Last week we announced our “big tent” at PyCon 2019 with the blog post PyCharm Hosts Python Content Creators at Expanded PyCon Booth. Next week we’ll announce more on each individual piece.

Today, let’s do an overview of the kinds of activities in “the big tent.”

Workshops

Miguel Grinberg, one of the boothmates, is doing his First Steps in Web Development With Python tutorial Thursday morning, 9AM to 12:20. He’s fantastic at this and a real icon of PyCon tutorials over the years.

Thursday afternoon at 3:30 I’m doing 42 PyCharm Tips and Tricks in Room 13. It’s a hands-on workshop with a secret twist which I’ll reveal at the event (and after.) We’ll have some of the PyCharm team with me to help folks in the audience with questions.

Reception

PyCon’s opening reception starts at 5:30PM on the show floor. It’s got food, it’s got drinks, it’s got…our packed booth with lots of stuff going on. Come meet ten of us from the PyCharm team, along with the Content Creators: Michael Kennedy, Brian Okken, Dan Bader, Miguel Grinberg, Matt Harrison, Anthony Shaw, Luciano Ramalho, Bob Belderbos, Julian Sequeira, and Chris Medina. Perhaps even a FLUFL sighting.

Some activities in the mini-theater:

• 6PM Michael and Matt have a special announcement, née an unveiling
• 6:30 Brian does some recordings for a special Test&Code podcast episode
• Our videography team will be roaming around cranking out footage

PyCharm Stand

Come meet the PyCharm team! We’ll have ten of us, most from the core team. We go to events not to do sales but to listen. (Some might say, face the consequences of our decisions.) Want to talk to the main developer of our debugger? She’s there. Ditto for the new Jupyter support, vim emulation, etc.

Or if you just want to say hi, then please come by, take a picture and tweet it, and get a retweet from us.

Content Creators Stands

Podcasts, articles, video courses and training, books…as the previous article mentioned, we have a home for many of the key Python “content creators” to share a presence, use the mini-theater and one-on-one space, and just hang out and have fun.

There are two stands for them to share in timeslots throughout the conference. We’ll make the schedule available closer to PyCon. But they’ll all be around for the reception.

Mini-Theater

This is the second big addition this year: booth space for small talks, both scheduled and impromptu, by the PyCharm team, the Content Creators, and even by some others. We’ll announce this in detail later.

Not just talks…we’ll announce some special events as well.

One-on-Ones

“Can you take a look at my project?” We get this a lot at conferences, as well as “I’m really interested in the new Jupyter support”, or “I heard your pytest support is really neat, can you show me?”

The PyCharm booth will have a dedicated area along with the conference miracle of seating, where we can work one-on-one. Bring your laptop “into the shop” for diagnosis. Show us some big idea you’ve been working on. Get a tour of some PyCharm feature that interests you, from the person that implemented it.

This also applies to the Content Creators as well. Saw an article or listened to a podcast and want more? Pick a time to meet up with them in the one-on-one area. Did I mention seating?

Videography

We have a crew hanging around different times at the booth, doing interviews and producing clips. If you’re around and want to give a shoutout to PyCon for the hard (volunteer!) work putting on a great show, let’s get you on camera.

Want to meet key podcasters, authors, and teachers at PyCon? This year PyCharm has an expanded booth with space shared by many of the key “Python Content Creators.” Come say hi, watch short talks by them, us, and others in our mini-theater, or schedule one-on-one slots in our seating area.

We have lots more to announce on this in the coming weeks, but let’s lead with a quick overview.

Python Content Creators

We’re happy to be hosting our friends from PyCons past, giving these “Python Content Creators” booth space to talk with their folks:

• Michael Kennedy, Talk Python To Me
• Brian Okken, Test & Code
• Dan Bader, Real Python
• Matt Harrison, MetaSnake
• Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira, PyBites
• Cris Medina, tryexceptpass
• Miguel Grinberg

How will it work? We will have two stands, with their logos and information on the backstop. They’ll take 2 hours slots rotating through their “booth.” Look for announcements from them about the slots and other activities.

Other Activities, Tell Me More

Our booth has 4 equal parts: an area for PyCharm, an area for the Python Content Creators, a one-on-one place with chairs, and a mini-theater.

The one-on-one place lets the PyCharm development team (yes, the actual people that make PyCharm) or the Python Content Creators pre-arrange or spontaneously do individual discussions. If you want to get your PyCharm configured for your project with a PyCharm developer, this is your chance. Of course you can also debug something, do a deep dive on a topic, solve some problem, get feedback, whatever. Let’s face it, sometimes it’s nice at conferences to sit down and chat.

The mini-theater is the focus. We’ll have a schedule of talks by the PyCharm team, by the Python Content Creators, even by others…for example, Barry Warsaw and I will do a short version of the Python 1994 talk. We jokingly refer to this as the “PyCon Rejects Space.”

“Python Content Creators”…Neat Idea, Where Did It Come From?

Last year we participated in a Humble Bundle with several popular creators of Python training, courses, etc. We did an open space with the “Humble Bundlers” and were surprised by the response. People wanted to talk with us, collectively, as much as individually. And we wanted to talk with each other.

After the session we joked: “PyCharm should get a big ol’ booth next year and host the Humble Bundlers.” And here we are…joke-driven development.

We have much more to announce, so stay tuned to our blog, Twitter, and most importantly each of the Python Content Creators. This is going to be fun.

Just now at AnacondaCON, JetBrains CEO Max Shafirov, and Anaconda’s CEO Scott Collison announced the start of our collaboration.

The PyCharm team has been working hard in the last months to improve the data science experience in PyCharm. To serve the data science market even better, we’re happy to announce that we’re now joining forces with the leader in the data science space: Anaconda.

As a first step, we’re releasing PyCharm 2019.1.1 today, with some small improvements for using Conda environments in PyCharm: we’ve fixed various bugs related to creating Conda envs and installing packages into them.

We’d also like to announce the availability of PyCharm for Anaconda: a new version of PyCharm with enhanced Anaconda support.