[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)]

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ANNOUNCING

Python Events Calendars - Please submit your 2017 events

maintained by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a group of volunteers

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INTRODUCTION

As some of you may know, the PSF has a team of volunteers who are maintaining a set of central Python event calendars. We currently have two calendars in place:

* Python Events Calendar - meant for conferences and larger gatherings focusing on Python or a related technology (in whole or in part)

* Python User Group Calendar - meant for user group events and other smaller local events

The calendars are displayed on https://www.python.org/events/ and http://pycon.org/. There's also a map mashup to show events near you or get an overview of what currently going in the Python community:

http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events/

You can subscribe to the calendars using iCal and RSS feeds and also embed the calendar widgets on your sites. We have also added a Twitter feed @PythonEvents to get immediate updates whenever a new event is added. Please see our wiki page for details:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar

The calendars are open to the world-wide Python community, so you can have local user group events, as well as regional and international conference events added to the calendars.

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NEWS

Looking back, the calendars have proven to be a great tool for the Python community to connect, with more than 250 conferences and more than a hundred of user group events listed since 2012.

We would therefore like to encourage everyone to submit their 2017 events, so that the Python community can get a better overview over what's happening in Python land.

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ADDING EVENTS

Please see the instructions at

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_Event

for details on how to submit an event. We've made it really easy for you: just need to send an email to our team address using the email template we provide for this. Thanks.

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MORE INFORMATION

More information on the calendars, the URLs, feed links, IDs, embedding, etc. is available on the wiki:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar

Enjoy,