About Development Sprint Development Sprint was held on 28th August 2017 at Makmal Mikro 1, Blok A, Fakulti Sains Komputer & Teknologi Maklumat, Universiti Malaya. Our sprint lead is Mr. Bhavani Shankar, a senior consultant for Accion Labs Pvt and he is also a community contributor for Ubuntu. The sprint was consists of two parts:…
Author: PyCon MY
PyCon MY is the Malaysian chapter of the Python programming language conference held worldwide. PyCon MY started of with a PyCon MY mini conference in 2014. PyCon MY is also endorsed by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in the US.
PyCon MY is organized and managed by a group of volunteers with interests in seeing a greater adoption of Python in Malaysia.
Financial Support from Python User Group Singapore
Our neighbor’s Python User Group Singapore started the PyCon APAC conference for the first time in 2010, and have been a strong supporter in pushing the conference to be held around Asia Pacific region. They have been strong moral and financial supporters for PyCon APAC conferences in different host cities, and they are also supporting…
Get your Guidebook for PyCon APAC 2017
PyCon APAC 2017 has gone mobile! We have finished building the conference information on Guidebook! Get the guide to access the most up-to-date information about our event, including schedules, speaker information and much more. Get our guide here: http://guidebook.com/g/pyconapac2017 Android and iOS users: Tap the “Download” button to download the free Guidebook app Open Guidebook and…
PyCon APAC 2017 Financial Aid Analysis
We did a quick analysis on the take up of our first Financial Aid program for PyCon APAC this year. Hopefully by shedding light on the statistic of the applicants for the FA program, it will increase awareness on such a program, and encourage more new comers to take advantage and join us in future PyCons. The…
Announcing the 2nd batch of our Financial Aid recipients
We would like PyCon to be accessible to everyone who wants to come and get involved, but one of the hurdles to accessibility is the financial burden that attending a conference imposes on attendees. So one of the new things that we’re trying to do for PyCon APAC 2017 is to give out financial aid…
PyCon APAC 2017 Conference Dinner
We will be having a conference dinner event as part of PyCon APAC 2017. The event is open to anyone who purchases a ticket, and not limited to conference attendees, so you are welcome to bring along your family, partners or friends to the dinner and mingle with the conference crowd! Details of the dinner…
Changing The World With Python, on BFM 89.9
As announced on PyCon APAC 2017 interviews on BFM 89.9 our keynote speakers Jessica McKellar and Luis Miguel Sanchez was on BFM 89.9 yesterday for their interviews. If you didn’t manage to catch it live, you can download the podcast for Jessica’s interview and for Luis’s interview from the BFM 89.9 site.
Development Sprint for PyCon APAC 2017
For PyCon APAC 2017, we are organizing a one day development sprint event, where developers regardless of skill level get together with project maintainers to work on open source projects. Development sprint events are a great way for you to meet and actually work with experienced developers on interesting projects. More than often, conference development…
Financial Aid reopened: 2 more grants
Update: With only 4 weeks away from the PyCon APAC 2017 event, we have some good news to share. We have decided to extend the Financial Aid Program to provide RM500 for another two individuals to attend the event. Thus, we will be receiving applications to be considered for the financial aid program for the…
PyCon APAC 2017 interviews on BFM 89.9
PyCon APAC 2017 is just a month away! Ramping up to the conference, we’re working with our media partner, BFM 89.9 The Business Station, a local Malaysian terrestrial radio station to increase awareness about the conference, and also to introduce our two keynote speakers. Jeff Sandhu producer and presenter for Tech Talk will be broadcasting interviews…
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