UPCOMING MEETINGS

2024-05-09 18:00:00 location TBD

What to do at PyCon?
(10 Minutes)
By: Raymond Berg
Experience Level: Novice

First time at PyCon? Not sure what to do while you are there? How do you network? Will it hurt?

All your questions about about America's biggest Python conference will be answered in a way that will probably help anyone at any conference.

Shipping ChiPy: Running ChiPy.org on a Kubernetes Cluster
(45 Minutes)
By: Joe Jasinski
Experience Level: Intermediate

Join us for an insightful talk where we delve into Kubernetes, the industry-standard deployment technology. Experience firsthand the deployment of a Python application as we transform the chipy.org website to operate on Kubernetes. Explore essential concepts including Nodes, Deployments, Jobs, Services, Ingress, PV/PVCs, Operators, ServiceAccounts, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and more!

Understanding Unicode
(20 Minutes)
By: Evan Hahn
Experience Level: Intermediate

The farmer emoji (👩🏾‍🌾) is a bit of a mystery.

In Python, its length is 4.

Same in Ruby. In JavaScript, its length is 7. It's 15 in Go and 12 in Java. There's just one character here...shouldn't they all have the same length: 1?

To understand this madness, you need to understand a little about Unicode. Many developers, myself included, get intimidated by Unicode. What's "UTF-8"? What's a "code point"? What does "U+1F937" mean?

In this talk, I'll try to answer these questions so that the next time someone gets confused by the length of the farmer emoji, you can help.