# PyGotham talks - and sprint/hackday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Packaging\ **Created:** [July 22, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pygotham-talks-and-sprint-hackday/2018 "2019-07-22T01:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![sumanah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/sumanah/32/1722_2.png) [@sumanah](https://discuss.python.org/u/sumanah)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pygotham-talks-and-sprint-hackday/2018/2 "2019-08-15T02:39:49Z")
@trishankatdatadog @Julian @woodruffw @bhrutledge @pganssle @dustin and other people who are potential PyGotham attendees (just guessing: @JustinCappos @jaraco, for instance) – I’d like to get further in planning this! Tentative plan right now is that there’ll be an [NYC Python](https://www.meetup.com/nycpython/) event on Thursday night Oct. 3rd at Datadog. People who have never made Python packages can learn how to [create their first packages](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/) – getting over the intimidation factor – and people who have questions about their existing packaging problems can come to “office hours” with Python packaging experts. So if a few people could volunteer to help with this, that would be great - please speak up in a reply. I’d also like to to get at least 3-4 existing packaging developers (experts and intermediate-skilled people) together for a day, either on Thursday Oct. 3rd or Sunday Oct. 6th, to break code review logjams, make architectural decisions, and even promote new maintainers – basically along the lines of what I describe in [“Software In Person”](https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/software-in-person). If you’d be interested in participating in that hackday, please mark by “liking” (the “heart” button) dates that work for you, and I’ll check the aggregate sometime Monday to make a decision: --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.python.org/t/pygotham-talks-and-sprint-hackday/2018)._