Schedule

Wednesday (05 oct)
Time Clubhouse
08:30 - 09:00 SWC: Welcome and Coffee
09:00 - 09:30 SWC: Introduction
09:30 - 10:30 SWC: Introduction to Python (I)
10:30 - 11:00 SWC: Morning Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 SWC: Introduction to Python (II)
12:30 - 13:30 SWC: Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 SWC: Introduction to Python (III)
15:00 - 15:30 SWC: Afternoon Coffee
15:30 - 16:45 SWC: Introduction to Python (IV)
16:45 - 17:00 SWC: Day 1 Wrap Up
Thursday (06 oct)
Time Congo Room Orange Room Tugela Room Berg Room Clubhouse Liesbeek
08:30 - 09:00 Registration SWC Day 2: Welcome and Coffee Reserved
09:00 - 09:15 SWC: Version control with Git (I)
09:15 - 09:30 Opening by David Sharpe
09:30 - 10:30 Keeping up with the pace of a fast growing community without dying
by Flavio Percoco
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and Tea Break
11:00 - 11:45 Running Django Applications on GAE - Flexible Environment (Previously Managed VMs)
by Kenneth Kinyanjui & James Mwai
Python, Pet of Architects
by Navid Hatefnia
An introduction to interfacing with C using CFFI
by Neil Muller
Django Girls SWC: Version control with Git (II) Open Spaces
11:45 - 12:30 Scaling Django from server to browser through an efficient caching strategy
by Hedley Roos
Listen to the Snake
by Travis Pawley
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 RevDB, a reverse debugger
by Armin Rigo
Python in Viral Bioinformatics Research
by Trevor Bell
Introduction to Test Driven Development with Python
by Humphrey Butau
Django Girls SWC: Automation with the Unix shell (I) Open Spaces
14:15 - 15:00 Optimizing Python programs, PyPy to the rescue
by Richard Plangger
Beating the bugs: Simulating drug resistance in viral and bacterial DNA using Python and AWS
by Imogen Wright
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and Tea Break
15:30 - 16:15 Some less obvious uses of SQLite
by Stephan Van Ellewee
Ensure Python Development: Practical strides that we can take to ensure Python skills development
by Jessica Upani
Experiments with test setup
by Iwan Vosloo
Django Girls SWC: Automation with the Unix shell (II) Open Spaces
16:15 - 17:00 Stream processing made easy with riko
by Reuben Cummings
Public Python for the greater good
by JD Bothma
Contributing to python open source Infrastructure and projects
by Joannah Nanjekye
17:00 - 17:30 Thursday Lightning Talks by Neil Muller
Friday (07 oct)
Time Congo Room Orange Room Tugela Room Berg Room Liesbeek
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival & Morning Coffee
09:00 - 10:15 Panel Discussion: Teaching Python by Simon Cross Open Spaces
10:15 - 11:00 Juggling GPU tasks with asyncio
by Bruce Merry
Experiences debugging memory bloat and high CPU consumption in python
by Alexandre Hardy
Open Source Software Initiatives in Zimbabwe
by Anna Makarudze
Django Girls
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break
11:30 - 12:15 Reliably Distributing Binary Modules
by Paul Kehrer
Selling groceries online using Postgres, Flask, Docker & Android
by Petrus Janse van Rensburg
Deep Learning in Python
by Tobias Brandt
Django Girls Open Spaces
12:15 - 13:00 MicroPython: Python for microcontrollers and constrained environments
by Christo Goosen
How to use python and flask to capture downtime losses on a production line
by Ronald Tendai Maravanyika
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 Distributed Applications in Python: Celery vs Crossbar
by Adam Jorgensen
Machine Learning in Python - Gaussian Processes
by Philip Sterne
Data Mining and Processing for fun and profit
by Reuben Cummings
Django Girls Open Spaces
14:30 - 15:15 Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics
by Hynek Schlawack
Building for 100x scale
by Simon Kelly
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee and Tea Break
15:45 - 16:30 Computer Vision: Creating a complex color polling project using Python, OpenCV and Raspberry Pi
by Irikidzai Muchaneta
Traversing the last mile to the financially underserved with Python
by Ted Pietrzak & Sam Kitonyi
Python-assisted creative writing: managing dynamic gender in RPG scenarios
by Adrianna Pińska
Django Girls Open Spaces
16:30 - 17:00 Friday Lightning Talks by Simon Cross
17:00 - 18:00 How development models affect the team
by Maciej Fijałkowski
18:00 - 18:10 Closing by David Sharpe
18:10 - 21:00 Drinks & Snacks
Saturday (08 oct)
Time Oracle Cloud Development Centre
09:00 - 20:00 Sprints
Sunday (09 oct)
Time Oracle Cloud Development Centre
09:00 - 20:00 Sprints