Hello friends!

We’re getting very very close to the conference. It’s next weekend! 11 days away! So close!

We know y’all enjoy waiting until the absolute last moment to register (we’d prefer you ordered early), but there’s a couple of good reasons to register this week:

Restricted diet catering. If you have dietary restrictions, including handling allergies, we need to let our caterer know in advance. If you register after Friday at 12pm, we can’t guarantee your catering order.

Fancy armchairs! Our premium ticket that comes with your choice of fancy lounge seating from our furniture supplier’s catalogue is only available for the rest of this week. Our furniture supplier needs time to make sure the furniture is sent with our delivery. Want a fancy armchair? Register by Friday at 12pm, but your choice of chair depends on supplies being available, so earlier is better!

And of course, there's 18 amazing talks from people from as close as the south end of Petaluma and as far away as Melbourne (Australia, not Mendocino), London (England, not Tulare), or Delhi (India, not Merced) for you to look forward to:

• Designing Python APIs for Data You Don’t Control by Saurav Jain
• The Ironies of Automation in the "Age of AI" by amanda casari
• Cursed Comedy by Piper Thunstrom and Jamie Bliss
• Python Playtesting: Crafting the Perfect Board Game by Alla Barbalat
• Running Resistance Tech on a Shoestring by Philip James
• An Economy of Empathy by Mario Munoz
• Crisis (Technical) Communication: Teaching Survival Skills You Didn’t Know You Had by Margaret Fero
• Python as Orchestrator: When to Glue, When to Compute by Freya Bhushan Mehta
• Works on My Robot: Bridging the MedTech Reality Gap by Lilinoe Harbottle
• Network Mythbusting by Joelle Maslak
• Bumbling into BeeWare: From typo-fix to core developer by Kattni
• The Python Community Needs More Cats by Deb Nicholson
• State of Exception(s) by Benno Rice
• While I've changed gears every 4-5 years, in retirement, I've managed to find my web development tribe by Bob Monsour
• No Project Scope Survives Contact with Users by Min Ragan-Kelley
• "What is Correct?" and is that even the right question any more? by Christopher Neugebauer
• Modern Western Square Dancing: dancing for math nerds by Dan Lyke
• Anonymous Functions (and Other Ways to Annoy Your Coworkers) by Joe Kaufeld

Catch all those talks, along with some excellent conversations with interesting Pythonistas next week here in Petaluma. We cant wait to see you all, but PLEASE BUY YOUR TICKETS SOON OMG THANKS (click here)

With love (buy a ticket),

—Chris and the North Bay Python team