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Python FOSDEM 2014

Presentation of the sponsors and the speakers.

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Python FOSDEM

February 09, 2014

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  2. The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation

    that holds the intellectual property rights behind the Python programming language. We manage the open source licensing for Python version 2.1 and later and own and protect the trademarks associated with Python. We also run the North American PyCon conference annually, support other Python conferences around the world, and fund Python related development with our grants program and by funding special projects.
  3. GitHub is the best way to build software together. Whether

    it's your company's app, your favorite open source library, or a weekend side project, GitHub helps everyone work together better by providing tools for easier collaboration and code sharing. Catch up on what happened while you were out or ask for help on a tricky chunk of code. Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. The best part is you can keep using all of your favorite tools. Start collaborating on code today—open source project hosting is free!
  4. L'association "A.F.P.Y.", Association Francophone Python, a pour but la vulgarisation

    auprès d'un public francophone du langage de programmation python et de ses applications.
  5. Open Source VoIP System Integrator Eyepea is a VoIP (Voice

    over IP) system integrator building solutions around Open Source platforms such as Asterisk, sipX, OpenSIPS etc.
  6. Floris Bruynooghe Floris grew up in Belgium and first got

    introduced to computers when getting to grip with Debian. After having learned programming in C he turned his attention to mastering Python and has not looked back. ! Having attended Southampton University he now lives in the UnitedKingdom, working on monitoring tools as a Python developer for the past 6 years. Apart from maintaining plotutils, omniorb and python-omniorb in Debian he developed the Delny Python package and contributes to PSI (Python System Information) and the py.test testing framework and it's pytest- timeout and pytest-django plugins.
  7. Pierre Carbonnelle Pierre Carbonnelle is an Electrical Engineer from UCL

    (Belgium) with an MBA (INSEAD). ! He has a track record of bringing IT solutions to business and user needs, working with creativity and attention to details. His experience ranges from developing mobile applications in a start-up in the US, to running a consulting operation, to maintaining a GIS application for a utility company.
  8. Benoit Chesneau Benoît Chesneau is a French craftsman working worldwide.

    He has years of experience in building small and big-scale database backend websites and concurrent systems. He is the founder of Enki Multimedia, a company building innovative web services and open- source applications. Benoît Chesneau is the founder of the Refuge project (http://refuge.io). ! Benoît Chesneau is also a PSF member, gunicorn author and Apache CouchDB PMC member & committer.
  9. Saúl Ibarra Corretgé VoIP, presence and IM lover, geek, Pythonista,

    geek again! I once got trapped in an event loop, and never got out of it. ! You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
  10. Andrea Crotti I am Andrea Crotti, an Italian software developer,

    currently working as a web developer in a London startup, Python and Django powered. ! I am mostly a backend developer, but I do everything else is required from CSS to administering our Linux machines (I'm LPI certified). ! I've contributed as technical reviewer to the third version of the Python Cookbook, and love giving talks around in conferences such as Fosdem, Europython and Pycon UK.
  11. Eric Gazoni I'm the creator of openpyxl, founder of Adimian,

    a nerd by every standard and proud father of two future hackers (once they stop drooling on the keyboard). I also bore everyone with Python, so you could call me a Python enthusiast
  12. Romain Guillebert Romain Guillebert works on porting Numpy to the

    PyPy project thanks to the Python community's donations.
  13. Pieter Hintjens Pieter Hintjens is a writer, hacker, and public

    speaker who has spent decades building large software systems and on-line communities. ! He is an expert in distributed computing, having written many protocols and distributed software systems. ! He founded the ZeroMQ free software project in 2007, and in 2013 launched the Edge Net project to build a fully secure, anonymous peer- to-peer Internet. ! He is the author of "ZeroMQ - Messaging for Many Applications" (O'Reilly), "Code Connected", and "Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution". ! His technical blog is at hintjens.com.
  14. Nicola Iarocci Nicola is a passionate Python and C# developer

    based in Ravenna, Italy. He is the co-founder of CIR2000 where leads the development of Amica 10, an accounting software solution for italian small business. ! He is creator and maintainer of a few open source projects, a MongoDB Master, and an occasional Speaker.
  15. Erik Janssens Master in Science of Engineering and professional Python/C/C++

    developer for more than 10 years with a focus on algorithms and relational databases. ! Has crafted custom software for manufacturing, finance, healthcare and telecom. ! Lead developer of Camelot, the UI layer that can be used on top of SQLAlchemy. ! Has given many SQLAlchemy training and support over the past few years.
  16. Marc-Andre Lemburg Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com,

    a Python-focused project and consulting company based in Germany. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf. His work with! and for Python started in Winter 1993. In 1997, he became a Python Core Developer. He designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python and continued to maintain the Python Unicode implementation for more than a decade, after it first appeared in Python 1.6 in 2000.! ! Marc-Andre is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and has served on the PSF Board several times. He is also member of the EuroPython Society (EPS) Board and the author of the! well-known mx Extensions, e.g. mxTextTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com.! ! Today Marc-Andre spends most of his time managing large-scale customer projects heavily relying on! Python and databases.
  17. Alessandro Molina Python developer since 2001 has always been interested

    in Python as a Web Development Platform, he is currently a core developer of the TurboGears2 framework in charge of the Python3 support branch and has collaborated with various python projects related to web development like FormEncode, ToscaWidgets, the Sprox Widget Generation Library and the Ming MongoDB ORM
  18. Armin Rigo Armin Rigo is one of the founders and

    lead developers of the PyPy project which began in 2003. ! He has taken part in all areas, from the Python language definition to the RPython translation framework, including the garbage collector, the tracing just-in-time compiler, and now the Software Transactional Memory part