PyCon US 2026 Open Spaces Schedule

Staking out a space to connect with folks doing projects with geospatial/remote sensing/+ data. I'm envisioning swapping notes, talking projects, and showing a sampler of what folks are up to and what you want to build in the future, keeping it casual.`

Come discuss and parctice CTF. Don't know what a CTF challenge is come and learn about this gamefied tool to learn about cyber security

This open space session is for Python developers interested in scraping, browser automation, and data extraction. We’ll discuss tools like BeautifulSoup, requests-html, Playwright, and other Python-based scraping solutions, along with real-world challenges like JavaScript-heavy pages, changing HTML, rate limits, anti-bot systems, and ethical considerations.

Come discuss and practice your CTF skills. Don't know what CTF is? Come and learn about this tool used to teach cyber security skills. All experience levels welcome.

Python is for everyone! That includes all the artists--amateur, novice, intermediate, professional, curious... Stop by and meet other artists. Showcase, conversation, music, and more... Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

The maker landscape changes every year. Folks who are thinking about buying their first printer have a lot of questions to answer and a lot of questions they don't even know are questions! Come to a mini-presentation and discussion with the person behind the largest physical 3D printing archive in the world (filamentcolors.xyz) in a space where no question is a dumb question!

Agentic software engineering is brilliant. I'm personally a huge fan of spec-driven development. You can build things from the ground up really quickly. That said, we are still in the process of discovering best practices. A lot of things just are not obvious. For example, teamwork on serious projects - if you have a team of productive engineers, each with AI at their disposal, how do you team? How do you maintain alignment and quality? Where are the touchpoints? Also, brownfield projects genera…

[pytest](pytest.org) is great. You can run it in your IDE, a script, CI, or the command line, and it’ll tell you which tests pass and fail. Plugins provide a bunch of additional functionality such as coverage and parallel test execution. But what if you have a large **system test** suite? And on top of that, what if it was run via – *gasp* – a GUI? Let’s discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for complex testing scenarios. Also, a demo of [pytest-fly](https://github.com/jamesabel/pytest-fly ) …

Come pull up a chair, say hello, and hang out in a welcoming environment. Chat about anything, or just sit back and listen. Friends/allies welcome. There are dozens of us!

Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

You may have noticed the zine. You may have looked inside. You may have found something else. If you did, the door is open. Come find us in the open space. If you didn't — come anyway, and bring your curiosity. (Zines available at the door.)

All things tabular... Pandas, polars, XGBoost, scikit learn. Discuss what you are doing. How you are incorporating AI.

Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

Dive into the fascinating, strange, esoteric, and sometimes horrifyingly insecure world of telephony! All are welcome, regardless of experience level. Topics may include SMS, VoIP, SIP, Twilio, PBX software, and telecom security (or lack thereof!) depending on interest in these or other subjects. Stop by and learn something! There will also be a demo of a simple phone system, including 2 landline phones you can call/get calls from!

What is happening in the civic data space? With the turn down of Google Civic Information API representative endpoints and other changes in the field, who is working on what? How are people addressing changes from AI or using AI tools? Hosted by: https://civicdatatech.github.io/

PyBites is an online community about learning Python one bite at a time. It's about learning by doing and building Python developers at all levels.

Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

I started as a bench scientist in cancer immunology, moved into biotech IT, and now I’m doing a masters in data science. I am self-taught most of the way and still learning Python. With AI everywhere, I’m still figuring out how best to leverage Python and AI tools across R&D, clinical operations, biometrics, and pharmacovigilance (the list goes on…), and what’s actually worth learning. Whether you took a non-linear path or already had a trajectory planned, let’s chat and exchange ideas together.

Ever wanted to write an application for your phone using Python? Or to write a GUI application for your laptop and package it so someone else can run it without installing Python? Come along to the BeeWare Open Space to find out more, and to try out the BeeWare tools in person. Or - want to share ideas about how you are already using (or want to use) BeeWare? The core team will be there to discuss your ideas.

Take a break from the conference halls and join us for a casual one-hour walk along Shoreline Village and the marina. MEETING LOCATION: We’ll meet at Room 202B (will leave at 2:05pm on the dot (feel free to call me if you can't find us or want to meet us a few minutes after) DURATION: We should be done in about an hour (probably slightly less). We'll stroll at an easy pace (it's quite beautiful and a good chance to soak in some views 😎). The ocean is beautiful with lighthouse views, birds chirpi…

Come chat with a couple of the developers of the ty type checker! Bring your hopes and dreams for Python type checking and your questions about ty.

- Getting started with oss contribution - How to volunteer a project for longer term? - How to be consistent and win trust? - How to avoid burnouts?

Drop by for a casual meetup with No Starch Press and several of our Python authors. This is an informal hangout, no agenda or talks, just a chance to chat with the people behind some of your favorite Python books. Confirmed and likely attendees include Al Sweigart (Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python, The Recursive Book of Recursion, and others,) Brian Ward (How Linux Works), and Eric Matthes (Python Crash Course, now in its 3rd edition). Additional authors may be a…

Come talk about game development with Python! What tools/libraries are you using? What works well and what hasn't worked so well? How can Python game development be improved?

Rally room for Indeed employees attending PyCon Meet in front of the registration desk.

The world of "extended reality" (VR/AR, etc) is just getting started. Apps that go beyond basic gaming are beginning to seeing the light of day, but reimagining software to bring us out of Flatland is essentially still a greenfield project. Come share your XR successes, failures, and ideas as we contemplate Python's present and future in the XR development landscape.

Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

Do you deal with data? Are the worlds cron, DAGs, ETL, schedulers, orchestrators, python, SQL part of your regular vocabulary? Whether you consider yourself a data engineer or not chances are you deal with data in one form or another. Come talk, meet, and share ideas (and frustrations) with like-minded Pyhtonistas.

AI tools are changing how we contribute to and maintain open source code and software. But their impacts on the broader ecosystem can also cause tension. pyOpenSci is researching how AI is impacting the scientific and broader Python ecosystem and building practical frameworks for more intentional, responsible use. Come share your experiences and help shape our research. Learn about pyOpenSci's work in [packaging](https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/), training, and open source — …

A shared knowledge and pain point discussion for federal, state, and municipal government employees who develop and deploy Python solutions.

Gather with fellow open source project maintainers to discuss current challenges, feedback, or tool suggestions regarding security for open source Python projects. Vulnerability reporting, forge and workflow security, standards: it's all on the table for discussion. This open space is intended primarily for open source maintainers and current/potential open source contributors. Listening in is welcome. No product pitching, please.

Are you a tester, an SDET, or any other kind of automationeer? Let's chat about what's been working for you, what's been hard, and what cool Python hacks you've figured out along the way. Pick up some tricks of the testing trade and maybe swap some career advice.

Work on the road? Thinking about working on the road? Want to share tips, good ideas, and things to avoid? Join us for a rambling conversation about living and working with a nomadic life.

Nobody knows everything about python. Come teach us the little known gems, or learn some.

There is a [spec for AI skills](https://agentskills.io/home) -- "a lightweight, open format for extending AI agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows." For some packages, it makes a lot of sense to provide an AI skill that is specific to that package. How should these AI skills be packaged and installed? Should they be included inside a wheel or available separately? Should an installer like `pip` or `uv` automatically install it directly? Or should the installer have a hook to call …

Loose schedule: 11:00 am - 11:15am - Quick intro 11:15am - 1:00pm - Music (break whenever for lunch) 1pm - 2:30pm - Show and tell 2:45pm - 4:00pm - Panel/Discussion 4:00 pm - 5:00pm - Collaborative art project

Bringing back the Open Space from PyCon US 2024, come learn about Tarot, and astrology, and how you can explore both with Python.

There has to be lots of overlap between Pythonistas and people who enjoy or are curious about TTRPGs (eg D&D, Pathfinder, Daggerheart). Proposing this open space for 3 goals: - Introduce folks who might want to get together to play a TTRPG in the evening of one of the conference days - Talk about potential Python tools for virtual tabletops like Roll20, FoundryVTT, Alchemy, and others - Serve as a safe space for people curious about whether they'd like to learn about TTRPGs from other Pythonistas

Did you know that you can own and run your AI on your own desktop/laptop/phone? And you can do it for free?! Whether you're a seasoned expert running DSV4 Pro on your liquid cooled Blackwell rack or think "open weights" means a free gym, come to this open space to learn and discuss about running your own AI (LLMs, VLMs, Image models etc.). We believe in the current SaaS, rent seeking dominated landscape, this is a very important trend to foster and grow. We'll discuss all things local AI - there's very…

Talk about the latest changes in documentation tools, workflows, AI, and everything else related to making documentation for your users.

marimo is a next generation Python notebook — reactive, reproducible, and reusable. Run a cell or interact with a UI element, and marimo automatically runs dependent cells (or marks them as stale), keeping code and outputs consistent. marimo notebooks are stored as pure Python, executable as scripts, and deployable as apps. We will showcase: - marimo pair: A canvas where agents and developers collaborate on research and data work; structured working memory and a reactive Python runtime for agents. …

If you're interested in working with Bible texts, references, data, etc. ... me too! Let's meet up and compare notes. I've been working on [Clear-Bible/Biblelib: Utilities for working with Bible books, references, pericopes, and other units.](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/Biblelib/) for a few years: PRs welcomed. There are several other useful datasets and libraries: * [Bible Aquifer](https://github.com/BibleAquifer/): a large collection of openly-licensed Bible content in multiple languages. * [e…

Discuss Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS! Note: we'll likely go for dinner after too! Nix is a widely-used cross-language declarative build tool and package manager, with Nixpkgs as the widest and freshest set of package definitions of any package manager, and NixOS an OS built with those packages. Based on previous years, we always run out of time and want to keep the discussion going, hence dinner :)

Are you skipping default Permissions mode with guilty or mixed feelings? Let's talk! When turning off permissions requests, we typically want to guard against filesystem damage, prompt injection that exfiltrates secrets, and oversharing to cloud model providers (ie, Anthropic, OpenAI). We compare sandbox layers, egress filtering, and auth for remote development. Let's also talk about developer experience and rough edges of current sandboxes. Outline - Round the room: who runs agents unsandboxed, …

Casual meetup for runners and fitness-minded Pythonistas. Chat about races, training, gear, travel runs, recovery, and balancing tech life with endurance sports. Optional easy waterfront walk/run afterward for anyone interested.

How to write a Resume in 2026 Why AI is counterproductive How to stand out as a real candidate in a market full of fakes. Applicant Tracking System myths de-bugged... Live resume review if anyone wants

Accelerated Python

Did you bring you commander decks hoping to get a game in? Well, do I have the open space for you! Come play some casual Magic the Gathering.

Inspired by [BrainMade](https://brainmade.org), and the 2022 book “Resisting AI”, discuss the how and the why of software development that eschews LLMs. The BrainMade logo is licensed as Creative Commons 0.

A social meetup where Django is the conversation starter. Come along, meet up with your friends from the conference or make some new ones. Meet at the The Auld Dubliner next to the venue on Friday 15th from 7pm.

Meet out front of Hyatt Regency 7AM for a 5k run down the beach!

Let’s discuss how you're using Python for advocacy, activism, and social impact work. Whether you're working with data for policy change, building tools for nonprofits, or civic engagement, join us to share projects, tools, and ideas.

Come talk about twisty puzzles, with your own cube or without it, try your hand at speed cubing, or just hang out with cube nerds!

Native Performance Compiler... Easy Development Experience Interpreter... Why not both? https://github.com/spylang/spy

Ever wanted to be involved in politics but had no idea what to do or where to begin? Wanted to make a difference? Come to get a crash course on what it's like to run for a local election and how to get involved in local politics.

Come discuss and parctice CTF. Don't know what a CTF challenge is come and learn about this gamefied tool to learn about cyber security

The jury is out on what the future of code looks like. What we do know is that junior developers are having a pretty difficult time, and the job market really sucks for them right now. This is true in our field, and beyond, it's being called "The Apprenticeship Crisis". Juniors are struggling to find work, which means that they are struggling to build the skills and experience they would need to succeed in this career in the long term. Sucks for them... Do you think it'll suck for your organisation in …

I recently moved from Alaska to North Carolina, and one of the changes in my life is rediscovering a love of chess. It's been fascinating to see how much has changed since I last played! If you're here and you play chess, or are interested in learning more about it, let's get together! I'll have a board and clock, but I'm mostly interested in hearing where you play, how you balance learning and playing, and what resources you've found. If you mix Python and chess, I'd love to hear that as well!

Beautiful is better than ugly, and a thriving community is better than a lonely repo. If you’re a DevRel pro, an OSS maintainer, or just DevRel-curious, come hang out. We’re getting real about the balancing act of community, strategy, and metrics. It’s an informal space to swap best practices, share your biggest headaches, and find your peers.

Come chat with the developers of Pyrefly, a fast type checker and language server (and get some exclusive swag!) Talk to us about anything related to Python typing, and bring any questions or feature ideas you have for Pyrefly.

A quick re-run of my lightning talk from Friday for anyone who missed it, then an open discussion. The fraud problem in tech hiring is everywhere right now. AI generated resumes flooding inboxes. Deepfaked candidates in video interviews. What the red flags are and how legitimate developers getting tarred with the same brush when it's safer to be cautious. For REAL candidates - how can you prove you're a real human in a sea of bots? We will also discuss this issue from a hiring perspective, what a…

You may have noticed the zine. You may have looked inside. You may have found something else. If you did, the door is open. Come find us in the open space. If you didn't — come anyway, and bring your curiosity. (Zines available at the session.) MEET IN FRONT OF 102 C

Open discussion for anyone on building in healthcare, biotech, AI, scientific computing, clinical data, lab tooling, research engineering, or adjacent scientific domains. Come share what you’re building, what’s broken, what challenges exist, and the tools or workflows you wish existed.

Do you love maps and/or work with geospatial data in Python? Join us to discuss the latest in GIS and Python, learn from one another about different workflows, or geek out on geography!

Open forum for discussing [popular](https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/) [libraries](https://nanobind.readthedocs.io/) and [approaches](https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) for exposing C/C++ code to Python. Let's share challenges, find out what's worked for others and brainstorm what would help us go further. Also check out [pymetabind](https://github.com/hudson-trading/pymetabind)

Do you organizer a conference or other technical event or want to?) Come by and share tips, tricks, and stories with each other and network with other organizers. Conferences, meetups and communities oh my!

Bring your worst or funny story. The small ones count most. Show up to swap real stories about AI agents losing the plot. The ones that didn't make the news. The ones nobody on your team believes until they see the logs. You probably have at least one: 1. You told it not to. Explicit, capitalized, written three times in the system prompt. It did the thing anyway. Then apologized. Eloquently. 2. The agent that won't unlearn. You asked it to design a system. Then asked it to implement one small p…

Board at PyCon? Come join us for some board games, we have a couple games but need your help to play them all. Bring some games to share, and if we run out of slots you can hang with some Pythonistas who love playing games Come play board games. We have 3 games. Byog if you have them.

Do you use Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed, Peertube, Bluesky or any other decentralized software? Come meet your peers in person, make new connections, and just chat about digital sovereignty.

Ever wanted to write an application for your phone using Python? Or to write a GUI application for your laptop and package it so someone else can run it without installing Python? Come along to the BeeWare Open Space to find out more, and to try out the BeeWare tools in person. Or - want to share ideas about how you are already using (or want to use) BeeWare? The core team will be there to discuss your ideas. Or - Want to learn how to build binary wheels for Android or iOS? We can guide you through…

If you are working with the Qt framework, and are using Python or other languages, let's hang out to talk about it. A new project was added to the Qt Project, in order to bring more languages to the Qt Ecosystem, join this session to learn more!

Open space for Python developers exploring agentic coding and vibe coding. Let's gather and share experiences, tips, favorite tools, and some vibe coding horror stories.

geospatial and remote sensing folks, let’s meet again to chat data/libraries/access. Use rasterio/pyproj/shapely/duckdb/qgis/arcpro? Drop on by

Everyone's building agents. Almost nobody's talking about what's underneath them: how they store state, context, memory, and tool outputs. A flimsy data layer means hallucinated context, lost conversations, and agents that forget what they just did. This session is a discussion about what a solid data layer looks like for agentic apps (and honestly, any app): schema design, document vs. relational tradeoffs, context persistence, and why "just throw it in a vector DB" isn't a strategy. Bring your architectu…

PEP 750 template strings landed in 3.14. It's been quiet above water, but lots has been going on behind the scenes. Come hear what's been happening, share ideas, join in: - tdom to reimagine Python web development - A really interesting tree-sitter idea for tooling - Community work that uses t-strings - A proposal for tprompt, a template string for agent harness prompts

Do you use LLMs to create written content, videos, images, or basically anything that ISN’T code? Come chat about what you’ve found that works and what doesn’t.

Space nerds unite! Lets talk about Artemis, ISS, Telemetry, or anything related to space. Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

Interested in speaking at a conference? Nervous about crafting your proposal? Come out to our workshop to get some advice and suggestions on how to make a great proposal. Veteran speakers are encouraged to come out to share your wisdom and experience.

Let's talk about tech that powers governments, municipalities, and activists. It's never been more important to have reliable, best-effort secure, and best-effort resilient technology to support activist causes where you live, across the country, and across the world.

A meetup for data scientists across domains, whether you work in computer vision, NLP, time series forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, causal inference, geospatial analysis, or something else. Come share what you're working on, what annoys you, and connect with other data scientists.

Meet with the the PSF Education and Outreach Work Group, Educators, or anyone interested in teaching Python! Informal topics may include How to teach on the job/classroom/ How to make a lesson plan Python Lesson Planning (industry & academia) top-down versus bottom-up … in the age of LLMs depth/breadth & completeness cognitive load motivating learners or just check-in with others and see how we're feeling

Portland, Oregon Python users hangout

Let's talk about running Python on the web at scale and performance tuning. Come to learn or share your experience. Hosted by Peter Baumgartner, founder at [Lincoln Loop](https://lincolnloop.com) and author of [High Performance Django](https://highperformancedjango.com).

Casual discussion around Python dataclasses, de/serialization, typed models, JSON parsing, and related tooling. I maintain Dataclass Wizard and would love to hear how others approach data modeling in Python.

A discussion around how / if this can be done. Two motivations: * Using a long running autonomous agent for something useful & complex & checkable * Type annotations in complex repos that don't yet have them

marimo is a next generation Python notebook — reactive, reproducible, and reusable. Run a cell or interact with a UI element, and marimo automatically runs dependent cells (or marks them as stale), keeping code and outputs consistent. marimo notebooks are stored as pure Python, executable as scripts, and deployable as apps. We will showcase: - marimo pair: A canvas where agents and developers collaborate on research and data work; structured working memory and a reactive Python runtime for agents. - m…

Semantic HTML, hand-rolled CSS, VanillaJS, rss, and atom. Come talk about your websites, tiny weird Web apps, feeds and feed readers. Skill swap your favorite bits of the web platform.

1. Do you help organize an in-person Python or tech meetup in your community? 2. Are you interested in creating spaces in your community to connect Python fans and other tech folks together? 3. Or have you done this in the past and want to share your expertise? Let’s chat about our experiences (and dreams!) of organizing meetups locally, and share what works. Discussion moderated by Nic Moe, organizer of Long Beach-based meetup “Tech by the Beach”.

Import overhead has been a painful performance bottleneck for many Python programs across a variety of applications. In Python 3.15, Explicit Lazy Imports has been added to address this! Come share thoughts, concerns, and hopes for the future!

What does it take to go from an agent PoC to production? And why do so many fizzle out?

Want to get better, or help others do so? Want to know how to start, or help others do so? (Not just for PyCon US)

What would an open-source machine-readable contract look like, aka, contracts-as-code? US healthcare has a ton of administrative waste, complexity, and non-deterministic elements that lead to surprises for both patients and B2B. There are payer-provider contracts and payer policies that could be made to more portable specifications; ie, JSON, a small DSL, or typed Python. Folks who have built computable contracts in other domains (tax, benefits, derivatives, energy) are super welcome and wanted…

Come chat with the Flet team and learn how to build web, desktop, and mobile apps with a single Python codebase. Let's have an open conversation about the future of Python app development in the era of AI — and why Flet may be a compelling choice for both humans and coding agents building modern applications. We can also talk about packaging and distributing Python apps across web, desktop, and mobile platforms: current solutions, real-world challenges, platform limitations, performance considerations, a…

The PSF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group is developing practical accessibility guidelines for Python meetups, conferences, workshops, and community events. Our goal is to make the guide concrete and useful. We also want to ensure that event accessibility fosters inclusivity and belonging, and meets the needs of the entire Python community. If you have suggestions, examples, resources, or lessons learned, we’d love to hear from you.

3:45, hallway outside room 103. No experience necessary! We will teach you. Physical objects under the influence of gravity, but you are their master!

Board at PyCon? Come join us for some board games, we have a couple games but need your help to play them all. Bring some games to share, and if we run out of slots you can hang with some Pythonistas who love playing games Come play board games. We have 3 games. Byog if you have them.

Do you like the YouTuber hbomberguy? Do you want to talk about his videos with other nerds? Come join us at this unofficial fan meetup! We'll talk about our favorite videos and how some of the ideas discussed in hbomberguy's videos and fan community relate to the world of open source software. Swag will be available. After the meetup is over, meetup attendees are invited to get dinner together.

Continuation of yesterday's Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS open space! We'll meet at Yard House for dinner

The Python packaging ecosystem has two main package index types, two metadata formats, two resolver conventions, and increasingly one user base that expects them to work together. If you have ever hit a wall trying to get PyPI and conda packages to coexist, you belong in this room too. We'll open with a hands-on look at conda-pypi, now in beta: native wheel installation directly into conda environments, no conversion required. Bring your environment, try it live, and tell us what breaks. From there, th…

You may have noticed the zine. You may have looked inside. You may have found something else. If you did, the door is open. Come find us in the open space. If you didn't — come anyway, and bring your curiosity. (Zines available at the session.)

The Python Developer Survey reaches thousands of people and shapes decisions across the ecosystem. It has also received similar community feedback for a couple of years without many changes. Not because no one cares, but because the PSF isn’t composed of survey experts and there's no current process for the community to get involved or for their input to be integrated. This open space is about figuring out what a community-based process for the survey could look like. One where the feedback loop affect…

Financial data powers investing, research, risk management, portfolio construction, and many other investment-related workflows, but it can also be expensive, fragmented, difficult to license, and hard to integrate cleanly into modern Python tools. This Open Space is for anyone interested in market data, fundamentals, ETFs, portfolio analytics, risk models, alternative data, financial APIs, or building investment-related tools with Python. We’ll discuss practical questions like: * When should you …

PyLadiesCon is designed to promote diversity, learning, and empowerment within the Python community. We would not be able to run this conference without help from our volunteers. We would like to host a Q&A session about PyLadiesCon and how people can support and contribute to the conference.

Let's get together to talk about Twisted and its ecosystem in 2026; the recent release, new features like websockets and the TLS endpoint, the broader ecosystem (Klein, Treq, PyDoctor, Automat, and so on), and the state of the community and its future.

“Let’s talk Rust!” is an open space session for Python developers curious about Rust and the growing overlap between the two communities. Many Rustaceans start their journey in Python, and many Python developers are increasingly drawn to Rust and we can talk about what motivates the interest. From there, let's share personal stories and practical advice on getting started with a language that’s powerful, but often perceived as complex and hard to learn. Participants are invited to discuss learning stra…

Eyup, the market’s tough. How do you build SWE skills when everyone is telling you to “just do it in Claude”? What are the prospects of (trying) staying in tech as a junior developer? What are strategies to grow and find mentorship? Hangout space for junior devs to swap stories and lessons learned from PyCon.

Talk to other folks who care about documentation. Some folks from the Read the Docs team will be here, but we're happy to discuss tooling, docs process, AI in docs, tool drama, and anything else documentation related!

For those that feel that our time on GitHub has run its course, let's discuss the alternatives, successes, and difficulties.

Take a quick hike on a path along the beach with some light rocks and will hopefully get to see a bunch of nature. I'll order a Lyft/Uber each way (it's about a 20 minute drive each way). The trail itself is about expected to take about 50 minutes, so 1.5 hours to 2 hours expected end-to-end from the convention center. Meet around the registration desk (where you got your badge) and will leave from that room at 11:05 AM. Call/text me at 301-252-5629 if you have any questions. Thanks, Chris

Space robots, underwater robots, any type of robots! Join us if you would like to talk about robots, and how Python in used in robotics!

Python Developers Chat and Chill: This is an opportunity for Black Pythonistas to meet, network, and discuss ongoing topics in the Black Python developer community. note: While the conversation will focus around Black cultural experiences, this event is open to participation from all conference attendees.

Ham radio today is not your Dad's ham radio -- well it kinda still is, but the most interesting aspects are the digital modes, which enables lower power radios to make contacts overseas. No experience necessary.

Come discuss improving: developer experience – engineering productivity – mitigating human errors – modern software engineering – taming tech debt

Come chat with the Astral team (or, at least Zanie) about uv. Topics might include: installing Python, inline script metadata, installing tools, working on projects, using workspaces, packaging woes, build systems, packaging security, writing Rust, etc.

The PSF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group is developing practical accessibility guidelines for Python meetups, conferences, workshops, and community events. Our goal is to make the guide concrete and useful. We also want to ensure that event accessibility fosters inclusivity and belonging, and meets the needs of the entire Python community. If you have suggestions, examples, resources, or lessons learned, we’d love to hear from you.

The PSF Board will host an open space to talk about strategic planning. More details to follow.

Come play board games!!!!

The self-contained Python distribution used by uv, pipx, poetry, and and several other tools. Come chat with maintainers of python-build-standalone about the build itself, why you'd want to use it, any issues you're having, how we build a portable distribution of Python, or just generally about building and packaging Python itself. (You can also join us early at the uv open space in the same room, starting at 1 PM!)

Managing developers is not for the faint of heart. Whether you're leading a team, running a project, or owning a product, come share tips, tricks, and hard-won lessons around building effective teams, managing chaos, and estimating the impossible. Hosted by Michael Trythall, Director of Strategy @ Lincoln Loop.

Join us for an hour of communication games, scenes, and shameless silliness. Whether you've never set foot on stage or if you're a seasoned improviser, bring your imagination and we'll handle the rest!

Python can be used to generate customizable 3D models and automate design tasks for 3D printing. This open space is for anyone interested in using Python to create physical objects, build parametric models, and turn code into STL files. Come share ideas, tools, and techniques, whether you're already doing this or just curious about how programming can be used for 3D design.

The Guild of Educators is a free and open community for folks who teach code. It exists to connect and support educators. We have a lot to talk about. Want to get involved? You can join to share and learn, or get involved in a bigger way by contributing to the running of the community. This open space will focus on sharing what the Guild is all about, how it works, its plans, and gaps. I'd also very much like to hear from the educators in the room - how might such a community support the wo…

Let's celebrate 10 years of ice cream selfies with Mariatta. After the closing ceremony, meet at the in the lobby near the registration desk. At 5:45 PM sharp, we will begin walking to Long Beach Creamery together (10 minutes walk). Order your own ice cream (vegan options available). Then we'll take a selfie together as one big group. Walk back to conference whenever you're ready (anytime after the photo). By participating, you agree to have your photo taken and posted on social media and on Mariatta…