Hi! First of all, thank you so, so much for all your hard work putting this event together. I can't even imagine all that's involved coordinating an event for this many people or this many speakers! I have a couple questions, if you have a moment to answer at your convenience: 1. How bright will the stage lights be? Asking because the shirt I got for my presentation is much brighter than expected and I'm worried I'll be fluorescent. 2. Will I be able to see my slides from the presenter podium? Like, will there be a screen in the back or something that's facing me and showing my slides as they come up? 3. This might not be the right place to ask, BUT, my sister is going to be in Portland this weekend and really wants to come see my talk. I was wondering if there are any guest passes available either for speakers or just for purchase so that she could come for my talk (1:10 on Sun.) and leave immediately after. TOTALLY understand if this is not doable. If there's another email address I should write to to get this answer, would you be able to provide that? Thank you so much!! Best, Mary On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:48 PM, <njl@njl.us> wrote:
Hello PyCon Speaker!
PyCon is almost upon us! In order to make sure your time at PyCon as a speaker is as smooth and enjoyable as possible, we have some organizational messages for you from the Captioning Coordinator and the Session Staff Chairs.
PLEASE READ THIS OVER CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO US WITH ANY QUESTIONS!
WE LOVE QUESTIONS!
Good luck with the final polishes to your talks and slides, and we look forward to seeing all of you in Portland in a few short weeks!
Regards,
Ned Jackson Lovely Program Committee Chair
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We are doing live captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing at PyCon again this year. For the caption writers to do their best work, it helps if they can review your presentation ahead of time so they can populate their dictionary with any obscure or technical terms you may use.
Please upload your slides - even if they are incomplete! - at least 48 hours before your talk:
Upload your (incomplete) slides for the captioner:
https://us.pycon.org/2017/slides
Username/password:
greenroom / portland2017
Additionally, if you select "Release to SpeakerDeck" a volunteer will upload your slides directly into the PyCon SpeakerDeck account.
Please convert your slides to PDF before uploading to ensure that the cautioners can open them.
If your presentation is multi-file-e.g. an html-based presentation, please zip the presentation files and upload the zip file.
Feel free to upload multiple revisions. The most recent version will be sent to the captioner.
Again, the please upload your slides here:
https://us.pycon.org/2017/slides
With the username / password:
greenroom / portland2017
If you have questions, or problems, or need an alternate method to deliver the files, please contact the PyCon Audio Visual team at pycon-av@python.org.
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Critical Information: - Please be in the green room (room A109) at least 20 minutes before your talk for orientation (if you've spoken before, arriving 10 minutes before your talk is fine). - Please do not go directly to your talk's room! Going directly to your talk room without checking in at the Green Room will make the session staff sad. - The Green Room is yours for the duration of the conference. Please feel free to visit, use it as a quiet space to work on your talk, and make yourself comfortable here. We're here for you! Light snacks and refreshments will be available in the Green Room.
Technical requirements: - The projectors will operate at a resolution of 1024x768. - Use high contrast colors and a very large font (minimum 24pt), especially for code samples, which can be hard to read. There are programming-talk-specific tips here: http://weareallaweso.me/for_speakers/practical-tips-for- creating-great-slides.html - Each podium will have a single power outlet, AV adapters for VGA, HDMI, DVI, mini-dvi, and mini-hdmi. - Your runner will help you test your equipment in the Green Room (room A109) in advance of your talk. - If you need special equipment, audio connections, or other accommodations beyond this (for example, audio out, a demo table, etc), please let us know: pycon-greenroom@python.org
Finally, it would be helpful (but not required) if you could add your phone number to your speaker profile: https://us.pycon.org/2017/profile/edit/ -- this is only accessible to a handful of PyCon staff members, and will only be used if we can't find you before your talk or some other emergency.
If you have any questions or concerns (... or compliments?) please don't hesitate to contact us: pycon-greenroom@python.org
See you on the 19th!
Julia Duimovich and David Wolever julia@pycon.ca / wolever@pycon.ca +1 (416) 906 0403 ===
-- Mary Nagle