PyBay2021 — Outdoors at SF’s coolest food truck park — Saturday, Oct 9
Yes, the threat of the Delta variant dominates the news. But online fatigue and social isolation are also hazardous to mental health.
As a community, we need to chart a new path forward — TOGETHER
I decided to change the format of the 6th annual PyBay, developers’ favorite Python conference in the Bay Area, to a one-day, single-track shindig — OUTDOORS — in San Francisco’s coolest food truck park.
It turns out to be a popular decision. The PyBay2021 Food Truck Edition was met with overwhelmingly positive response. Over 220 developers responded to our pre-conference survey:
- 97% are fully vaccinated
- 89% are cool with wearing masks at this outdoor conference to keep everyone safe
- 64% want to meet in-person, 8% can only attend if online is offered
- Another 6% would attend if we enforce vaccination and mask policy (many have kids and elderly at home)
We also have our first sponsor, EdgeDB, onboard to help create an amazing experience for developers.
If you’re interested in databases, you’ll be amazed at what EdgeDB has done to give you superpowers — it takes the tools and features you know and love — declarative schema, interactive migrations, deep querying, introspectability, and more — and bakes them directly into the database. Yoda says, “Check them out you must.”
With your enthusiastic support, here is da GAME PLAN for PyBay2021 — Food Truck Edition, the funnest Python developer gathering yet:
- Proof of vaccination (or a recent negative PCR test result) and mask wearing for in-person attendees is required.
- The conference will start with lunch so you can reconnect with friends and coworkers — there are 18 food trucks and several drinking holes to choose from.
- Talks from in-person speakers will start at 12:30 pm PST. They will be broadcast to attendees lounging in multiple bungalows and cabanas via large TVs and loudspeakers. They will also be live-streamed to online attendees.
- There will be a 20-minute break every hour during talks and a longer dinner break so you can give your brain and bladder a break, sample more great food and drinks, reinforce learning by digging deeper with your peers, and catch Guido in person!
- The fun goes on until we get kicked out at 9:00pm but memories will live on long after that. You will have enjoyed some sense of ‘normalcy’ and soaked up some vitamin D before winter comes.
- If Covid case rates or air quality threaten our health and fun, we’ll postpone to early April.
We are counting on YOU to submit great talks by August 31
Dig it? Want to make it even more fun for the 300 developers and 100+ online attendees? Consider becoming a speaker for PyBay2021- Food Truck Edition.
We are also counting on you to encourage your company to sponsor PyBay2021 — Food Truck Edition
It turns out that putting on an outdoor conference is not cheap. In order to secure a proper A/V for an outdoor event, provide in-person attendees food and drink tickets, and fund the additional cost of offering the conference online for those unable or uncomfortable attending in person, I need your help.
Please talk to your company and ask them to become a sponsor to help make this year’s PyBay the best experience possible: Fun and safe for everyone. Here are sponsorship options:
If your company wants to provide security guards to ensure Covid-19 compliance or to provide laptop and phone charging stations, we can make that happen too! Visit pybay.com for more details.
Let’s create a better reality for Pythonistas in the San Francisco Bay Area — TOGETHER
Looking forward to seeing you at PyBay2021 Food Truck Edition on October 9, 2021.
Thanks in advance for liking this post, saving the date, and spreading the word!
Your humble servant,
Grace Law
SF Python Founder and PyBay Conference Chair
