PyHawaii: PyHawaii on the radio: Bytemarks Cafe Wednesday, Aug 19th.

PyHawaii will be on Hawaii Public Radio as guests on Bytemarks Cafe this Wednesday, August 19th between 5 and 6 pm on KIPO 89.3. We hope you can join us there.

UPDATE 20150820: find the radio show here (PyHawaii starts at 11:10 into the program).

PyHawaii’s Mission

PyHawaii is a community of programmers AND soon-to-be programmers focused on educating and mentoring each other in the Python programming language and related technologies with the goal of having fun, growing our skills, and serving the social good. As the Pacific’s Premier Python User Group, we seek to grow the Python programming community in both numbers and diversity.

PyHawaii events and upcoming plans

Ongoing:
weekly meetups every Wednesday
monthly meetups on the 4th Friday (next session on August 28th)

In planning:
quarterly all-day mini conferences (next minicon in November)
annual pyhawaiicon (mid-summer 2016)
pyladies chapter / djangogirls workshops
programming competitions
civic engagement projects (i.e. with Code for Hawaii and open source projects)
youth education workshops and career days presentations
support to the broader education community
social events (i.e. Star Wars movie night)

Why Python?

Python is a powerful general purpose language designed to be easy to read, write, and understand. It is simple enough for middle-schoolers to learn, but powerful enough to support the infrastructure and inner workings of companies like Google, Disney Animation, Twitter, Facebook, Star Wars’ Industrial Light and Magic, Dropbox, etc. It easily and efficiently handles tasks like web applications, data science and data mining, game development, system administration, hardware hacking, etc. It is one of the most popular and widely used languages in the world.

How can you get involved?

Join us at our meetups: PyHawaii is always looking for fun and passionate members to join the PyHawaii `ohana.
Step up to share your skills and knowledge: sign up to give a talk.
Volunteer to help with the day-to-day management of our events and our long-range planning.
Follow us on social media (see below) and share the message (tweets and retweets, link love, etc)
Lastly: Donate: we don’t charge for what we offer, but your donations can help!

Follow PyHawaii:

http://www.meetup.com/PyHawaii-Python-Users-Group/
https://pyhawaii.slack.com <<< ask us for an invite and join the conversation https://www.facebook.com/pyhawaii https://twitter.com/py_hawaii