Background Since starting our first (mini) PyCon in Malaysia in 2014, Swee Meng and Iqbal started out with 3 targets: To start PyCon in Malaysia To create a base to manage financial resources in a transparent way To bring APAC to Malaysia During the time between 2014 to 2019, we’ve managed to hit those targets,…
Author: Iqbal Abdullah
CEO and founder of Xoxzo Inc (https://info.xoxzo.com/) and have been a resident of Japan since 1997. Originally from Kuala Lumpur. Interests are traveling, technology, communication, science, hospitality, community building and coffee. Also organizes the PyCon MY conference (https://pycon.my/) and PyCon JP (http://www.pycon.jp/).
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PyCon APAC 2017: It’s a wrap!
It’s a wrap! We’ve ended our annual PyCon APAC 2017 which was hosted in Nexus, Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur Special thanks to All our sponsors and community partners that helped made PyCon APAC 2017 affordable and a success! A big special thanks to Women Who Code Kuala Lumpur, who helped us to get connected with the…
The State of PyCon APAC 2017
An update on the State of PyCon APAC 2017
Announcing PyCon APAC 2017 Keynote Speaker Luis Miguel Sanchez
We have two announcements in this post: The first one is that unfortunately due to personal reasons, Wes McKinney has decided to withdraw from keynoting at our PyCon APAC conference this year. This is unfortunate, as we know many of us are looking forward for Wes’s talk but we hope everything will go fine for…
Tickets are optional for CfP submission
After discussing with the program team, and based on feedback by Ewa of the PSF and Graham Dumpleton, we’ve removed the requirement for the ticket and set a new schedule for the Call For Proposals. We hope with the new schedule and no ticket restriction, we’ll get much more proposals especially from overseas participants, and make…
CfP ticket requirements
Currently as part of the Call For Proposals submission we’re requiring the submitter to purchase a ticket, as a measure to ensure that the submitter will attend PyCon APAC 2017. This measure has received multiple feedbacks, especially from overseas would-be speakers who believes this puts an extra financial burden on them, without the certainty if…
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…
PyCon APAC 2017 dates and venue announced
As initially announced here PyCon APAC 2017 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, organized by PYCON MY PLT. We are happy and excited to announce that the dates and the venue for this year’s PyCon APAC conference are as follows: Dates: Aug 26 (Sat) to Aug 27 (Sun) 2017 Venue: Connexion Conference & Event Centre in…
PyCon MY 2016 is a wrap!
From Aug 26th to Aug 28th 2016, we held our third annual PyCon MY in the International University of Malaya-Wales (IUMW) City Campus on Jalan Tun Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Aug 26th: Workshop Day. Aug 26th was Workshop Day. This year we had Boey Pak Cheong from Pytech Resources conduct the training, themed Building with Python. The workshop…
Meeting the volunteers for PyCon MY 2016
Today we met with the 15 volunteers that will help us as part of the staff for PyCon MY 2016. We spent 2 hours going through the Code Of Conduct, Issues Handling, and conference day Playbook documents before walking around campus making final checks for registration tables, lunch arrangements and other logistics issues. The students…
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