Python Language Summit
# TL;DR
* **When:** Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 10am–4pm
* **Where:** Room 13, Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio
* **Co-chairs**: [Mariatta](https://twitter.com/mariatta) and [Łukasz](https://twitter.com/llanga)
* **Blogger**: [A. Jesse Jiryu Davis](https://twitter.com/jessejiryudavis)
* [Volunteer to be Language Summit Greeters](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VtA9BqpzWxlcCHPvupdQhggXq-XorMXuHktkBO04SE/edit#gid=2101799044) (2 volunteers needed)
Language summit attendees are also invited to dinner with PyCon staff and volunteers. Details have been forwarded to all attendees.
# Python Language Summit 2019
The Python Language Summit is an event for the developers of Python
implementations (CPython, PyPy, Jython, and so on) to share information,
discuss our shared problems, and — hopefully — solve them.
These issues might be related to the language itself, the standard
library, the development process, status of Python 3.8 (or plans for
3.9), the documentation, packaging, the website, et cetera. The Summit
focuses on discussion more than on presentations.
We received numerous topic proposals from Python core developers as well as from
members of the wider Python community, all are very interesting and important.
We have selected a number of topics to be discussed and as lightning talks.
## Schedule
10:00 AM **Welcome, introductions**
10:15 AM **Lightning talks**, round 1 (Pre-selected lightning talks)
11:00 AM **Python on other platforms**, Russell Keith-Magee
11:30 AM **Time Zones in the Standard Library**, Paul Ganssle
12:00 PM **Batteries Included, But They're Leaking**, Amber Brown
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM **Lunch**
1:30 PM **History of CircuitPython**, Scott Shawcroft
2:00 PM **Dynamic extension module objects**, Petr Viktorin
2:30 PM **PEP 581 / PEP 588**, Mariatta
3:00 PM **break**
3:30 PM **Feedback on mentoring Python contributors**, Victor Stinner
4:00 PM **Lightning talks**, round 2 (sign up onsite)
6:30 PM **Dinner**
### Pre-selected Lightning Talks (10:15 AM - 11 AM)
- **Python 3.9 release cadence**, Łukasz Langa
- **The Night's Watch is fixing the CIs in the darkness for you**, Pablo Galindo Salgado, Víctor Stinner
- **Writing stdlib C extension modules in Python?**, Jukka Lehtosalo
- **Asyncio and the Case for Re-entrancy**, Jason Fried
- **Async REPL and async-exec**, Matthias Bussonnier
- **Optimising CPython, or not.**, Mark Shannon
We are at full capacity and we’re not able to accept additional invitation requests
to the language summit. A. Jesse Jiryu Davis will be covering the event and will
post a detailed write up on the official blog of The PSF shortly after the conference
so you won’t be missing out.
We hope to see you at the Summit!
-- [Mariatta](https://twitter.com/mariatta) and [Łukasz](https://twitter.com/llanga)
PS. If you have any questions, the [Users section](https://discuss.python.org/c/users) of our [Discourse
instance](https://discuss.python.org/c/users) is the best place to ask.
For private communication, write to mariatta at python.org and/or
lukasz at python.org.
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