CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND PARTICIPATION Ninth International Python Conference March 5-8, 2001 Long Beach, California Web site: http://python9.org The 9th International Python Conference (Python 9) is a forum for Python users, software developers, and researchers to present current work, discuss future plans for the language and commercial applications, and learn about interesting uses of Python. The conference will consist of a day of tutorials, two days of refereed paper and application tracks including a Zope track and a multi-technology Python Applications Track, a developers' day, a small exhibition, demonstrations, and posters. Paper submission deadline: Monday, November 6, 2000 Notification of acceptance: Monday, December 11, 2000 Final papers due: Monday, January 15, 2001 Authors are invited to submit papers for the Refereed Paper Track that: * Present new and useful applications and tools that utilize Python * Describe the use of Python in large, mission-critical or unusual applications * Address practical programming problems, and provide lessons based on experience for Python programmers Also sought are poster presentations of interesting work in progress. Full information is available on the website, http://python9.org