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…
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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…
Announcing 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…
Program Schedule for PyCon APAC 2017 Announced
We’re excited to finally announce the Program Schedule for PyCon APAC 2017. We will have a full 2 days of conference goodness, with 15 sessions in on the first day and 13 sessions on the second day, spread between two tracks. On the third day of the conference, we have a development sprint session scheduled,…
Automation Testing Workshop by WHC
Women Who Code, which we’re tying up with to help increase female participation and exposure to PyCon APAC 2017, will be having their next series of workshop: Python 104: Automation Testing on Sat Jul 29, 2017. The trainers for the workshop are our friends from Xoxzo, and is primarily only open to women. You can find further…
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…
PyCon APAC 2017 Conference T-Shirt on sale
In order to reduce waste, unlike previous PyCon in Malaysia we are selling the conference t-shirt separate than the conference ticket. T-shirts are MYR35.00 a piece. You can purchase the conference t-shirt here: http://pycon-apac-2017-tshirt.peatix.com We have prepared S, M, L, XL and XXL sizes for you. You can find the size guide on the Peatix page. Purchased t-shirts…
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…
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