About us
Socialize with other Python programming enthusiasts, check out presentations on Pythonic topics, maybe participate in a code sprint or two, possibly work on projects and provide mutual technical support.
We typically meet the last Thursday of every month. There is a main talk between 30min - 1 hr followed by optional lightning talks. If you would are interested in being a main speaker at one of our events please reach out to one of our group organizers; Lalleh or Hannah.
We expect anyone attending our events to abide by the same Code of Conduct as PyCon US: https://policies.python.org/us.pycon.org/code-of-conduct/..
As a general rule, welcome everyone here (provided they abide by the Code of Conduct)!
Subscribe to our Luma calendar: https://luma.com/calendar/cal-J44CaHfUnIsLUvp.
Upcoming events
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July 29, 2026 Meetup
First Floor Conference Room- Big Pink (Us Bancorp Tower), 111 Sw 5th, Portland, OR, USEvent Agenda:
There will be a main talk between 30 minutes to 1 hour followed by optional lighting talks.Scalable processing with Ray: unstructured data, multimodal data, and integration with your custom code by Adam Breindel
In this talk, we'll look at building applications and data pipelines that operate on unstructured or multimodal data using the open-source Ray framework. Ray provides abstractions for running distributed, scalable, stateful code as well as higher-level constructs for orchestrating data pipelines where you can supply your own business logic.
Some logic might involve using or training AI models -- but this talk is not focused on (or written by) AI. We'll look at general issues that arise when scaling interesting logic and talk a bit about the algorithms that the Ray Core and Ray Data schedulers employ to address common challenges.
Last, since I've met so many awesome folks in the local Python communities who are looking for jobs, we'll also talk a bit about the tech stacks and other dynamics driving employment and the role of Portland's economy in the evolving landscape.
Lightning Talks:
Lightning talks are talks up to 5 minutes in length on any topic that might interest other Python people. See PyCon’s Lightning Talks description for more details.13 attendees
Past events
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