PyCascades Talk Night Rehearsal & Best of PyCascades 2020
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PyLadies & PyCascades Talk Proposal - Join us for an informal talk proposal rehearsal session. Whether you have a talk idea for PyCascades, PyCon, or other meetups or conferences, we'd like to hear it! All skill levels welcome! Even if you don't have any talk idea yourself, you're still welcome to listen or to participate in the discussion.
Best of PyCascades 2020 - For the latter half of the evening, we will pick some of the most interesting talks to watch and discuss from PyCascades 2020.
** Featured Speakers **
- LACEY WILLIAMS HENSCHEL
When I started writing Django REST Framework code in 2017, there was a lot I didn't know, like how class-based views worked and what a serializer was.
After 3+ years of using DRF, I want to share the things I've learned that make writing DRF code easier and faster for me. You will learn how to save time and lines of code by using DRF's built-in viewsets (and what a viewset is), when to skip the viewset and use a built-in generic `APIView`, and how to add custom endpoints (actions) to your viewsets. You'll also learn how modular DRF can be when you customize built-in methods or use different serializers for different parts of your viewset, and how tools like Classy DRF can help.
You will walk away from this talk ready to start your first DRF project, make your existing projects simpler and cleaner, or (at the very least) with a better understanding of how a class-based view works.
2021.pycascades.com/program/talks/what-you-should-know-about-django-rest-framework/
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TANUSHRI CHAKRAVORTY
The Mood Machine - Building an Emotion Detection system in Python
In this session, we will learn how a deep neural network can be trained to detect face emotions using open-source tools and libraries. -
MARIATTA WIJAYA
How has the global pandemic impacted Core Python development? Our lives has been impacted by it. Events and conferences were cancelled, and everything shifted to virtual and online activities. Has any of this affected open source contributions at all?
Mariatta, an open source contributor and a Python core developer, has analyzed GitHub contributions data to the CPython repository from the past several years. In this talk, she will share her findings and insights from a multi-year range, and the timeline phases during the pandemic.
SPEAKER BIOS
- Lacey Williams Henschel is a Django consultant with REVSYS with about 10 years of experience programming in Python and Django. She's a skilled technical writer, coding teacher, workshop mentor, and conference speaker who is passionate about helping complex topics go from "intimidating" to "totally doable" for people.
Previously, she's spoken at DjangoCon US, DjangoCon Europe, PyGotham, Wagtail Space US, and PostgresOpen, among other conferences. She lives in Oregon with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
@laceynwilliams
laceyhenschel.com
- Tanushri Chakravorty is working as an AI Developer at LeddarTech Inc. She completed her PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal where she worked on developing face tracking techniques for visual object tracking in video sequences.
She has been involved in research on Computer Vision, AI and Machine Learning domain for the last 4 years and has delivered talks on object tracking in conferences like ICIP (2015) and CVPR (2016) where she has demonstrated her research for robust face tracking. Her present research involves developing AI algorithms for autonomous vehicles.
sites.google.com/view/tanushrichakravorty/home
@tanushri_c
- Mariatta Wijaya is a Python Core Developer, Staff Software Engineer at Uplight, and the Vancouver PyLadies co-organizer, and one of the founding members of the PyCascades conference. She moved to Canada almost two decades ago, and now lives in Vancouver with her husband and two children. In her free time, she contributes to open source, builds GitHub bots, and fixes typos.
PyCascades Talk Night Rehearsal & Best of PyCascades 2020