What weāre about
Enhancing the Python community and ecosystems, one developer focused event at a time.
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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.
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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.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- SF Python Meetup at GelWaterfront Studio at Culinary Artistas, San Francisco, CA
Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas?
Please register here: https://ti.to/sfpython/jun-11th-sf-python-edgedb
Please support our sponsors Gel!
Our location this month is: Culinary Artistas
š Submit your 5, 15 or 25 mins talk proposals here: https://bit.ly/bapyacfp
SCHEDULED TALKS
š Talk (~10 mins)
Gel intro - Yury Selivanovš Talk (~25 mins + Q&A)
Open Source AI is Accelerating: Now is the Time to Make the Shift - Justin Woo
In the ever evolving AI landscape, organizations are faced with the choice between open-source versus closed-source models. While many developers find it easier to get started in the closed source ecosystem, they quickly realize it is more expensive, inefficient, and doesnāt have the security and controls required for their applications. With the launch of DeepSeek R1 671B in 2025, open source models have quickly caught up to their closed counterparts and now deliver a cheaper and just as accurate solution that provides organizations with the security they need to run their operations.
The pace of the open source community is iterating at speeds that are beyond belief and not only improving the accuracy of these models, but making them run even faster, especially on hardware that is better suited for AI beyond the GPU. With new open source models dropping every week and an active community fine-tuning even better versions daily, open source is making AI a commodity, with a wide range of cloud services for developers to choose from that make it even easier for them to use.
Join Justin Woo, Developer Advocate, SambaNova, as he breaks down for attendees the advantages of open-source models, why they are critical for fast product iteration, and how organizations can use them to tap into the best minds globally, accelerate their pace of innovation, and position themselves to shape industry standards while continuously advancing enterprise-grade solutions.š Talk (~25 mins + Q&A)
Python 3.13 ā Itās kind of a big deal - Amethyst Reese
A quick dive into some of the new and exciting features in Python 3.13, including an introduction to free threaded Python (aka NoGIL) and why it matters for the future of the language. Ending with a look forward to Python 3.14 and what we can expect to see later this year.
Amethyst Reese is a senior engineer, writing Python professionally since 2010, and working on foundational infrastructure and tooling to support thousands of engineers, data scientists, and ML researchers. Amethyst is also the maintainer of numerous open source libraries on PyPI, and an experienced speaker from Python conferences and meetups around the world.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 networkingTHIS EVENT IS PRODUCED BY
SF Python, a volunteers-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area