PyLadies Berlin

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Hi PyLadies Berlin! In this members' talks evening held in-person and online, we will have an introduction on our sponsor and 2 very insightful talks for you 🥳

💡 Ines Montani (she/her) - The Future of NLP in Python
Over the years, Python has become the leading language for AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Data Science. In this talk, I'll introduce you to Natural Language Processing in Python and common problems and complexities when training your own machine learning models, and I'll show you how Python, its newer features and ecosystem enable a better and more productive developer experience.

👩‍💻 Ines is a developer specializing in tools for AI and NLP technology. She’s the co-founder of Explosion and a core developer of spaCy, a popular open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python, and Prodigy, a modern annotation tool for creating training data for machine learning models.
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✨ Noa Tamir (she/they) - What is Contributor Experience?
In my current work as a contributor experience lead, I am supporting and growing Matplotlib’s and pandas’ communities by organizing events, meetings, and proactive engagement with a focus on equity and inclusion of historically marginalized groups. In addition, we recently launched an open source community-led project dedicated to developing best practices for onboarding and supporting contributors to open source projects. In my talk I’ll give an introduction to this new role, the grant that supports it, and some work done so far…

👩‍💻 Noa has been active in OSS for some years now: she co-founded R-Ladies Berlin 2016, volunteered in PyData Berlin 2017, founded satRday Berlin in 2018, WiMLDS Berlin in 2019, volunteered in useR! Toulouse 2019, was a speaker at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2019, maintains the useR! knowledgebase, co-chaired PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2022, and is a member of the NumFocus DISC committee. Alongside this, she went from being a data scientist to a director of data science at respectable companies, and later became a freelance consultant. Noa has a BSC in Physics, an MSc in Economics and Business Science and a MRes in Economics.

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📆 Agenda
19h00 Community Announcements
19h10 The Future of NLP in Python
20h00 Break
20h10 What is Contributor Experience and how do you lead it?
20h40 See You Next Time! :D
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• There will be food and drinks (with vegetarian and vegan options)
• 🎥 This hybrid event will be streamed on:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyLadiesBerlin
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyladiesberlin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PyLadiesBer
• By attending our online event, you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/
• Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at [masked]
Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.

Accept the email invitation
2. Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
3. Join channel #city-berlin, #germany, #jobs-europe

❗❗ Attention❗❗
This event will be a hybrid event. To make all in-person attendees feel safe, we ask everyone to be fully vaccinated or recovered (2G) and additionally IRRESPECTIVE OF THE BOOSTER STATUS when possible to wear a mask.

Hi PyLadies and allies!

This series of events, starting in February 2022, aims to increase diversity among open source contributors and governance.

But October is a little more special... because of Hacktoberfest, it has become the official month to celebrate open source projects made by communities for the benefit of all. Would you like to participate, but don't know how to get started? Have you never contributed to an open source project before, but are interested and would like to explore this space? Join us! We are here to support you.

This event is also for people who already have experience and would like to happy hack together. We offer the space, and the environment so that you can contribute while feeling supported by a friendly and chill environment.

‼️Attention‼️
This event will be an in-person event. To make all attendees feel safe we ask everyone to be fully vaccinated or recovered (2G) and additionally IRRESPECTIVE OF THE BOOSTER STATUS to either do a test at a test station (Schnelltest) on the day of the event or to do a self-test on-site at the start of the event.

❓Any other requirements ❓
1. Bring your own laptop
2. Have Github account: https://github.com
3. Have git installed: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Snacks 🥟, beverages 🥤 and special drinks 🍹 will be provided (no hacking is possible with an empty belly)

❓ Can men attend ❓
Everyone is welcome :)
If you identify yourself as someone well-represented in open source and in tech, please be mindful of the space and privileges you have, and use it to support others.

📆 Agenda
17h00 Welcome
17h00 - 20h45 Happy hacking Together with drinks, ambient music, and finger food
19h30 - 20h Short break for community announcements and short talk about finding a project and getting involved in open source
20h45 Leaving the space and we found
21h00 See you next time :)

***This event is being sponsored by Sauce Labs

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• By attending our event, you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

• Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at [masked]

Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.
   Accept the email invitation
2. Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
3. Join channel #city-berlin, #germany, #jobs-europe