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Hi Pythonistas,

Over 20 years ago, along with a few friends, we started the Vancouver Python User Group. Over those years we've had conferences, meetups and events. I've made friends with so many of y'all and learnt so much exciting stuff. For the last few years, Bryan and Seb did a great job of leading this group - thank you to all the many organisers who've kept this going.

During the worst times of the pandemic, this group came to a stop. I also stopped paying attention the last 5 years or so, because work and other demands just took up all my time.

Interestingly in this time Python has just grown in strength and has become the go to language for so many of the hot new things, from AI, machine learning and event that new Threads app, has a Python backend. The number of users keeps growing and the changes to the language, it's uses and application in everyday life continues to grow. Personally, after many years in management, I've started writing Python again and ❤️ it all over again.

This is my long winded way of saying, I'd like to help get this group going again and I'd like to aim for our first in person meeting in September 😀 🎉

What do we need for that meeting? A few things:

  • A place to meet
  • Something to talk about
  • Anyone willing to help me organize 😀

If you have a space to meet, please let us know by creating an issue in our GitHub repository. We rely upon companies and organisations, willing to give us a space to chat each month to meet. Doesn't have to be a regular commitment, a one off is fine too.

If you have something to talk about please let us know by creating an issue in our GitHub repository. We are pretty much open to anything that you'd love to share with the rest, no matter how polished or detailed it is. Anyone is welcome to talk on anything.

That's it. I'll probably send you some more messages over the next month or so and I hope there's enough interest from everyone to get this started again. I'm so looking forward to seeing y'all and hearing from you again.

Till then, hope you get enjoy the summer.

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