Hi again everyone!
I forgot to list one talk in my previous email. Here's an update:
Talks:
1. Robert Lechte: "Your database migrations are bad" (25-30 minutes)
It's really hard to work with database schemas. But schemas are actually good.
The trouble is that people get frustrated with the tooling. Existing migration
tools (alembig, django migrations etc.) all make it far too hard. Every change
is a chore when you have to worry about version numbers and migration files
each time. It's tedious, manual, error-prone, and hard to test.
Fortunately, we can do better! Using Python and PostgreSQL, we'll discuss a
radically different approach to managing schema migrations, using new tools and
workflows to make it much faster, mostly automatic, fully testable, and more
reliable."
Bio: Robert created the data warehousing for New Zealand's supercomputing
infrastructure, then worked for the Digital Transformation Agency in Sydney. He
has been writing Python tools to make working with databases more pleasant.
2. Fred Rotbart: highlights from PyCon Israel 2017 (15 minutes)
Python wasn't particularly popular in Israel until recently but has exploded in
popularity in the last 1-2 years. Fred attended PyCon Israel this year and was
surprised at how large the community there is now. He will talk about the
event, Python uptake in general, and give highlights from the event.
3. Ed Schofield: publishing with Python (25-30 minutes)
Python has long had Sphinx for generating high-quality technical documentation
from reStructuredText (ReST). Many projects have more recently adopted one of
many flavours of Markdown as a simple, flexible format, while Jupyter notebooks
have taken the Python world by storm. This talk will give an overview of the
impressive set of tools in R for publishing (knitr, Rmarkdown) and compare what
the Python ecosystem has to offer.
4. Lightning talks & announcements
When: 5.45pm for mingling; talks starting at 6pm
Where:
Outcome-Hub Co-Working Space
Suite 1, 121 Cardigan Street, Carlton
How to get there:
Walk 12 minutes north from Melbourne Central station.
Afterwards: general announcements and pizza. Then maybe drinks on Lygon Street.
Sponsorship: many thanks to Outcome Hub for providing the venue and Python
Charmers for ongoing Meetup sponsorship.
We hope to see you there! :-D
Best wishes,
Ed
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Dr. Edward Schofield
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