<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In the bar after the ChiPy meeting, some of us stumbled upon some ideas for PyCon activities.<div><br></div><div>Normally, St. Patrick's Day is on March 17, but we discovered that for 2008, St. Patrick's Day is officially moved to Saturday, March 15 -- during PyCon !</div><div><br></div><div>1. Since St. Patrick is reputed to have driven the snakes out of Ireland -- we have a great party theme ;-)</div><div>2. Any brave volunteers want to dress up as St. Patrick and his entourage ?</div><div>3. We know that Chicago is one of the world's greatest places to celebrate this holiday -- is there there a place near the hotel that we should recommend ?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We should be careful not to go overboard.</div><div>We don't want to offend anyone and we want to maintain a *somewhat* professional image for the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, the dyeing of the Chicago River and the parade conflict with the conference schedule, but it is something that spouses would be interested in:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.saintpatricksdayparade.com/chicago/">http://www.saintpatricksdayparade.com/chicago/</a></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Rob</div></body></html>