This repository contains notes for all things related to having a ChiPy presence @ PyCon US.
- We have lots of experience building strong online and offline communities and want to help others (local user groups, individuals) replicate our success
- Wanted to share our experience running our World Famous Mentorship Program
- Busy Beaver, Chicago Python's Community Engagement Slack bot
- automating workflows for community organizers
- currently Chicago only, plans to expand to other workspaces in Q3 2019
- Our Slack workspace, chipy.slack.com, is a friendly environment where individuals of all experience levels can / provide help for Python, especially Data Science
- Want to contribute to open source? We accept PRs from all over the world!
- Django-based website
- Flask-based Slack bot
- Static-sites built with Nikola
- Want to speak? We love hosting first-time speakers!
- YouTube channel with videos on data science, web dev, object-oriented programming, Python
- Hands-on programming challenges!
- Project Night activities
- Algorithm / Interview Prep materials
- We have 4-6 events every month
- Over 4,600 members on meetup
- Over 1,200 members on Slack; active 200-250 (per week)
- We are looking for sponsors
- As we have 5+ events a month, we are always looking for speakers
- Stickers, buttons
- Selling t-shirts
- ChiPy is a local meetup group based in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- We've been around for 16 years
- Over 4,600 members
- 1st Thursday: Alogrithm / Coding Interview Special Interest Group
- 2nd Thursday: Main Meeting (~120 people)
- 3rd Thursday: Project Night
- 4th Thursday: Python Lunch Break
- Data Special Interest Group (3rd Wednesday)
- WebDev / DevOps
- Open Source
- Finance
- Have Chromebook opened to following tabs