The major venue of the Python community are developer conferences. The two most notable conferences are PyCon, which is held in the US and it's overseas sibling Europython.
A comprehensive list of conferences is maintained `here <http://www.pycon.org/>`_.
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+User Groups are where a bunch of Python developers meet to present or talk about python topics of interest. A list of local user groups is maintained in the `Python Software Foundation Wiki <http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups>`_.
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