www.python.org events (PART 1)

Important information

• Make sure you have your full name in your meetup account (https://www.meetup.com/account/name/) for the venue security.

• This event is open to all levels, including beginners.

• We reserve spots for Pythonistas from underrepresented groups (women, +50, trans...), Pythonistas visiting from outside England, and highly-experienced Python programmers. Please let us know if you belong to any of these groups and you're on the waiting list.

• This sprint part of a series (until the features are complete). That's probably 2 or 3 sprints in total. Every event is independent, and you don't need to attend the first part to attend the second (or the other way round).

• Waiting list: Even if you are added to the waiting list, keep an eye the day of the event. There are many people dropping just hours before the event.

The sprint

To communicate during the sprint (also remotely), you can use this gitter channel: https://gitter.im/py-sprints/python.org

Around 7pm, it'll be a short hangouts, you can join in this link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/bnFjZWkxM2NvZDBhZ3FiNWk2Z2s5Y2kxOWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ.49ls39sk27behs8rvnrqtdgs02?authuser=0

The Python community and the Python Software Foundation are using http://www.python.org as their main website. Besides general information about Python, the Python installation files, the documentation, the job board and links to other resources, the website includes a section to list all the events of the community, https://www.python.org/events/.

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The process to update the content of this section is not optimal, and it is taking too much time from the community (event organizers and python.org moderators mainly).

A new workflow has been proposed to automate some parts and make the process much more efficient. Details can be checked in this ticket:
https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1162

http://www.python.org is built in Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/).

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Our sponsor

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Thanks to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/europe) for providing the venue and pizza for this sprint.

Environment set up

To set up an environment for the sprint, we recommend creating a conda environment:

• Download and install anaconda from https://www.anaconda.com/download/

• Fork the repository https://github.com/python/pythondotorg by clicking on the top-right "Fork" button

• git clone your fork git@github.com:/pythondotorg.git

• Create a conda environement: conda create -n pythondotorg_dev python=3.4

• Install requirements: pip install -r /dev-requirements.txt

• You'll also need to install PostgreSQL

• And create a database: createdb pythondotorg -E utf-8 -l en_US.UTF-8

Instructions are also available here: https://pythondotorg.readthedocs.io/install.html#manual-setup