PyCascades was started in 2018 as a regional PyCon for the Cascades Region, celebrating the west coast Python developer and user community. Our organizing team includes members of the Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland Python user groups. You…
In any PyCascades space (events or online), if you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct, we ask that you report it in one of the following ways: Reports will not be available to all staff, instead, they will be available to a li…
This document aims to help organizers and moderators of PyCascades spaces to handle reports of Code of Conduct violations. Presentations or similar events should not be stopped for one-time gaffes or minor problems, although a member of con…
Our community matters to us at PyCascades. As such we have a duty to project one another and keep each other safe. Since our return to in-person events we have required masking in all or most areas. Our commitment to the health and safety f…
Questionable queues, distributed storage chaos, stateful steps, and race conditions galore! Come join us as we dive into the wild world of queues and tasks in Python to perform asynchronous jobs, and how we built a system to manage user del…
PyCascades 2025 will be offering a way for folks to attend remotely. We'll update this page when we have more information. For our online attendees, we are holding the conference programs in Venueless. You'll enter Venueless via your Pretix…
Living on Washington State’s peninsula offers endless beauty, nature, and commuting challenges. In this talk, I’ll share how I built an agentic AI system that creates and compares optimal routes to the mainland, factoring in ferry schedules…
PyLadiesCon is an online conference for the Global PyLadies community. It is one of a kind conference with programming spans 24 hours and offering talks and contents in multiple languages. Run entirely by volunteers, we face unique challeng…
The open source community is all about giving back and learning from one another. No matter how small, every contribution is valuable. And everyone can contribute something with a little bit of help. The hardest part is finding something to…
In tech, it’s easy to get caught up in ego. Chasing the smartest solutions, writing the most complex code, or proving who’s the best in the room. But Python has a funny way of humbling us. Its simplicity reminds us that good code isn’t abou…
When you move from Junior to Mid-level Software Engineer, you’re mostly building on what you already know. You get better at writing clean code, you pick up speed, and you start to really understand how your team works. But making the leap
In this talk attendees will learn about Jython, an open source implementation of the Python programming language, integrated with the Java platform for music making and creative programming activities. Attendees will leave this talk with an…