I start the PyCon Hong Kong in 2015 after I attend PyCon APAC in 2013 in Tokyo, and I always want to have a python conference like PyCon in USA and other big cities, which is not just a conference with general presentations on the stage, and more interactive between every participants. And I am happy that I visited PyCon US this year as a participant.
Difficulty in 2023
We organise the first in-person PyCon last November after the pandemic, and today is the 2nd one and first time we are having a mask off python conference.
Last year, we got over 200+ registrations, and we got only 100 three weeks before this conference, we got more difficulties this year rather than previously 7 PyCon HK I chaired for. And I always look forward to find out possible solutions. And I would like to thank our volunteer team and some of them are doing extra contributions.
Looking to the future
Before PyCon this year, I am thinking how should the Python community grow in the future. We tried to run 2-3 development sprints in Hong Kong, and I hopes we can try to have a development sprint in Hong Kong again, to sit down with developers from different python projects, hearing from them how to make a contribution and try to do it in PyCon. In my personal experience, I tried my 1st real PyCon development sprint in US this year and successfully made a PR contribution in 1 day with 100+ code lines to a Python project Beeware I never heard before! Starting from trying demo, reading a huge Python source codes to find out what does it do, and read the code and insert lines of codes again & again, and receive a challenge coin from the founding developer’s hand. He’s very happy that I did a lot (of lines) to close an opening issue. And I am happy for that as well.
And in the future, should we have PyCamp ? Education Track in PyCon again ? and other Python activities ? May ladies organise local PyLadies meetups ? I hopes I can listen to your feedback and how we can make them happens in Hong Kong.