BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T052240Z UID:LGFcrQ DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190509 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20190412T161302 DESCRIPTION: On the second Wed of each month\, join ~180 devs at SF Python' s presentation night. \n\n If you'd like to present at future meetups\, pl ease submit your talk ideas here \n\n Our generous sponsor Yelp will also provide pizza and drinks for this evening. \n\n PROGRAM \n\n Short talk (1 0mins) \n\n Write your first UI application with Python\, Cristián Maurei ra \n\n Do you know what does Desktop\, Embedded\, Mobile\, Automotive\, M edical and even Data Science applications have in common? I will give you the key to start using one of the most powerful cross platform framework t o build user interfaces\, the Qt project!\, which now is officially suppor ting Python! \n\n Cristián has been a Python enthusiast for more than 10 years\, and due to his academic background he has been using it in differe nt topics like Image Processing\, Artificial Intelligence\, Robotics\, Dat a Science\, and Astrophysics. Currently he is a Software Engineer at The Q t Company working on the Qt for Python project. \n\n Short talk (15 mins) \n\n Using randomized controlled trials and AI to discover what makes a p olitical ad persuasive\, Valerie Coffman \n\n Swayable is a platform for p redicting the persuasive impact of content launched in January of 2018. Du ring the 2018 midterm election cycle\, we tested over 500 political ads an d surveyed over 300k people. As a result\, we've amassed the most extensiv e data set we know of that links videos to their persuasive power. This ta lk will give an overview of how we gather and analyze data using Celery an d Pandas\, and our ongoing work using image recognition and natural langua ge processing to extract insights into how to make a successful video ad. \n\n Valerie has a BS in Physics from Johns Hopkins and a PhD in Computati onal Physics from Cornell. She was CTO/CSO of Xometry\, an online platform for on-demand manufacturing and is currently CTO and Co-founder of Swayab le. \n\n Short talk (15mins) \n\n Make the Most of It: Negotiation and Sel f-Advocacy\, Lusen Mendel \n\n Feeling confident about your work doesn’t automatically make you good at advocating for yourself. Many competent en gineers avoid negotiating offers\, asking for raises\, or talking with man agers about desired work responsibilities. However\, negotiation and self- advocacy are an important part of any healthy employment relationship\, an d will allow you to make the most of your professional opportunities. This session is helpful for anyone who wants to strengthen their self-advocacy skills. Based on Lusen's experience in engineering management and candida te coaching\, you'll walk away with knowledge and confidence for your next employment conversation. \n\n Lusen/they/them is Director of Interviewin g at Karat. They founded a start-up and a non-profit many years ago\, work ed as an engineering manager at Rackspace and Indiegogo\, and consult on o rganizational diversity\, equity and inclusion. Lusen recently started Dan goorMendel to level the corporate playing field and work directly with eng ineers on their interviewing and negotiation skills. Lusen speaks regularl y about interviewing\, hiring and management best practices. \n\n Main tal k (25mins) \n\n Python Decorators and Diversions\, Richard Haven \n\n Pyth on decorators are an easy way to add meta and mixin behavior to code. They can enhance functions\, methods\, and even whole classes. And once you ca n get your head around function variables\, they are pretty straight-forwa rd. With one exception.\nLearn how the mechanism works so you can add timi ng\, caching\, security\, metrics\, and more to any part of your code. \n\ n Richard Haven has been knocking about software development entirely too long. While able to explain what life was like before OOP\, he is more int erested in how Functional Programming resembles Structured Programming\, a nd how to show useful correlations. \n\n AGENDA \n\n 6:00p - Check-in and mingle\, with food provided by our generous sponsor! \n\n 7:05p - Welcome \n\n 7:30p - Door close \n\n 7:10p - Announcements\, lightning talks and m ain talk \n\n 8:15p - More mingling \n\n 9:30p - Hard stop \n\n This event is produced by: \n\n SF Python\, a volunteers-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. Please check out their flagsh ip event\, PyBay2019\, 4th Annual Regional Python Conference in SF on Augu st 15-18. \n\n Yelp sees 89 million mobile users and 79 million desktop us ers every month. Keeping everything running smoothly requires the best and brightest in the industry. Their engineers come from diverse technical ba ckgrounds and value digital craftsmanship\, open-source\, and creative pro blem-solving. They write tests\, review code\, and push multiple times a d ay. Come out and talk to them. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20240728T211358 LOCATION:Yelp\, 140 New Montgomery Street\, San Francisco\, CA ORGANIZER:mailto:grace@pybay.com SUMMARY:SF Python Presentation Night - May 2019 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/sf-python/presentation-may-08-2019 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/sf-python/presentation-may-08-2019 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR