How we became an independent community

Meetup Keepers

Events Organizers and Program Committee members

Mikalai Saskavets

organizing events,

working with speakers,

moderating events

 @MikalaiSaskavets
Tatsiana Tsygan

dealing with sponsors,

working with venues,

organizing events

 @TatsianaTsygan

Perks

10+ years in service
(since 2013)

More than 70 meetups

Over 120 talks

1000+ active participants

7+ companies-partners over the years

70+ speakers

Initiatives

Members of Minsk Python Meetup take part in awesome local Python-dedicated initiatives.

Python Pet Projects

Hands-on Tuesdays in early–mid 2020: own projects, then upstream open source, then preparation for our first Hacktoberfest

Coding Dojo Minsk

Sunday coding kata with beginners welcome — led by Ivan Styazhkin around 2019

@minsk-python-dojo

Hacktoberfest

in Minsk 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025

First Hacktoberfest gatherings under the Minsk Python Meetup banner (from 2020)

PyCon Belarus

PyCon Belarus is the biggest annual event in Belarus which is dedicated to Python

It's held by SPACE in cooperation with Python enthusiasts from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

Wagtail Space Minsk

Wagtail Space Minsk (2018) — an international Wagtail open-source code sprint in Minsk, organised with members of the local Python community

An early October contribution weekend; see also Hacktoberfest