A collection of recent announcements and updates in the Python community highlights various topics, including new Python resources, events, and software releases. Notable mentions include the release of the March Python VS Code Extension with Live Share support, the launch of the first PyCon Africa conference, and the availability of Python on the new TI-83 Premium CE calculators in France. Nina Zakharenko is set to deliver a keynote at PyCon 2019, and Adrian Rosebrock is preparing a Kickstarter project on Raspberry Pi and Computer Vision. Additionally, there are resources for building a Django portfolio app, running a Flask application as a service with systemd, and learning data science with Python. The community also shares tips and wisdom, such as using relative line numbers in Vim and understanding the Python script convention "if __name__ == '__main__'".