All videos available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg
Lessons learned:

pick up swag on day one. vendors run out.
take business cards with you and keep them on you
Not your actual business cards unless you are representing your company.
Cards that have your social media, github account, blog, or podcast or whatever on them.
3x3 stickers are too big. 2x2 plenty big enough
lightening talks are awesome, because they are a lot of ranges of speaking experience
will definitely do that again
try to go to the talks that are important to you, but don’t over stress about it, since they are taped. However, it would be lame if all the rooms were empty, so don’t everybody ditch.
lastly: everyone knows Michael.



Michael #2: How to Create Your First Python 3.6 AWS Lambda Function


Tutorial from Full Stack Python
Walks you through creating an account
Select your Python version (3.6, yes!)
def lambda_handler(event, context): … # write this function, done!
Set and read environment variables (could be connection strings and API keys)


Brian #3: How to Publish Your Package on PYPI


jetbrains article

structure of the package
oops. doesn't include src, see https://pythonbytes.fm/22
decent discussion of a the contents of the setup.py file (but interestingly absent is an example setup.py file)
good discussion of .pypirc file and links to the test and production PyPi
example of using twine to push to PyPI
overall: good discussion, but you'll still need a decent example.



Michael #4: Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming


Coconut is a functional programming language that compiles to Python.
Since all valid Python is valid Coconut, using Coconut will only extend and enhance what you're already capable of in Python.
pip install coconut

Some of Coconut’s major features include built-in, syntactic support for:
Pattern-matching,
Algebraic data-types,
Tail call optimization,
Partial application,
Better lambdas,
Parallelization primitives, and
A whole lot more, all of which can be found in Coconut’s detailed documentation.

Talk Python episode coming in a week


Brian #5: Choose a licence


MIT : simple and permissive
Apache 2.0 : something extra about patents.
GPL v3 : this is the contagious one that requires derivitive work to also be GPL v3
Nice list with overviews of what they all mean with color coded bullet points: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/


Michael #6: Python for Scientists and Engineers


Table of contents:
Beginners Start Here:

Create a Word Counter in Python
An introduction to Numpy and Matplotlib
Introduction to Pandas with Practical Examples (New)

Main Book

Image and Video Processing in Python
Data Analysis with Pandas
Audio and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Control Your Raspberry Pi From Your Phone / Tablet

Machine Learning Section

Machine Learning with an Amazon like Recommendation Engine
Machine Learning For Complete Beginners: Learn how to predict how many Titanic survivors using machine learning. No previous knowledge needed!
Cross Validation and Model Selection: In which we look at cross validation, and how to choose between different machine learning algorithms. Working with the Iris flower dataset and the Pima diabetes dataset.

Natural Language Processing

Introduction to NLP and Sentiment Analysis
Natural Language Processing with NTLK
Intro to NTLK, Part 2
Build a sentiment analysis program
Sentiment Analysis with Twitter
Analysing the Enron Email Corpus: The Enron Email corpus has half a million files spread over 2.5 GB. When looking at data this size, the question is, where do you even start?
Build a Spam Filter using the Enron Corpus



In other news:


Python Testing with pytest Beta release and initial feedback is going very well.