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In celebration for Guido/Python reaching 1 billion users, Python into Excel! 💚🎉

The Language Creators, 12-4PM on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. https://pydata.org/language-creator-fundraiser/

An epic conversation between language giants featuring:
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk
• Guido van Rossum, Python
• Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal, C #, Typescript
• James Gosling, Java
• Moderator – Carol Willing, Project Jupyter

🌎🚀 Discount code for all our PyData Seattle members Friends Of The Community 25% off code ("PNW25")!. Link: https://ti.to/pydata/language-creator-charity-event/discount/PNW25

🌸 We are offering scholarship opportunities to those from underrepresented groups who may otherwise be unable to attend the event. Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/yKfsMAkpsxsJ1gou8

💟 Join us as a volunteer. Everyone is welcome to apply: https://forms.gle/nWSzCnKMiJ5agYx57

In addition to the panel, there are a limited number of tickets available to join the speakers for an exclusive post-event drinks reception (4:30-6:30) and twelve spots for an intimate dinner with the Language Creators and special guests.

Also, this year we are offering a limited-edition event t-shirt signed by Guido Van Rossum!

About the fundraiser beneficiary organizations —

The Last Mile Education Fund closes critical gaps in financial and career support for financially vulnerable underrepresented college students in the “last mile” to graduation, addressing both economic mobility and the diversity and talent crises in tech and tech-enabled industries. Launched in 2020, Last Mile has invested over $5.5M to support persistence and degree completion for 5,132 individual students, of whom an estimated 1650 have graduated. Last Mile grantees are 42% Black, 19% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Asian, 2% Indigenous. 58% of grantees identify as women on non-binary. Learn more: www.lastmile-ed.org.

NumFOCUS public charity. Proceeds are used for the continued development of open-source tools used by data scientists. Supporting and promoting world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing projects including: Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, R and many more including Julia.
https://numfocus.org/

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