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We've been collecting slides, videos and notes from PyCon on Lanyrd. Here's our collection:

http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/coverage/

(Or browse from the schedule: http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/schedule/ )

88 slide decks and 53 videos so far.

PyPy talk slides are missing (despite loading in the small window) http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/scdytr/

Are you using Safari? There seems to be a bug with Speaker Deck where Safari doesn't like the SSL certificate served for the images (Chrome on OS X works fine). I've let Speaker Deck know about the problem.

Awesome. But for easier on-page search, it would be cool if the name of the speaker(s) would be shown on the overview lists.

And a torrent ;)

Thanks! Some of your links are broken, the link to "Things to make writing tests easier (speakerdeck.com)" should be https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/things-to-make-writing-t... (or better http://pycon.github.com/2013-slides/Things%20to%20make%20wri...).

Anyone else think "Sweet Jesus" when this link turned out to be a list of very interesting and widely appealing Python-related videos instead of something to do with purported sexism?

Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.

How many people are thinking of an issue for every persion than mentions it?

Please don't carry that into every thread about Python...

Now they're seeing what us Rubyists had to put up with for a while..

I should probably leave this can of worms closed.. but I'm curious. Did you Ruby guys have a similar debacle at one of your conferences?

Yes and no. There have been various things including people including naughty pictures on slides, speaker rosters not being diverse enough, etc. Nothing to be proud of, but a certain group of saber-rattlers believes it's indicative of a 'community' problem, when as this week's issue shows, it's really just the sort of social clashes you get when any large number of people come together.

That is, this is no more a sign of the "Python community" being bad as the other dramas were for the "Ruby community."

Some amazing content in here.

Love the talk on how the internet works, it's a great intro for people who are getting into the web.

Getting started with automated testing is a great intro for that subject as well.

Also, kudos to the Pycon video team for getting these videos up less than a week after the conference!

Note: Looks like the videos are still being uploaded.

Yep, more will be coming online. Looks like you can track updates at http://twitter.com/NextDayVideo until it's all up.

For those of you looking for a refresher, there is a Linear Algebra class coming up in June on Coursera that uses Python as the main language for a variety of applications. I'm very excited for it, should be fun.

Do you have a link to that? Couldn't find it through their search.

(edit: doh; of course Googling worked... https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix )

Here's what I desperately want: A ranking of these videos so I could tell which ones are the best. There are going to be so many and I don't have time to go through them all. If people were able to vote on the ones they liked so I could see just the top 20 videos, that would be superb.

pyvideo.org is open source: https://github.com/willkg/richard you can implement that feature and send a pull request

or you could write your own app, that consumes the API http://pyvideo.org/api/v1/

For watching on an iOS device, I just discovered the 'Swift Player' app for enabling 2x playback, swipe-10s-jump, and background audio playback for videos on YouTube and elsewhere:

http://tapparatus.com/swift

I really enjoyed Raymond Hettinger's keynote and his classful development in Python session. Intermediate and advanced Python programmers should watch these as soon as they are up!

Anyone has a good recommendation on "must see" video from pycon? Most of them look quite interesting (python at netflix, automated testing, Guido's keynote etc.) but if someone has any suggestions please let me know :)

It depends what you're interested in. I found these two the most interesting:

http://pyvideo.org/video/1796/simplecv-computer-vision-using...

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2013-pycon-awesome-big-data-algo... (No video posted yet?)

The elasticsearch talk (http://pyvideo.org/video/1784/elasticsearch-part-1-indexing-...) is fantastic. Can't wait for part 2.

That's my voice at the beginning. :)

I was really excited about the talk which is why I volunteered to chair the session. I was happy with the result!

How might I get these into an audio only form, preferably via an RSS feed? (Although if I had the raw audio files I can make the RSS myself.)

The recursiveness of PythonBrazil sponsoring PyCon is confusing me atm.

(Refer to the last page in the sponsor navigation)

PyCon reserves a few spaces in the expo hall for community organizations and open source projects to run a booth free of charge.

PyAr (Argentina) also wanted to run a booth to interest people in heading down there, especially because the conference occurs close to PythonBrazil, but we were full when they asked.

For what is worth, next year would be cool if people were actually force to man the booths. There were a few where there was literally noone there all the time. All cool by me, but a waste of space given some people who asked didn't get a booth.

Since my talk isn't up yet, I'll self-plug: MTO On Blast: Using language models to identify endemic constructions in a hip hop gossip blog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STikIKmsOy8

It's great to see how far pyvideo's gone since early last year. It may be because I'm still on the noob side of Python, but it's been an amazing resource since my first visit.

Where's Guido's keynote?

They're still processing and uploading videos. It'll be up soon, I imagine.

Edit: It JUST went up on YouTube and Lanyrd 10 minutes ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQLVm0-8Yg. Not sure why the downvotes.

It just went up: http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/scfdpc/

I recommend downloading with youtube-dl etc. and watching in VLC at 1.5x etc. Only way to get thru so many great videos in a reasonable time.

If you own a Roku and install Twonky media server, you can beam (watch) the videos on your flat screen, from your smartphone.

just enable html5 player and you can choose 1.5 on youtube. Or, if it too fast (depending on the speaker), just do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.3

I believe I use html5 w/youtube, though not easy to tell. Is this javascript the only interface?

FYI, VLC accepts YouTube links in File > Open Network..., so you don't even have to download them.

Very interesting... though there doesn't seem to be much buffer. Running at 1.5x I get to the end of the buffer often and it doesn't stream when it is paused. :( Back to downloading.

I wrote a simple package that wraps youtube-dl so I download talks to my iphone and watch on my commute: https://github.com/codeinthehole/pyvideo2quicktime

I'd love to see someone summarize these, just a couple paragraphs hitting the key points, and URLs/libraries mentioned.

Will the lightning talks also be uploaded? I heard there was a Docker talk.

Will there be video of TiP BoF posted?

No, TiP BoF is not recorded since is after hours

At what point are the big dongle sketches?

What is the point of asking this?

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