty special, but it's hard to succinctly articulate why in a direct way. As a way of gesturing at what I mean though, consider that this is an event where the organizer can get up *after the conference is over*, say "it would help us if some of you could pay more for your tickets" and a bunch of the audience *does that*
My favourite past #NBPy survey response was from someone who said that we weren't a serious job-relevant event because of the social & collaborative skills talks.
Obviously we all went harder on the social & collaborative skills talks, and made absolutely sure each was put into all of the context.
