2023-07-21 –, Terrace 2B
code.kiwi.com community has been running Python Weekend — an educational community project — since 2016. Over the past 7 years we helped hundreds of Python developers complete the program accelerating their careers, traveled to 10+ cities all over Europe and collaborated with numerous local Python communities to make it happen.
At first glance, Python Weekend is a 2.5-day supervised coding event for Junior+ Python devs, where participants build the prototype of core Kiwi.com technology, while getting support from a group of experienced engineers, for free. But there’s so much more to this.
At this poster session, we will share how to run an educational Python project so the community, business and local tech scene would benefit. We will show how to shape the culture of connecting real-business challenges and junior talent. We will see how dev edu projects can impact the culture of mentorship and present feedback of mentees from all over the world to share their experience.
I think We are Python Weekend talk can be also presented as a poster session.
We plan
- million of stories
- inspiration for everyone who wants to run their own Python project for the community
- a lot of photos and feedback from the folks who have been part of the project - from a CS student, graphic designer, ex-WizzAir pilot, and more amazing people of Python Weekend.
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Alena is Tech Community Manager at Kiwi.com – a leading global travel tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic. At Kiwi.com she manages the internal tech community – Code.kiwi.com. Her mission is to support citizens of the Engineering Department in sharing their tech stories on all relevant platforms.
Alena lives in Prague with her two extremely-popular-on-Twitter cats (check out #gingythecat). Apart from having a passion for tech community building, she is a big fan of punk rock and craft beer.
Andrej is a software engineer at kiwi.com and mentor in a Python Weekend. His main passions are python, mentoring the Python Weekend and cybersecurity. Actively participating in the CTF competitions to always learn something new and exciting.
A self-taught pythonaut and software engineer. (very) Occasional speaker. Lead of tech community events such as Python Weekend, in the past also hack.travel and kiwi.com Summer Camp.
For the last 4 years, he's been leading a team of engineers building systems responsible for order processing at kiwi.com, pushing the travel industry forward. In the free time, building prototypes of specialized music hardware.