Hi folks! This event is happening in about two months. You can find more details and RSVP at the following links:
NYC: 10/27: https://generalassemb.ly/education/bloomberg-open-source-weekend-pypa/new-york-city/58377 10/28: https://generalassemb.ly/education/bloomberg-open-source-weekend-pypa/new-york-city/58382 LON 10/27: https://generalassemb.ly/education/bloomberg-open-source-weekend-pypa/london/58402 10/28: https://generalassemb.ly/education/bloomberg-open-source-weekend-pypa/london/58403 Bloomberg is also about to provide travel assistance for a few mentors to attend at each location. If you would like to be a mentor and require travel assistance, please reach out to me off-list directly. Thanks! D. On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 7:58 AM Sumana Harihareswara <s...@changeset.nyc> wrote: > > The weekend of October 27-28, simultaneously in London, UK and New York > City, USA, Bloomberg will host a Python packaging and distribution tools > event. Please mark your calendars! > > If you live in North America or Europe and would need assistance to > attend this as a mentor/helper, watch for more details in July. > > If you live outside of the US or UK and would need an invitation letter > to get a visa to travel to one of these sprints, please write to Kevin > P. Fleming at Bloomberg, kpfleming AT bloomberg DOT net, and he'll start > setting you up. > > Details: > > Thanks to Bloomberg for their generosity. They're already a Platinum PSF > sponsor, and they'll host this, pay for a maintainers'/mentors' dinner > the night before, provide clusters of cloud virtual machines for the > attendees to use, and book and pay for some contributors' lodging and > travel. > > This'll be an opportunity to advance Python packaging/distro tools, > teach new contributors (including many Bloomberg employees), and yeah, > if you want to get to know Bloomberg for career reasons, that too. :) > > We hope mentors can arrive Thursday night 25 Oct, do prep, setup, and > dinner on Friday, then participate Sat-Sun, then leave Sunday evening or > Monday. > > We'll be putting more details on these lists (distutils-sig and > pypa-dev) and at https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingSprints . > > Thanks to Bloomberg folks Mario Corchero and Henry Kleynhans in London > and Kevin P. Fleming in New York City for coordinating this, and thanks > especially to Mario and to Paul Ganssle for suggesting it! > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Changeset Consulting > https://changeset.nyc
