PyCon 2007 Call for Tutorials
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Enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? PyCon 2007 is looking for
proposals for a pre-conference tutorials day. PyCon 2007 will be held
February 23-25 in Addison, Texas (near Dallas). Tutorials will be
held on February 22 at the same location.
Tutorial sessions will be a half day (3 hours, with a 15-minute
break); presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full
day. Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should …
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instructional in nature. Providing take-home materials for attendees
is encouraged, and tutorial presenters will receive $50 per student
registered for their session (with a minimum payment of $500, and a
maximum of $1500).
Extra consideration will be given to presenters with prior experience
teaching classes or giving conference tutorials. Please provide one
reference or evidence of such prior experience (sessions taught at
OSCON, EuroPython, local user groups, etc.).
PyCon attendees will register for tutorials at extra cost. We reserve
the right to cancel tutorials with low attendance; presenters will not
be paid for cancelled tutorials.
Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: November 15, 2006
* Acceptance deadline: November 22, 2006
* Cancellation date: January 20, 2007 (for inadequate attendance)
Submission Format
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Proposals should be 250 to 1000 words long (i.e., one to four pages in
manuscript format), containing the following information:
* Author name(s)
* Contact Information
* Summary of proposed presentation
* Presentation outline
* Intended audience (non-programmers, beginning programmers, advanced
users, CPython developers, etc.)
* (Recommended) At least one previous presentation/teaching engagement
reference.
E-mail your proposal to <pycon(a)python.org>.
ASCII format is preferred, with HTML as a secondary alternative. If
you have any questions about submission, please send mail to the
conference organizers at pycon(a)python.org.
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PyCon 2007 Call for Proposals
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Want to share your expertise? PyCon 2007 is looking for proposals to
fill the formal presentation tracks. PyCon 2007 will take place
February 23-25 2007 in Addison, Texas,
Previous PyCon conferences have had a broad range of presentations,
ranging from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials
and case studies. We hope to continue that tradition this year. As
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Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program.
For 2007, we're especially interested in tutorial presentations that
will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show
attendees how to: use a module? explore a Python language feature?
package an application?
Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: October 31, 2006
* Acceptance deadline: November 15, 2006
* Electronic copy deadline: February 15, 2007
PyCon Topics
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Suitable topics for PyCon presentations include, but are not limited
to:
* Core Python
* Other implementations: IronPython, Jython, PyPy, and Stackless.
* Python libraries and extensions
* Databases
* Documentation
* Embedding and Extending Python
* Game Programming
* GUI Programming
* Network Programming
* Open Source Python projects
* Packaging Issues
* Programming Tools
* Project Best Practices
* Science and Math
* Web Programming (Django, Zope, TurboGears, WSGI, ...)
Talk Format
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The preferred length for talks is 30 minutes. You can request a
45-minute slot, but proposals requiring 45 minutes will be reviewed
more stringently and tutorial talks will be preferred for these longer
slots.
Session lengths include time for audience questions. You should
budget at least five minutes for questions; for example, a 30-minute
talk will be 25 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of questions.
Submission Mechanics
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Use the PyCon Online Proposal Submission
(http://us.pycon.org/apps07/proposals) to send us your proposals and
ideas. Proposal submission will begin on September 15th.
If your proposal is accepted, you have the option of including a
companion paper along with your presentation. The paper will be
published on the PyCon web site.
Presentations and papers may be in text (plain or reST), HTML, or PDF;
HTML or text are preferred.
We suggest, but do not require, that authors place their papers under
a Creative Commons license. Please visit the CC 'Choose a License'
page (http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses) to select a license
that meets your requirements.
The HelpForSpeakers wiki page
(http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HelpForSpeakers) has suggestions and
advice for speakers.
Other Presentations
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If you don't want to make a formal presentation, you can still bring
your new project or idea to PyCon.
There will be several Lightning Talk sessions for talks no longer than
five minutes.
There will also be Open Space for informal and spur-of-the-moment
presentations. Open Space consists of thirty-minute blocks that are
allocated during PyCon on a first-come first-served basis. These
blocks can be used for presentations, round table discussions,
hands-on tutorials, or anything else you wish to present.
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