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danso
Anyone else think "Sweet Jesus" when this link turned out to be a list of very interesting and widely appealing Python-related videos instead of something to do with purported sexism?
Total_Meltdown
Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.
gngeal
How many people are thinking of an issue for every persion than mentions it?
pekk
Please don't carry that into every thread about Python...
petercooper
Now they're seeing what us Rubyists had to put up with for a while..
goostavos
I should probably leave this can of worms closed.. but I'm curious. Did you Ruby guys have a similar debacle at one of your conferences?
petercooper
Yes and no. There have been various things including people including naughty pictures on slides, speaker rosters not being diverse enough, etc. Nothing to be proud of, but a certain group of saber-rattlers believes it's indicative of a 'community' problem, when as this week's issue shows, it's really just the sort of social clashes you get when any large number of people come together.

That is, this is no more a sign of the "Python community" being bad as the other dramas were for the "Ruby community."

forsaken
Some amazing content in here.

Love the talk on how the internet works, it's a great intro for people who are getting into the web.

Getting started with automated testing is a great intro for that subject as well.

Also, kudos to the Pycon video team for getting these videos up less than a week after the conference!

Note: Looks like the videos are still being uploaded.

jetsnoc
I really enjoyed Raymond Hettinger's keynote and his classful development in Python session. Intermediate and advanced Python programmers should watch these as soon as they are up!
mixmastamyk
I recommend downloading with youtube-dl etc. and watching in VLC at 1.5x etc. Only way to get thru so many great videos in a reasonable time.
joshbaptiste
If you own a Roku and install Twonky media server, you can beam (watch) the videos on your flat screen, from your smartphone.
kkuduk
just enable html5 player and you can choose 1.5 on youtube. Or, if it too fast (depending on the speaker), just do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.3
mixmastamyk
I believe I use html5 w/youtube, though not easy to tell. Is this javascript the only interface?
dchest
FYI, VLC accepts YouTube links in File > Open Network..., so you don't even have to download them.
mixmastamyk
Very interesting... though there doesn't seem to be much buffer. Running at 1.5x I get to the end of the buffer often and it doesn't stream when it is paused. :( Back to downloading.
smrtinsert
For those of you looking for a refresher, there is a Linear Algebra class coming up in June on Coursera that uses Python as the main language for a variety of applications. I'm very excited for it, should be fun.
simonw
We've been collecting slides, videos and notes from PyCon on Lanyrd. Here's our collection:

http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/coverage/

(Or browse from the schedule: http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/schedule/ )

88 slide decks and 53 videos so far.

fijal
PyPy talk slides are missing (despite loading in the small window) http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/scdytr/
simonw
Are you using Safari? There seems to be a bug with Speaker Deck where Safari doesn't like the SSL certificate served for the images (Chrome on OS X works fine). I've let Speaker Deck know about the problem.
piquadrat
Awesome. But for easier on-page search, it would be cool if the name of the speaker(s) would be shown on the overview lists.
muyuu
And a torrent ;)
ineedtosleep
It's great to see how far pyvideo's gone since early last year. It may be because I'm still on the noob side of Python, but it's been an amazing resource since my first visit.
hkmurakami
The recursiveness of PythonBrazil sponsoring PyCon is confusing me atm.

(Refer to the last page in the sponsor navigation)

briancurtin
PyCon reserves a few spaces in the expo hall for community organizations and open source projects to run a booth free of charge.

PyAr (Argentina) also wanted to run a booth to interest people in heading down there, especially because the conference occurs close to PythonBrazil, but we were full when they asked.

fijal
For what is worth, next year would be cool if people were actually force to man the booths. There were a few where there was literally noone there all the time. All cool by me, but a waste of space given some people who asked didn't get a booth.
uribs
At what point are the big dongle sketches?
pekk
What is the point of asking this?
[dead] uribs
Well, it seems the highlight of the conference is missing in the videos.

Pretty weird.

gojomo
For watching on an iOS device, I just discovered the 'Swift Player' app for enabling 2x playback, swipe-10s-jump, and background audio playback for videos on YouTube and elsewhere:

http://tapparatus.com/swift

pepijndevos
Will the lightning talks also be uploaded? I heard there was a Docker talk.
cool-RR
Here's what I desperately want: A ranking of these videos so I could tell which ones are the best. There are going to be so many and I don't have time to go through them all. If people were able to vote on the ones they liked so I could see just the top 20 videos, that would be superb.
dalke
How might I get these into an audio only form, preferably via an RSS feed? (Although if I had the raw audio files I can make the RSS myself.)
tocomment
I'd love to see someone summarize these, just a couple paragraphs hitting the key points, and URLs/libraries mentioned.
swanson
Will there be video of TiP BoF posted?
juandg
No, TiP BoF is not recorded since is after hours