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With its 55,000 students, 4,000 teachers and researchers and 3,000 staff, the University of Bordeaux (UB) is a major Nouvelle-Aquitaine player in connection with the socio-economic world, culture and business. The university is international in nature, through its exchanges, its projects, its place in Europe and in the world. It is present in the digital world through its training and research missions, proudly collaborating with the open source community. The BAIA project, UB's 3IA initiative (Interdisciplinary Institutes of Artificial Intelligence), builds on a community involving researchers in science and technology and health, in collaboration with industrial organizations. UB naturally joined the PyConFR 2019 event, with the aim of bringing the academic world into contact with the players in the python community.

⛅ Google Cloud is a cloud open to all from developers to devops, data scientists, and many more.

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The Python Software Foundation is an organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language.

The EuroPython Society (EPS) is a Swedish non-profit organization which organizes EuroPython conferences, supports the Python community in Europe and holds the rights to the EuroPython conference series and trademarks.

Clever Cloud help developers to deploy and run their apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing and other cool features. We aim to make an easy-to-use service, without any vendor lock-in and able to grow with your needs.

In a complex environment, leaning on performing IT solutions is a vital stake for our clients. That is the reason why at INVIVOO, we help our client in improving their Information System at all levels: technical, methodological and organizational, by combining functional and technical expertise. Moreover, INVIVOO is the software publisher of the XComponent suite intended for digital transformation of Information System Services, to satisfy our clients and dicrease stress.

True corporate community, INVIVOO’s Python Expertise takes part of several events of his ecosystem and organize workshops, training about language’s practices. Want to learn more about us? Meet our team during PyConFR or come at our Bordeaux Office! Find all the article written by the expertise on our blog!

JetBrains creates software solutions that make developers more efficient and productive. By automating routine checks and corrections, and by fostering best practises adoption, our tools enable developers to dedicate more time to improve their skills, experiment and create. Code is our passion and for more than 18 years our ambition is to deliver the most effective and reliable development tools in the world.

Our PyCharm IDE provides a complete set of tools set for Python, Web et scientific development. The free and open-source PyCharm Community Edition is best for pure Python coding. PyCharm Professional Edition is designed for professional Python and Web developers. PyCharm Educational Edition helps novice programmers to learn programming with Python easily and effectively.

Today JetBrains has more than 1,000 employees worlwide and more than 5 million customers in 225 countries trust our tools and use them daily. Kotlin, our own programming language, became an official language for Android development in 2017.

Born in 2014, Back Market is the first marketplace exclusively dedicated to refurbished products, giving pre-loved electronic devices and appliances a second life.

Our mission is simple: Give consumers a real and sustainable alternative to buying new electronic devices and appliances. And combat the global electronic waste crisis by fighting against planned obsolescence.

Logilab is an IT company specialized in advanced and scientific computing.

By building on its expertise center, Logilab is able to implement software solutions and to propose high value services and trainings in such fields as advanced and scientific computing and knowledge management.

Logilab’s expertise center has specialized in the use of several tools (Python, C, C++, etc.) and techniques (software engineering, agile project management, multi-paradigm programming, statistics, logic, etc.) and applies them to advanced computing (data analysis, numerical problem solving, simulation, etc.) and knowledge management (content management systems, workflow automation, database aggregation, indexation tools, documentation management, etc.). Logilab’s training sessions are designed for engineers willing to enhance their computer science skills. They cover a wide range of topics (Python, XML, SaltStack, Object Oriented design and programming, C++, agile project management, etc.) and are always fine tuned to best suit the needs of attendees.

Logilab is an actor in the Free/Open Source Software community. The company favors solutions built on Free/Open Source Software when they meet the needs of the end users, and guarantee the required stability of the systems. Some of the internal developments of the company are released as open source on Logilab's free software projects site http://www.logilab.org.

Entr'ouvert is a cooperative company attached to the principle of company democracy. Employees own the company in equal shares, decisions are taken based on the "1 vote per employee" principle. We privilege an organic operating mode, close to the one we find in a number of free software communities. This is an operating mode that is comfortable to us and overall efficient to produce free software.

Entr'ouvert has a thorough knowledge of free software communities and their operating mode. Preserving and promoting the free software ecosystem is part of the structure purposes.

Entr'ouvert is the publisher of a free (GNU GPL) Citizen-state Relationship Management, named Publik. It is used by many cities, in France and Belgium. This solution is developed in Python, with the Django framework. At Entr'ouvert, Python and Django are the preferred tools when something needs to be written, be it a big software or a little script.

PeopleDoc is on a mission to revolutionize how every HR function provide services to their employees.

Our unique “state of the art” HR Service Delivery platform provides HR teams with the tools they need to provide great services while considerably decreasing the manual work behind the scenes and allowing companies to go paperless in their administration.

The PeopleDoc HR Service Delivery platform helps HR teams more easily answer employee requests on demand, automate employee processes, across multiple locations. PeopleDoc serves more than 1000 clients with employees in 180 countries in 12 languages. PeopleDoc is now a part of Ultimate Software. Ultimate Software is a Leader for Cloud HCM Applications.

Yaal develops agile web and mobile software. We can design bespoke solutions or adapt existing products to your needs and means.

As a Tech angel, we partner with companies wishing to offer their customers innovative and technically viable solutions. Therefore, we invest technical resources in exchange for equity. This investor posture is the guarantee of a benevolent and stakeholder commitment in the project.

We handle the technical management and share the risks with our partners, delivering the right resource at the right time.

As a Technical Facilitator, we can punctually pursue your development needs or outsourcing missions.

As a Software publisher, we also develop our own tools. For example, ‘Livres de Proches’, a platform for sharing books, that now has nearly 80,000 referenced books and 6,000 users.

Yaal is the right fit for companies that already have customers, startup project developers wishing to improve their idea, or non-profit organizations that are environmentally and socially friendly.

Located in Bordeaux, Yaal employs nearly thirty people.

If your project needs a reliable and socially minded tech partner then let’s meet!

Makina Corpus is a software engineering services company which designs, develops and integrates innovative web and mobile applications, relying exclusively on open source software.

It is specialized in developing business applications, complex portals and dynamic mapping.

Makina Corpus places Python at the heart of its technical strategy since its beginnings and recruits among the best talents of the sector. Its experts get involved in the Python community in a pro-active way through their participation in events and their Open Source contributions.

Job offers, achievements and blog articles, you can read our news on makina-corpus.com.

MeilleursAgents is a platform that allows people who want to sell their property to connect with real estate agencies that best fit their needs and requirements. In addition, MeilleursAgents also offers an online tool to estimate property prices, various mapping of rent prices as well as a map showing price per square meter around each subway station. Thanks to this wide range of information the company has become the number one destination site in France for anyone looking for the right price of real estate or the most relevant estate agent with 2 million unique visitors per month and 10,000 agencies listed.

Oslandia is a high-tech company that offers strong technical expertise on open source GIS architectures. Oslandia is established since 10 years, it is an independent French company showing a continuous growth - around 30% yearly - and invests 20% of its turnover into Research and Development activities.

Oslandia is a pure OpenSource player, and our developments are 100% Free Software, with no licence fees and a reduced Total Cost of Ownership.

Oslandia is an open source component publisher, and as such, provides a number of on-the-shelf services based on QGIS software, the most widely used open source GIS desktop tool in the world. Oslandia is one of the driving forces behind its expansion.

Oslandia is also a technology company that capitalizes on several technical components and offers a full range of services for the whole software production chain: from consulting to assistance and training, through design and implementation.

For more details: Web: https://oslandia.com/ - Email: infos@oslandia.com

Founded in 2000, Gandi operates across three continents with 140 employees in offices in Paris, Luxemburg, Munich, San Francisco, and Taipei. Gandi has become in 20 years one of the biggest domain name vendors in the world, with 2.5 million active domain names in 2019 and more than 750 available domain extensions.

Gandi provides its services to individuals, small businesses, and large accounts looking to personalize and professionalize their web presence.

Company is also a top SSL certificate authority, managing more than 55,000 certificates.

Since 2008, Gandi has expanded beyond domain name registration into the general consumer Cloud hosting market. Currently more than 200,000 sites and services are hosted, split between Simple Hosting (Paas service) - small and medium-sized businesses as well as individuals - and Iaas services - dedicated to experts who control their hosting infrastructure.

These professional offerings combine the power of dedicated resources, great flexibility in server sizing and optimal data security.

Anybox is a distributed remote-only company, organized as an Holacracy. We provide services and custom developments around Python business applications and Docker clusters for hosting and Continuous Integration. Apart from our historical focus on Odoo, we also work on frameworks such as Django or Anyblok.

IT Link, the first digital services company specialized in Connected Systems.

For more than 30 years, IT Link has been innovating alongside major players in industry and services.

Our mission is to evolve connected systems in order to optimize and create the products and services for today and tomorrow.

Our know-how is based on 8 branches of expertises at the heart of connected systems:

• Sensors and Embedded Intelligence
• Telecom and IOT
• Data Intelligence
• Mobile Applications
• Safety and Security
• Business Information Systems
• System Engineering
• Change Management and new user experiences

IT Link has 600 employees based in 13 areas in Europe and Canada, a strong technical board, 3 R & D centers and a presence in the Euronext stock market since 1999.

Wifirst has developed the leading super high speed WiFi platform. It operates several hundred thousand intuitive, secure, high-performance connected spaces in Europe and Africas.

Wifirst has established itself as the no. 1 provider of managed WiFi in the Hospitality & Student accomodation market through constantly adapting its solution to meet the growing demands of users.

Major players like AccorHotels, The Ascott, The French National Student Service (CROUS) and Nexity Studea have all entrusted Wifirst with meeting their connectivity needs.

Wifirst also supports the French army, providing WiFi services to defence bases in France as well as to theatres of operations overseas. Lastly, Wifirst plans to speed up its growth by targeting the major bank, insurance and retail networks.

• 650,000 units covered
• 7,000 sites equipped in 2,430 cities
• 130,000 WiFi access points monitored
• over 16,000 TB of data exchanged per month and collected on Wifirst owned and operated carrier grade, fully redundant core network.

TeMPO Consulting is an IT company offering software solutions built from Open Source components.

At the crossroads between the service company and the software editor, TeMPO Consulting is more particularly specialized in the implementation of enterprise management solutions and web solutions.

TeMPO Consulting has the know-how of the editor by offering reusable and scalable software components, and has flexibility and responsiveness of the service company.

With its Python and Web programming skills, TeMPO Consulting is firmly positioned on the Odoo ERP software and the Django framework.

Our Django experts support simple or complex projects by using all available components and complementing them by creating new modules if necessary.

Algoo is the editor of Tracim, a teamwork platform

Algoo is a free software publisher who develops and markets the open source platform tracim for exchange and teamwork.

If you want to get rid of google docs, google drive, dropbox, wetransfer, etc, tracim will help you. If you want to keep or take back control of your company or association's data, tracim is for you.

Students, developers, engineers: join the colony!

The meerkat is the company's mascot. It is a very social mammal that lives and organizes itself in groups. The image is entirely in line with the values of the company and its products: team spirit, mutual support, knowledge sharing, source code.

We are working on a Linux/PostgreSQL/Python3.7/Javascript/React stack; if you feel a strong interest for any of these technologies, send us your application for an internship or a permanent position.

You will then join the one and only colony of meerkats located in the Grenoble area ;)

Companies: let's build synergies!

We are currently developing a network of partners for the distribution and marketing of tracim to companies, communities, universities and associations. Contact us and let's discuss the opportunity to collaborate!

Bearstech is a worker-owned cooperative (SCOP) of free software experts. Operating since 2004, Bearstech is the ideal service provider to manage your web infrastructure and implement your Cloud and !DevOps endeavors.

We provide all the required services to operate, deploy and manage web applications while improving their security, speed, and reliability. We can apply our expertise on our own infrastructure as well as on external cloud platforms.