Keynote 1: PyCon APAC - Back to the Future!
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PyCon APAC starts in 2010 from a five-person committee that registers a non‑profit, raises 8,000+ SGD from a Django workshop to fund the first conference, and expands across ten countries. Local groups run monthly meetups of 30–50 and Facebook communities of thousands; conferences scale to ~1,800 attendees in Korea. Persistent constraints are sponsorship and venue costs, language barriers, volunteer shortages, and uneven legal frameworks; funds and coordinated sponsorships get reused to seed new local conferences.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:45History Lesson
- 16:45Keynote Speakers
- 21:49Japan
- 24:11Python Boot Camps
- 25:09Taiwan
- 29:06Malaysia
- 30:40India
- 32:02Python User Groups in India
- 32:33Indonesia
- 35:28Thailand
- 41:35The Pinoy Python User Group
- 45:26Affordability
- 46:37Volunteers
- 48:27Coordinating International Sponsorship Efforts
- 49:08Schedule for Next Year
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