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  A single-track conference north of the Golden Gate, focused on community, collaboration, and all things Python.

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<p>We're a nonprofit conference for professionals, enthusiasts and students alike. We're focused on inclusion, accessibility, diversity, and affordability. Most importantly, we're planning a great lineup of talks from all over the Python ecosystem, with plenty of time to meet new people and develop new ideas.</p>

<p>Our venue, the Mystic Theatre in Downtown Petaluma, is a beautiful example of an early 1900s Vaudeville theatre. You can find over 50 different food and drink options within a short walk, and the nearest hotel is only a block away.</p>

<h2>The Conference</h2>

<p>North Bay Python is a single-track conference with a carefully curated set of talks representing the diverse Python community and their different areas of interest.</p>

<p>If a topic is less to your interest, or you've met some people you really want to sit down and chat with, we'll have plenty of areas away from the main theatre to catch up and chat.</p>

<p>Our goal is to keep prices as low as possible. That means we won't be catering lunch. Instead, you can look forward to extra-long lunch breaks you can use to explore all of the great food options around the venue.</p>

<h2>The Town</h2>

<p>North Bay Python's home is <a href="/about/petaluma">Petaluma</a>, a delightfully quaint dairy town, nestled on a river at the southern edge of California's Wine Country.</p>

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<h3>Sam Kitajima-Kimbrel, Program Chair</h3>

<p><img src="{% static "images/team/sam.jpg" %}" alt="Sam Kitajima-Kimbrel" class="team-headshot circle">Sam is a Python developer and distributed-systems "enthusiast" hailing from Seattle by birth, New York by nurture, and the Bay Area by choice. Five years ago he attended his first PyCon US and hasn't been able to break the habit; after making the jump from audience to stage in 2014 and speaking regularly at events around the world, he was thrilled to join the team when invited by Chris and Josh. Sam currently works at Nuna building healthcare data infrastructure for the U.S. Medicaid and Medicare programs and resides in Oakland with his husband Kameron. (<a href="https://twitter.com/skimbrel">@skimbrel on Twitter</a>)</p>

<h3>Andrew Godwin</h3>

<p><img src="{% static "images/team/andrew.jpg" %}" alt="Andrew Godwin" class="team-headshot circle">Andrew is a Django and Python developer who originally hails from London but moved to the Bay Area five years ago. He's been writing open source software for over a decade as well as working in various different parts of the technology industry, and currently works at Eventbrite. He regularly speaks at Python (and other) events around the world, and has a keen interest in building communities and inclusivity. (<a href="https://twitter.com/andrewgodwin">@andrewgodwin on Twitter</a>)</p>

<h3>Josh Simmons</h3>

<p><img src="{% static "images/team/josh.jpg" %}" alt="Josh Simmons" class="team-headshot circle">Josh is a community organizer and web developer with a penchant for armchair philosophy who was born and raised in the North Bay. He spent 4.5 years building Web &amp; Interactive Media Professionals (WIMP), a local community with over 600 members, before moving on to do community management for O'Reilly Media. These days Josh works on the Google Open Source outreach team and serves as a board member and volunteer CFO for Open Source Initiative. (<a href="https://twitter.com/joshsimmons">@joshsimmons on Twitter</a>)</p>

<h3>Frances Hocutt</h3>

<p><img src="{% static "images/team/frances.jpeg" %}" alt="Frances Hocutt" class="team-headshot circle">Frances Hocutt has taken part in the science-to-tech branch of the great STEM reshuffling. In the process, he’s written, spoken, mentored, and co-founded Seattle’s first feminist hackerspace/makerspace. Frances prefers elegance in science and effectiveness in art and is happiest when drawing on as many disciplines as possible. Frances jumped into F/OSS development with work on standards for the MediaWiki web API ecosystem and expanded into work on MediaWiki and associated Wikimedia-ecosystem contributor tools. He currently installs software on other people’s computers for Rackspace Managed Security’s defensive infrastructure team. Frances currently lives in an unfortunately catless apartment in Oakland, CA.

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<h2>Advisors<a name="advisors"></a></h2>

<p>We acknowledge that our small team has limited perspective, and that to build a truly inclusive event, we need to seek the perspectives of a diverse range of people. We thank the following people and organizations for providing us with advice along the way.</p>

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  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/vavroom">Nicolas Steenhout</a> is helping us with accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities.</li>

  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur">VM (Vicky) Brasseur</a> is helping us run an excellent call for proposals, design our office hours program, and support new speakers with speaker training.</li>

  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/sigje">Jennifer Davis</a> is helping us make the event accessible to parents by advising on things like childcare.</li>

  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/techivist">Miguel Hernandez</a> is helping us build a more inclusive event with outreach to Latinx communities.</li>

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<h2>Supporting Organizations</h2>

<h3>Software Freedom Conservancy</h3>

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  North Bay Python 2018 is coming, and with it: more Python. We'll add satellite events and more to this page as details are available.

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<h2>Help cultivate the Python developer community.</h2>

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<p>Below is an overview of sponsorship levels. Please <a href="mailto:sponsor@northbaypython.org">email us</a> for more information.</p>

<h2>Package Sponsorship <small>starts at $2000</small></h2>

<p>Package sponsorships are the widest-reaching and best value sponsorships we offer at North Bay Python. When our attendees arrive at the venue, they'll see your signage as they walk through the door. As they're sitting in the theatre, they'll see your logo on the backdrop behind the speakers, and on-screen on between talks. You'll also get the chance to present a short talk about your organization between two of our invited presentations.</p>

<h2>À la Carte Sponsorship <small>starts at $3000</small></h2>

<p>If you're looking for something a bit more exclusive, North Bay Python's À la Carte sponsorships allow you to promote your organization as part of an important offering during the conference, including lanyards, catering, or video branding. We'll also recognize you as a Silver package sponsor, with the opportunity for discounted upgrades to higher package tiers.</p>

<h2>In-Kind Partnerships</h2>

<p>Sponsorship can also be in the form of in-kind donations of goods and services essential to organizing the conference, or in assisting speakers to attend the conference. If you can make a substantial in-kind donation, we will recognize you as a package-level sponsor of equivalent value.</p>

<h2>Community Partnerships<a name="community-partners"></a></h2>

<p>Community groups, such as Python Meetups and PyLadies groups, are the lifeblood of the Python community, and we need your help to put on the best conference we can. If you can help us with one of the following, we'll recognize you as a community partner, which comes with all of the benefits of a Silver sponsorship.</p>

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  <li>You help us find 10 submissions to our Call for Proposals</li>

  <li>Three members of your group attend at a Supporter level or higher</li>

  <li>You put us in contact with a sponsor who signs on at Silver level or above</li>

  <li>One of your members volunteers with the conference</li>

  <li>Anything else that we agree will make our conference even better</li>

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