Our April meetup is under way, thank you to Reaktor and @jks for hosting from their rooftop office!

On my way to speak at #HelPy meetup on exploratory unit testing. There is a theme to stuff I talk about now and it seems to be that the bar for ‘testing’ can be too low. I know weird things of things I’ve tested. Too many don’t know even the basics. Learning is at the heart of #ExploratoryTesting.
https://speakerdeck.com/maaretp/exploratory-unit-testing-with-and-for-genai

Welcome to this month's meetup on Tuesday 15th April 2025 at Reaktor!

Talks:

@maaretp - Exploratory Unit Testing with and for GenAI

Toni Vanhala - Stable and Observable: Celery Setup Essentials for SQL Pipelines

And the famous HelPy quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/307043355/

See you there!

For our May meetup (that's the one after the next one) we have @mariadb_org as a host and they are also organising a hackathon! There are a few €500 Verkkokauppa gift cards as prizes for the best use of their new vector extension to @mariadb.

Deadline for sign up is Monday (31st). Find out more details via their announcement blog post, and join up on our Discord via https://helsinki-python.github.io

Juhis speaking at #HelPy on why developers should blog. Loving this. Learning to write is essential!

We kick off our March meetup at #Taiste with @hamatti on why developers should have a blog!

Welcome to our next meetup on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at Taiste:

Talks:

@hamatti - Why developers should write blog posts

Sakari Cajanus - Dependency injection in Python (or why Python is not Java)

Mislav Novakovic - Refactoring to Rust

And the famous HelPy quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306522919/

Please also drop us a line if you’d like to give a talk in April or beyond

Time for February's #HelPy meetup, kindly hosted by Hive Helsinki, the nonprofit coding school. Our first talk is from Szabina Korbai: "Towards a greener Python".
#Helsinki #Python #Finland #meetup

We had a great time at our last meetup with about 140 attendees! Thanks to #Wolt for hosting!

Our next meetup is on Wednesday 26th February 2025 at #HiveHelsinki:

Towards a greener Python by Szabina Korbai

Speeding up with Pandas vectorization by Thu Le

️ Plumbing git squash merge by Alban King

And let's not forget the famous HelPy quiz!

Welcome along!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306131829/

https://helsinki-python.github.io

Kick off 2025 with the first #Helsinki #Python #meetup on Wednesday January 15th, hosted by our friends at #Wolt!

Database Concurrency with MVCC by Stanislav Bashkyrtsev

Through the Ups and Downs: A Practical Approach to Site Reliability by Magdalena Stenius

Subinterpreter Workers in AnyIO by Alex Grönholm

Python news! by @hugovk

… and don’t miss the legendary #HelPy quiz!

Rumour has it that we’ll be treated with delicious hot dogs! See you at Wolt!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/305285187/

Thanks to everyone who came along, and especially our speakers:

Nazaal Ibrahim who told us about JAX for machine learning and numerical computation

Jussi Pakkanen @jpakkane for how he took inspiration from Knuth and wrote his own build system (Meson) and PDF library (CapyPDF)

Akseli Lukkarila for showing how easy it is to use Rust from Python and Python from Rust

And of course to #Nitor for graciously hosting us in their wonderful office!

Happy

Christmas is nearly here and that means it's time to join us for our December meet, hosted by #Nitor!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/304793959/

Creating Python modules and libraries using Rust, by Akseli Lukkarila

Meson: a Build system in and for Python, by Jussi Pakkanen

JAX: A Python ecosystem for machine learning and numerical computation, by Nazaal Ibrahim @nazaal

And did someone say something about a quiz?

Our next meetup is next Thursday, 14th November, graciously hosted by #MavericksSoftware. The talks:

Disabling GIL: benefits we seek; consequences we get, by Daniel Vahla

Data engineering for frugal people, by Alban King

How to have a good time in Advent of Code, by Jouni Seppänen @jks

And your chance to win an exclusive HelPy mug in the famous quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/304284986/

See you there!

The leaves are changing colour and that means it's time to join us for our October meet, hosted by Elisa!

Tuesday, 22nd October 2024

Talks:

* GIL: What's the hassle and... should I care? by @Unit03 @Unit03Jacek Kołodziej

* Building large-scale distributed IoT system with Python by Tommi Nikula, Senior Software Developer, Elisa IDS

* And of course the famous HelPy quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/303828168/

Welcome along to our September meetup on Thursday next week (26th), kindly hosted by #Swappie. The talks:

Cryptography basics: Diffie-Hellman algorithm by Stanislav Bashkyrtsev

Setting Up a Testing Environment with pytest and Docker by Mikalai Yurkin

And your chance to win an exclusive HelPy mug in the famous quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/303480797/

The next Helsinki Python meetup will be on Wednesday, 28th August, hosted by Vincit!

This month we have two talks lined up:

"Deep dive to Python generators" by Janne Rönkkö, Platform Architect at #Vincit

"Python Security Stories: Lessons from the trenches" - by Ashish Bhadouria, Domain manager for Security and Privacy at #IKEA

And of course the famous HelPy quiz, and maybe a lightning talk as well.

See you there!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/302863785/

July means summer holidays in Finland so instead of a regular meetup we're going for a picnic (and/or pussikalja) in the park!

This Monday
22nd July
17:00
Koff Park, Helsinki

Welcome along!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/302268980/

Last month's meetup hosted by #HiveHelsinki and #DeadSetBit was a lot of fun, see photos at https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/photos/34627982/

Next month's meetup will likely be late August, stay tuned! As always, get in touch if you'd like to give a talk.