Explore Bologna!

A classic tour in the city for those who have never seen Bologna. It covers the main monuments and squares (Piazza Maggiore, monuments and fountain, Basilica of San Petronio, Two Towers)

Book it here: 2026.pycon.it/social-events

🍻 Join us for PyDrink at PyCon Italia 2026!

Start #PyConIT26 the right way: meet the community, grab a drink, and make your first connections.

📍 Bologna · May 27–30

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🚦 flownet (by Sebastian Krantz) is an R package for transport modeling: compute routes, network flows, and more.

Read about it at sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/2026/0...

#RStats #RSpatial #TransportModeling

🤝 Thanks to Nephila, Bronze Sponsor of PyCon Italia!

🙌 Their support helps us make the conference better for the whole Python community.

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Illustration for PyCon Italia 2026 social events. A beige background with colorful circular shapes. At the top left there is a round PyCon Italia 2026 badge. Large black text reads “Social events”. Below it: “PyDrinks and PyDinner — 28 and 29 May 2026”. At the bottom, two stylized PyCon Italia snake mascots face each other: one holding a plate of food and the other holding a cocktail, representing the conference social gatherings.

🎉 Coming to #PyConIT26? Let’s connect with the community, join us for our social events:

🍻 PyDrink — meet people, start conversations
🍝 PyDinner — share time with the community

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Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, we resolve the contradiction by modeling trajectories as networks of sequential visits, using smartphone traces linked to self-reported gender for 543,155 individuals across 10 countries. We show that the apparent conflict in the literature arises because women's mobility networks are simultaneously more clustered and more home-anchored -- a nuance obscured by aggregate metrics. This pattern arises because women tend to link multiple destinations within single trips, for trips spanning up to 150 km and multiple days. This organization yields systematically higher travel efficiency, measured as distance saved through destination chaining over monthly sequences.

Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943

⏳ Ticket prices are going up soon for #PyConIT!

From March 27 (AoE):
🎟️ Personal → €300
🎟️ Business → €400

👇 Lock in the lower price while you can:
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📍 Bologna · May 27–30

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Depeche Mode Black Celebration album cover. A mirrored tall building and some pink tulips against a black background with the band's name and album title in red and yellow at the top.

'A fine and kinky record that signalled a transition in Depeche Mode’s career—darker, sonically more adventurous and sweetly subversive: “If you call yourself a pop band, you can get away with a lot more”'

Happy Birthday to Depeche Mode's Black Celebration, which turns 40 today!

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QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released!

The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]

Check PyConIT 2026 schedule for sessions and workshops

Have you checked out the #PyConIT 2026 schedule? 👀

If you're planning to join a workshop, don't wait!

Browse the programme and sort your ticket before the good spots disappear.

🗓️ pycon.it/schedule
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Diego Russo keynoter at PyCon Italia 2026

Big news! 🎉 @diegor.it is keynoting #PyConIT26!

His talk: "From 'Fast Enough' to 'Fast by Design': The Evolution of CPython Performance"

The story of how Python stopped apologising for being slow. 🐍⚡

🎟️ Get your ticket at pycon.it/tickets

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🎉 The #PyConIT26 schedule is live!

Talks, workshops, AI, web, data & more. It’s time to plan your days in Bologna 👇
🔗 2026.pycon.it/en/schedule

🎟️ Tickets are available on our website.

👀 Which sessions are you most excited about? Tell us below!

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⏲🛫 New study in Transportation Research Part E reveals that flight delays propagate across continents, forming a global network of disruption. Using complex systems methods, IFISC researchers identify key airports driving long-range delay dynamics.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/glob...

Due to numerous requests from participants, we are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for papers, posters, and SUMO moments has been extended by one week.

New submission deadline: Sunday, March 01, 2026 - 23:59 UTC.

🎉 The PyCon Italia 2026 talks are out!

👇 You can now browse the accepted speakers & sessions:
🔗 2026.pycon.it/en/speakers

ℹ️ This is a draft list and may change in the next few days.

🗓️ Full schedule coming very soon. Stay tuned! 👀

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Thanks to our media partners!

Huge thanks to our media partners supporting #PyConIT 2026! 🤝

🐍 Python Campania
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🐍 Venice Python user group

Your support is helping us grow the Python community across Italy! 🙌

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#r5rgui v0.2 for r5r (@urbandemog.bsky.social)
New:
- compare routes and transport modes
- compare networks! (e.g. OSM vs official streets Trafikverket.se)
- query speed
- custom basemaps (via `mapgl` @kylewalker.bsky.social )

Still in one line of code!

www.ekotov.pro/r5rgui/

#rstats #gischat

Thanks to the fantastic local Python communities supporting PyCon Italia 2026 as media partners 🤝

@pescara.python.it, PyRoma, Python Torino, Python Marche, Python Catania!

Your support helps us spread the love for Python 🐍💙

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thank you Python User Group Reggio Emilia, Python Milano, Python Biella, PyBari!

Thanks to the fantastic local Python communities supporting PyCon Italia 2026 as media partners 🤝

Python User Group Reggio Emilia, Python Milano, Python Biella, PyBari!

Your support helps us spread the love for Python 🐍💙

#PyConIT #PyConIT26 #mediapartner

Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) This release brings multiple features and fixes relating to public transport which affect network import, GTFS import, simulation behavior and output.It also fixes various bugs related to lane changing...

Dear friends and users,
we are happy to announce the release of SUMO version 1.26.0.

The download links are at sumo.dlr.de/Download.

If you cite the new release in your publications, please use the DOI
10.5281/zenodo.18406080 (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

CFP is now closed and it is time to VOTE 🗳️ ! Head to 2026.pycon.it/voting-info

Have a ticket, attended a past conference, are a member of Python Italia or sent a proposal? You can vote!

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Finally it's here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don't know about you but I've been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while.

http://anitagraser.com/2026/01/10/notebooks-in-qgis/

The Same Deep Water as You
Homesick
One More Time

My favorite #Python package to use is spopt, a library for spatial optimization.

It helps you with:

📊 Facility location planning;
📊 Sales territory design;
📊 Maximizing market share;

And much more! Check it out here:

pysal.org/spopt/

Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🎄 The holiday season is thinking time.

😌 Use the festive break to work on your PyCon Italia proposal — our CFP is open!

👇 Submit your proposal:
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that's a pity, it was so true and funny! Love you Roger!

But did they cut Roger's false note on Secrets?? ;-) It was so funny!