Month: February 2017

Sponsor PyCon APAC 2017

PyCon APAC is the annual gathering for the regional Asia-Pacific community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. For 2017, PyCon APAC will be held in Kuala Lumpur from August 26 to August 27 and is organized by PYCON MY, a partnership formed by community members registered in Malaysia. PyCon APAC is organized by…

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PyCon MY tie-up with Women Who Code (WHC)

One of the new things we wanted to do for PyCon APAC 2017 is to increase women participation in the conference, with the greater aim to reach out and increase participation of women folk into the technology sector. Up until now we the PyCon MY conferences only had 10% of women participation with no women…

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Tickets for PyCon APAC 2017 on sale

The tickets for this year’s PyCon APAC is now on sale via Peatix. The tickets will be on sale until 11:59PM August 12 2017 MYT, or until we run out of tickets, whichever comes first. Ticket prices comparatively are much more expensive that they were last year for the local PyCon. We wanted a proper…

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Announcing PyCon APAC 2017 Keynote Speaker Wes McKinney

Note from organizers 2017-06-22: Wes has withdrawn from keynoting for PyCon APAC 2017, and in his place we have invited Luis Miguel Sanchez to keynote for us.   We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker for PyCon APAC 2017, Wes McKinney, well known as the author of Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas,…

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