Hey Group, Just a reminder that this is the last day to submit abstracts for SciPy04. It is also the last day for early registration. More information is here: http://www.scipy.org/wikis/scipy04 About the Conference and Keynote Speaker --------------------------------------------- The 1st annual *SciPy Conference* will be held this year at Caltech, September 2-3, 2004. As some of you may know, we've experienced great participation in two SciPy "Workshops" (with ~70 attendees in both 2002 and 2003) and this year we're graduating to a "conference." With the prestige of a conference comes the responsibility of a keynote address. This year, Jim Hugunin has answered the call and will be speaking to kickoff the meeting on Thursday September 2nd. Jim is the creator of Numeric Python, Jython, and co-designer of AspectJ. Jim is currently working on IronPython--a fast implementation of Python for .NET and Mono. Presenters ----------- We still have room for a few more standard talks, and there is plenty of room for lightning talks. Because of this, we are extending the abstract deadline until July 23rd. Please send your abstract to abstracts@scipy.org. Travis Oliphant is organizing the presentations this year. (Thanks!) Once accepted, papers and/or presentation slides are acceptable and are due by August 20, 2004. Registration ------------- Early registration ($100.00) has been extended to July 23rd. Follow the links off of the main conference site: http://www.scipy.org/wikis/scipy04 After July 23rd, registration will be $150.00. Registration includes breakfast and lunch Thursday & Friday and a very nice dinner Thursday night. Please register as soon as possible as it will help us in planning for food, room sizes, etc. Sprints -------- As of now, we really haven't had much of a call for coding sprints for the 3 days prior to SciPy 04. Below is the original announcement about sprints. If you would like to suggest a topic and see if others are interested, please send a message to the list. Otherwise, we'll forgo the sprints session this year. We're also planning three days of informal "Coding Sprints" prior to the conference -- August 30 to September 1, 2004. Conference registration is not required to participate in the sprints. Please email the list, however, if you plan to attend. Topics for these sprints will be determined via the mailing lists as well, so please submit any suggestions for topics to the scipy-user list: list signup: http://www.scipy.org/mailinglists/ list address: scipy-user@scipy.org thanks, eric