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San Francisco Python Meetup Group

Name: SF Python December at Sentry
Start: 2025-12-11T02:30:00.000Z
End: 2025-12-11T04:30:00.000Z
Location: Sentry

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San Francisco, CA, US

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What we’re about

Enhancing the Python community and ecosystems, one developer focused event at a time.

Submit talks: https://bit.ly/bapyacfp 👈

Started in Nov 2008, SF Python is the largest, longest running community-run meetup in SF Bay Area. Each year, our dedicated team of volunteers produce 20+ developer focused, live events for Pythonistas to connect, learn, share, and grow together.

As a member of our community, you agree to adhere to our code of conduct. Please see our Code of Conduct page for further details.

Why do we put these events up?
We believe there is power in in-person interactions. We believe in learning, sharing, and helping each other out. And we have seen the results. We have heard stories of people getting their problems solved because of the talks and the people they met at our events. We have witnessed people grow in their career, from receiving their first internship to landing their first speaking gig at conferences. We have even heard companies migrating to a different platform/technologies after attending our conference.
We look forward to your joining this awesome community - be it attending our events, giving a talk, donating your venue space, or supporting us financially via sponsorship!
Hope to see you at some or more of the following events!
2 monthly meetups
- Presentation Night on the 2nd Wednesday of each month features intermediate to advanced level tech talks from Python Software Foundation members, core developers of open-source projects, and local software engineers.
- Project Night on the 3rd Wednesday of most months offers a chill evening to hack on projects, get questions answered, mentor other devs, or attend a tutorial. It's usually held at various companies in SF so you get to sample how different companies are using Python.
PyBay, a yearly regional Python Conference
https://youtu.be/EwK04nc4iyI

PyBay is the local version of PyCon. It's a 4-day event in August with 750+ Python devs, 9+ workshops, 60+ talks, expo, happy hour, and a lot more.
Our annual holiday party
We think you'd agree that if you have been coming to SF Python's events, you have been advancing in your field. So come celebrate the year with us. We will listen to more amazing speakers while enjoying great food, drinks and live music.

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Wed, Dec 10 · 6:30 PM PST
SF Python December at Sentry
Sentry, 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA, US
Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas?

Please register here: https://ti.to/sfpython/dec-10th-sf-python-sentry?source=meetup

Please support our sponsors Sentry!

👉 Submit your 5, 15 or 25 mins talk proposals here: https://bit.ly/bapyacfp

SCHEDULED TALKS

🔎 Talk (~30 mins + Q&A)
Args: Amazing or Approaching? - Evan Kohilas
Abstract:
From default args, to **kwargs, and everything in-between, Python's comprehensive argument system lends itself to some of the most effective code, through encouraging readability, reuse, and easy refactoring.
But is that really true? Why, and why not? What could we learn from other languages? And what else could lie in their future?
In this session, we'll give a rundown of Python's comprehensive function argument system and how its features allow for safety, conciseness, and expressiveness (whether you're calling or writing functions).
We'll then give examples for where that system lacks, where it could bite you, and give suggestions for what more could be done on Python code to fix those limitations.
Evan is a serial international speaker and engineering productivity advocate who values frictionless simplicity, taming tech debt, thinking in systems, and tightening feedback loops – all to improve the developer experience and achieve nohumanerrors.com
When he's not working on his next talk or project idea, you may catch him dodging magpies while bike riding, chasing frisbees, defending subway cookies, or as the previous Assistant Director for PyCon Australia 2025.

🔎 Talk (~30 mins + Q&A)
TBD

AGENDA
6:30p Reconnect with friends!
7:00p Opening remarks, sponsors acknowledgement
7:10p Scheduled talks and Q&A + networking break
8:30p Wrap up last talk, more networking

THIS EVENT IS PRODUCED BY
SF Python, a volunteers-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area
38 attendees