I'm performing or speaking at, participating in or attending four different conferences/conventions online between July 24th and 26th. You can join me at no cost for all of them!

Going chronologically:

1. GUADEC: Friday, July 24th, 21:00 UTC (5pm Eastern Time): I'll perform twenty minutes of stand-up comedy as part of the social events for GUADEC, the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference. This will be a bit like the stuff I've performed at AlterConf, Open Source Bridge, the Google Summer of Code Mentors' Summit, and so on. Yes, you can hire me to perform stand-up comedy at your tech conference, too.

   I'm also curious to watch talks on power management, principles of digital autonomy, freelancing tools, an open, programmable virtual assistant, rescuscitating a GNOME app, measuring and improving a project's environmental impact, and making videos.

   Register: for free! Watch live via BigBlueButton (in your web browser).

2. EuroPython sprint: Saturday-Sunday, July 25-26, European time: Within EuroPython, I'll co-lead an online sprint where people can learn more about, and hack on, Python packaging tools.

   I unfortunately don't think I have time to attend the rest of the conference, but I'm looking forward to watching the videos of "Lessons from the Trenches: rewriting and re-releasing virtualenv" and "The Hidden Power of the Python Runtime".

   Register: for free, for a sprint-only ticket! Please register by July 23rd. Participate via Discord and via Zoom or Jitsi (I'm not clear on whether the sprints will use Zoom or Jitsi).

3. CON.TXT: Saturday, July 25th, Eastern Time: I'll attend CON.TXT, a fan convention for people who enjoy talking about media, scifi/fantasy, fan fiction, fanvidding, etc. I'm looking forward to "Bring Your Fandom to Work", "Financial Crime for Fun and Profit", and the vidshows.

   Register: for free! Register by July 24th. Participate via Discord and Zoom.

4. PyOhio: Saturday or Sunday, July 25th-26th, Eastern Time: I'll speak at PyOhio, delivering a pre-recorded ten-minute talk, "Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work".

   When I tell people about grants they could get to help fund work on open source software projects, sometimes they are surprised because they didn't know such grants existed. I share:

   • sample foundations and funders (such as Mozilla, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NLNet, and Comcast) who want to fund open source software projects, and how much they're paying out
   • a quick case study on how the Python Software Foundation got funding from Open Tech Fund to improve security, accessibility, and localization for PyPI
   • key steps in figuring out a good project idea, budgeting, hiring, and submitting
   • how the new Project Funding Working Group at the PSF can help you along the way

   This year, all PyOhio talks are 5 or 10 minutes. I'm also interested in talks on PySpark, livestreaming, Flask, "How the Python Software Foundation Fared Through the Impact of the Pandemic", managing your finances, mapReduce, and underappreciated gems of the Python standard library.

   Register: for free! Watch via YouTube. You don't have to register to watch the talks; PyOhio will stream them publicly over YouTube. You do have to register to participate in sprints and open spaces.

Please consider joining me! Probably not at all of them! That would be pretty difficult! I am curious how it will all work out myself!