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Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions. Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, software, hardware, network, test and site reliability engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers and designers are changing the world one technological advance after another.
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. As the world's largest technology company, HP focuses on simplifying experiences for all its customers, bringing together a broad portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. HP not only extensively uses open source within the company but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. HP actively drives industry-wide discussions on open source best practices as part of the Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program and SPDX workgroup. As the leading provider of scalable Linux platforms, HP ships one Linux server every minute. Additionally, HP is also a key contributor to the OpenStack project, which is focused on developing a cloud computing platform, and offers private and public cloud offerings based on OpenStack technology.
RhodeCode, written in Python, provides the leading source code management solution for enterprises which supports Git and Mercurial. Based in Berlin, we are powering the world`s largest organizations, who depend on our products to make their software development process more flexible, collaborative, productive & secure. Every day millions of developers, project managers and QA engineers are using our innovative software which plays a central role in their work life.
Help us to make the world better and have a real impact and join one of our engineering teams consisting of A-players. At EuroPython 2014, we are holding a special VIP Recruiting Event on Monday evening. To register, please contact us either via Twitter (@rhodecode) beforehand, apply at https://rhodecode.workable.com and leave a comment or talk to us latest on the EuroPython Job Fair on Monday to get access to the event.
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Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com website started in 1995 as a place to buy books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. During the first 30 days of business, Amazon fulfilled orders for customers in 50 states and 45 countries - all shipped from his Seattle-area garage. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
Aldryn – get your django CMS website in minutes!
Aldryn is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly system for web professionals. It offers you ways to optimize your workflow and website-management on a truly integrated level capable of fulfilling the needs of small and large companies alike. The system makes it effortless to build, add, control and maintain websites, and extend them with add-ons. Every Aldryn website comes with a preinstalled django CMS, the easy-to-use and developer-friendly open source CMS that has been downloaded over 200000 times and was devised by the Swiss web agency Divio in 2007. Aldryn is a new product developed by Divio and is based on Django and Python.
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The Flying Circus is a secure, reliable, and transparent hosting platform for development teams.
- Worry-free — we take care of data centers, hardware, operating system updates, monitoring, backup, and much much more.
- Real people™ supporting your team — no hotline zombies!
- Affordable, simple pricing scheme that lets you easily predict what we will charge you.
- No risk — our hosting fees are on a month-by-month basis. And you can try us for free!
- No lies — we know there will be downtime and promising 100% uptime is just crazy or full of fine-print. But 99.99% is what we achieve in many cases every month.
- SLAs for 24/7 that cover in-depth support for your application.
JetBrains PyCharm — The most intelligent Python IDE with a complete set of tools for productive development with Python. In addition, the IDE provides high-class capabilities for professional Web development with Django, Google App Engine, Flask, Pyramid and web2py frameworks.
PyCharm comes in two editions: PyCharm Professional Edition - for professional Python and Web development, and PyCharm Community Edition - free and open source - for pure Python coding and learning.
LocalBitcoins is the eBay of bitcoin where users can post their own bitcoin to local currency exchange advertisements. Buying Bitcoins is fast, secure and easy with online banking or cash and in-person meetings.
LocalBitcoins scales global and already connects more than 200 countries, 5000 cities and 200k users to Bitcoin economy.
Lyst is a young, fast-growing social commerce site that provides users with a personalized way to shop for fashion online. From launch in 2011, Lyst is growing quickly and already generates tens of millions of dollars in sales for the hundreds of brands, retailers and publishers it partners with around the world. Lyst is backed by a range of all-star of investors including Accel (Facebook, Spotify), DFJ (Skype), and those behind Oscar de la Renta, Smythson and Tory Burch.
Founded in Germany in 1949, today the Otto Group is a globally operating retail and services group with around 54,257 employees (as at February 2014). The Group includes 123 major companies and is present in over 20 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Its business activities are grouped into three segments: Multichannel Retail, Financial Services and Service. In the 2013/14 financial year (to 28 February) the Otto Group generated turnover of 12 billion euros. It is the world’s second-largest online retailer in the end-consumer (B2C) business and Europe’s largest online retailer in the end-consumer B2C fashion and lifestyle business. E-commerce, catalogue sales and over-the-counter retail form the three pillars of the Otto Group’s Multichannel Retail strategy. Its worldwide corporate activities, numerous strategic partnerships and joint ventures provide the Otto Group with excellent opportunities to transfer know-how and leverage areas of synergy potential. Group companies operate largely independently, guaranteeing flexibility, customer proximity and optimum target-group appeal in their respective national markets.
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that holds the intellectual property rights behind the Python programming language. We manage the open source licensing for Python version 2.1 and later and own and protect the trademarks associated with Python.The PSF is tasked with promoting, protecting, and advancing the Python language and community. The Foundation runs committees focused on outreach and education, development sprints, trademarks, the python.org infrastructure, and much more. Through donations from individuals and sponsors, and building on the profits of PyCon US, the Foundation is able to fund many projects, awards, and grants around the Python world, including local conferences like the Python/Django community conference in Cardiff, UK. For more information regarding our grants program please visit python.org/psf/grants/.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.
Skoobe empowers people with an entirely new approach in the world of ebooks. With Skoobe, readers can turn their iOS or Android devices into their mobile ebook library.
Our readers don´t buy individual ebooks but are members of a growing mobile library. For a monthly membership fee, they receive access to over 30,000 books from more than 400 publishers.
We at Skoobe believe that digital books require new distribution and business models. We want to make the consumption of digital books easier and more flexible and particularly more user friendly.
Furthermore want to create the easiest and most convenient access to digital books and the best reading experience.
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Atlassian products help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software. More than 33,000 large and small organizations – including Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Netflix and United Airlines – use Atlassian’s issue tracking, collaboration and software-development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Learn more at http://atlassian.com.
Blue Yonder is the leading SaaS provider for predictive analytics in the European market. Using scientifically-based and innovative technologies such as predictive modeling, reinforcement and machine-learning approaches, Blue Yonder can automate the decision-making processes and create forecasts of the highest quality. With customers including OTTO, dm, vodafone, and Crate&Barrel, Blue Yonder has numerous application examples for big data from the most diverse sectors. In January 2014, Blue Yonder launched the Data Science Academy to provide relevant expertise to businesses and specifically train decision-makers from management, data scientists, analysts and IT staff to use big data and predictive analytics more strategically in their enterprises.
Founded by the creator of NumPy, SciPy and Chaco, Continuum Analytics produces open source and commercial products around the use of Python for high-performance data analysis and scientific computing. Our popular free products include the Anaconda Python distribution and Wakari.io, a browser-based Python analysis environment. Continuum offers commercial versions of both to serve the complex needs of enterprise customers deploying Python at scale, and is also working on cutting edge open source projects, including Blaze (distributed NumPy), Numba (Python LLVM compiler), and Bokeh (interactive web plots from Python). Continuum also provides Python training and consulting services.
Crate Data is an open source data store for any data. It is massively scalable, supports real time SQL search and queries and requires zero administration. Crate is a shared-nothing, fully searchable, document-oriented cluster store and can be installed on commodity hardware or the cloud: a super simple backend for any data. Crate Data was founded by Jodok Batlogg, Christian Lutz and Bernd Dorn and is backed by Sunstone Capital and DFJ Esprit. To download Crate Data go to crate.io/download.
DigitalOcean is the world’s fastest growing cloud provider built for developers. Our mission is simple: we’re passionate about making complex infrastructure simple and delighting our customers with a seamless experience that brings them joy. New users can easily deploy a blazing fast cloud server in 55 seconds with an intuitive control panel interface, which can be replicated on a larger scale with the company's straightforward API.
Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine available. With a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, the Elasticsearch ELK stack - comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana - has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market. To learn more, visit elasticsearch.com
enquos™ is a groundbreaking private, secure web application that stores, aggregates and standardizes fitness, nutrition and medical data on one platform while seamlessly connecting with a multitude of tracking devices.
Utilizing open source technology with Python as its core code base, enquos is housed securely in the EU, currently scalable to 30 million users and far exceeds HIPAA standards for privacy.
Using a number of different technologies, including but not limited to, Python, Cassandra and HTML5, enquos detects and excludes older browsers while assisting the user to update to a secure browser.
Combining cutting edge technology, security, usability and functionality, enquos™ helps you live well, your way.
Mozilla has been a pioneer and advocate for the Web for more than a decade. We create and promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers, tablets and mobile devices. With Firefox OS and Firefox Marketplace, Mozilla is driving a new mobile ecosystem that is built entirely on open Web standards, freeing mobile providers, developers and end users from the limitations and restrictions imposed by proprietary platforms.
OpenStack® is software for building clouds. It is one of the largest Python projects in the world with over 2,000,000 lines of Python code. OpenStack clouds enable businesses to rapidly roll out new products, add new features, and improve internal systems while preventing technology lock-in. It is the only open source cloud platform that’s supported by virtually every IT industry leader. Hundreds of enterprises and service providers rely on OpenStack. OpenStack is backed by an independent Foundation and global community with more than 16,000 individual members and 260 supporting organizations across 139 countries. Visit the OpenStack table to learn about the many ways to get involved.
Python Academy is a specialized Python training company. We offer open courses for individuals as well as customized on-site courses for companies and institutes. We cover a wide range of Python topics from introductory to advanced, Python for scientists and engineers, web development, code optimization and many more.
In addition to training, we consult companies that migrate to Python and develop high-quality Python software often in combination with training. Our special expertise is scientific and technical software development.
STX Next is a Python software house with over 100 employees. We are one of the largest companies focused on Python in the Europe. Our customers are based mostly in the USA. We are also working for customers from Western Europe, and for some of Poland’s largest banks and government departments. We insist on using development best practices, which is why we are using Agile methodologies. We do our best to incorporate certified scrum masters and certified product owner into all of our teams. At Europython you will have a chance to talk with our CEO and find out more, especially during The Business Day STX Next. Book your meeting right now!
twoub.io - Play all your favorite web apps.
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Veit Schiele Communications was established to make software more useful. Veit Schiele Communications helps developing software that is easy and quick to use. Closely connected with our customers and future users we analyse the specific requirements and develop out of this the software design. The process is supported by rapid prototyping that allows furher refinements of the requirements. Our agile approach ensures high levels of customer satisfaction from beginning to implementation of the software. Precisely tailored user documentation and trainings complete the portfolio.
Today we are focused on web-based applications from the first requirements to user acceptance.
Ypsilon Net AG is global provider of internet travel technology for airlines and online travel agencies. Our e-travel applications are used by over 25,000 customers globally. The core competence of Ypsilon.Net AG roots on the development of multi source Air, Hotel and Car rental booking engines and web based technology solutions for the travel industry. (mid office, ticketing, profiles, fare loading, industry specific "big data" etc.) Ypsilon connects to all GDS and major low cost carriers CRS as well as to several car and hotels suppliers. It is also one of the rare company to be PCI DSS level 1 certified as well as full blown payment service provider. As PSP, we provide PCI DSS proxy solutions, Fraud prevention tools as well as payment solutions. We use a number of technologies but Python is definitely our preferred programming language.
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1000mercis Group pioneered the Interactive Data Marketing revolution with its award-winning solutions for companies willing to optimize their customer acquisition and retention through online media (Internet, Mobile, Social Media and RTB CRM Display). 1000mercis has become a major actor on the market by combining new clients acquisition and customer loyalty management. The Group employs 250 people and its annual revenue soared to €40.3 million in 2013, 32% of which came from Ocito, its Mobile Marketing subsidiary. Based in Paris, New York and London, 1000mercis Group operates in more than 30 countries. 1000mercis is a NYSE Alternext listed company. For more information please visit www.1000mercis.com.
Ableton makes Live - a unique music creation and performance software - and Push, a hardware instrument for playing and composing with Live. Ableton was founded in 1999 and released the first version of Live in 2001. Since then, the company has received outstanding press, numerous awards and attracted a worldwide community of dedicated musicians, composers and DJs. The company headquarters are in Berlin, with an additional office in Los Angeles. Ableton is run by its original founders and currently has about 180 employees.
Delivery Hero has been continuously transforming the way people order food online since 2010. Our vision is to bring better food to the people! Choice, convenience, reliability and quality are the key benefits for our customers. The company is today one of the largest global platforms for online food ordering with 50,000+ local restaurants in its network. In the first 24 months, we raised more than $100 M to fulfil our vision of bringing better food to the people!
Some key facts:
- Operating in 14 markets across 4 continents
- More than 50,000 participating restaurants world wide
- More than 46 million meals delivered
Demonware is an industry leading company specialising in networking software and services for computer game development. We design, develop and host custom online features and services for some of the top video game franchises in the world, including Call of Duty, Destiny and Skylanders. Demonware currently has 469+ million registered users, in excess of 3.2 million concurrent connected users, manages 4,000+ physical servers, responds to 10,000+ database queries per second with an average response time of less than 0.02 seconds. Demonware is a technology- driven company, with core focuses on Python, Erlang, C++, MySQL and Linux, and a strong commitment to Open Source. Demonware has offices in Dublin, Ireland, Vancouver, Canada and Shanghai, China and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.
GitHub is the best way to build software together. Whether it's your company's app, your favorite open source library, or a weekend side project, GitHub helps everyone work together better by providing tools for easier collaboration and code sharing. Catch up on what happened while you were out or ask for help on a tricky chunk of code. Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. The best part is you can keep using all of your favorite tools. Start collaborating on code today—open source project hosting is free!
GoodsCloud is an e-commerce framework and application for cross-organizational processes. We are building scalable, real-time, high-performance software using Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Linux, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Ansible, Angular.js, and other great tools. We are agile, test everything, review each other's code, deploy multiple times a day, and improve our processes as well as our software. We are looking for creative, skilled developers to help us build not just great software, but a great team, and a great working environment. Come join us!
ImmobilienScout24 is Germany’s largest Internet real estate marketplace, offering extensive services for every aspect of housing and relocation. Our web platform is based on open source software, such as Linux, Apache, Tomcat and Python, and we value the openness, freedom and flexibility they provide. In addition, we built a next-generation deployment solution for our data centers that allows us to orchestrate our platform, see http://yadt-project.org for details.
K-TEL is a carrier independent company with individual consulting services. More and more companies trust us because we understand the challenges and transform the needs into a coherent concept. We are specialized in Carrier services. Our experts analyze your current situation with a view of your future directions and developments. We explore providers and the latest technology and take on your request, the responsibility - like from the very beginning.
Event broadband connections from 2Mbit / s to 5Gbit / s and data center services from 1 Rack unit to geo redundant colocation are our daily business.
Host, run, and write Python in the cloud! PythonAnywhere makes it super-easy for you to get your code up and running online. You can develop and host your website (or any other Python app) right from your web browser, seconds after signing up - using the open source tools you know and love. Get started for free - our basic plan gives you access to machines with a full Python environment already installed, batteries included. And paid plans with more power start from $5/month.
billiger.de is Germany's best known price comparison site. With more than 50 million prices and offers updated on a daily basis for over 2 million products, billiger.de counts as one of the strongest price comparisons in Germany with a comprehensive portfolio of continuative product information such as product videos, tests, reviews and user ratings.
billiger.de relies consistently on OpenSource technologies and engages in their further development. In addition to a Linux based environment, both the portal as well as the back-end mass data processing are characterized by well-known components such as Apache, PostgreSQL, redis and Solr. In our software development the emphasis is clearly placed on Python – on that account billiger.de is very pleased to support the PyCon 2014 as a sponsor.
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2ndQuadrant, the worldís leading authority on the open source PostgreSQL RDBMS, secures funding not via venture capital, but via Intellectual Capital ñ organizations investing in PostgreSQL through 2ndQuadrant. We offer services that underpin the Database Lifecycle of PostgreSQL implementations, from initial training, migration, consultancy, 24/7 support services up to remote database administration. Founded in 2001 by Simon Riggs, a major developer and committer to PostgreSQL, 2ndQuadrant is Platinum Sponsor of PostgreSQL and contributed significant development to PostgreSQL:
- Point-in-time Recovery,
- Log Shipping Replication,
- Hot Standby,
- Synchronous Replication
Collectively we provide over 100 man years of PostgreSQL expertise.
Abstract is a technology agency. We design and customize tools for web content management.
We help web agencies, institutions and organizations with their online business, by selecting, designing and customizing Open Source software.
Project Flying Elephant is a deep tech incubator by WestTech Ventures located in Berlin, Germany.
The program‘s focus is on strong technology-oriented teams who want to reinvent software and software development and concentrate on (cloud) services / tools for developers and businesses. Our mission is to think together beyond the next generation of programming and software.
Project Flying Elephant has opened applications for its program in Berlin starting in September that will support teams with up to €50,000 in funding, mentoring, workshops, office space and various high-quality services.
CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organisations) wanting to make their data open and available.
Founded in 2004, Pluralsight is the global leader in online learning for serious software developers, IT specialists and creative professionals. As the world’s largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,000 courses authored by top experts. With customers in more than 195 countries, Pluralsight serves as a career catalyst, delivering hands-on, practical training for the most in-demand and understaffed jobs of today.
transcode helps you, to transform your ideas into code: We are specialized in the development of Python Web Applications based on Django. By using agile software development methods we deliver results in fast, short iterations. So you have the opportunity to participate in the development process at any time. With Django inhouse trainings we support your team in learning Django. We also offer code review to improve the quality of your code by having another pair of eyes looking at it.
Vision Smarts develops machine learning and computer vision software for mobile apps. Back in 2009, our barcode reader "pic2shop" was the first iPhone app to read blurry barcodes. Since then, our barcode and QR reader SDKs have been installed on tens of millions of iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices worldwide. Python and NumPy are the perfect tools for image processing research, while Django has proven to be the most flexible and robust back-end for our apps.
WebInterpret turned the global marketplace on its head by breaking down the barriers to international retail for e-merchants. Through its unique internationalization platform, the company enables domestic online traders to become international online traders in just a few clicks.
Our success helped us to create a workplace where successful people have opportunity to work:
- in a multinational project developing big data solutions that help thousands of sellers from different countries reach a global audience.
- with partners like eBay and Amazon to scale their international sales.
- with a team of extremely talented people from all over Europe and from three different continents.
Are you a rock star python programmer or natural language engineer?
View the current job opportunities and become a part of talented team at Webinterpret today!
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ZEIT ONLINE is the leading online site for innovative quality journalism in German-speaking markets. It received two Lead Awards, a Grimme Online Award and the American Online Journalism Award. ZEIT ONLINE is one of the worldwide pioneers in data-driven journalism, setting standards with its various data visualization projects. Our custom-built web platform is based on many open source projects, from Apache to Solr, from PHP to Python, from Zope to Pyramid. We build our own Content Management System, our website follows modern web standards using HTML5/CSS3/JS. With ZEIT MAGAZIN Online, we launched a fully responsive website that works from smartphones to desktop computers.
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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. Django is used and trusted by organisations large and small, including Disqus, Instagram, Mozilla, OpenStack, Pinterest, Rdio, and many more.
NumFocus promotes and supports the ongoing research and development of open-source scientific computing tools through educational, community and public channels. As a nonprofit, NumFocus works to support the community by maintaining accessible and reproducible computing in science and technology. Our programs include: fiscal sponsorship, the John Hunter Technology Fellowship, Women in Technology initiatives, project grants, organization of PyData conferences, membership and community support. Visit numfocus.org for additional information.
Plone is one of the most scalable and flexible Content Management Systems (CMS) available today. Owned by the non-profit Plone Foundation, Plone has been actively developed since 2001 and is among the world’s most active open-source projects. Plone has the best security track record of any major CMS, can scale from local organizations to global corporations, and is supported by a passionate community dedicated to quality and open-source development.
Proudly powered by the Python language and licensed under GPL2, the strength of Plone comes from its community. We have more than 340 core developers and 300 solution providers in 57 countries and are growing. We prize collaboration with diverse talents and voices, frequent sprints and the goal of free, open software. We believe that free software built by happy developers can deliver superior solutions for real world problems.
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