The John Pinner Award celebrates voluntary service to the Python community in the UK.

During PyCon UK, the following members of our community were presented with a medal by Sheila Pinner:

• Alan O'Donohoe
• Ben Nuttall
• Claire Wicher
• Dave Jones
• Kirk Northrop
• Les Pounder
• Mario Corchero
• Tania Allard
• The London Python Dojo team
• Tim Williams

Congratulations to the recipients!

From Mario Corchero:

Join Bloomberg's engineering team and PyPA core developers for a weekend of hacking on the Python packaging tools (setuptools, pip, venv, warehouse, and more). We'll provide mentors, food, beverages, and a great environment for learning.

The event will happen in London and New York, with PyPA mentors present on both locations.

The event is Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of October, you can register for an individual day if preferred.

Registration links:

• Saturday
• Sunday

From the PyCon UK committee:

We have now published the full schedule for PyCon UK 2018.

We're also excited to announce our keynote speakers:

• On Saturday, Alex Chan will be talking to us about trust, and how to build systems that encourage trust and good behaviour. Alex is a software developer at Wellcome Collection and a PyCon UK organiser.

• On Sunday, for our education track, we have Sue Sentance to tell us about programming in schools, and what’s in a teacher’s toolkit. Sue is Chief Learning Officer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

• On Monday we are pleased to welcome Loek van Gent who is joining us to talk about social responsibility, social good, and collaborating in Python. Loek is Head of Engineering at GoodUp in Amsterdam.

• And finally, on Tuesday joining us will be Nikoleta Glynatsi, who uses Python and maths to unpick the secrets of the forces that maintain the relationships between things in the world. Nikoleta is a doctoral student in mathematics at Cardiff University.

There are still plenty of opportunities to be part of the event, as an attendee or a sponsor.

The UK Python Association trustees are pleased to publish their annual report for 2017-8.

The annual report will be discussed at the UKPA AGM at PyCon UK.

Nominations for the 2018 John Pinner Award are open.

The John Pinner Award celebrates voluntary service to the Python community in the UK, and recognises those who freely contribute their time and effort for the good of the community.

Recipients of the award will be announced at PyCon UK in September.

Perhaps you can think of that person who quietly organises your local user group, runs workshops, mentors others online, or creates educational resources for others to re-use. It is the contributions of people like this who we'd like to celebrate through this award.

You can nominate any number of people and the nomination process is very simple. Full details can be found here.

Get nominating!