Well, that’s it for 2018.
Over the last 5 days, 713 Pythonistas from across the globe joined us for 90 sessions of talks by 113 speakers. 39 attendees were able to get to the conference with help of financial assistance, 400% more high school students present talks since last year, a 16-person-strong AV team was able to get 80 talks uploaded on YouTube before the conference close, with a shortest time to YouTube of 1h 15m (Watch the Videos from PyCon AU 2018)
We want to thank so many people who helped make PyCon AU 2018 possible:
- Tania Walker, who designed the new look for pyconau
- Kate Davenport & Christopher Neugebauer, who designed the 2018 conference shirt
- Kojo Idrissa & Russell Keith-Magee, who ran the First Timer’s Session
- Christopher Neugebauer, who ran the two Lightning Talk sessions
- All our lightning talk speakers, old and new
- All those who helped review Financial Aid applications
- The team who reviewed all 291 talk proposals
- Richard Jones, Tim Ansell, Clinton Roy, and Christopher Neugebauer, past PyCon AU organisers for their wisdom
- Katie Bell, Russell Keith-Magee, Amber Brown, Rachel Bunder, Peter Ward, our vigilant Conduct team
- Our childcarers, taking care of our junior Pythonistas all weekend
- Annie Parker, Shaqaeq Rezai, Tom Eastman, and Tracy Osborn, our invited speakers
- All our speakers, across all the Specialist Tracks and general conference
- Our session chairs
- All the volunteers
- The entire AV team
- The ICC Venue staff, especially Jeff and Barbara, our venue liasons
- Eliza Sorensen, Chris Watt, Daisy Leigh Brenecki, Markus Holtermann, Nicky Ringland, Nick Coghlan, Amanda Hogan, Lachlan Blackhall, Mike Leonard, Matt Trentini, our Specialist Track organisers
- Katie Bell, Site Co-Chair
- Lilly Ryan, our Papers Chair
- Russell Keith-Magee, our hardworking Treasurer
- Jack Skinner, our Operations and Volunteer Lead.
- all our attendees
- everyone else that we’ve missed
It’s been wonderful to see you all, and hopefully we’ll see you all again next year, 2 - 6 August 2019, back in Sydney for PyCon AU 2019
See you all again soon!,
Katie McLaughlin
PyCon AU 2018 Conference Director
