Jon Banafato

📆 Two months of Friday the 13ths in a row? Good year for folks looking for excuses to watch winter horror movies.

☝️ Starts about eight hours from now.

Factually! with Adam Conover | How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen | Podcastindex.org The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, lead to creative solutions, and even inspire entirely new models of play, like speed running a video game. But when systems of metrics are applied to our actual lives, it’s… not as nice. “Gamification” is just one symptom of our society’s obsession with metrics, and while we tend to like to see Number Go Up, attempting to maximize our “scores” in various aspects of life only seems to make us unhappy. This week, Adam tal...

I don't listen to this podcast super often, but I enjoyed this episode quite a bit podcastindex.org/podcast/905431?episode=49900454903

A goal of mine is to get more organizers from a broader range of communities involved here. I believe we'll all benefit from more cross-community discussion and collaboration. Happy to chat if you have questions about the group; or, if you're already sold on it, the invite link is on the website.

Lots of us are Python conference organizers, but we have folks from other tech and non-tech communities in the group as well. We're a friendly and supportive bunch, so if you're looking to talk shop with other organizers, I encourage you to join.

Conference Chats A community space for community organizers. Join our twice-monthly video calls and Discord server to share advice, support, news, and other topics related to community organizing and event planning.

Twice each month, a group of us at Conference Chats (www.conferencechats.org) meet on a video call to discuss community organizing topics. Our next call is tomorrow at 9PM US Eastern time (~25.5 hours from now). No experience necessary, open to anyone interested in community organizing.

📺️ Rabbit Trap (2025)

Small cast, more vibes than story, and definitely worth a watch.

🤲 Boston TS Club needs your help! We're out of a venue space and are on the lookout for one who can host our monthly meetups.

If you work at or know of a company who wants to support the local web development & JavaScript/TypeScript community, please let us know. 💙

The Maintainer Summit is returning to PyCon US 2026. And we have our CFP open!

Come share your talks, stories, ideas about the maintaining open source with us.

secretcodes.dev/maintainer-s...

#PyConUS #MaintainerSummit #CFP #OpenSource #PublicSpeaking

PyCon US 2026 - Last call for Community Booth Applications! Deadline to Apply - February 6, 2026

⏰ Last call for #PyConUS 2026 Community Booth applications!! Deadline to apply is tomorrow, February 6th

Show off your project, meet the community, and be part of PyCon US! Don't wait - submit now while there's still time!

👉 us.pycon.org/2026/attend/...

Today is not Friday, but we are down to the final hours for a lot of folks who are able to take advantage of things like employer matches during fundraising drives. If you have that or other reasons to donate to organizations before the end of the year, let this be a reminder.

📺 I'm a little late on watching it this year, and it's not part of my usual winter / Christmas double feature with friends, but this grey, snowy day is a good day to watch Krampus (2015).

Thank you to everyone who proposed a session to PyCon US this year, to those who helped spread the word and promote the CFP, and to the folks who are hard at work reviewing everything. I am *stoked* to be a part of the conference, just five short months away.

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We are only $𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝗵𝘆 of hitting $𝟭𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 raised this year!
If you value our mission of elevating Black Pythonistas, now is the perfect time to chip in.
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Graphic with the blue, orange, and yellow blocks of color with the text "Python is for everyone" on a black background. Underneath is a simple white snake. At the bottom is the PSF logo.

You did it—AGAIN! Thanks to you, we hit our second fundraiser goal of $400k 🤯 everyone at the PSF is feeling heaps of astonishment & gratitude for our community’s generosity.

Words can’t fully capture how grateful we are, but we’ll try:

Thank you 💝
Thank YOU 💙💛
THANK YOU 🥰🐍🥰

#PythonForEveryone

🎉 A record-breaking year for the #PyConUS 2026 CFP! The PyCon US CFP is officially closed, and we received 1,015 proposal submissions — WOW 😮

A HUGE thank you to everyone for sharing your ideas, expertise, and passion with the community. We’re excited for what’s ahead! 🐍🚀

You only have a few hours left to submit your PyCon US 2026 talks! I've submitted three so far, hoping that one of them gets selected.

pretalx.com/pycon-us-2026/

Boosting the thing again 👇. Donate! Speak! Help others do the same! Help build a better world for the groups that have helped you.

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We're at 97% of our *second* goal of $400K 🫨🥰

It's also the *VERY LAST DAY* to get 30% off @pycharm.dev Pro from @jetbrains.com with ALL proceeds going to the PSF!

Will you be the one to tip us over our goal? Grab PyCharm & support #PythonForEveryone!

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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!

Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)

Ever wanted to play #Python Community Bingo? Now’s your chance!

Thanks to Rodrigo Silva Ferreira for creating this game supporting the PSF and #PythonForEveryone 🙏

Play along, celebrate the community—and if you can, donate to the PSF to help keep Python accessible to all 💙

Proposal Guidelines PyCon US 2026

The PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals is open for just a couple more days, and you (yes, you!) have something to talk about! You can find info and details about proposing Talks, Charlas, Tutorials, and Posters at https://
us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/.

Have you gotten your proposals in yet?

Proposal Guidelines PyCon US 2026

The PyCon US 2026 Call for Proposals is open for just a couple more days, and you (yes, you!) have something to talk about! You can find info and details about proposing Talks, Charlas, Tutorials, and Posters at https://
us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/guidelines/.

Have you gotten your proposals in yet?

Just 2 days left! Thank you for listening to us shout about this! We are almost at the finish line!

Join us in Long Beach!

I think the medium-agnostic "dramatization" captures this pretty well, but how well that lands might depend on your audience.

Like every first Friday of the month, a group of conference organizers get together to talk shop via Conference Chats. Open to anyone interested in conference, event, and community organizing. Today's call is at 1:00PM EST (time.is/compare/1PM_...) Details and invite link at www.conferencechats.org.

🌴🐍 PyCon US 2026 is heading to California! 🇺🇸☀️
Join us in Long Beach for the world’s largest Python conference! 💙

📅 May 13–19, 2026
📍 Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center

💡 CFP open until Dec 19, 2025
🤝 Sponsorships now open
🔗 us.pycon.org/2026

#PyConUS2026 #Python #PSF @python.org

✨ Call for Maintainers ✨ · Issue #959 · all-contributors/all-contributors.github.io The all contributors bot is seeking new maintainers Thousands of projects use the All-Contributors bot to acknowledge contributors, but we need help maintaining it. We have recently redone the docu...

The all-contributors GitHub bot project is looking for new maintainers. Could this be you?

github.com/all-contribu...

#OpenSource

PyCon US 2026 - May 13-May 19, 2026 in Long Beach, CA

The wait is over — #PyConUS 2026 is here! 🙌

The #PyConUS 2026 site is now LIVE and the Call for Proposals is OPEN! We can't wait to welcome you to Long Beach, CA this spring and spotlight the incredible work happening across the Python community 🐍

👉 Details: pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pyco...