For those who missed PyCon this year, the organizer of the local SF Python Meetup has created a regional PyCon conference in SF called PyBay, taking place Fri-Sun, Aug 19-21. Simon Willison, Andrew Godwin, Armin Ronacher, Wes McKinney, along with many experts in the Python community, will be speaking and leading workshops. If you couldn't make it up to Portland for the full monty, here's your chance to get all the Python goodness you need in our own backyard.

I've worked with the organizer of PyBay to obtain a $35 off of individual and corporate price for members of the Django Meetup. Please register before 8/13 10 PST with promo code “djangomeetup” http://www.pybay.com/#!registration/yh9or

Highlights:

• Pre-conference workshops with Wesley Chun ("Core Python" book author) and Raymond Hettinger (CPython Core Committer)

• ~ 38 main talks covering Web, Data, Python Fundamentals, Internals and Performance

• Dedicated "Hallway Track" for all-weekend-long hacking/discussions/open spaces

• Friday night opening party with keynote from Jessica McKellar and lightning talks

• Saturday morning Keynote with Raymond Hettinger

• Saturday evening reception with Job Fair / Software Tools Expo

• $20 access to world-class gym with outdoor rock-climbing wall, racquetball courts, swimming pool, yoga and more to keep you in top physical and mental shape

Details Below -

Pre-Conference Workshops on Friday, August 19

Website: http://www.pybay.com/#!pre-conference-workshops/yxbdl

8:30 - 11:30am | Googler and author of bestselling Core Python book series Wesley J Chun leads a three-hour intermediate workshop on “Network Programming with Python.” In this workshop, you will explore network programming with sockets by writing a simple clients & servers as well as learn various techniques for accessing web services & APIs. ($150)

Noon - 5:00pm | Python corporate trainer, prolific contributor to CPython, and recipient of Distinguished Service Award at 2014 PyCon Raymond Hettinger leads a 4.5-hour intermediate workshop “Patterns for Improving Expressiveness and Removing Redundancy.” This workshop covers decorators, descriptors, context managers and metaclasses. ($225)

Register for workshops now: http://www.pybay.com/#!registration/yh9or

Full Conference from Friday Evening, August 19 - Sunday, August 21

Talk Schedule: http://www.pybay.com/#!schedule/z5w91

Speakers include:

• Raymond Hettinger - Python trainer, prolific contributor for CPython, recipient of Distinguished Service Award at PyCon 2014

• Jessica McKellar - Dropbox, developer for CPython, maintainer for Twisted and OpenHatch

• Alex Martelli - Google, author of "Python in a Nutshell", co-author of "Python Cookbook", PSF Fellow, winner of the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to Python

• Wesley J Chun - author of the bestselling Core Python books and Developer Advocate at Google

• Armin Ronacher - Sentry, creator of Flask

• Simon Willison - Eventbrite, co-creator of Django

• Andrew Godwin - Eventbrite, Django core developer, key person behind Django's migration and channels systems

• Al Sweigart - Author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Making Games with Python and Pygame, and Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python

• Wes McKinney - Cloudera, creator of Python’s pandas library and the Ibis project

• Bryan Van de Ven - Continuum, technical lead for Bokeh

• Core developers from IPython/Jupyter…

Register now with promo code “djangomeetup” to receive $35 off conference: http://www.pybay.com/#!registration/yh9or (offer ends 8/13 10p PST)